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Sure why not you can believe that if you like. Obviously there’s no reason to think it would but don’t let that stop you. What on earth has gold got to do with it though?
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The absolute best argument I’ve seen so far against “web3” is this very pro-web3 and very clear article. https://www.preethikasireddy.com/post/the-architecture-of-a-... Read that, and make sure you understand the bas
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Fabien's The Game Engine Black Book Doom is so good if you're interested in how how it was possible to do something like Doom on the hardware of the time. https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/ He also wrote on
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But it’s not just a matter of “no done yet” is it? Adding an oracle removes any “benefits” of smart contracts and puts you right back where you were with just regular contracts (but this time done badly and with bugs by incompetent bullshit
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It’s not adding negative indexes, a negative number will index from the end. So [0, 1, 2, 3].at(-2) === 2
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What I wouldn’t have given for a copy of this back then! The samples that came with HyperCard where good enough though :)
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It's amazing the absolute bullshit people will force themselves to believe when their might be some money in it for them. All these articles gloss over the technical side (which is really not complicated, because there's very litt
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Probably not the main reason and may not even be a reason. But this seems like it would work as a clever way not to have the market flooded with older (but still very capable) graphics cards once the value of them in a mining rig stops maki
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I've found that a lot of the time that's not needed. Often you'll find the data as a JSON blob in the page and can just read it directly from there. Or find that there's an API endpoint that the javascript reads.
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Thanks for posting that! https://LiveVideoEscapeRooms.com is my site, part of my attempt to help the customers for my startup (A SaaS product for Escape Rooms) weather the pandemic. Online Escape Rooms are really a lot of fun, i
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Serverless type things are totally fine if you’re into that. But it can be nice to just have a simple backend running on a server. No different services to think about, just simple code. For me Django is the way to go because I’ve been usin
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US Broadband Speeds Jumping 90% Had Nothing to Do with Killing Net Neutrality
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There was an article yesterday comparing broadband speeds in the US and Europe: https://fairinternetreport.com/research/usa-vs-europe-intern...
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Pity they no information at all on the site. Nothing about who they are. Nothing about what it costs. Not even a privacy policy :/
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Well I don't know what I was expecting
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Web bits: Python 3 and Django with Celery running on Heroku. Postgres (source of truth) and Redis (caching and queues). S3 for storage. Front end is HTML and basic JavaScript. Pretty happy with it, it's really quick to make new stuff i
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DISCLAIMER: My own startup, Buzzshot ( https://buzzshot.co ), makes an Escape Room software SaaS product. I've been running it for 2 years and its been my full time gig for about 6 months The article doesn't talk about i
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Postcard Sized Raytracer
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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If you like this you might also like http://FelixsMachines.com by my friend Felix. From a good few years before this one :)
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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Oh right, that's scary! In the case of corruption would the index just be rebuilt (I realise that's a big problem with big indexes) or would it just silently corrupt query output?
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What does durable mean in the context of a Postgres index? I can sort of guess but from the way it's used here it seems like it has a well know definition. A quick google search (on my phone) returned this article a few times but not m
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote. Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of
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Looks like the whoishiring bot is broken! Correct link is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846145
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Looks like the whoishiring bot is broken! Correct link is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846145
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Looks like the whoishiring bot is broken! Correct link is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846145
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