BlimpSpike

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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   If you read the article they do give merchants more value in the form of 2% lower fees. It's just that that's not enough.
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   The article says they're a 10 person family.
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   Kindof unrelated to the article, but I was recently wondering if it would be possible to detect and deny pointer cycles in a language in an efficient way, so that you could then use simple reference counting instead of full-blown garbage co
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   I hadn't heard of bcachefs, but I looked it up and apparently Linus just removed it from the kernel source tree last month for non-technical reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#History
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   The author bashes other algorithms for being "arbitrary", but I don't see how FSRS is any less arbitrary.
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   PCs don't have sandboxing or permissions.
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   How loud is it? Would it disrupt the whole office if I had it on my desk and occasionally played with it? Very cool, I'll check back for the Kickstarter!
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   Having the MD file and the website open side by side and being able to see immediate updates as you write is valuable.
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   by BlimpSpike 1y ago

   Similarly to the bubblewrap comment, I'd also like to know how it compares to nsjail. I think nsjail uses mount namespaces (CLONE_NEWNS) instead of landlock for filesystem sandboxing, but what would the practical differences be?