I’m going to keep calling it monkeypox, I like the silliness

I got rid of my very small front yard grass this year. Instead: some natural tall decorative grasses under the downspouts, but also some Dutch tulips, hyacinth, peony, daffodil. Cottage garden style. I got some good comments from the neighbors. And I don’t have to mow one freaking pass around the front of the house 😂 I ran drip irrigation to get it started and put down cardboard and mulch. I haven’t had any of the former grass try and poke up, thankfully. I’ve heard the best thing to do is just fill it with plants you want, so that plants you don’t want don’t have room to grow. Some of the tulips I got were bigger than my head!

Careful, Godwin’s Law might hear you 😂

Now that the US doesn’t rely on auto manufacturing as its main industry, people are coming around on trains.

But, what’s that rule about headlines ending in a question mark? 🤔

You probably want 48gb of vram or more to run the good stuff. I recommend renting GPU time instead of using your own hardware, via AWS or other vendors - runpod.io is pretty good.

Imo it’s worthwhile to just run the biggest model available and rent expensive GPU time. It still amounts to very little overall and you get much better results. Project dependent of course

Uncensored models are so much better, too. chatGPT is like one of those plastic children’s toy hammers vs real models are titanium hammers

Gotta say, the left is running an excellent campaign! Really tuned in to the online stuff

U mad bro?

Minimum technical knowledge indeed. Just not in the direction you are saying.

Bitcoin is not a repo. It’s a protocol, like TCP / UDP. You are probably thinking of the Bitcoin core client. It can be written in Node or Python if you want.

I’ve read the whitepaper, all the source code for Core, and built lightning mainnet applications.

Re: 51% attacks, yes they have happened, but as I noted above, the expense of running them is more than the gains. Because of PoW.

Re: real-world applications: Africa and other unbanked areas use BTC regularly. Citizens of countries with high inflation too.

Re: destroying the planet: many of the successful Bitcoin miners run on excess energy that would otherwise be wasted. Nuclear / hydro plants have excess energy as they generally online large portions at a time, more than is needed for a specific time. You can think of Bitcoin mining as bringing forward the ROI on a new power plant before it reaches capacity.

Never secure? Maybe you and I have a different definition of secure. Billions are currently secured in BTC, and have been for years.

Crowdstrike is an argument against your point - single point of failure and too much power in one actor.

Please send me the example you mentioned about Bitcoin’s PoW being “split by cloud” - not sure what that means.

Attacking a PoW system costs more than a bad actor would receive in reward for attacking the system.

There’s good book I can recommend that you might enjoy as a programmer if you want to learn more about this: Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopolis. He is a Greek CS nerd who got into it during the Greek financial crisis and explains this all very well.

It’s strange to me to be a professional programmer and have no interest in highly secure programmable money and distributed systems for consensus, but you do you. I am not here to change your mind.

PoW is necessary to financially disincentivize attacks on the network.

Programmable money can achieve everything a bank does and more. Imagine automations that have their own wallets and can pay people (or other bots) to do things.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while, thank you, I needed this ❤️

BTC can use the same amount of energy it does now and process every transaction that tradfi does. Aka it’s more efficient than the legacy system it will replace

If you’re in these comments saying Bitcoin is a waste of energy resources, come prepared with the amount of energy traditional finance uses. How many banks have big empty buildings in downtown that keep their lights on all night? Security trucks to transport cash, etc.

What the Fediverse has done for social media, Bitcoin does for money.

This would probably run on a a6000 right?

Edit: nope I think I’m off by an order of magnitude

Worked for cops, teachers, and iron workers

No talk of issues or positions here. Just “her sex and skin color.” Maybe that will get some people out to vote, but they did the same thing for Hillary and it did not work. “First woman president, she deserves it”

It’s weird to me that people on Lemmy are so anti ML. If you aren’t impressed, you haven’t used it enough. “Oh it’s not 100% perfect,” well yeah who cares? You should partner it with a human to supervise it anyway. 1 human can supervise many ML partners