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missed my fuckin train again, I really need to get better at this

No, your cryptocurrency cannot work

Explaining in understandable terms why Bitcoin uses so much power, why all these supposed 'alternatives' cannot fix the problem, how other coins are a scam, and how proof-of-stake is ultimately a dead end too.

gist.github.com/joepie91/daa93

working with/without javascript (for all those cavepeople with irrational programming language hatred)

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fuck it i'm gonna finish adding content warnings to the thread view too tonight

also so far finding documentation for golang libs has been atrocious. 👏 Autogenerated 👏 javadoc👏 comment 👏 dumps 👏 are 👏 not 👏 documentation 👏

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also funny that the best way to get automatic golang recompile and restart is with nodemon, a Node.JS utility

nodemon --watch '**/*.go' -e go --signal SIGTERM --exec 'go' run ./cmd/gotosocial --host localhost testrig start

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it's such a waste that some programming languages force you to use a strict typing system (Go in this case) but it doesn't even have the option to make *actually useful* type constraints, like "this is a string AND it has to start with @"

Pre-disclosure: we are planning a coordinated security release of several Matrix clients starting ~1pm UK (UTC+1) Monday Sept 13th to address a critical vuln. We have no evidence of it being exploited in the wild, but please be sure to upgrade on Mon! matrix.org/blog/2021/09/10/pre

they're using it as a conceptual model too much, like yes entity x and y have a real world relation, but it's not important for the database at all

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