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by sktrdie 6y ago
Presidents have all kinds of privileges that others don’t. Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished? To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with.
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Honest question: what power does Zucherberg have with regards to allowing or not a post of the president? I mean even if he asks people to delete it, the president surely will demand him to put it back online.
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by sktrdie 6y ago
How is choosing between Rust and C++ as the language in which the thing is written in, an important thing to the users who only care about the JS/TS interface?
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by sktrdie 6y ago
All these "features" of Deno are super cool, but why reimplement a runtime from scratch :( Can we not benefit in Node from what I essentially see as "package.json not mandatory" - which I think is already achievable with
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by sktrdie 6y ago
I think Bob is a very insightful person and has great intuition and probably more experience than any of us. Sure he has certain bias towards certain things; who doesn't really? Saying that his posts are harmful is a bit of a stretch.
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by sktrdie 6y ago
If you're bit confused by what this is (as I was) here's a simple TLDR conversation I had with them on Twitter [1]: > Me: Would you say Snowpack is mainly about generating ESM files (and their common code) for each import state
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by sktrdie 6y ago
What am I looking at?
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Peer-to-peer sites using Torrents and SQLite(medium.com)
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by sktrdie 6y ago
"Sharing data amongst user" - torrents excel at this. Do you have a specific use-case in mind?
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by sktrdie 6y ago
No, the pieces you downloaded can be reused for the new torrent download. The pieces will effectively have the same hash hence can be reused for the new digest: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0038.html This is also why
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by sktrdie 6y ago
What do you mean? The author (say wikipedia owners) can change the db as they usually would change (using UPDATE queries say). Those write queries will result in the least-amount of disk-pages updates. In the torrent world this equals a min
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by sktrdie 6y ago
This is really cool, but why reinvent the wheel? For instance SQLite already has tons of years of optimization regarding storing and accessing files on disk. To make SQLite decentralized (like Hyperdrive) you can put in a torrent. Index it
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Indeed. But nothing nothing stops them from storing torrents of torrents. The search index would be just that, the text index. Which would point to another torrent storing the actual content. Assets would point to yet other torrents. Would
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Why don't they put their data dumps in an SQLite database and indexed for full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html Then put the file in a torrent. Let the users seed it. Users can use sqltorrent ( https:/&#x2
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by sktrdie 6y ago
You’re missing their main goal: having an easier-to-change codebase. Apparently this is way more economically rewarding than performance for Facebook. With that in mind, who cares if the site is slow (btw this is the only complaint of your
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Very good roundup! Thanks! But don't you think there's a whole lot of apps that could benefit from being on a canvas rather than being slowed down by browser-stuff? Editors come to mind: CodeSandbox and VScode
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by sktrdie 6y ago
I'm a total newb with GPU stuff on the web. But am curious why aren't these GPU frameworks used to render most website? Things such as facebook for instance I imagine would be a lot snappier. Am I missing something?
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Indeed that makes sense! Curious though if the "signalling server" can be abstracted away the same way STUN servers are: put a few URLs of signalling servers in the client app and it would choose whichever. They would all need the
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by sktrdie 6y ago
But it's a very similar flow as you'd normally do with a URL no? - You'd send someone a link such as http://chat.com/#id - Other person opens http://chat.com/#id redirects to another url, and
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Ah indeed. But can't the handshaking be done without rolling our your own signaling server? Here's a great example: https://jameshfisher.github.io/serverless-webrtc/index.html Checkout the process in the cons
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by sktrdie 6y ago
But you can use publicly available servers to do that no? STUN servers and such. So you don't need to roll our your own.
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by sktrdie 6y ago
I agree with this post but can you clarify what you mean by "you would never end up with stale bits of UI"? What do you mean by "stale bits"? An example of the problem would be useful... and also why the "rerender e
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by sktrdie 6y ago
Exactly what I thought! Mobx creator did a talk recently on re-rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYbBbjZeX4 Makes me wonder why React doesn't work in the same way... using observable state.
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by sktrdie 6y ago
An interesting video by the creator of MobX going into detail about React vs Mobx and specifically re-rendering, in a fascinating talk about "mutable observable state". Suggest anybody interested in the subject of "react re-r
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by sktrdie 7y ago
Meh, as long as all dependencies are built on standards and I can quickly switch to other services I don't mind centralization.
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by sktrdie 7y ago
This might simply be because the ones that require hospitalisation are usually older. So the % of smokers must be taken within the older population, not the entire population.
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by sktrdie 7y ago
As an italian I can tell you there's LOTS of people smoking in italy... so there's also that.
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by sktrdie 7y ago
In newer version of Python, you can send values to Generators with generator.send(), which makes python Generators effectively coroutines.
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by sktrdie 7y ago
One underrated thing that I miss from using Redux is the "action trace". You can literally sit down with the stakeholders [1] and explain the exact things that caused a screen to render . And these things are not cryptic function
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by sktrdie 7y ago
Why is the data model important? Even if your end-users are other programmers (say you're developing an http service) what's important is the API. The data model seems an implementation detail that shouldn't drive the design

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