"At that point he has two options. Find someone to fix it and prepare to hand them all his money, because the first week of that engagement is pure archaeology. Or flee the country."
Err no they would go back to claude and ask it to fix it. And it would.
I dunno what it is with these hate pieces. Its like they've never even used the thing they despise. This guy just seems deeply uninformed.
And the attitude could just so easily be .. Well maybe I could help the builder out? But then that would invalidate his poor belief system.
I tend to compile everything from source on Linux. I don't want to be
tied down to any distribution. So from my point of view I'd agree - I
understand why curl/sh is used, it is super convenient, I also use it
for installing Rust. But I also dislike it. (Naturally for Rust I need
rust for the bootstrapping, so I understand that solution. But I still
dislike it too.)
I'm currently writing an audio service and pipewire is definitely not amazing. Its an improvement to be sure. But audio on Linux is still a shit show compared to basically any other os
> If anyone can trivially create, every creation is meaningless.
Everyone has always been able to trivially create. We live in an attention economy, not a creativity economy. Meaning you can create crap (or ai slop) and people will consume it if you know how to get their attention.
Attention is what gets money. Creation is just fuel for attention. Quality is a part of the equation, but much less important than people generally believe.
Use a private dev repo and do all your dev inside it.
Releases go to a seperate public repo
In the private dev repo use a script which Cherry picks release files from a whitelist that you maintain in the public repo.
Essentially, you define the files and folder structure of a release and that ensures every release looks great with no cruft and it's never going to have .secret.json in or whatever
Hardcoded secrets is seperate and you can have another script to grep for those
Bitcoin was meant to be cash and an antidote to crony finance. Instead, it became yet another mechanism for the financial world to abuse. I'd say thats a pretty heavy failure by any measure.
For me bitcoin opened up the idea that we could maybe do money better. That idea still lives, but not in practice. Yet.
It works amazing for what it was built to do. A decentralized store of value. Moving large amounts of money, with relatively low fees, outside of banks and across national boundaries. It is a resounding success, and continues to be.
Disagree. Its a terrible store of value with a long history of lost money and hacks. For remittanvmce it does have its uses, but as many others have mentioned in practice those uses are for tax avoidance.
Bitcoin was built to be cash and it succeeded at that in the beginning. Until nobody used it. Bitcoin as an idea was practically dead by 2015.
It wasn't built to be cash. It was built to be a store of value, and move that value outside of the banking system.
Claiming it was created for cash is just you inventing a straw man argument so you can knock it down. Ignoring what you reluctantly agreed to - the remittance use case, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Banks have made money transfer a headache for a long time, and crypto essentially solve it.
Other than that, the value of Bitcoin itself holding, despite billions being stolen. Everyone knows the fundamentals of Bitcoin have held and are holding, and the accidents are human error, not a deficiency in the fundamentals.
Satoshi's whitepaper is titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". Cash.
Tax authorities squashed that around 2014 when they started classifying it as a capital asset rather than cash. Nobody wants to track their cost basis and write a tax return line item for every coffee that they purchase throughout the year. Enthusiasts like us will use it anyway - either jumping through the tax hoops, or ignoring them - but most people in functional economies will be good citizens and use the money that their government tells them to.
It's still been a huge success as a store of value, akin to gold but without the problems of physicality. Nothing goes exactly as planned - it's silly to call it dead because it failed to completely live up to its original intent. But it is also ahistorical to claim that it was never intended to be cash.
Err no they would go back to claude and ask it to fix it. And it would.
I dunno what it is with these hate pieces. Its like they've never even used the thing they despise. This guy just seems deeply uninformed.
And the attitude could just so easily be .. Well maybe I could help the builder out? But then that would invalidate his poor belief system.
reply