Marty's Ƀent Issue #937: Application > Theory
"Here is possibly my favorite quote from Satoshi, which highlights the fact that he was a pragmatic builder instead as opposed to a theorizing academic: 'I actually did Bitcoin kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper.'”
"pragmatic building > ideal theory"
Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-and-nhs-privatisation-by-former-chief-scientist "King contrasted the success of the vaccination programme, carried out by the NHS, with the failure of the government’s test-and-trace operation"
Laptop decided to brick itself...
I've seen lots of enthusiasm for Thinkpads so likely gonna grab one, any recommendations or good resources forums for first time buyers? There's a lot of information out there, not all of it trustworthy.
Don't need to game on it, just something for work and general coding.
Any suggestions you guys have would be super sweet.