Does anyone know what this CLN thing is the Autonomi team talks about? I must have missed what that’s about.
Client light networking (or light client networking)
Well, our networking stack is large and complex (12k lines of code) and is shared between the node and the client. Light-client-networking is an attempt to break away from this heavy piece of code and replace it with a simple 1k-lines-of-code alternative that the client can use. It’s a huge code simplification client side that should lead to significant performance improvements, but it’s still a work in progress.
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Well, for people that find Elon´s “salutes” cute and charming there is probably nothing wrong at all with the current tuning of twitter’s algorithm.
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Well there you have it folks, gold miners selling gold to buy bitcoin.
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So the latest musk tweet is fun. Trump being part of the epstein files being the reason for them not being made public.
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It’s unbelievable how rapidly that bromance fell apart. But on X, seriously?
Like a couple of teenagers 
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But it’s all theater isn’t it? Left wing, right wing, same corrupt bird of prey. It’s a charade for midwits just like pro sports are a charade for cretins.
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Oh are they acting more grown up than usual. Normally its acting like children, at least that is what the executive team is like. Self absorbed, entitled children
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If only emu devs had a place to upload code that couldn’t be taken down, it would be like a power-up for gaming.
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This is one of the obvious consequences of ‘vibe’ coding. Those who can’t yet code don’t learn and will not progress, those who can, but get addicted to the appearance of ease and efficiency rot their brains and regress:
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It felt good to write a program, in Rust, today and reduced 35 errors down to 0 by understanding the errors, and suggestions by the compiler. Multi threaded, command line values and some atomic variables. And worked first time it ran.
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Smarmy git 
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That’s Rust. I’ve never known such a capable and productive language, and while there is hard work in the early days getting used to it’s strictures, I always enjoy writing the code and fixing the compiler errors - because they save lots of time debugging.
Welcome to the club @neo!
I had to go back to JavaScript for ScratchChat and it was easy because I’ve done a lot over recent years, but I hit a strangeness and could not fix it.
So I had to write less good code to work around it. Not fun and it still bugs me.
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Helps to have 50 odd years of programming behind me
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I’m becoming a big fan of Rust myself. The compiler error messages are descriptive, they syntax is pretty good, and the best part, no null pointer errors. If it compiles, it generally just works. I also really like the error handling system in that it is explicit where a panic can occur. You have to go out of your way to unwrap a result. I’m looking forward to the day where I can permanently retire my C hat for embedded programming and just deal with Rust and the occasional assembly snippet.
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I still remember being sat at a terminal with my boss’s copy of K&R to learn C and it fills me with joy. I’ll always love C even though I’ve not used it in decades.
[Around that time my office mate wrote a Small-C compiler for his 6809 single board micro and went on to build Netflix’ cloud.]
Have you or anyone else heard of “a-natural” or something like that?
During that time I came across it being used by a senior colleague to write a disk driver when I was looking to do the same (for my z80 micro kit). It was between C and Assembly, but I’ve not been able to track it down since.
Maybe it was very local, from that Co or the local uni computer lab IDK, but web search didn’t know of it.
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I haven’t heard of “a-natural”. I bet a lot of those older utilities have simply disappeared over the years. Sad really. It is interesting poking around old source code. I always enjoyed finding snippets where somebody had a Eureka moment and excitedly explained the bug that they fixed or the guys that would sprinkle smart ass comments here and there. Today’s code is so sterile 
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That is very impressive… especially if you count the even years as well as the odd ones.
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Altman you mean. He is no buddy of ours… 
