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A break from programming languages — Alexis King https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2025/05/29/a-break-from-programming-languages/

Best of luck to her in future endeavours!

“Still, the history of mainstream programming languages is essentially a story of programmers vocally and emphatically rejecting what eventually proved to be some of the most incredibly successful innovations in the history of the field.
[…]
Discussions of programming languages are, by and large, emotionally driven shouting matches based on anecdotes and gut feelings.
[…]
I do earnestly believe that the field of software engineering would benefit from more openness to new ideas and willingness to experiment with new technologies. I also think it would be enormously refreshing if programmers did not nearly universally speak with an expert’s confidence on subjects they have only passingly encountered.”

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holodeck programs for cats

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#PayPal macht Stimmung gegen #Bargeld und will dabei nicht erkannt werden. Dumm nur, dass der Auftraggeber auf dem Laufband durchscheint.

#BoycottPaypal
#Bargeldabschaffung
#Finanzen
#NiemandHatDieAbsicht
#DigitaleDiktatur
#Überwachung
#GläsernerBürger
#DigitalerEuro
#Euro
#CBDC

@hyc
p2pool!
that's my point!

pooled mining can be done with little hardware and pooled staking can be done with little stake.

@kkarhan @voxel

@hyc
solo mining with only an old smartphone?

@kkarhan @voxel

@kkarhan @hyc @voxel

Rocket pool has a minimum of 0.01 ETH to participate. Other pools have no minimum.

While you do need 32 ETH to run your own independent non-pooled validator, that is nothing compared to the capital requirements to run and independent btc pow miner that is not part of a mining pool. We're talking industrial scale before it is viable!

Criticism is fine. Lies are not. Deliberately misleading statements are not. FUD is not.

@kkarhan @hyc @voxel
My point was that Ethereum staking can be run on a NUC or even on a Rasperry Pi.
There are no ASICs here. So:

"#Ethereum uses #ASIC|s which makes it way more polluting due to these being useless for anything else."
is completely false. misinformation.

meanwhile:
" the only thing that moving #Ethereum from #PoW to #PoS achieved is raising the wall to make it harder, more expensive amd less attractive for #SmallInvestors to fiddle with it."
Is also demonstrably false.

@kkarhan
"Whether the PoS transition did save energy is debateable since #Ethereum uses #ASIC|s"

can I have some of what you are smoking? Must be strong stuff :D

@hyc @voxel

...returns available to anyone, just as anyone can invest in stock funds. That alone doesn't make things "fair". Our markets, taxes, regulations still favour the wealthy.

PoW is also a capital intensive business and with more capital you can achieve higher returns due to economies of scale.

Ultimately these are fundamental issues with capitalist markets refracted through the lens of cryptocurrency generation and distribution.

Inequality will not be solved here.

@hyc @voxel @kkarhan

@kkarhan
PoS in Ethereum has similar returns on capital as other investments. Currently 2-3% per year. It scales with demand - there is a market mechanism at play.
Claiming that PoS inherently concentrates power in the wealthy misses the point - it mirrors the wider financial market which, yes, benefits the already wealthy.
This is a more fundamental problem that must be solved elsewhere.

And though a single validator is limited to 32 Eth minimum, pooled staking makes these 2%
@hyc @voxel

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Cat has photocopied his own feet. I think a password might be in order.

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Mission. #grickledoodle #evolution #snacks #cartoon #drawing #art #funny #fish

A cartoon illustration of a fish who has grown legs standing on land while a fish still in the water is talking to him. Caption reads "Find snacks!"

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Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)

he text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji]
Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.

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When Brad and I first got together, we couldn’t have imagined that one day we’d be able to celebrate Pride Month so openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

"That is not to say that Mr Musk has changed nothing. His biggest impact is overseas. According to modeled predictions by Brooke Nichols, a health economist at Boston University, cuts to foreign aid could have already caused 300,000 deaths, 200,000 of them children, from starvation and from infectious diseases. "

- from The Economist

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The train I'm in just crossed the border from Spain into France. No announcement and I expect no one else noticed the moment. Freedom to disregard borders is a huge boon to those who have it. Many don't and many more are losing it.

Am I the only one who can't help reading this in Zap Brannigan's voice?

Speaking to a group of reporters earlier this month, Musk implied that DOGE is self-sustaining and could carry on without him. “DOGE is a way of life,” he told them, “like Buddhism.”