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I would love to hear an explanation of how PoST consumes natural resources and produces e-waste as compared to PoW.

PoS, to my knowledge isn't a viable alternative to PoW. There are too many similarities to the traditional financial system. That's partly (mostly?) why PoW was invented.

PoST (Proof of Space and Time) is PoW 2.0 essentially. It addresses the energy consumption of PoW using the same Nakomoto Consensus mechanism that provides true decentralization and the security that comes with it. It does this by doing the work ONCE up-front and saving it to space (generating plot files) rather than doing the work for every block. Lookups are incredibly energy efficient (farming plots). The Time component ensures that a certain amount of time passes between blocks, and is responsible for moving the chain forward.

There is also the added benefit of utilizing datacenter drives destined to be scrapped // still perfectly usable for storing plot files.

I can identify with much of what you wrote, especially surrounding the desire to help others. Noting another comment on how you don't want to deal with the "serious stuff," I'm highly recommending you look into the coaching profession. It sounds to be exactly what you're looking for in terms of training.

In general, therapy is designed to help people who are suffering from mental health and emotional wellness issues. The goal is help these people to baseline. Coaching assumes a baseline level of mental health and emotional wellness, and is designed to move people towards some measurable goal. Advice giving is not a part of either of these professions for good reason.

Consultants and mentors are related professions that ARE about advice-giving. These are wonderful as well, just different.

Also, many kudos for putting yourself out there!! There are tons of people who need and are looking for help.

source: am a coach trained by an ICF (International Coaching Federation) accredited program.

For me it was dedicated time in nature getting back into my body ... trail running in particular. I'm prone to intellectualize everything, including my emotions. The mind is a wonderful thing and I've found that to depend on it for everything is pretty limiting.

This all started when I had more time to myself again after my kiddo began school 5-6 years ago (I'm 40, now). I found yoga early in this period and began to learn how to feel into my body more than ever. To feel my emotions rather than think about them, and let them pass. Also, I began to listen to and trust my intuition even for the seemingly smallest of decisions.

It seems that getting to know oneself deeply is a daily practice. At least it is for me.

edit: One more thing: journaling. By hand. 3 pages (30-45 minutes non-stop). First thing in the morning, every morning as described in "The Artist's Way." This helped get the sh*t out on paper before bringing it into the world. Whatever happened to be on my mind ... even the mindless drivel.

I see you.

There is a lot of advice being giving here. What works for one person may work for another, and frankly, it may not.

You already have the wisdom required to live a fulfilling life within. Truly believing this and discovering this wisdom is often not easy, as it appears you have already discovered.

All I can say is that the process of deeply getting to know myself has been a lot of work and absolutely worth it for me. It's a journey that I feel I will be on for the rest of my life. And it's f*cking wonderful.

I'm a developer as well, and a relatively new coach, though I'm not currently practicing due to other prior commitments. Therapy is wonderful. So is coaching. Both can go hand in hand.

Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to have a deeper conversation (same username on Twitter).

Just for reference, the total U.S. Department of Defense budget for 2021 was $705 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

Me too.

Feel like I should also mention ProLon FMD: https://prolonfmd.com/fasting-mimicking-diet/

Invented by Valter Longo, one of the authors of the study referenced in [1].

I'll toss in my experience:

Started with the original iPhone, to iPhone 3, to iPhone 4, switched to Android for a few years and the last one I had was the LG G5. The customizability is awesome in Android and I made use of 3rd party launchers to great effect. To me, Android's strength is the ability to get the information you want fast.

I'm still frustrated by this aspect with iOS (I have an iPhone 7 Plus now). Android OS UX is streamlined -- I feel like I have to fumble a bit to get to the app / information that I want in iOS.

But I went back to iPhone because the interop is better (I use an MBP daily for work/personal), apps are better, battery life is better, camera is better, phone is better, etc. It's just better hardware ... at least compared to my experience with HTC and LG phones.

The Interdictor // this is the one that I remember. I was glued to this guy's post during that time ... was fascinating.

I've been using the Topo by ErgoDriven. I like it, but at the same time, I'd like to try something that isn't as soft. I should add that I prefer to be barefoot whenever possible and when I'm not I'm usually wearing shoes that don't have any support or much cushioning. I can't think of a natural surface that I've been on barefoot that is remotely as spongy as the Topo.

The Halo site was built with a modified version of the Assan template available on WrapBootstrap.com - so Bootstrap, jQuery and the like. It's not perfect, but I strip out unnecessary plugins and combine most of the assets to minimize resource loading. Ideally most of the unused CSS and JS would be stripped out too to further reduce load times, but this becomes a lot more complicated and is usually not worth it for a variety of reasons.

The lawyer site was done with the Elevation theme from Templated.co. Less manipulation here, other than a few changes of tags for SEO purposes. No CSS framework (that I know of anyway), skel.js and jQuery.

Hey, thanks man!

I too am curious about your edge case. I have had to wade through the forums, or even check out blogs for a few things myself. Though, I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case with another tool.

I would agree that the doc quality has been steadily improving.

I saw that speed was greatly improved in Hugo 0.17 as well. Thanks for all your hard work!

I've built two client sites with Hugo recently with great success: https://www.halorestorationservices.com/ and http://www.laviagelaw.com/. Both are fairly extensive in their use of templates and Hugo's features.

That said, I typically grab from site templates and don't do a lot of css/js manipulation myself. Though, if I did, I'd just set-up Grunt or Gulp to handle automatic regeneration of the final asset files.

For those asking why should you switch? Well, exactly, why should you? If you are happy with your current toolset and are productive using it, isn't it all about the final product anyway? Who cares what you use. But if you aren't happy with your toolset, or are just keeping an eye out for something that might be better ...

Hugo is known most for its speed. If you have a site with many, many pages that needs to be built quickly, strongly consider Hugo. It really is super fast. I'm actually considering building out a very large sample site with various engines to demonstrate just how fast it is. I'll try to find this post on Hacker News again and post if I ever get around to it.

Layout of content is extremely nice in Hugo. Basically, you just organize everything in directories how you want it to be rendered in the end. This can be overridden if necessary.

Documentation is also really nice. I'm actually about to build another client site and considered using Jekyll (you know, just to see), but found the documentation lacking compared to Hugo. It also seems to needlessly complicate things, but that's probably just personal opinion based on prior experience with Hugo.

There are a few downsides obviously. You get what you get, unless you want to add functionality and recompile. But now you have to maintain your own version.

As parent5446 mentioned, variables can be a bit confusing. They are not as idiot proof as I'd like them to be.