Lots of things can be used as currency. Gold was the OG because it is scarce, takes work to mine, is finite(ish), it doesn’t tarnish or corrode in air or salt water, isn’t attacked by acids except agua regia, meaning it doesn’t degade over time. It’s a really good medium for labor-value.

Problem is, it’s also a useful metal now, in semiconductors and electronics, so now it is being ‘consumed’ by industry in a way that isn’t readily recoverable except at product end of life, and even then it’s not 100% recycled, probably more like 10%.

So the global supply increases due to work mining, decreases due to consumption as a commodity, and is still treated as a currency equivalent.

Solid gold is easy to store, and will survive calamities, bank collapses, fires, floods, ect where other intrinsic value items don’t.

So it’s a good investment if you believe that you will survive the deletion of society, AND you believe that it will be tradeable post-collapse. Or if you just treat it like a commodity.

But post-collapse, gold isn’t intrinsically useful. In these events, other useful, consumable goods might be better for goods and labour exchange. In the early Australian colonies, there was no money, people bought, sold and got paid in rum.

Rum is a reasonable value holder, it can be preserved against degrading, it is ‘fungible’ and divisible in a way that gold coins arent.

Dried grains are a good currency too. Maize, wheat berries, etc, as long as you accept that your value will be contually consumed and replenished.

Whether a thing has value is largely determined by whether the society you end up in decides it has value.

The indigenous Australians would happily trade a gold nugget for rum or rope or steel tools, because their society had no use for gold, but did have use for steel.

Disclaimer: The only gold I own is in my phone and computer.

Like some sort of… Pool… Of water

Linux users. So we can troubleshoot how we borked one machine on one of the other two that we haven’t yet borked.

45 minutes setting up an alt vlan?

Was he getting paid by the hour?

I have two seperate guest VLANs, one for my family, and one for the people I love.

How much can one bullet cost?

I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn’t know it stood for binary or whatever

It’s that scene in Fight Club where Tyler is driving down the highway and let’s go of the steering wheel

Goodbye

The /bin dir on any Linux install is the recycle bin. Save space by regularly deleting its contents

Couple days off sick or on holiday: “I’ve never met this routine before in my life.”

MRAP lizard

We accidentally the whole config file

Only in developed countries like Brazil

The function first generated a random UUID. This is a long string of random characters, used in many software systems to uniquely fingerprint things, transactions for example. In theory, you can have millions of seperate systems, each generating UUIDs all the time without ever having to worry about a collision (a collision is one or more systems generating the same UUID, therefore it being not unique anymore)

The second line then runs UUID generation again, trying to generate an identical UUID to the one it already made. Tis is absurd because even a dmsupercomputer trying to generate identical UUIDs would take longer than the lifespan of the universe.

The console line shows that a matching UUID was apparently found after some amount of time, which shouldn’t be possible, implying some fuckery with the random number generator.

Are you a feral cat?

And our toasters into computers

Ship it for beta testing

Let’s set up a quick 2hr stand up zoom meeting with the department heads and their staff to SWOT this out. How’s Dec 24th about 3pm work for everyone?

Agile Manager / Project Manager