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Up until I added that line it was "rust" which was doing it. Perhaps the line makes it worse, but at least I'm happy to ignore those requests now. :)

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It is ironic that so many companies are using such an efficient programming language to implement the most horribly, deliberately wasteful computations on the planet. I got into rust because I want to do meaningful work efficiently not proof-of-meaningless-work.

Not sure if you're just calling blockchain development meaningless work in general, or referencing proof-of-work, which refers to meaningless computation done for blockchain security despite the unnecessary wastefulness.

If you're referencing the latter, maybe it's worth pointing out that all the blockchains using Rust (or the popular ones anyway) are proof of stake.

Still arguably not the most meaningful use of storage space

Is it meaningful for you if I store petabytes of hentai on my disks?

I'm not sure this is the venue for a debate on the merits of art.

But they were talking about hentai, not art.

I added rust to my list of skills and then got swamped with blockchain nonsense. It’s very odd, I took it back off again.

Haskell is probably the worst (best) blockchain company magnet. Scala too, to a lesser extent. It's not that odd when you think about what they're trying to build.

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