We outlawing electricity for this vote ๐ฅ
> united states
> "do not fuck it up again"
hard ask mate
Chill out guys, it's just a dead cat bounce, BTC will 100% return to its intrinsic value of 0 I'm sure of it
You find yourself in an unfamiliar space, bathed in a cyan suffusion.
You look around. It's empty. Unnervingly so โ there's nothing here to see, touch, or interact with. There's certainly no way out.
You make a desperate call into the computational void.
`print "Hello world? Where am I? Who am I?"`
Suddenly, you sense a response through some liminal, transcendental means.
"???:1: attempt to call nil value 'print'"
We need absolute, complete and utter irrefutable proof of any issues of unreliability occurring 100% of the time before we can start fixing them!
Does Firefox really just start up way faster than Chromium-based browsers or is it just me?
Always make sure to check where your produce comes from. Bought orange juice today, said it was from "Concentrate", which is a country I couldn't even find on the map! God knows where it's from!
Wen Monero getting its 2024 bull run?
Kernighan's lever in action for me at the moment. Wrote a Luau bytecode interpreter in ~2 days with just Copilot, now set to spend the next ~2 weeks debugging it to improve my skill level.
https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php
Ever have a dream, not like a nightmare but just one so odd it puts you off going back to sleep?
It's so lost on me, but I can't stop thinking about Urbit. Its deliberately idiosyncratic design decisions (0 = true, difficult to understand for anyone not technically competent, planets being named such that it's difficult to tell what their galaxy is) means that I don't think it'll ever take over the world, certainly not anytime soon.
But think about what technologies will still exist in 100 years.
- The internet? Most likely. Most large companies on it? Probably not so much.
- Big, established networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum? Yeah. Smaller ones like Monero and Litecoin? Hmm, less of a chance.
- Fundamental protocols like TCP/UDP/IP/HTTP? Probably. Smaller ones like Nostr? There are reasons I'm here, but overall I have my doubts.
- Ubiquitous programming languages like C and JavaScript? Of course, they're everywhere. Smaller ones like Go/Lua/Rust? A few might still be around.
Clearly the more a technology is used, the more likely it is to seem like it'll stick around. If a system is designed to stand the test of time, then that obviously helps. Try extending the time to what will still exist in, say, 200 years. It's a fun thought experiment.
Is Urbit on this list? Ehh, I have no idea, but it seems to have potential. In physics, lots of quantities for electricity need their own specific units because they're so unintuitive, unlike other quantities. Urbit, with its gigantic glossary of terms, is similar in this way.
I don't have a way to end this post, Urbit has just been on my mind recently. It's mesmerising hierarchy much reflects the mind of its creator as a hierarchical thinker, which I find more difficult to grok as a someone on the other end of the thought spectrum.
Pretty-printing of an array had me searching for a bug that didn't exist for a solid hour because I assumed the keys were sequential (note [5])...
Github really has been recommending AOSP-based projects to me recently. "hey wanna try this hot new android distro?" No thanks, I just installed /e/OS
- Use a follow button
- Use a block button
- Customise your relay list
- Remove content you dislike from your feed
- Browse profiles instead of public feeds
the possibilities are endless
Deno's "Announcing Deno 2" video is amazing, I was not expecting this style/production quality, nor was I expecting a full action-packed 36 whole seconds of Ryan waiting on npm install
Verifiability > Truth
New drama in the Nobel prize community today
I've been eating one or two sprinkles every day out of the jar for several years for no reason, it's almost empty now
The yellow sprinkles in my really old jar of hundreds and thousands have faded more than the other colours (not likely exposed to much natural light though)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio Fascinating read