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Bitcoin isn't really money same way as US dollar isn't really money.

Not true.

Behind the US Dollar is a whole country and a lot more countries if not the whole world.

Behind Bitcoin are random investors, random people.

Bitcoin is also rarly traded directly it uses fiat for most. So Bitcoin is even dependend on this proof-of-stake system.

Bitcoin is a proof-of-work system dependend on the best proof-of-stake system we have.

the biggest trick I have is to learn to use curl properly

there's also `:smile` (i think it's nvim only), `:help 42`

:smile is in vim not nvim

Full release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.27

I see a lot of westerners praise USSR as some sort of lost paradise. And for me, Eastern European, it's crazy

I lived there (Odessa, mostly), till late teens. The QoL highly depended on who you knew, how to steal and how to bribe and barter, on all levels of society. You could live very well, relative to the gen pop, if you possessed these qualities and your parents were members of the party.

I suppose that can be said about everywhere, but it wasn't a desolate rusty bullet ridden hellscape, the cities were beautiful and so were the beaches, at least as captured in my memory.

My family had friends from Poland and Hungary and we always envied them, the green kind. So, I always assumed at that age things were nicer beyond the borders, but they weren't so bad locally either. Of course, in the end, it was a house of cards, but the life itself wasn't NK level.

Shahed drones are used only by russia and iran

I often use : to set default values of configuration envs. e.g, in my dotfiles bootstrap script I have:

  : "${DOTFILES_PATH:=$HOME/.dotfiles}"

Which will use $DOTFILES_PATH value if it's set, otherwise it's going to be $HOME/.dotfiles

From what I hear, this happens all the time, even though it always works for me