christopherbalz

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by christopherbalz 4y ago
The article raises awareness of a pitfall that is easy to fall into, and that will only appear at runtime.
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by christopherbalz 4y ago
Not your keys, not your coins.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Is it really that much for the browser vendors to support TypeScript? Then, the only reason to compile would be to optimize for production by removing the excess code of the data-typing. Browser support for TypeScript would invite develope
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Sweet! 'never' seems to have historical roots in IE's ancient 'unknown' js type.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
+ And worth re-reading as well. Totally generic to field but definitely applicable here.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Why call it "NixOS" when it seems to be a package manager?
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Great in-depth write-up!
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
My two cents: Formal Methods (e.g., "Z" and Promela) and also, teamwork stuff (from old days, Team Software Process, and any more modern material like that).
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
A page of practical examples that are easy to understand and clearly offer advantages would help for those with limited time.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
It would be really nice to not always have to do a worker thread or iframe to get multi-threading. Web apps with more involved and/or extensive ui's would benefit a lot from this in terms of the ui responsiveness.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Kind of surprising that the article doesn't mention the profits and sway that Big Tech has to afford the approaches he describes. Borrow money very cheaply, buy back stock, profit from higher stock price. As well, Big Tech has market
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
+1 Also, the author of the article was able to do the job in an article that one can read in just a few minutes - a rare feat.
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Official implementation of the PulseChain node, a fork of Go-Ethereum(gitlab.com)
1 points by christopherbalz 5y ago|0 comments
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
Lots of good data in this article.
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by christopherbalz 5y ago
It is a day of true irony: https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/13823814747338219...
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by christopherbalz 6y ago
Girard's theory also applies very well to mass culture movements for social and political change. Shameless plug: My book rests in large part upon his theories: https://www.nottotouchthesun.net/doorsinpoetryandhistory&
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by christopherbalz 6y ago
So, macOS keychain simply doesn't have the ability to store in secure enclave?
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by christopherbalz 6y ago
BAT rewards have been live on seemingly all reddit comments for a year or so now.
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
An oldie but a goodie: https://labs.detectify.com/2014/12/08/hijacking-of-abandoned...
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
"Distributed computing project, Rosetta@Home, is using the BOINC infrastructure to model covid-19 proteins that may be drug targets. " - https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f5as77/distrib
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Not surprising; the Fed is intent on ever-inflating the housing asset bubble.
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Interesting research on stock-to-flow: https://medium.com/digitalassetresearch/plan-b-is-now-plan-a...
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
I am enjoying "Quantum Computing for Everyone". It's by an MIT math professor, and is certainly for "everyone" . . . who wants to learn quantum techniques for linear algebra (e.g., everyone who wants to do some ser
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Well-said.
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
On macOS, brow.sh doesn't make it clear as to what hyperlink I am focused on when browsing. Also, it doesn't handle terminal shutdown; it leaves Firefox running but won't reconnect if you open up a new terminal and try to run
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Charts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Sounds lightweight in implementation but very powerful. Seems like it could be used by the likes of `npm` to filter out packages that do operations such as `prototype` modification. Then those would be flagged in `npm audit`.
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by christopherbalz 7y ago
Is this something that could/should be done by the package repositories such as npmjs.com?
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Bottle: A Bitcoin SV Browser(bottle.bitdb.network)
115 points by christopherbalz 7y ago|118 comments
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by christopherbalz 8y ago
I think that the README could be improved by adding a brief description of how it works, in maybe 20 to 50 words. Then, consider adding another paragraph if more detail would be helpful to the reader/prospective user. Separately, a co

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