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by substack 4y ago
What happens when a developer can't publish a security update because they don't have 2FA enabled for a popular package? I was almost in this position. I don't have a phone, I don't have 2FA enabled and am not looking to
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by substack 5y ago
The VPS we're running on has 60GB of RAM which should be plenty but the ingest program needs more work to use less memory so it stops crashing when denormalizing multipolygon relations, which involves denormalizing ways which fetch nod
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by substack 5y ago
It's similar how with a torrent you can start seeking into a particular spot in a file and start playing by requesting particular chunks at that spot. Some clients like webtorrent support this behavior but it changes the dynamics of th
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by substack 5y ago
The website hasn't been updated in a while and the stack somewhat diverges from what is written there but we're very hard at work making all the pieces fit together. The p2p database (eyros) works pretty well with only some transf
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by substack 6y ago
We (cabal devs) have had many discussions about supporting i2p out of the box and this is a high priority in the project road map.
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by substack 6y ago
Many projects[1][2][3][4] in the dat ecosystem use kappa-core[5] for multi-user applications on top of hypercores (the low-level append-only log used by dat). kappa-core is designed around the kappa architecture where the logs serve as the
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Animating a dog in webgl with data structures and math(bits.coop)
1 points by substack 8y ago|0 comments
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by substack 8y ago
That's not really a fair comparison. Just because something is "baked in" doesn't mean you can't get similar functionality from other libraries in a more ala-carte fashion.
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by substack 8y ago
location: hawai'i (utc-10) remote: yes willing to relocate: no technologies: webgl, js, node, c++, glsl, linux, web cv: https://substack.neocities.org/cv.html email: substack@gmail.com Looking for remote webgl, p2p, da
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by substack 9y ago
How is a command hierarchy where a board of investors appoints a CEO fair to the people who actually built the company?
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by substack 9y ago
Rollup is a good tool. You can get the same benefits in browserify using [rollupify]( https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollupify ) or using [tinyify]( https://github.com/goto-bus-stop/tinyify ) which can
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by substack 9y ago
And there is already a browserify transform to compile inline rust to webassembly for browser code: https://github.com/browserify/rustify
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Bankai, the frindly web compiler(medium.com)
6 points by substack 9y ago|0 comments
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by substack 9y ago
These things build on each other over time and learning a language is not exactly easy, especially if you are starting out. An important aspect of the transferability here is that you can go from programming a jewelbot in c++ to programming
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by substack 9y ago
I think the real C++ part is so important because it respects the abilities and intelligence of children to participate in the adult world using a real (yet approachable) technology that is also used in industry. This also makes these skill
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by substack 9y ago
GDP has its own limitations, as it measures aggregate economic activity and does not take into consideration things like wealth distribution, environmental impact, unrenumerated labor. Further, imagine a society where everyone must pay for
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by substack 9y ago
The sun is also very intense when it shines and it dries out clothes very quick. We have problems because the sun dries out the soil too much for plants so we have to put them in shadier areas. I live in an area with 300+cm of annual rainfa
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by substack 9y ago
Yes I also live in Puna. Are any of you open to using https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ ? It's an "off-grid" social network.
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by substack 9y ago
It sounds like the refrigerator is the problem here: "But they still have rainy weeks where they run out of power and have to run their gas-powered generator to keep the refrigerator from spoiling." You don't need to run any
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by substack 9y ago
Pubs don't follow everyone on the network. People set them up and give out invites to their friends.
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by substack 9y ago
You don't need to trust the security of pubs. Validation of messages happens through cryptographic signing and public messages are public anyways. You also don't need to trust that pubs will be online much because your followers w
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by substack 9y ago
Your computer will only help host data that was hosted by people that you follow. If you don't want to spread content that you disagree with, don't follow people who post such content.
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by substack 10y ago
Winco is a privately-held company with an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). Employees do not have voting rights. This is better than most private companies, but cooperatives provide voting rights in how the company is run which I think
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by substack 10y ago
Collective action is hard, particularly when tech companies form and dissolve very quickly and turnover is high. In addition to unions, worker ownership through cooperatives is another avenue for better conditions. In worker cooperatives, w
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by substack 10y ago
Consider that in a private company, surpluses are paid out to executives and shareholders. How is that not "inefficient"? Meanwhile, workers are paid a subsistence wage of however low the company can get away with paying. In a wor
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by substack 10y ago
Much of the Amazon basin is covered in clouds most of the time. Landsat 8 doesn't have good coverage.
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by substack 10y ago
Offline is not a mere feature you can bolt on to existing architectures because you are really building a distributed system. Architectures that work well for distributed systems and especially p2p architectures thrive in this environment.
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by substack 10y ago
Graeber is an avowed anarchist, so I don't think he's very keen on planned economies. People are forced into labor market participation because they can't meet their basic needs other ways, the police will squash these altern
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by substack 10y ago
Another alternative that is not often discussed in technology circles is to form cooperative businesses where workers wholly own the business and make democratic decisions about its governance. Why should the workers, who produce the value,
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by substack 10y ago
You can build virtual dom trees or use real dom nodes using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/morphdom . Tagged template strings let you build these features in without custom language extensions. See also:

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