As Bitcoin hashing tech got more efficient, guess what happened to Bitcoin's energy budget. That's right, it went (way) up. Another example of the Jevons paradox.
Since the 1940s, computers have grown about a trillion times more efficient. But instead of using this efficiency for resource conservation, we invested it in computational sprawl.
I’ll be posting a video that kind of glides through these points; I think what we’d call degrowth is also and largely a choice for an alternate economic story than one told by modern economies and the financial and investment imperatives they creative from them.
UN funding of climate mitigating for poor nations is an example of a modernity dominating the projects.
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Solar and windmills, instead of permaculture+ecological restoration. I’d rather see the basic necessities degrown first. People and towns everywhere be able to cover food, water, energy and housing with local resources only as much as possible. This is de growth and then we can talk about a much more irrelevant global and national supply chain.
Critics often argue that cryptocurrencies are too speculative to be 'real' money. What they seem to miss is that lots of 'real' fiat currencies are highly speculative.
Here's how the volatility of Bitcoin and Ether compare to the exchange-rate volatility of the world's fiat currencies.
Here's the energy intensity of Ethereum relative to mainstream US finance. Can you spot the moment when the blockchain switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake?
A few months ago I started using #NixOS and I was blown away. Then I learned about its design principles and I was even more blown away.
Here's the result: a deep dive into how #unix systems manage software, and how #nix nukes this structure and replaces it with a design fit for the 21st century.
@AngryAnt@blair_fix sure thanks, but the untiy-cli-shell thing... what am I looking at there ? does that all go in the configuration.nix ? what does it do...
@adingbatponder@blair_fix Ah if you check the parent directory there's a utility which scans a Unity editor install path and generates a wrapper script for each version found. Those scripts reference this nix file.
The use case is a TeamCity build agent able to use its default integration to run editors installed via the Unity launcher.