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freddiecolemanon Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

I'm amazed that more people aren't vocal about this. When I was using Gitlab (last year) the pipelines seemed unnecessarily complicated with knowledge of the underlying implementation details sometimes being required to get anything done. Almost every week we would hit some edge case to be presented with a several year old thread on Gitlab where loads of other people have the same problem and it hasn't been addressed yet.

freddiecolemanon $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

There is no such thing as specialized hardware for Chia farming. If you manage to pull that off then congratulations, you have created a bigger hard drive.

freddiecolemanon $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

Actually it's Chia.

Bitcoin requires custom hardware. Chia does not - you can use an ordinary hard drive and run a full node on a Raspberry Pi.

freddiecolemanon Words known better in the US than in the UK, and vice versa

From the UK. Can confirm I know almost all of the UK words and none of the US words.

freddiecolemanon Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs

Love using NestJS. It's true that most places are stuck using express for whatever reason so you have to be a bit ahead of the pack.

freddiecolemanon Is my cat Turing-complete?

CATs are implemented in a turing complete language called Chialisp https://chialisp.com/docs/puzzles/cats/

freddiecolemanon Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated

You said Bram owns almost all the coins. That is not true.

https://www.chia.net/whitepaper/

Pages 18-21

You could say that he is on the board that manages the pre-farm but that is not the same thing.

freddiecolemanon Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated

Incorrect. Please see https://twitter.com/0xfreddieC/status/1457289838470782978

Disclaimer; I run a Chia blockchain explorer

freddiecolemanon Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

Read the business whitepaper to see what they are doing with the pre-farm.

https://www.chia.net/2021/02/10/chia-businesss-whitepaper.ht...

You are free to agree or disagree with the plan, but need to read it before coming to any conclusions.

freddiecolemanon Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

The more space you have, the more likely you are to win coins. Therefore you want to plot as much space as possible.

If multiple people have good enough plots there can be multiple winners for the same challenge!

You can also win with the same plot file multiple times.

freddiecolemanon Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

Filecoin has 4.6 EiB of space, of which only 11 PiB is actually used for file storage. It also has insane hardware and staking requirements. We are talking about $10k of hardware (including CPU and RAM) and staking $20k of the coin just to get started.

With Chia anybody can get started with their spare hardware.

Right now, it is a gold rush and this is leading to shortage of supply especially in China. This is a short term phenomenon as there eventually comes a point where you cannot compete against people who just have spare hardware and therefore $0 upfront investment.