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Great Seinfeld bit :)

A journalist/marketer telling us how to fix things, cool. "You just... easy!"

ngl this is a large part of why I migrated from Atlanta -> Denver a few years ago.

Clojure is hands-down the best programming language I've used. That said, I'm still holding out hope that it'll be hosted on top of something other than the JVM -- frankly, the JVM…

I was kind of wondering about this myself! Although they're putting a "positive" spin on it, surely this can't be good (for at least one party)?

I can't help but wonder if this is in any way motivated by the fact that ENS could be viewed as a threat/competitive in a hypothetical future where web3 becomes more mainstream.

This. Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corpora…

This. Based on current activity, it gets close, but if/once fees rise again, there's a threshold above which it becomes net deflationary.

To be fair, I think this is mainly aimed at developers (and ETH ecosystem developers specifically). While I don't disagree that there's a "vocabulary" problem (e.g. "dank-sharding"…

Many/most people "in the know" peg it somewhere in the ballpark of ~90-95% chance of success from what I've seen.

Why do we need bacon? I just want the mushrooms without paying an arm and a leg! For context, I live in the city and don't have a reliable way (or space) to grow them myself, or el…

To add: in addition to fees being used to thwart spam, EIP-1559 introduced a mechanism where these fees (not the block reward of course) are burned. One way to think of it is almos…

> If the costs to run a validator are too expensive or need too many resources then you just end up promoting a centralized solution. If I recall correctly, the current number (32)…

In the short-term, it's likely already priced in: folks have known this is coming for a while, and especially over the past 2-3 months where it became "real" versus "coming soon". …

Gas fees don't materially change under Proof of Stake. It's a common misconception that The Merge reduces fees (it does not).

It depends on a host of factors, so it's hard to predict exactly. As an example: it depends on the rate at which existing Proof of Work miners move the chain forward. We can make a…

Some of the better known ones are Lido and RocketPool.

In some ways it's surprising that it took us so long to arrive here, but very exciting that things are moving in this direction nonetheless!

For what it's worth, my "dumpster fire" comment encompassed far more than just window management (and admittedly extended to Apple hardware and Apple the company). See my comments …

EDIT: I should point out that, although I don't like MacOS, I ditched Apple-related products first and foremost because of both the hardware itself and the company. Every Apple pro…

God I genuinely hope they survive! I bought a gen1 laptop as an early adopter in part because I wanted to "vote with my dollars" and support their mission. A lot of people I know d…

Been using a Framework laptop for close to a year and loving every minute of it! Installed 64GB of RAM and a high-performance 2TB NVMe for less than half of a comparable Macbook Pr…

Second! I'm also using Kopia + B2 (as well as LAN-based filesystems), it's incredible! Would like to add a second cloud destination as a redundancy (especially because B2 is so che…

I too used to use Crashplan! It steadily went downhill over the years though, so I was looking for an alternative. I ultimately ended up evaluating various options and deciding on …

Am I the only one that (wrongly) assumed this was in reference to application logs and not... literal logs? xD