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Maybe it's funny but yes, I blame politicians. Who do you think defines rules for PG&E? Is the energy density of nuclear not high enough? We can't afford it? There too many CO2 emissions? California produces ~40% of our electr
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5y ago
Any reason not to use ocean water? The Diablo Canyon reactor in California has tech that limits ocean water temperature increase to 20°F, to avoid harm to sea life. You can also spend excess energy on desalination, which is helpful for wate
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5y ago
I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Google Firestore, a proprietary and centralized service. Realistically I just
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5y ago
How does content-addressing help implement a better name server? If the system is fully distributed you're gonna have a lot more than one person deciding that they are @bob
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5y ago
Another fun one: Here's a 'web cam' (refreshing image every 30s) to keep an eye on a light bulb which has been lit for over a century: https://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm
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5y ago
Hah, this is like a video with contentEditable = true
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5y ago
Metamask is distributed through Google as well, and it operates in Chrome. It would be easier to let me know what web3 technology is not subject to Google's whims!
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5y ago
I wasn't defending Rocket.Chat's implementation. I haven't tried it myself. Matrix is the practical solution, and Arathorn's sibling comment gracefully addressed my real criticism. Federation is absolutely possible on th
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Advantage goes to MSFT shareholders.
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5y ago
"Federation and Discord-style protocols are inherently incompatible" Really? I wonder how Rocket.Chat federation overcame this "inherent incompatibility" https://docs.rocket.chat/guides/administratio
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5y ago
Open Source alternative? grawprog mentioned Godot
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Wait a minute, did you just "verb" noun? I'm adjectived
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I think the creator of TSDX has shifted focus to turborepo.com
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6y ago
How are you going to do a short squeeze on silver, which is not being shorted? The real crime? Quite possibly, more than 100% of $GME may be currently owned by investors right now- thanks to shorting more than the available shares. If true,
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> I wouldn't want them to have copies of the video or pictures, and as I understand it those never leave the SD card. I'm sure you know this, but in addition to the imagery being saved on the SD card, it is also streamed to you
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6y ago
Historically, the exceptional circumstance is the free-will you speak of. It is a biological imperative, not a hobby.
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Hah, Tuple's motivation headline laments that time "Slack stole Screenhero from us".. I can certainly relate! Fortunately the Screenhero founder has been freed from Slack, and has rebuilt it! (with promises that it will not s
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6y ago
It is reportedly Chromium-based, not quite electron. UI is HTML with web components. Lots more details here: https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_s...
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6y ago
YouTube crushed their competition years ago. Of course the product is going to shit- there is no motivation to improve.
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Organizations like to identify you by phone number, because it is the easiest way to prevent duplicate identities (Most users have one and only one number to receive SMS messages). Of course it also makes it easier to purchase and sell cust
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6y ago
You can switch to a different scene when handling sensitive details, like the camera feed or the "technical difficulties" scene. This is how I've seen folks deal with secrets in the past
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6y ago
Heh, not to be confused with https://castle.games , a lua/LOVE based gaming platform.
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This is fascinating. Has GitHub received permission, or is their trademark in jeopardy? And, what about Gitlab, Gitea, and all? The growth of git as a distributed service has suffered greatly at the hands of GitHub.. makes me wonder if the
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6y ago
If the user is going to be tricked on the web, they can be tricked in other ways. If the web doesn't support MIDI, users will just download MIDI malware as an app. By your logic, the web should not have video support either, because us
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> Individuals who want an iPhone but also want Android-esque control of their device. Yes, I am one of those crazy individuals who actually want privacy AND full control of the $1k device I purchased. Smartphone owners, including you, de
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If you think Apple's fee is reasonable for developers, you've missed the point: the App Store wall is actively hostile to iOS users. It is not fucking acceptable for a company to decide how I use my personal phone. Apple has autho
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To be fair, I am a native english speaker and this is the first time I've seen it used as a verb. "OSS" generally acts as a noun. In this instance I would have used "open source" as the verb of what you could do to
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It is not uncommon to have a different price for monthly vs yearly billing. IAP customers will pay more, but they can afford that anyways, and the bright ones will subscribe online. Hey currently charges $99/yr. If they added an IAP ti
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Thank you for clarifying the exact rule Hey broke. The easiest way to get around it is to provide an in-app purchase option for Apple users, and charge a higher price. Hey could easily offer a $15/mo plan through Apple, and still clear
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You don’t need to rely on the rumors. Anybody who has seen the trend of Apple’s hardware can see that they are moving in this direction. The iPads have touted “desktop class” CPUs for years.. Macs already have in-house supervisor chips, (th
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