I find it incredibly hard to understand anything in TOML that is more than simple, unnested key-value pairs. If you get into arrays, maps etc. then TOML is a nightmare to read.
I tend to disagree a bit. In the early days, most scams at least pretended to have some non-pump-and-dump usecase. Like Dentacoin or Filecoin. You could at least pretend to "buy filecoin today so you can store PB's worth of data in a year" or "buying Dentacoin now because in a year you need some dental work done".
Nowadays all new tokens/coins have 0 usecases attached and only exist to be pancake swapped and pumped and separating other people from their money. It's all about lending, yielding, farming, interest rates, staking, ...
I can't really agree, sure it's bigger today than it ever was. But God did we see stupid shitcoin projects being pumped and dumped on the costs of naive early investors in the very beginning. No use case, no value, pure pump and dump shortly after litecoin they have been all over already.
Jumping about 3-4 years ago, just before NFTs became a thing and ETH transactions were still cheap there was a grace of the most simple, basic and stupid ponzi "games" the world has ever seen. "Buy color #24384, the next pays 150% of the price and you get 120% back" that often collapsed the same day, and as NFTs weren't a thing yet basically disappeared once the website went down. Yet people threw thousands of dollars at these games without asking questions.
Today's "bullshit" is much more sophisticated and usually doesn't collapse after only a few days, as well as is harder to see trough for naive investors.
But really I can't say it got worse, if anything these 'scams' have more winners because most 'investors' aren't that naive anymore.
These memecoins don’t even pretend to care about lending and staking and farming. Its literally about just buying the coin and hoping someone pumps it.
The most traded coins right now according to CoinGecko are almost entirely memecoins with no utility whatsoever.
The price of ICP immediately following the listing on Coinbase should have been the signal to exit the current market cycle for anyone paying attention.
Can you give some examples? I live in Europe and have never experienced that in my country suddenly everything stops for 2 weeks in the middle of the summer.
Citation needed. Germans do not quit working for 2 weeks in the summer. Where did you get that from? What German companies shut down for 2 weeks in the summer of 2019?
There's even a word for it. Google Betriebsurlaub.
I get that from working with and for German, Austrian and Dutch companies in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. It's nigh on impossible to get anything done in August around here.
This doesn't apply to things like resorts and restaurants, for obvious reasons, though if that's what you're thinking of.
Yeah, your first comment made it sound to me like the country shuts down (grocery stores, home improvement stores, furnite stores, banks, offices, government agencies, taxis, ...) ;-)
Is it coincidence that comments are turned off on _all_ videos on YouTube[1] related to the redesigns?
What options do I as a "normie" have to give feedback? Is there really only one way, to use the ancient Bugzilla and hopefully finding a ticket somewhere?
Unpopular opinion: in this day and age, comment sections under blog posts and especially YouTube videos tend to turn extremely toxic so fast it doesn't make any sense to keep them open at all. I haven't seen any comment different than memes, FUD or trolling under a YouTube video in years.
1) goto firefox.com
2) scroll to bottom, where most companies put contact info
3) click 'contact'
or!
'file a bug'
OR!
There's a bunch of social media links.
Every UI redesign or logo/brand redesign yields an avalanche of negative feedback. It's understandable that they'd be looking for actionable feedback elsewhere.
Projects like Mozilla and GNOME have naked contempt for user feedback and go out of their way to avoid and disregard it. They say we're all idiots who "want faster horses instead of cars". But really it's about power. If user feedback were valued, the personal whims of the "UX experts" would be accordingly devalued. And they simply cannot stand giving up that power.
Let's not forget that when users can give feedback, many of them are harsh and entitled about it. See why some projects turn off the GitHub issue tracker.
The last time I bothered to use Mozillas bugtracker, it was to report errors in the way Firefox was interacting with my screen reader. I had an utterly dispassionate tone, despite this matter being very important to me, because I had heard stories about Mozilla devs being very touchy and quick to take offense.
For my trouble, I was told that accessibility features on MacOS were a low priority (?!?) and nothing ever came of it.
A lot of this seems to hinge on "go get" being the best way to get Go source code. Most discussions I've read so far come down to "well, this might be cool, but it would break go get, so we cannot ever do it".
I for one could live without go get alltogether. In 99% of cases it boils down to a simple git clone anyway, which could (should?) be done by the package manager anyway.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate the existence of go get, now that we're seeing that "just clone master and hope nothing breaks" has obviously not worked for everyone outside of Google? Maybe bundling Go (the compiler and linker) with tools for fetching source code wasn't such a good idea after all?
I find it bizarre how unnecessarily hard that’s been made to avoid a slight amount of extra typing. The github imports work with the most basic options but I’ve seen people waste a lot of time on internal servers, SSH vs. HTTPS, tagging, etc. where it’d have been cleaner, easier and forward-compatible if you just gave it a URL and it shelled out to run “git clone <URL>”.
The "O" in TOML is not deserved in my opinion.