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by paulgb 2y ago
This seems to be it: https://thearf-org-unified-admin.s3.amazonaws.com/MSI_Report...
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by paulgb 2y ago
I know it's more fun to believe there is a sinister conspiracy among the financial industry to keep bitcoin down when it starts to go up, but occam's razor here is that these firms get asked more about bitcoin/crypto/etc
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by paulgb 2y ago
This nerd-sniped me, I wrote a tool for encoding arbitrary strings into one emoji: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829938 I tried with ZWJ but it turns out variation selectors were easier to make work.
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by paulgb 2y ago
This morning I got nerd-sniped by this comment[1] on the Open Heart Protocol about encoding arbitrary-length data in an emoji. I wanted to try it out and sure enough, you can encode an arbitrary string message in one unicode character! The
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Encode any text into one emoji(emoji.paulbutler.org)
4 points by paulgb 2y ago|2 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
Your following feed, or discover feed? I make my following feed the default (an ability that X took away to boost engagement) and I don't see much politics in following at all, and I have to scroll discover for a while even to find som
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by paulgb 2y ago
Same. And Bluesky also allows you to bring your own feed algorithm, so if you don't like the discover feed you could make a better one! It's not a hypothetical either, I follow and use several custom feeds today (for example, one
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by paulgb 2y ago
> People who have moved to Bluesky like to tell themselves it's the "smart place", but it's really just the place where you agree with the politics. I don't care if it's the smart place, but it's nice t
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by paulgb 2y ago
TIL! > In the 1920s, moonshine runners during the Prohibition era would often have to outrun the authorities. To do so, they had to upgrade their vehicles—while leaving them looking ordinary, so as not to attract attention. Eventually, r
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by paulgb 2y ago
Doesn’t Black mostly stick to PEP-8 style? What rules do you consider ugly?
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by paulgb 2y ago
WhatsApp :) (Kidding aside, your point is very valid)
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by paulgb 2y ago
Thanks Steve, good catch!
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We wanted to go with the simplest model of latency that would suffice to demonstrate the problems that come up when dealing with state mutated in multiple locations. The advantage of this approach is that we can do it without hiding any sta
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by paulgb 2y ago
Good point. Usually fractional indexing is done with arbitrary-precision numbers to avoid exactly this issue. We landed on using JS floats to teach the technique because it makes it more intuitive to understand what’s going on, but you make
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by paulgb 2y ago
The biggest difference is that Y-Sweet is built around object storage (i.e. S3 and friends) rather than a database. This allows writes to scale horizontally without a central database being the bottleneck. It’s also a much cheaper way to st
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by paulgb 2y ago
Y-sweet (which this is built with) allows you to make a Yjs app local-first by passing “offlineSupport” to the provider when constructing. There’s a demo of this here: https://demos.y-sweet.dev/color-grid The source for tha
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by paulgb 2y ago
You might like Y-Sweet[1], an open-source Rust server that powers the banner on Learn Yjs. It uses S3 or the local filesystem for storage, and it compiles down to a musl-linked binary that weighs a few megabytes. https://github.c
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by paulgb 2y ago
You can think of Yjs as a protocol for data synchronization. It gives you a way to describe a JSON-like data structure (i.e. nested lists and maps), and keep them in sync across multiple devices. Yjs itself doesn't provide a platform,
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Learn Yjs Interactively(learn.yjs.dev)
309 points by paulgb 2y ago|42 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
My point with adding bus lanes is that it’s a political no go, not that it wouldn’t work to speed up buses.
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by paulgb 2y ago
> Cars blocking intersections and/or sidewalks can easily be solved with automated traffic fines Rush hour traffic is so gridlocked that cars often can’t know if they will clear a light cycle, so fining would effectively just reduce
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by paulgb 2y ago
As a New Yorker, a few things made me a proponent of congestion pricing: - watching people have to squeeze between stopped (mostly single-occupant) cars blocking sidewalks on Broome or Canal on their own pedestrian light at rush hour, and r
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by paulgb 2y ago
> … the overhead seeps into all goods and services… We have always paid a congestion tax on goods and services, it’s just been in the form of paying workers to sit in traffic.
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by paulgb 2y ago
There’s a progressive aspect to drivers (higher income on average) subsidizing transit, but I worry that framing leads to drivers feeling they are paying for something that other people use. I prefer the framing that drivers should fund t
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by paulgb 2y ago
FlightAware currently has it at 796mph (mach is 767mph).
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Is Cathay Pacific 872 exceeding mach?(flightaware.com)
4 points by paulgb 2y ago|3 comments
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I find it really frustrating that the NYC DOT fought their original business model in order to protect Lyft’s monopoly. I had assumed that Lyft’s monopoly was on the right to use DOT’s street space for their program (which at least makes se
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by paulgb 2y ago
To be fair to the professional critics, they are writing prose that helps their readers decide if they will like a movie, not just giving it a good/bad review. Looking at the reviews that RT considers fresh, most of them are honest wit
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Wikipedia: List of Citogenesis Incidents(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by paulgb 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 2y ago
Thanks, this is a much better article!

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