510
The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition) (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

And for anyone interested in a template:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

git itself is really not far from a blockhain. Blockchain is fine, it only has a bad rep because of ponzi schemes that use it to create crypto, but the technology and trustless consensus mechanisms are interesting.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think blockchain also has a bad rep because every chance is mirrored to every copy of the blockchain? Thus wasting a lot of power and bandwidth for most use cases. Unlike git, where you only push what you want, and everyone only pulls what they want.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The waste of power is often associated to the proof of work consensus, but that's not a requirement of blockchain. There are other ways to create consensus.

    The bandwidth requirements really depend on what's being stored, but it's usually very manageable for a server. And clients not running validation don't need to store or transfer that much data.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •