Ruphin

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by Ruphin 11d ago
The situation in Iran has nothing to do with NATO really. It is a US initiative, and NATO was not involved in any way in decision making or policy.
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by Ruphin 15d ago
If your political system does not present you with a candidate that aligns with your interests or beliefs, you should vote to change the political system. Not voting is consent to the status quo.
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by Ruphin 1mo ago
I hate to be that guy, but in this case I think it's appropriate to say that "Blockchain" solves this problem. The core idea behind Bitcoin and (some) derivatives is that it enables digital objects that cannot be copied and h
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by Ruphin 2mo ago
Why would big tech be in favor of having to scan message content? It puts more regulatory requirements in place on their activities. Would they not be in favor of _less_ regulation so they can provide services to their users with fewer lega
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by Ruphin 1y ago
One of my favorite ambigrams is the title logo from an old 1995 PC game classic, Tyrian. It's so subtle I never realised until a few years ago. You can find the logo here, along with the excellent soundtrack: https://alexand
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by Ruphin 1y ago
The effective tax rates on high income individuals is likely much less. There is a large correlation between income and wealth, and wealth increase through asset appreciation is largely not taxed, or at best taxed at much more favorable rat
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by Ruphin 1y ago
I am pretty certain that if you are in an org where c-suite shifts reasons for negative results to external sources, they will find a way to do the same in the age of AI.
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by Ruphin 1y ago
Nothing in Web Components is forcing you to use ShadowDOM. Lit also allows you to make components without ShadowDOM if you prefer, because there are certainly cases where it can be necessary to do so (like for ARIA reference id-matching). F
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by Ruphin 1y ago
Oh nice, I wasn't aware this was even possible. Vue _does_ have some sort of build step, because components use special macros that aren't imported, and the compiler (vite) even complains when you actually import them saying it&#x
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by Ruphin 1y ago
Re-implementing Lit from fundamentals is a great way to learn how it works! The core functionality is surprisingly simple, because it mostly relies on platform APIs to do the heavy lifting, like parsing templates. I made this alternative im
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by Ruphin 1y ago
I estimate the vast majority of "web projects" begin with npm installing something of some sort, yes. React is dominating the web development space (judging from the average "popular web stack 2025" search result), and i
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by Ruphin 1y ago
Obviously this wouldn't be suitable for (serious) production deployments, but it is a super accessible way to easily get started anywhere.
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by Ruphin 1y ago
I guess for most people the standard is to install things from NPM which explains the format of the documentation. If you want to do something completely raw, you can replace 'lit' with something like this: https://unpk
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by Ruphin 1y ago
I don't know if there is a particular benefit, it's just different. On the consumer side there is no difference, because they consume Web Components, and that is what both solutions deliver. On the implementation side, I can think
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by Ruphin 1y ago
Web Components is a pretty niche technology and as such it really appeals to some people, and it doesn't appeal to others, and that's okay. You don't have to like it, it isn't meant to be a good fit for everyone. But for
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by Ruphin 1y ago
There is a simple intuitive explanation for how an "infinite" game is possible: We can define two different sequences of three characters that start with 0 and end with 1: 001 and 011. Because they each start and end with a differ
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by Ruphin 1y ago
That sort of response seems not too different from the classic "let me google that for you". It seems to me that it is a way to express that the answer to the question can be "trivially" obtained yourself by doing resear
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by Ruphin 1y ago
This is factually incorrect. Even though in most European countries there is a formal separation of religion and state, there is nothing that "forbids" any political party from having a strong religious affiliation. In fact, in ne
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by Ruphin 2y ago
Are you suggesting that Germany is not "free" to choose to have economic relationships with e.g. Russia because of United States military reasons? Do you think the US military is the primary reason Germany (the people, the governm
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by Ruphin 2y ago
It really depends if you can find a (cryptocurrency) exchange that lets you withdraw to a bank account in Costa Rica. If you can find one, you don't even need stablecoins. The way it will work is US Bank -> Deposit USD to US cryptoc
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by Ruphin 2y ago
There is no fundamental difference between Chess and Tic-Tac-Toe other than the computational complexity. It is not feasible to compute all of the game states in Chess, and so we cannot determine (at this time) a single optimal strategy the
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by Ruphin 2y ago
There is no hidden information and turns are sequentially. This means both players have full access to all information, and that implies there must be a single "best" move. If the board is at a certain state and one player is to p
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by Ruphin 2y ago
Big kudos for building things from scratch. Even though it's not directly applicable in most jobs, the knowledge you have from understanding the entire "stack" helps a lot when using tools and frameworks, because you understa
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by Ruphin 3y ago
A tree is a subtype of a graph, but it is not the same as a DAG. A diamond-shaped directed graph (edges A->B, A->C, B->D, C->D) is a DAG, but not a tree.
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by Ruphin 4y ago
Very interesting. From playing a single game you immediately notice that traditional chess theory doesn't apply to this game at all. After some testing I found a few things in particular that change the way the game plays out drastical
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by Ruphin 4y ago
If you would want to run a tournament for this you'll probably need a better client, potentially with built-in online play. I could be tempted to work on something web based, but it would take a while to finish.
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by Ruphin 4y ago
If you like this kind of thing you should take a look at the suckerpinch channel on YouTube. The technical complexity and amount of effort spent on some of his projects is quite unbelievable, with no practical use other than displaying the
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by Ruphin 4y ago
Look at the pictures of sample hands in the link you posted. From the position of the hand and fingers it's unlikely they are software generated, but they have the same "neat" aesthetic as the other pictures. I think what you
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by Ruphin 4y ago
With Ethereum no longer in the game the total USD issuance for GPU mining probably dropped over 80%. Is your strategy to just wait out for miners to capitulate until mining is profitable again? Are you not worried that this will crater the
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by Ruphin 4y ago
For context, electricity costs in some places in the EU are currently at $0.8/kWh (including taxes and other costs). The war significantly inflated these numbers, last year they were around $0.3/kWh.

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