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The thing that makes me woefully unable to switch from Google Maps is how it's nicely integrated with the MBTA APIs and understands transit connections better when planning routes than anything else I've tried. It's really th
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Afaik there was some work to make it possible to pay for Sia storage in the new renterd node with any crypto asset you could make a payment channel with (so, most of them including Dai), but I don't see that in the readme anymore: htt
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Kinda an unfortunate name collision with GIO as used in another UI toolkit stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(software)
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> Journals are usually intended to be venues for experts to talk to each other, not even "professionals in the field". This made sense when communication was slow and the back and forth of discourse could take weeks to months.
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I've come to this conclusion a long time ago. If consumers have perfect information about a class of product from different producers then advertising would be completely useless and the market for that product would be completely eff
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With something as essential as metabolism it's likely to be a combination of factors. Some might not cause a change when present in isolation but cause a large change when present simultaneously.
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Slippage in the price of cabbages at my corner market? I don't think so. There's very good evidence that as the finance sector grows to be a larger portion of the economy (which it very much is compared to 50 years ago) that incr
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That's what the "social recovery" ideas are for. It's a framework for doing key management across multiple trusted parties under controlled conditions in the hypothetical case your primary keys are inaccessible. You co
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What pays the most only loosely correlates with what produces the most value for society. It's easy to skim a percent here and there off hundreds of billions in volume shuffling around without the owners of those billions caring much,
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It's also pulled those grads away from more typical jobs they'd have building useful things and actually producing new real-world value.
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UX with hardware wallets (which you can get for like $60) is pretty decent these days and it eliminates a lot of stress in the workflows you typically use. There's still a huge room for improvement with seedphrase backup and "soc
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"Large" here meaning physically large in terms of bytes, it's irrespective of the amount transferred in the tx. If you have high volume in a relatively low number of transactions and are relatively good with input/out
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It already is as viable for web development as JS is.
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Which is strange considering how bad the tooling to use Python on Windows is. There's a few workflows where people have gone down the beaten path before (Conda, etc.), but outside of that you have to just pretend you're on Linux
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I've been using FastAPI which is made by the same guy as Flask but taking it seriously this time and using asyncio and making space for multithreaded. It's almost a drop-in replacement for Flask.
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> That's your political opinion [that the US is funding a regime] https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143772 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinian-children-de
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Where are the actual content payloads stored?
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> Because if I can rewrite my printer to not intentionally be a total piece of shit, the company gets less money by intentionally expiring or wasting ink, DRM locking ink cartridge brands, or "service needed" bricking the devi
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Except you can write all your important business logic in cross platform languages as a core library and significantly reduce the effort to port it to different platforms. This is especially true for foss projects where you can rely on d
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The way Go's package system works, especially before modules, really feels like it was a hack over an earlier and even more limited system that was designed to be used entirely inside the Google monorepo that was made to work outside.
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You can do that with an iframe.
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Why is it not compulsory to release the source code from day 1? If you're making a driver it's because you're selling hardware, that's where your profit and value is. Commingling the two leads to perverse incentives an
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If I had to guess, single characters are able to be encoded as tokens, but there's more "bandwidth" in the model being dedicated to handling them and there's less semantic meaning encoded in them "natively" com
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Tit for tat works in BitTorrent since I already know what each chunk looks like (verifying it is just hashing it and comparing against the index in my .torrent file), bandwidth is interchangeable with bandwidth, and the local view of bandwi
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One issue with that is it takes equally as long to verify a solution as it does to compute it. There's also no obvious way to generate instances of problems that are actually desired by people in such a way that commits to a new block
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Looking at history, it seems trying to build a business model around a codec doesn't tend to work out very well. It's not clear what the investor would be investing in. It's a better horse.
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It's not that drastic of a change if you tune in a phase in/out of other taxes properly.
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To continue with the transit/urbanism channels... * Not Just Bikes * City Beautiful * Alan Fisher * donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time) * Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload a
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Centre (the consortium behind USDC, including Coinbase and Circle) does have a mechanism to freeze shady accounts and accounts used to steal funds. Which has been used to freeze the TornadoCash funds when they were ordered to.
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What people normally refer to as "Polygon" is their Matic sidechain, which is not a "layer 2" system. It's its own consensus system with its own stake who can steal funds transferred to it from the main Ethereum
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