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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.

Follow the Leader

In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today. He was also a Communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin.

The Atavist Magazine
@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.
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@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

"Dubious Achievement", Comm. of the ACM 34, 4 (April 1991), 18.