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by paulgb 3y ago
Modyfi.com built a raster image editor on Yjs[1] [1] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-ho...
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by paulgb 3y ago
> knowing for sure what state a user’s client is in when debugging is tough too My team has built an open-source debugger for Yjs that might interest you (docs: https://y-sweet.cloud/advanced/debugger ) You mention t
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Neat use of SSH!
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My wife was part of a congressional primary campaign so I got to see some of this close-up. It’s hard to list all the reasons, but there is definitely a sort of institutional inertia that makes it hard to primary someone on the story of mer
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If by GPGPU you mean compute shaders, they do support that today according to the announcement. > we fully support the part of the API that the compute shaders and the compute pipeline require, but we are not yet focused on fragment or v
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The incentive against posting a huge range like $50-500k is that it anchors the range a candidate expects. If you post that range and then offer $100k to a qualified candidate, they will probably balk, so if that’s closer to the desired sal
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Yes. Modern frontend apps consist of a ton of data flow bookkeeping which is something compilers are well suited for.
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Fair enough, Construct looks cool. If you or anyone from your team is interested in doing an interview for a technical newsletter about browser-based apps[1] I'd be glad to get a JS perspective on high performance in the browser. [1]
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I see it mostly with what I would call “industrial applications”: video editing, CAD, etc. Besides games, consumer software tends not to be computationally intensive, so there are few consumer examples (which I think leads to a sort of “Jav
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> For a web app the speed of the language is rarely the bottleneck anyway I think there’s some selection bias in this; the apps that get built as web apps tend to be the ones that are not bottlenecked by JavaScript. For exceptions that
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Electron isn’t just a website-as-an-executable, it has a whole separate API that goes what a browser does/could/should offer. https://zeke.github.io/electron.atom.io/docs/api/
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by paulgb 3y ago
I've used https://val.town as plumbing between webhooks where I needed to restructure a JSON payload, but only wanted to write the business logic. It's great for Zapier/IFTTT-like tasks but where you still want to
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Highlight is Apache-2, which is for all intents and purposes equivalent to MIT if the work is not subject to patent. (this is my understanding, IANAL)
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Surprisingly, even if you return at the first iteration, it’s O(n) on V8 just to construct the iterator.
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Are there functions where the performance is significantly worse than what you could write on your own? Not a rhetorical question. I don’t use lodash but as a primarily non-JS dev I’ve referred to the source some times when I’m writing JS a
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by paulgb 3y ago
> one begins to wonder whether it's orchestrated It's not, lol. I've been on this site 16 years (user #590), if I'm astroturfing at least you have to give me credit for my long game :). I immigrated to the US, I know
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by paulgb 3y ago
What is “excessive booting” in this context? IIUC here in NYC, booting is usually a response to thousands of dollars in unpaid fines (unpaid fines are public record here, so you can even look them up.) I realize it's always an unpopula
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Since it's a Saturday and vaguely on topic, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 classic “Shipping Out” is a recommended read. https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...
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That’s true, but being a damper when prices skyrocket is different from being a damper on the predictable 24-hour output fluctuations of wind or solar.
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> Section 179 benefits apply to small and mid-size businesses that spend less than $4.05 million per year for equipment They are way over that
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> They are a good fit for hydro, wind, and solar, and nuclear where not using the energy means it’s simply wasted This is a persistent myth in crypto circles, but it doesn’t match up with the financials of any company I’ve seen. Instead
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by paulgb 3y ago
This works in theory, but the problem is, these miners are not actually a flexible user in practice. Every minute they’re not mining, they’re losing money in the sunk cost of (depreciating) hardware. For example, in Q2 2023, Riot (the bigge
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I think that’s exactly it. TOML is bad at deep hierarchies, but that’s a good thing; it prevents people from trying to model a whole damn AST in it, which is the direction that YAML seems to go.
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I think you're taking the analogy too literally. Of course there are certain dimensions where they differ; that's true of any analogy. OP's point is that in both cloud computing and banks, trust is the product .
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They used it to upsell Google Workspace, as well as their own TLDs (.dev, .app). And although they didn't upsell GCP through it, the integration between the two was a nice (small) incentive to use GCP.
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Until Domains, I mostly trusted google to keep running a paid b2b product with lots of users. Most of the famous products they've killed have been ones that either didn't bring in revenue, or never became popular. After the Doma
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To be fair, prices fluctuate a lot based on time of day. Just checked the price of a 2.7 mile ride to a restaurant I like in Brooklyn and an UberX is $17.90.
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> Cloud Storage FUSE can only write whole objects at a time to Cloud Storage and does not provide a mechanism for patching. If you try to patch a file, Cloud Storage FUSE will reupload the entire file. The only exception to this behavior
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The context is a lyric in the musical Hamilton referring to the Hamilton-Burr duel, which took place in NJ. Apparently dueling was already illegal in NJ. Lin-Manuel didn’t invent the phrase, and I wonder if the original meaning was more in
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Except pumping your own gas.

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