There are two answers to every technical issue: * nixify it, * or rewrite it in rust

Financial system in distress.

I have LSP hints displayed in my CLI text editor (Helix). I'm quite amazed. The experience got really close to VSCode, with all the benefits of CLI text editor preserved.

Bitcoin's consensus rules are held together by a network effect of individual incentives of its users. Not a constitution, not the whitepaper, not the code, but each HODLer doing what best for them is what guarantees consensus rules enforcement. The idea that a super-majority of Bitcoin users could get convinced that stuff like inscriptions introduces MEV, which undermines mining incentives and is thus breaking Bitcoin, and thus endangers the asset they hold dear is not a fantasy. In such circumstances - not unlike UASF - Bitcoin users could enforce a SF that would kick out (e.g. make unspendable) certain outputs they deem undesireable. In essence it's a form of economic voting / war. Users that think that Bitcoin is best with the SF against users who think Bitcoin is best without it. You might think it's not fair, etc. And maybe you are right. But if it was a super-majority and a SF would be successful, you would wake up on holding your inscriptions on a BCH-like minority fork and you can cry all you want about it. Personally I think Inscription are really stupid, and they will fizzle out naturally, so no need to do anything about it. But just saying.

I've just got an upstream git version of helix installed on all my systems (because a PR greatly improving LSP auto-completion just landed) with handful of changes to my personal "nix" git repo by replacing nixos release version with a custom one, by substituting some lines and rustc compiler taken from nixos-unstable (next release). Nix changes the way you think about Linux system building and what you consider possible.

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`bitcoin-internals` got snavelled · rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin · Discussion #1702

Some f***er snavelled bitcoin-internals on crates.io using our repo, what's up with that? https://crates.io/users/marspoolxyz

Someone published illegitimate bitcoin-internals crate, and has some litecoin related crates. Looks :sus: . Be warned, could be malicious.

Is it me, or did a lot of people I am following stopped posting on nostr and activity is going down?

I want to up my html/css game. I can glue together an UI with bootstrap, write dune custom css etc. but whenever I need some fancier layout and styling, it's a struggle. Please recommend best learning materials for state of art web ui/css stuff.

#[0] If you don't mind and find time for it... How long does `cargo build` in

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GitHub - fedimint/fedimint: Federated E-Cash Mint

Federated E-Cash Mint. Contribute to fedimint/fedimint development by creating an account on GitHub.

takes on https://pcpartpicker.com/b/hpmkcf ? :D I keep thinking about getting a machine just like that, but I think I need a nudge ... :D

“Clean” code, horrible performance | Hacker News

🍿 Enjoying the screeching in the comments. :D I would add: historically OOP movement did not make a good distinction between data and code. It's best when *data* is organized in a program like in a application-specific in-memory database (or just in a persistent database right away), while "objects" and interfaces are useful for *code*:

Data vs Code (aka Objects) OOP conflation and confusion

Notes by `dpc`

The biggest blunder in the Clean Code is the unconditional "prefer polymorphism over switch/if":

What OOP gets wrong about interfaces and polymorphism

Notes by `dpc`

I've been going down a rabbit hole of CTMU , so will clear my mind and share some thoughts on it in case anyone finds it interesting. I dig this kind of stuff and generally in last the decade or more my worldview shifted from a rather standard western intellectual scientist mechanical atheism into realization that consciousness can not be derived from physics or computation, therefore consciousness is probably the fundamental aspect of reality, which both the eastern philosophies and western science seems to converge on. So here comes CTMU. It is a ToE (Theory of Everything) , developed by Christopher Langan which has the highest in the world recorded IQ.

Christopher Langan - Wikipedia

From what I can tell tell he's very smart and makes a great impression. What's best is that due to his upbringing he's not an academic, but a proper down to earth dude. Just extremely smart and (self) learned. Whole life he worked as bouncer, firefighter, farmer and such. So to me, with my distaste for academia, the guy himself is just a gem. Anyway - the theory. In a nutshell: Langan starts with logical reasons why consciousness must be the fundamental aspect of reality, or otherwise just the logics of everything wouldn't add up. Then he builds a methapysical model of the universe as a language: a self-generative and self-perceptual system. I hope I didn't butcher it too much. The stuff is abstract, nuanced and takes from various aspects of linguistics, mathematics, physics, and what not. As far as I can tell it's not nonsense or some quackery that can be simply dismissed. But it is so abstract and requires understanding of things from so many disciplines, that it is hard to really fully grasp, even for very bright people, which you can see when watching these few videos when someone actually tries to debate with him. That and that fact that the end conclusion is that the universe can be considered a single self-reifying consciousness, which all conscious agents are kind of fragments of (which is also something I intuitively believe). Langan is open about his religious interpretations of such universe-consciousness. So - the guy is an outsider to academia , with open semi-religious beliefs/interpretations and thus somewhat off-putting to people that could more rigorously think about it, intellectually intimidating, the whole thing is not exactly easy to meaningful criticise without spending considerable amount of time and effort to internalize. All of this made his theory sit for decades without the world really paying any attention. The interactions or criticism I've found online w.r.t. CTMU are always rather uninformed and shallow. From my PoV, it's worth looking into, just because it's intellectually stimulating and not well known. Unfortunately as a metaphysics, it seems more philosophical than practical, so I'm not aware of any predictive consequences that could either be used to show that it actually seem to correspond to observable reality. Maybe there are some and I just didn't get to that part. If you are interested, I the best video to get an overview so far I've found is:

#[0] That https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/issues/230 is interesting. Please post some updates from time to time!

Thought: Convince Eric to rename Fedimint to Chow Mein Mint to out-do Cashu's witty name. 😜

#[0] Thank you!

https://twitter.com/EcommunistForum/status/1627869215498842112 Well... as someone that was raised in post-communist urban community kinda like this one (see attached), and now lives in a American suburbia... It was actually great. School, library, playgrounds, soccer fields, grocery stores in walking distance, plenty of kids nearby to socialize, low/no traffic, efficient public transportation (because lots of people). Suburbias have more space and privacy, but feel lonely, especially for the kids as everything is so far and requires a car. Not everything was a positive, but it's more nuanced than memes would make it look like.

Please zap 1 sat. Just want to see what happens.

Oh shoot. I forgot. This whole nostr movement might be a good opportunity to fix one of the main issues with all social media - how they force unidimensionality on everyone. Basically, me (and all of us) are multidimensional human beings. I'm not *just* a developer or Bitcoin maxi, etc. There is more to me than that, that I'd like to share. But most people will not be interested in other aspects of me. They might want to see only technical posts etc. And then stop following me, as I produce posts they don't care about. This forces everyone that wants to have any reach to be... just a one-topic pony. You only post about one area. Sure you could have multiple IDs, but that's not very practical. I wish that users could have "personas" and select persona to post to when posting stuff, and then be able to follow only subset of personas of people they want to follow. Sure, I love your technical posts, but don't want to see your stupid political opinions (and vice versa, I guess), or I don't care about your hiking trips, or taste in cars, etc. If you could post your technical content under "dev" persona, I could follow that and I wouldn't have to unfollow you altogether.