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I’ve never understood the take that a crypto network “doesn’t provide value”. Keeping the network secure isn’t valuable? So whose paying for all the energy exactly? How long until …

Sounds like turbo links

But…isn’t this kind of how life really did start?

A “patch” could also include a wire to an an external sequencer or arpeggiator, and in this way would include a “melody”. This is trivially easy to do in a software synth, but also…

The author of SQLite suggested that the name is meant to sound like a mineral: https://changelog.com/podcast/201

It’s not “lite”, it’s “ite”. SQLite, as if it were a mineral, like Azurite.

Considering that he was 19 at the time, and that he dropped that project soon after, I think a more charitable reading is that a teenager with some big ideas did something unwise.

Don’t forget this tweet from a day earlier, which he quotes: > “So will wasm replace Docker?” No, but imagine a future where Docker runs linux containers, windows containers and wa…

I am such a musician, and have been looking for years for an app I can use on the go to capture a spontaneous idea on the go and then pick it up later at my home DAW. The ability t…

I can’t believe it doesn’t support manual midi entry (as far as I can tell), seems like a huge miss. This is a well understood limitation for apps in this space (see Auxy), and peo…

Can you elaborate on Lyn Alden? I don’t know enough to comment on her expertise, but I do know that dismissing someone as being trivially wrong on basically any topic is often a si…

Mining has nothing to do with CBDCs

This is the real problem I have. If I delete content, move to a different note, and return to the first note, I lose the undo history and any possibility of regaining the deleted t…

Crypto can be secured and transported much more cheaply and easily - as opposed to gold, where many people would rather own/trade a receipt for gold kept in a secured vault.

You’ve articulated why people call Bitcoin “digital gold”.

Have you found a good way to export a backup, instead of only cloud sync? Too to lose content by deleting by accident and then syncing.

Except that these transactions do eventually go through. It’s a relatively soft form of censorship - and doesn’t actually achieve the goal of preventing the transactions. IMO - thi…

Except that blocks are not “finalized”, like you’re imagining. With 51% of mining power, I can mine faster than the rest of the network, for an arbitrary number of blocks. The 51% …

Compiled to wasm, it can be used in javascript games.

Securing private keys is much cheaper than securing physical property.

Any node that did this would have their stake slashed by the rest of the network, because it would be easy to prove that the chain was invalid. The network finalizes the blocks tha…