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by jchanimal 3y ago
I describe this idea of an executable feature spec in my roadmap blog post from earlier this year. I agree it’s a great way to think about it. https://fireproof.storage/posts/roadmap-to-1.0/ We’d define 1.0 in exa
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Fireproof uses a 2-layer CRDT (the inner CRDT is encrypted). We also use prolly-trees for indexing. You can read more about the storage engine here: https://fireproof.storage/posts/remote-access-crdt-wrapped-m... Edit
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Less than 100 microns! You can lithograph on Proxima Centauri with that setup. Maybe PKD…
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Size of a Texas ranch. Call it “reverse solar” and you might have a winner.
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Farnborough airport's biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue(theguardian.com)
67 points by jchanimal 3y ago|76 comments
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by jchanimal 3y ago
You can use this approach to make complex behavior from simple rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture
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by jchanimal 3y ago
According to the JSON spec it's also legal to round all numbers to zero.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Creator of Couchbase Mobile here — I’m doing a new web-based thing[1] with a similar reactive API. I’m hoping that my encrypted block replication makes it more of a “data anywhere” solution than a “local first” database. But the paradigm of
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by jchanimal 3y ago
This is basically how Fireproof works: files to S3, reads from any cache, encryption metadata in your session store. All of this becomes “easy” if you write a storage engine from scratch for immutable content addressed data.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Insane argument that regulatory capture is the best possible outcome. Are you suggesting anything more just would undo society?
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by jchanimal 3y ago
That’s just a “we’re in the best of all possible worlds” argument. The market should be shaped by people towards human aims. That means it’s useful to compare and contrast different regulatory captures and advocate for change. You’re basica
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Don't over-idealize the market, N is not infinity. That is, "making society better" (for who?)
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by jchanimal 3y ago
As a guy whose startup is listed on NASDAQ I’m not sure I agree. Is cool that there’s a sustainable team dedicated to keeping my dream alive, and when things go well (eg airlines and supply chain running smoothly) it’s nice to take some cre
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I've been wondering if anyone sells home tooling to test safety on individual purchases before using them. A quick google suggests some tools exist but question their efficacy. What say you, hackers?
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Agricultural pressure is one of the strongest predictors of unrest. Imagine that but not localized.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I think the op is saying, and I might not disagree with them, that a world where dogs run free is a better world, even if it’s more dangerous.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
My database technology startup, Fireproof, recently hung out a shingle for custom app development, primarily as an adoption tactic. If we really do have the most productive tools for front-end devs to build data-driven apps, we should showc
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by jchanimal 3y ago
My persuasion is opposite. As software development gets easier we should expect the pendulum to swing back to custom apps that are fit for purpose, and those have a natural gravity towards this style of architecture.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
And they will have a personal relationship with everyone.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
IMHO the benefits of CRDT would still hold in this case, CRDTs just allow you to model the conflict and its resolution. But yes a self-driving app would probably be able to do a lot of cleanup easily -- in my experience conflicts are rare e
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I love the suggestion to rebuild it for the browser. A tool like that could be generally useful. Anyone know of one?
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I think it’s clear that no matter what an LLM outputs, the “experience” of its transistors is not related to the content of the program.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I think we need asteroid mining for B to be a stable solution.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Kinda seems like the dreamiest build target.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
Does anyone know if I have a TypeScript project, is there an automated process to turn it into this format this article describes? Eject for TS, I guess.
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Taking Down Prosecraft.io(blog.shaxpir.com)
1 points by jchanimal 3y ago|0 comments
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by jchanimal 3y ago
I’m in the middle of this with my new database startup. The alpha was written to gather requirements, so I intentionally skimped on code quality as it could be a waste of time. Now that I know the domain inside and out, the beta rewrite is
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by jchanimal 3y ago
As long as the people with the weapons act rationally. Which might be an anomaly.
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by jchanimal 3y ago
My (less playful) custom instructions get the job done: For code, ask for API documentation when you need it. Never say you can't do something, just do your best. If, at the end of a response you seem to have suppressed a concern, just
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by jchanimal 3y ago
There is also "write one to throw away" -- the problem is that it's often not thrown out soon enough.

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