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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 they’re bled dry?
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 perfectly possible in an original “patch”.
The author of SQLite suggested that the name is meant to sound like a mineral:
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 wasm containers side by side. Over time wasm might become the most popular container type. Docker will love them all equally, and run it all :)
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 to manually enter musical notation is a essential here, because it allows me to use an app even if I don’t have my wired headphones (and when I’m out and about living my life, I don’t carry wired headphones). The closest I’ve found is Auxy, but it can’t do a truly native import to Ableton.
This app misses so badly because, by design, it makes such manual entry impossible. It actually hides the musical grid, and tries to focus on snippets of musical performance that are automatically (and invisibly) tempo analyzed and locked. This means that with wireless headphones the app is actually complete useless, instead of merely impaired.
Unless I’m missing something?
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 people increasingly have only wireless headphones.
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 sign of not understanding the person’s arguments.
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 text.
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 - this behavior is a blip. As soon as it becomes clear that “censorship” isn’t effective, it will become less popular for validators to do it at all.
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% attacker will have the longest chain for as long as they keep mining their chain because they’re chain will always (eventually) be the longest one.
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 that are added to the chain, there are no deep chain reorgs like in bitcoin - so any significant alternate history is easily identified.