clarencehoward

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by clarencehoward 8mo ago
chaos
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Human Meaning Emerged From Exaptation: A software update, not a hardware upgrade [video](youtube.com)
2 points by clarencehoward 8mo ago|1 comments
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by clarencehoward 8mo ago
This is a lecture series from John Vervaeke, a professor at the University of Toronto. It is very much a grand theory on how humans evolved to create meaning, why people seek it, and why there is a decline of meaning in modern society. The
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by clarencehoward 9mo ago
I learned about fan-out, and just how the average size of groups in messaging servers affects their load. It is pretty basic stuff I guess but not something you think about unless that is your jam. I was stress testing a server I made and n
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by clarencehoward 9mo ago
https://nickhoward.dev/
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by clarencehoward 11mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! I increased the max size from 125 hectares to 5000 hectares. I had some debate about what would be a good max size, not so large that it takes up a whole city, but also not so small that few people can join it. For
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by clarencehoward 11mo ago
Well, now I'm even more embarrassed. I left some local variables in when I pushed the fix this morning and the site was blocked CORS for about an hour. This is why you don't push to prod when you're in a rush and half asleep.
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by clarencehoward 11mo ago
You should be able to accept the TOS on mobile now - although if your screen is really small it may be hard to actually read it, still working on that. Honestly I'm pretty embarrassed that I missed that. The TOS was the last thing I ad
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by clarencehoward 11mo ago
Yeah, that is a good point. I might need to tone it down a bit. Not trying to be evil, the intent was to protect myself and the users. I worried about what could go wrong like chatrooms turning into toxic places or the service being used fo
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Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create(vicinity.social)
57 points by clarencehoward 11mo ago|61 comments