What is your opinion on The Sopranos?

"Speculative" energy money is a decent analogy imo.

Shitcoins are only for speculating, and if shares are a shitcoin, might as well speculate on them.

My friend built a strategy called Military Incremental Complex, which just launched on Steam today. You can build up your army by making bullets by hand, then with machines, and then upgrading to entire factories. It's pretty fun and there's a ton of content in it.

Check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3469750/Military_Incremental_Complex/

Very much so

Nope, didn't come up. Honestly I think most of those business can only use AI that is approved by their leadership. Perhaps a good opportunity for @nprofile1q... though

That would have been interesting. Sadly the word "license" was also not mentioned at all either lol

I went to a local "Open Source" happy hour this evening.

There was panel on how "AI is impacting enterprises" and they mostly focused on the dangers of how AI might take everyone's job. Lots of discussion about enterprises, board members asking about "AI Strategy", and how to impose guardrails for safe AI use.

Umm what exactly does that have to do with Open Source Software?

I don't think any of the panelists mentioned the words "open source" once.

Frankly not surprising, but still eye opening to see the disconnect that the Bitcoin ecosystem has from the broader tech community.

Open source is more than just dumping code on the internet.

I didn't select anything, not sure if the server did though

Paying for beer using Ecash App on a Square terminal

https://ecash.love

Unfortunately not currently supported, you can make a new one though. We'll see if we can fix that in an upcoming update.

Fedimint can do this pretty easily since it supports onchain. We have this in Ecash App https://ecash.love

Been a long time (~10 years) since I've looked at any graph database, and I've never used Neo4j (I remember fighting with Giraph though, had a hell of a time getting that to compile).

I like this paper's assessment of graph databases: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec2024.pdf

TLDR is graph databases do have some performance optimizations over RDBMS due to the storage layout and optimized algorithms for common queries (shortest, ancestors, etc), but ultimately you can also represent a graph as a collection of tables. Recently some RDBMS systems have been adding graph-like query languages and have been optimizing joins for graph queries and they have been claiming better performance.

If you're not doing large OLAP queries or using it for other purposes, Neo4j seems like a pretty good fit for a Nostr relay.