It was new to me too, but a (code) forge is essentially a VCS server with stuff like a wiki and issue tracking. So think GitLab, GoGS/Gitea/Forgejo, BitBucket and all the others.
Exactly, permissive licenses such as MIT allow for other people to do a rugpull and change the deal (pray I don’t alter it any further). With open source licenses the community can just fork.
That’s why I always pick AGPL for my projects. Then I can be certain that the code can be freed from greedy hands, and the actual users get all the value of the effort I put in.
VC funding really is making a deal with the devil, because you suddenly have a huge amount of cash, so the startup starts living large (hire more devs, run on expensive cloud infrastructure). But sooner or later they want their money back, plus interest; and few services are profitable, let alone that profitable. So the only thing that startups are usually capable of is to squeeze their users for all they’re worth.
Take a look at all the big startups and see:
- how long it took for them to be profitable
- how much VC funding they got until then
Companies need to pay that back and then some.
And don’t forget that VC’s see this as a perpetual investment, so your revenue must grow year after year, even if you’ve saturated the market.
Oh boy, this is great!
nice make -j $(nproc)
I just started playing it and it’s pretty fun so far.
I made a low INT character, because playing low INT on Outer Worlds was pretty fun
Exactly, ansible is basically imperative, where write the steps declaratively.
Whereas nixos is more like a compiler that compiles to a working linux install.
If I added the software myprogram and a config file at /etc/myprogram.conf, that’s pretty easy in both. But if I needed to to then remove those it gets different .
With nixos it’s at easy as removing the two lines that add the program and the config file; after the next “compile”, the file is gone and myprogram is no longer available in the PATH.
With ansible you need to change the relevant step to use apt remove instead of apt install and to change the config file step in a step that removes the file.
Don’t get me wrong, ansible is still better than writing a lot of bash scripts, especially if you don’t have people with a lot of shell experience.
But tools like nixos and guix are on a whole other level.
Exactly, if we do a back of the napkin calculation:
Bitcoin
Users
There are 200 million bitcoin wallets, let’s be generous and say those are all owned by unique individuals.
Total energy consumption
Bitcoin used about 114 TWh in 2021[1]
Bitcoin currently uses about 150 TWh annually
Energy consumption per user
150 TWh / year
————————— = 0,75 TWh / user / year
200 million users
Banking system
Users
There are over 8 billion people on the planet today, let’s assume 4 billion of them have access to the global banking system.
Total energy consumption
The global banking system used an estimated 264 TWh in 2021[1]
If we assume the same consumption increase rate for banking, that’s about 348 TWh/year currently.
Energy consumption per user
348 TWh / year
————————— = 0,087 TWh / user / year
4.000 million users
With these numbers, bitcoin uses almost 10x the energy per user annually.
There are of course a myriad of things one can argue over whether it makes a fair comparison, none of which I feel like arguing, since this is just a really simple estimate with a lot of assumptions.
1: I used the numbers in this article uncritically, if you have better numbers you can run your own calculations.
Yes, but so do hospitals?
That down mean that every worker has to come in 7 days a week tho, right?
Saaame 😫
Ah, dang :(
Edit: thanks for proofreading the β version of the meme :)
You’re good. I know one of these is definitely real, but the other one is plausible enough to make me think both are real
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Weird that there’s no mention of the talk between Hasan and Asmongold. I’m pretty sure that Hasan’s patience while explaining the Palestinian struggle was the biggest thing that made him change on that as much as he did.