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by conradev 4y ago
> Notesnook is our proof that privacy does not (always) have to come at the cost of convenience Won’t implementing note sharing be harder for this app than for one that isn’t encrypted? Encrypted data storage is harder to work with tha
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by conradev 4y ago
To answer my own question, Firecracker supports the `track_dirty_pages` and `enable_diff_snapshots` flags, which allow for incremental snapshotting: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main
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by conradev 4y ago
When QEMU saves a snapshot, it tries to be "smart" about memory, only saving the memory in use[1]. This trades off CPU at snapshot time for I/O at transfer time. How compatible is Firecracker's virtual memory subsystem w
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by conradev 4y ago
Aren't Cessna 172s and other small planes so efficient that the optimization strategy is to electrify them? It's still early days with short flying time, but electric planes are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by conradev 4y ago
> For the time being, the feature is only provided for user space; it is not yet used within the kernel itself Does anyone know if that is still the case?
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by conradev 4y ago
While I love this quote: > as long as you are doing your work well and continuously working on the next most important thing prioritised by the business, any pressure to deliver beyond what your team is capable of is objectively unreason
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by conradev 4y ago
I don’t know if sanctions are the reason, but moving away from foreign-controlled IP is certainly a thing. Chinese companies make STM32 clones (even fixing the errata in the original): https://hackaday.com/2020/10/
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by conradev 4y ago
Interesting! I had not thought about access controls when all of the pages are mixed together, but that makes sense. Have you thought about encryption? Is it possible to do client-side symmetric encryption?
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by conradev 4y ago
I really like the idea of using FUSE as SQLite backend, rather than injecting into the process I love the use case of querying SQLite from a CDN with range requests, because it allows for real “serverless” querying. For example, this: http
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by conradev 4y ago
Absolutely! So you need to align that goal with a project that is actually going to provide value to the end user. There aren’t enough new features each year to (re)write large portions of macOS UI. The Shortcuts app in macOS 12 and the Set
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by conradev 4y ago
Why would they rewrite Final Cut Pro in SwiftUI? Rewriting code is a large effort and a waste of time without proper justification – new developer tooling for UI is not usually a good enough justification to rewrite the entire UI
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by conradev 4y ago
Zapier has been around for a decade at this point and has shown continuous, revenue-driven growth
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by conradev 4y ago
It is not a fantasy for small businesses, who rely on internal tools and processes to operate. These tools solve real pain points for them and that is why they exist and why it is a fast growing market.
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by conradev 4y ago
Musk is (was?) not selling Tesla stock. It would be very hard to sell $8.5B of stock without completely crashing its value. He was taking out a loan secured against that stock.
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by conradev 4y ago
Features like that not only add cost, but also take away from available volume for other features
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by conradev 4y ago
nowadays there is a lot of interest[1] in the older and less-efficient Birkeland–Eyde process because you can scale it to the size of a trailer and deploy it on-site to farms: https://www.nitricity.co/ [1] https:/&#x2
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by conradev 4y ago
Why can’t the databases handle the load? That is to say, did you see this coming from a while away or was it a surprise?
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by conradev 4y ago
Another alternative to silicon cells that is actively being researched is perovskites: > Perovskite solar cells hold an advantage over traditional silicon solar cells in the simplicity of their processing and their tolerance to internal
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by conradev 4y ago
> The process of binding a DID to something in the physical world, such as a person or an organization — for example, by using verifiable credentials with the same subject as that DID — is contemplated by this specification and further d
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by conradev 4y ago
MMT isn't against using GDP as a metric for the economy The biggest actual policy disagreement between MMT and mainstream economics is how to achieve full employment. Mainstream economics primarily reaches for monetary policy (tweaking
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by conradev 4y ago
The funny thing is that SQLite is faster for storing JSON blobs than the file system is: https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html I would also say that the second you need any sort of writing or mutating in any sort of prod
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by conradev 4y ago
Another factor for building solar right this moment is that the price of polysilicon has jumped to the point where large projects are potentially at risk of cost overruns/delays. Growing pains. https://www.bloomberg.com&#x2F
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by conradev 4y ago
I enjoyed this book, which had a much more thorough explanation of Minkowski spacetime: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691165714/ph... It takes a bit of time with spacetime diagrams to become
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by conradev 4y ago
The answer is likely both: dry or drought conditions combined with high water usage leading to the river drying
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by conradev 4y ago
> if there was enough willpower and budget to cover, for instance, a huge chunk of the desert near Edwards AFB in CA with hundreds of megawatts of photovoltaics. One such project being built currently: https://www.mortenson.co
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by conradev 4y ago
It is being diverted before it gets to Albequerque
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by conradev 4y ago
There is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_... but they want to secede from existing states, not from the union
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by conradev 4y ago
> Most importantly, browsing projects shows you what’s possible. A kid begins by playing games, starts to get curious, and next thing you know, they’re changing the code to give themselves extra lives. This is actually the driver for a l
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by conradev 4y ago
We all share the internet. Introducing features that make the internet work faster in an open standards body seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, to me. Domain isolation is important for security on the web (think about the problems
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by conradev 4y ago
Oh, it is completely irrelevant! I just want a data point for my mental model of gzip performance. Specifically, I am curious if the optimizations (object tables and separator elimination) are made irrelevant by gzip's dictionary, or i

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