Mertax

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Is There a Religious Revival Among Young US Adults?(pewresearch.org)
4 points by Mertax 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Mertax 2y ago
There is no absolute direction for a galaxy’s spin—it’s always relative to the observer’s perspective. So I’d suspect they’re saying time and distance would need to be factored in rather than just looking at static images relative to our po
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by Mertax 3y ago
Nice thing about SQLite is you can “clone” the repository by copying a single file. And in cases where you need incremental sync, you can use an SQLite of diff’s as a single packfile (similar to git). Things like cr-SQLite also have a lot o
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by Mertax 3y ago
Juniper Systems | Logan, UT or Costa Rica (Hybrid) | mid - Sr. | Frontend Web, GIS | Typescript, C# https://junipersys.com/company/careers About Us With a legacy spanning over 30 years, Juniper Systems is a well-esta
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by Mertax 3y ago
Is there a public git repo available somewhere that represents a Kart repository? Are the raw files in the working repository GeoPackages? How is it tracking the changes made inside the geopackages? What happens if it's replaced with
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by Mertax 3y ago
Just saw this, which might be a better home page: https://koordinates.com/products/kart/
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by Mertax 3y ago
This looks neat! I assume it’s using WASM for browser based web encoding? Is local encoding always guaranteed to be faster or could some internet connections be fast enough that an upload would beat out the client side encoding depending on
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by Mertax 3y ago
And then things like neural implants and BCIs -- seems like your dog could have language capabilities sooner than you'd think ;)
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by Mertax 3y ago
I wonder if language translation will be one of the "killer apps". Especially if it can be done real-time and according to the context/level of the audience/listener. Even within the same language, translation from a mo
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by Mertax 3y ago
In scenarios where an individual customer/tenant can have isolated data this makes sense. Is there any reason why the client application itself can't be one of the nodes in the distributed system? Does LiteFS support a more peer-2
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by Mertax 3y ago
Is there any documentation on the native schema used to store the documents. Is it sane enough that you could manually roll your own JSON1 queries in SQL to facilitate more relational join like features?
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by Mertax 3y ago
Why not include C#/MAUI on this list to make it 5?
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by Mertax 3y ago
How do serialization libraries, like Newtonsoft JSON.net, work on platforms like iOS/Blazor/Unity that use AOT? Doesn’t seem like anything special has to be done other than reference the Nuget package and it’s just working?
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by Mertax 3y ago
Don't you think we'll get to the point where individual AI instances will be as ubiquitous as calculators? Or will it always require massive compute power that keeps the generative AI population low?
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by Mertax 3y ago
I do wonder how well (quickly) the whole thought is formed in your head and it’s just the encoding into language that tricks you into thinking you didn’t know what the word would be. Having learned another language, the moment you start to
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by Mertax 4y ago
Juniper Systems | Logan, UT | Remote Possible, On site preferred | Mobile field data As an industry-leading provider of ultra-rugged data collectors, precision GPS receivers, and market specific solutions, Juniper Systems takes pride in del
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by Mertax 4y ago
Xamarin/MAUI doesn’t get the buzz/love from HN audience that React Native and Flutter get. I think there is a lot of historical bias here. My company has found success with the dotnet stack. We are able to keep a small team of 5 d
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by Mertax 4y ago
At our organization we have a nontechnical sprint tester that executes manual tests and creates customer facing documentation. This sprint tester is part of our pull request approvals on our new feature branch builds. The engineers write th
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by Mertax 4y ago
I think we saw the same behavior with Microsoft in the early 2000s. When a company becomes more preoccupied with "shoring up the moat" to keep the stranglehold on the market more than it cares about innovating what's best for
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by Mertax 4y ago
Blazor/dotnet is the framework using WASM. C# is the language.
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by Mertax 4y ago
I know that’s what bitcoin proponents would say, and this appears true to me on the surface. I also see huge incentives for governments, banks, payment companies, tax companies etc. to NOT want this to happen. Some for self preservation and
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by Mertax 4y ago
I also have no horse in this race, never owned any BTC/crypto, but I feel like the wastefulness is made to be too big of an issue. Seems like it can be solved eventually. So if it wasn’t wasteful, my question is, does a decentralized c
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by Mertax 4y ago
Probably because it matters what the majority of adopters believe the purpose is. Right now the belief of most bitcoin/crypto adopters is that it’s a way to get rich quick Like most macroeconomic forces, it matters more what the majori
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by Mertax 4y ago
I watched this video from Friedman just a couple of days ago and found it insightful on the topic of inflation: https://youtu.be/B_nGEj8wIP0
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by Mertax 4y ago
Source? Is this because QE isn’t entirely to blame and there were legitimate supply problems because of the pandemic. Similar to how Friedman explains wars can have an effect on prices that are perceived as temporary inflation?
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by Mertax 4y ago
How is this different from decentralized currency with a fixed/limited quantity? I wonder what Friedman’s opinion would have been in todays Bitcoin/crypto environment.
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by Mertax 4y ago
I agree, this is still a problem to solve. Current inflation levels are evidence of that. The problem is bitcoin is being treated like an investment because of “greater fool theory” and no one is treating it like a currency in any meaningfu
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by Mertax 4y ago
I’d be curious how products like GitHub/BitBucket handle this with git repository hosting, because I’d imagine it would not be much different. Also if you took a truly local first approach, then fully distributing the database amongst
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by Mertax 4y ago
I think the potential exists for many multi-tenancy B2B SaaS products to be converted to an SQLite-per-tenant model. CRUD Database products like Jira, Salesforce, Airtable, Notion, Clickup, Asana, etc. seem like internal line of business se
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by Mertax 4y ago
I only have experience with Azure's App Service, but their App Service can scale out and still use the same mounted local storage layer that is shared across all app instances. So I've been considering this for multi-tenant appli

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