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A Technical Book for the Age of AI (codeberg.org)
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As AI increasingly answers "how," this book focuses on "why." Rather than focusing on how to build software, it asks why programming matters.

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[+] -11 points 1 month ago (13 children)

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Oh my what happened to this site. Who tf runs this thing? How can you be so conservative that you block the 2 greatest breakthroughs for computer science in the last 20 years.

Next stop: women and PoC not allowed and required bible references?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Who tf runs this thing?

    Feel free to use GitHub/Copilot and vibe code crap, we won't stop you.

    the 2 greatest breakthroughs

    https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ is a breakthrough.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    I self host on Gitea. It’s called ownership. It used to be a thing.

    And yeah money gets stolen n shit. That happens. Look at the legacy financial system. Money attracts thieves.

    Instant trustless transfer in a dark forest of evil. Huge.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Look at the legacy financial system. Money attracts thieves.

    Sure but it's not the Federal Reserve that steals from people. Crypto is like if Charles Ponzi ran the Federal Reserve.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    What an odd thing to say. Does this include USDC?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    USDC doesn't really support your "trustless" point. It isn't trustless; it's basically traditional financial infrastructure with a blockchain strapped on.

    You still have to trust Circle to actually hold the reserves, honor redemptions, and manage them properly. You need audits and regulation to make that credible. In other words, the thing providing stability is precisely the centralized trust crypto was supposed to eliminate. A stablecoin can't replace fiat while remaining pegged to fiat. And what do we get in return? Mostly a harder-to-tamper-with ledger.

    Stablecoins don't have a spotless record either. The CFTC found Tether made misleading claims about its reserves, and USDC itself briefly fell to about $0.87 when SVB failed because $3.3B of its reserves were stuck there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It does support trustless from a transactional standpoint. Yes it’s mint has some caveats that anyone transacting would be familiar with.

    But if you wanted to accept payment for a car in USDC, the instant I paid you, you can trust that transaction happened and cannot be undone by me. Understanding Circle is backing it.

    That tx can be done for a penny or two, instantly, globally. That’s a big deal.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    For AI: They have limited funds and AI creates a lot of unmanaged Abandoned-on-arrival code. This gives then grounds to remove the abandoned slop code bases.

    Really not hard to understand why they would restrict it.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago

    Reading their blog post, it’s a lot more than that. They even go into explaining water and electric waste.

    If it was just cost, wouldn’t they want to ban unmanaged and abandoned on arrival code, projects wasting CO/CD with no community, etc, and not blanket ban llm generated content?

    It’s clearly an ideology of the site and its users, which is perfectly fine. I just find it laughably conservative.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    It’s not all slop anymore my friend.

    No, you can’t use postgresql for a trustless global financial system. If you don’t know why or what a trustless system is, you don’t need blockchain. Good examples of ignorance: “enterprise blockchain”, “private blockchain”.

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