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by jimpick 4y ago
Dr. Booth (her late husband) was one of my engineering professors back at the University of Victoria back in the early ‘90s. It’s amazing that modern CPUs still use the multiplication circuits he created (along with his wife). Also one of s
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by jimpick 5y ago
People hating on IPFS DHT performance probably aren’t using the experimental accelerated DHT client. https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/experimenta...
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by jimpick 5y ago
“Disrupting data” sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
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Show HN: 65,536 Cities – Lat/long, sampled by population (252KB)(observablehq.com)
3 points by jimpick 5y ago|0 comments
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by jimpick 5y ago
You can see the live file storage deals here. https://filfox.info/en/deal
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by jimpick 5y ago
There isn’t really a single price. Each miner sets their prices dynamically (off-chain). Some miners set ridiculous prices to scare off load and some even set their prices to zero to attract test deal traffic. Miners have different reliabil
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by jimpick 5y ago
You can mine under 10TiB. You aren’t eligible for block rewards until you are proving at least 10TiB. Filecoin+ verified data deals count for 10x power. There’s a lot of power on the network, so the frequency of winning blocks at the thresh
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by jimpick 5y ago
For long term archiving, it’s essential practice to move data from machine to machine over time anyways, as machines get old and obsolete and can’t be repaired after a certain age. Right now there’s a maximum deal term of 1.5 years. Potenti
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by jimpick 5y ago
Security, mostly - if the proofs fail, it’s not just the data that could be corrupted - bad actors could attack the consensus itself and steal unlimited funds. The params for the proofs could be loosened, at the cost of extra risk of an att
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by jimpick 5y ago
Take the total storage size on the network, figure out the number of spinning disks, multiply by the power consumption per disk + typical overhead for servers and switches, etc. There’s power consumed by the processing for proofs on data in
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by jimpick 6y ago
Everything is in a grain, but I think the Earthstar applications could be decomposed to just handle a single document at a time. I made a quick demo recording and updated the README with a link. Video is here: https://bafybeih6kk
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by jimpick 6y ago
I've been doing some experimentation along the same lines ... I've got a small proof-of-concept working where I can sync Earthstar databases between multiple Sandstorm instances - each "grain" acts as a pub, and you can
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by jimpick 6y ago
I joined a set-top box startup in 2002 based in Palo Alto (Digeo) that ran out of the former Altavista offices - same building as PAIX. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/02/11/paix... I r
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by jimpick 6y ago
I made a minimal web API for some experimental stuff I was trying: https://github.com/jimpick/magic-wormhole-service Not really hardened for production usage.
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by jimpick 6y ago
This is terrible... I have a copy of my “DAT Shopping List” demo I last opened about 6 months ago saved to my iPhone home screen... I opened it, and the data was still there. I’ll be really sad when I open it again after iOS autoupdates and
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JavaScript-IPFS: The Async Await Refactor(blog.ipfs.io)
2 points by jimpick 7y ago|0 comments
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by jimpick 7y ago
Sorry to hear about your bad experiences. I think I've experienced some of the same frustrations at times, and I think most of the bugs/problems are well known to the development team and are being actively worked on. It's a
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by jimpick 7y ago
IPFS works fine. I'm on the IPFS team and I use it everyday. Depending on the app, it may or may not be a good fit. The performance you get out of it depends a lot on what features you are using. There's a whole ecosystem of proje
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by jimpick 7y ago
(peer-base maintainer here) This is really cool! I found the share link, and just tried it between two Chrome browsers, and it worked great! Thanks for using peer-base! There's a lot of great work happening with js-libp2p recently that
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by jimpick 7y ago
Japanese elementary and high school students spend years learning how to memorize and hand-write 2,136 official Kanji. That’s an expensive skill to learn, and has some advantages ... fax fits well.
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by jimpick 7y ago
Also: https://github.com/gritzko/swarm
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by jimpick 7y ago
A few other CRDT / collaborative text editor links I've collected: * https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/05/caracara-react-dat-au... * https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site&#
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by jimpick 7y ago
Another one for the list: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-pad Demo here: http://dev.peerpad.net/ (this version will launch soon as soon as we complete the “pinning” / backup link to ipfs-clu
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by jimpick 7y ago
Definitely the former in this case. British Columbia uses a British parliamentary system.
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by jimpick 8y ago
And then there’s how they wait in line in Cuba... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-an-onli...
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by jimpick 8y ago
I hooked up Dat multiwriter and the Automerge CRDT for my own personal use... I’ve been using it for several months and it works well. I haven’t tidied it up for a public release, but feel free to try it out: https://dat-tiddlywi
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by jimpick 8y ago
So awesome!
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by jimpick 8y ago
There’s a great looking documentary about the commune in Lund, BC... https://www.lundtheendoftheroad.com
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by jimpick 8y ago
Very nice! I've been playing with https://github.com/janeasystems/nodejs-mobile to get the Dat project to run on Android and iOS. This might be another way to do the same thing on Android!
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by jimpick 8y ago
I built a little side multiuser wiki side project that’s actually using two levels of CRDTs... hyperdb (underneath hyperdrive) and then automerge on top of that. Sort of hard to explain the full design in a short entry, but you can play wit

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