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by dimes 5y ago
I rewrote the backend on a team I used to work on. The service had a ton of unit tests. Given that this was a full rewrite, those unit test were useless. I spent the first few days writing a comprehensive suite of integration tests I could
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by dimes 5y ago
You probably have resist fingerprinting turned on
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by dimes 5y ago
Will one be able to embed a Hetchr ATOM into Hetchr in the future?
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by dimes 5y ago
Modern bridges made from concrete are not designed to last more than a century. I believe the expected usefulness of something like a cable stayed bridge is around 100 years. Compare that to a suspension bridge which can be used almost inde
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by dimes 5y ago
It would be much better to store the blog content directly on the blockchain. This is very expensive to do on Ethereum, but should hopefully get cheaper over time. Is IPFS really resistant to censorship? It seems like any state-based actor
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by dimes 5y ago
Yes, fees were included for selling the house, but I did not include capitol gains taxes in the investment calculation.
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by dimes 5y ago
I made a spread sheet comparing renting to buying a few years ago. The premise was that I wanted to compare my investment in my home vs. paying less to rent and investing the difference in the stock market. The assumptions were something li
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by dimes 5y ago
The alternative methods of transport will be more expensive, which will lead to a decrease in demand.
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by dimes 5y ago
Why is it statistically impossible? Where one chooses to live is likely highly correlated with the job market for their skillset in that region.
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by dimes 5y ago
Genuinely curious about alternatives. I have a simple node application that all I really need to do is run npm install and node index.js. Even with such a simple setup, provisioning hosts was a huge pain. Each one needed node installed on i
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by dimes 5y ago
Almost free apartment... I think you mean almost free room for a family of four, inside a three bedroom apartment with two other families. It’s easy to look back now and say: “They had free health care, everything was great!” But that doesn
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by dimes 5y ago
That’s amazing! Congrats. One question: why is var only supported for top level declarations? I’m not a compiler or programming language expert by any means, but I thought the general approach was to define a grammar and write a parser for
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by dimes 6y ago
Simply paying for a service doesn’t remove the economic incentive for the service provider to add tracking. It will always be more profitable to track users, except in cases like DDG or Brave that stake their reputation on privacy. For inst
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by dimes 6y ago
Is it training, or is it convenience? Personally, I don't like soaking beans 24 hours before cooking. In fact, any additional time is too much for me, as bad as that may be. A article in the NYT called The Tyranny of Convenience really
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by dimes 6y ago
As a reference, I think Google Chrome sends a key frame every 90 seconds by default
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by dimes 6y ago
Usually you’ll have an SFU between the users and the streamer that can limit the number of requests to one every X seconds.
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by dimes 6y ago
Yes, this is a good point. Intra refresh does reduce variability of the bitrate, but the bitrate is still higher than it would need to be if rtcp was supported.
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by dimes 6y ago
I was not aware of this at the time of writing, but it solves a large problem we've been having. Thank you so much for pointing that out. Edit: I've just tried using intra refresh, and it works pretty well, but the key frame inter
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by dimes 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I've removed it.
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How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea(blog.maxwellgale.com)
127 points by dimes 6y ago|39 comments
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by dimes 6y ago
In Europe, 0-based indexing is used for describing the floor number, e.g the first floor is one floor above ground level. Americans may find this unnatural, but it’s perfectly normal to Europeans because they’ve grown used to the convention
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by dimes 6y ago
While true that price controls create dead weight loss, the failure of neo-liberal economic policy shows that dead weight loss isn’t always a bad thing and that economic efficiency at the expense of people can have terrible consequences. Su
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by dimes 6y ago
Having tried writing a game engine in Rust, I can't imagine that Rust would become the future of game development. Lack of safety is a feature in game development, because the optimizations required are typically unorthodox and a super
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by dimes 6y ago
When a company does an IPO, they hire an underwriter that guarantees that they'll sell a specific amount of stock at a specific price. So the company knows how much money they'll raise by the time the first day of trading arrives.
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by dimes 6y ago
Java and Kotlin are both great languages. I do wish it was simple to build / run like Go though. Dealing with gradle is a huge pain. The only reason I use Go over Kotlin for personal projects is that setting up and maintaining a gradle
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by dimes 6y ago
I think you can derive enough real analysis to define the Cantor function using only ZFC. You can read the axioms in [1], but they are very simple and “obvious” so to speak. What’s more interesting is where ZFC is known to be incomplete. Ca
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by dimes 7y ago
The proof is in the pudding.
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by dimes 7y ago
Using a rebase to update from master will cause conflicts for anyone else working on the PR branch. To understand why, imagine a developer branches from master at commit A, and then creates two commits on the branch B and C. In the meantime
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by dimes 7y ago
If you share a development branch with someone, then you should prefer merging over rebasing because rebasing changes rewrites the commit history, causing the locally checked out branches among collaborators to disagree. You never know when
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by dimes 7y ago
I want to hear more about the bit mentioned at the end: > At the meeting, Thomas Rayder, a graduate student at Boston College, reported building on the idea. He encapsulated a pair of enzymelike catalysts in a zirconium-based MOF to driv

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