@potato_lisper
I switched from nix to guix to nix. I really do miss scheme but flakes are nice!

every now and again, i look back remember how awesome i used to think coffeescript was.

This well-researched #longread reminds us that #Putin has been puppeteering right-wing extremists since the 1980ies when he was a KGB man in Dresden, GDR.

https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/

The authors should have mentioned that intelligence agencies in the west have done the same.

@stevelord on point one, the evm's wordsize is 256 bits, and it has no floating point operations This was done for simplicity and the words size was chosen to easily support crypto operations Its not ideal but floats at that time would have introduce more complexity then it was worth I think.

@chartier https://podverse.fm/ is my favorite client that support value4value.

@kubikpixel mhee its the upcoming merge and the price crash. Compare ETH's hash rate to bitcions and you will see that ETH's is dropping significantly more; I would assume that is BC eth miners know what's coming and have no incentive to invest in building future infrastructure

conflicting keybinds are the worst. Why cant we have a keybinding server that pervents or warns us when two or more programs have conflicting keybindings?

mood: head first into the complexity

It is human nature to "look for one's keys under the street-lamp, because that is where the light is brightest."

– Henry Baker, Dubious Achievement

https://plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/letters/CACM-DubiousAchievement.html

“Why Open Source Matters — Guix”
https://blog.bitmex.com/why-open-source-matters-guix/

I wasn’t seduced by the title but this article is a great explanation of how #FreeSoftware, @reproducible_builds, and #bootstrapping contribute to #SupplyChainSecurity for Bitcoin Core. This includes a discussion of why they went from #Gitian to #Guix.

"If there wasn't something wrong with Lisp, no computer language (except Fortran) would exist."

When people are like "they gon microchip me to talk to the satellites," I'm like, my man: can you imagine how much people would pay for an unlimited-plan phone you never have to charge? And you think they're just gonna put it in you for free?

You don't even have insurance.

The rebel position at one point was to not wear a mask, now has become orthodoxy and donning the mask is now rebellion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/11/texas-mask-mandates-covid-19-greg-abbot

23 Takeaways on #ETH 2.0: The Next Evolution of the Cryptoeconomy
#ethereum — https://dt.gl/how-to-invest-in-debt-equity-and-commodities-in-one-investment/

Is #wasm the new ncol (UNiversal Computer Oriented Language)?

NCOL was supposed to be an intermediate-level language into which all programming languages could be translated, and from which all machine languages could be generated.

reading #haskel papers

🤔🤔🤔

RT @CryptoLawUS@twitter.com

Jay Clayton, whose SEC declared #BTC and #ETH are not securities and removed all obstacles to trading them, now works for hedge fund that is betting on #BTC and #ETH. (Coincidentally, he also sued @Ripple@twitter.com, crashed #XRP and forced its delisting.) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/ex-sec-chairman-clayton-to-advise-brevan-backed-firm-on-crypto

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CryptoLawUS/status/1376588157962088458

Guix has Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (sicp) in its repo in texinfo format.

`guix install sicp'

CLI users can read it with
`info sicp'

I think that's very cool. #sicp #guix

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