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The Tether scam needs to end asap.

People are silent about it because Tether pumps their bags, sadly.

Imagine being able to audit the total supply of money printed by your central bank. Or to audit that your retail bank indeed has the reserves it claims.

And "audit" not as in "spend millions on an auditing firm to do it for you", but audit as in "independently verify it yourself on your own computer".

Scalability: While it can't do 25k transactions per second, my Raspberry Pi can validate 600tps with still some headroom. (ie 150x current maximum of BTC; it could actually do 2,2k but I wasn't able to reliably generate blocks because of the stochastic nature of it)

The barriers described in the article are very real, but there is also real work being done to remove them.

There was a Sublime-Text-equivalent for the terminal, but I cannot remember its name for the life of me.

> It would take a use another 3-4 seconds per app installation to prompt the user

I yes, I too rememeber the FirefoxOS. Good times.

> It was a different Google back then.

No it has always been the same company, and we tried to tell you.

Three decades of free software that generated billions upon billions of revenue and a big part of existing infrastructure is built upon is far from "wall to wall toxic waste".

I'm not a fanboy for the sake of it, but you're being a little over your head here.

My RPi4 can handle 256MB blocks on BCH's scalenet, just fine.

There never was a scaling issue.

That thread is assuming that BTC runs on fossil, non-renewable energy, which was mostly correct ten to five years ago, but will be mostly wrong onwards.

BTC runs mostly on surplus hydroelectric power. This may change based on what's locally available and the local cost of oil gas and coal, but when renewables will become cheaper than fossil (which will never be soon enough) it will not make any sense to mine on fossils.

You'll be interested in https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

You should be worried for your gf, probably. And all the other millions of non technical users.

> Model reveals

No, a model models, does not (and can not) reveal anything.

At least it raises awareness on how tracked we are.

On Windows10 you get multiple desktops (all monitors are bound tho), and you can snap windows to left or right half of the screen (this is resizable), or alternatively to the four corners.

It's no i3, but it covers a lot of usecases when I'm not on my linux box.

That's why you have 10 workspaces.

People that are brilliant in their field not necessarily are brilliant in "soft skills", or at least have been prepared to manage those skills.

The Morning Star example (which I read of just now) seems to have the leaderless thing as a cultural backdrop, and new employees receive training in it (by doing). OTOH, you can't just do away with managers in a structured organization and expect it to work, the culture is not there.

grep, pretty often.

All of the busybox alises, actually.

I wasn't following recently, but has Uber finally become profitable?

No Bitcoin Cash? BTC fees are really rampant, I'd rather that the full amount go to the donation.

> Whoever cracks this particular nut

Why not just put a mirror on your desk?

You can't really make this statement without linking to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Probably because dark mode has been shoved over us through an aggresive bro culture not unlike MongoDB at the time.

That's probably why people want to be vocal about it (not as much as said bro culture still)

aphyr, you are of great inspiration as an engineer and as a human.

Your attitude of "a tool I need doesn't exists, so I'll just go ahead and create it" blew my mind and changed me for the better.

I'm dedicating my next test framework to you. Thank you for everything.

You sound like you like motivation.

"Motivation" is the "why?" of what you're starting. If you start a project and exhaust the "why", it's ok to stop there.

Is it curiosity? Is it want to learn something new? Is it want to check out a new technology? You could well answer these questions without actually finishing a project (it the final project itself wasn't the original "why").

If you want some real life "why"s, you could check out one of the many Covid-19 project aggregators. Here is an aggregator of such aggregators: https://covid19projects.now.sh/

> really dumb looking code

You cannot imagine how I'd value having really dumb looking code in my life.

Yet here I am, swimming in a swap of cleverness that I can't refactor nor will ever be able to wrap my head around.

I envy you.

Videos of one year's lectures are available on youtube, with links at here: https://www.ineteconomics.org/education/courses/the-economic...

I'm halfway through, and I'm really impressed not only by the prof's preparation but methods. Very clear.

Everytime I read posts like this is like if people are arguing about the tiny details of the small picture, and it makes me sad.

Expecially because the big picture is easily stated: Write the least amount of clean code while providing value.

(PS: code is liability)

Given all of the comments on here, I think I might have not stated the central point clearly enough. It isn't about getting things 100% correct 100% of the time. No engineering does that.

What we like to call "software engineering" isn't actually engineering, and more like a craft than anything. Actual engineering in software is possible.

I take issue with calling our field software engineering. It's a buzzword.

> Writing non-trivial software that is correct (for any meaningful definition of correct) is beyond the current capabilities of the human species.

Bullshit. Humans have been sending computers into space for decades, and while yes, some have had programming problems, most worked correctly, for a very specific definition of correctly.

Thing is, NASA (and Russian and Chinese and Indian and ...) space engineers have approached their challenges from the point of view of actual engineering, while modern "software engineering" is all about craftsmanship, and just a sprinkle of actual engineering to make ourselves feel good.

Vim is a nice operating system. If it only had an easy way to shutdown...