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by the_duke 6y ago
"Amazon Announces Grafana Fork , Promises Amazing Things for the Community" (2021/05/08) [1] On a more serious note: there is a bit of a trend in the licensing world. Mongo or ElasticSearch changes, or cool new projects
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by the_duke 6y ago
All the top stories seem very consumer oriented, not for professionals in the industry. From a cursory glance it seems more like a "car enthusiast" news site rather than a place for industry discussion.
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by the_duke 6y ago
That's changing. Dendrite [1] is the official next-generation server implementation and optionally supports decentralization. But due to the usability constraints of truly decentralized systems, I think most users are better off with f
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by the_duke 6y ago
An interesting side aspect, assuming this is final: Before the Arm acquisition materialized, Nvidia was quite present in the RISC-V space. All current Nvidia cards have at least one RISC-V chip on it. So while their intended high performanc
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by the_duke 6y ago
You apparently double-posted? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26862687
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by the_duke 6y ago
I'm not familiar with the concrete law, but monopoly/market based rejections could probably be disputed and result in lengthy proceedings. Not so if you swing the national security hammer. Also, as others have noted, it's qui
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by the_duke 6y ago
They are starting to rewrite Windows components in Rust [1] and are also founding members of the foundation. [1] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...
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by the_duke 6y ago
They somewhat apply because the lunar variant still needs to be fueled up in LEO with ~ 6 additional launches , all in relatively quick succession. This seems unfeasible without rapid reuse actually working.
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by the_duke 6y ago
> There are still major risks with the Starship program To expand on this: I think it's reasonable to assume that the stack will reach orbit just fine and be a functional rocket. The big risks are related to recovery. Starship will
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by the_duke 6y ago
> So we have a company that is making money on a virtual money that is basically mostly based on no real value at all. So ... just like a bank? Exchanges are financial service providers. The value they create comes from the offered serv
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by the_duke 6y ago
The selling point was being able to write server code in Javascript and potentially share code between UI and server. Node never implemented any of the essential browser APIs like XMLHttpRequest or later fetch, localStorage, etc.
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by the_duke 6y ago
I have my hesitations and critiques about Dart and Flutter, but this is flat out wrong. Dart has evolved significantly over the last few years, and Google is very serious about Flutter.
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by the_duke 6y ago
They didn't even create firecracker themselves. It's a fork of Googles crossvm.
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by the_duke 6y ago
I was prepared to take a somewhat neutral stance on the post despite the negativity in other comments. It's a CEO reflection post, what should you expect? But this is indeed completely empty PR fluff. Vague rambling about data. Lot&#x2
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by the_duke 6y ago
The Librem 5 is a bit more than I'd want to spend on an alternate device. Online banking 2FA and some other apps sadly tie me to Android. Although that might change if Anbox works ( https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-t
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by the_duke 6y ago
I'm personally waiting for the next PinePhone iteration with a better chipset, since the CPU is pretty slow for even budget phone standards. Combined with software improvements that will hopefully give a relatively smooth experience. T
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by the_duke 6y ago
The need for VMs or containers for security (on end user machines) is the fallout of insufficient OS security mechanisms. A better solution would be a desktop OS with proper application sandboxing. Mac OS is taking many steps in that direct
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by the_duke 6y ago
Mozilla really can't do that much to prevent it. Firefox only got popular because it was so much better than IE at the time. Now Chrome and Safari are the preinstalled on most devices or are pushed on you if they are not. They are also
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by the_duke 6y ago
At scale software stops being a technology problem and becomes a people problem. And groups of humans don't scale. We naturally organize into hierarchies of small subgroups with limited interaction boundaries. Each subgroup will adopt
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by the_duke 6y ago
UBlock already had a new version rejected a while ago. Big HN thread at the time. Presumably they are just really careful to avoid giving Google any excuses.
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by the_duke 6y ago
My only complaint on mobile is that the UI for customizing settings is annoying, eg for allowing JavaScript. But that's the fault of Firefox. I'm always astonished how bad/slow the mobile web experience is without Ublock with
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by the_duke 6y ago
The current tracking infrastructure detects pieces down to 10cm. All of those are catalogued, get identification numbers, and are tracked. Active sats often do small collision avoidance maneuvers.
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by the_duke 6y ago
Guix is definitely a cleaner implementation (coherent cli tooling, way better manual, not a custom, oddball language, ...). But: * if Nix is already very niche, Guix is the niche of a niche. The ecosystem is tiny in comparison. * The Nix i
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by the_duke 6y ago
In addition to the other comments, there is also nixops. [1] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
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by the_duke 6y ago
Go seems like a suboptimal language for implementing an interpreter, since it lacks the low level primitives to make a fast interpreter loop. But I guess, as will all things Go, that it will be fast enough for a good amount of use cases, an
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by the_duke 6y ago
Ebikes mostly solve 1, 2, 3 and 6 on your list. They are quite fast, require very little physical effort, and have a small fraction of the energy consumption of a car. And you can still get the health benefit by investing as much muscle wor
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by the_duke 6y ago
I was really looking forward to concepts. But the actual implementation seems like a syntactic and ( partially) semantic mess to me. Obscure syntax (`requires requires`), soooo many different ways to specify things, mangling together with `
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by the_duke 6y ago
I like and use Element, but the crypto workflow is way too complicated for non technical users and the UX is nowhere near what's app or Telegram. I have more hope for other clients like Fluffychat.
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by the_duke 6y ago
I'd just like to mention that the release notes are one of the best I've read. Same goes for PR descriptions like for the ECS v2 PR [1]. That's more text than half of open source libraries have documentation. [1] https:&#x2
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by the_duke 6y ago
You constantly promote other libraries in semi-related topics on Reddit as well. I find this quite weird, what's the point? At the very least post a comparison of why X is better/more interesting than Y.

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