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wlib
8y ago
This dynamic could change if previously arid land can be put to agricultural or residential use. But that requires a lot of initial investment. The first step I think is to convince people that the problem can be fixed - and be profitabl
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8y ago
This is extremely obvious and it's surprising how long it took for this to be noticed. If you clear a section of a forest, the area becomes as hot as a desert because of the lack of shade. This is a "microclimate". The more a
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wlib
9y ago
When a nuke comes to destroy a big developed part of Hawai'i, there's a lot of stuff on the island you might want to get out of there. Maybe, systems are designed to rapidly move that stuff to safety, as soon as an alert triggers
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wlib
9y ago
Look into DASH, it has a fundamentally different architecture than bitcoin. The biggest pros are instantSend, privateSend, and the DAO (A governance system).
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wlib
9y ago
It says on the bottom of the page that prepack optimizes for performance/less computation while closure optimizes for file size.
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wlib
10y ago
I made a cli tool [0] a while ago to simplify this. I remember the API was pretty difficult. [0] https://rubygems.org/gems/wik
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10y ago
I see you have to respond to everyone in the comments when they call out that this isn't actually native. It is true, and normally, Electron would imply _significant_ performance issues. But, considering this whole thing is a network
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wlib
10y ago
"Screw IE" has become, "screw es3", I love it.
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10y ago
I'm making something related as a side project too, and the major problem I have right now is showing a terminal on the page. As you can see I'm relying on archaic methods... https://term.surge.sh
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10y ago
shred ~/.bash_history; clear; exit
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10y ago
Instant answers is neat, I made a command line gem for it : https://github.com/wlib/duckgo daniel@pancake:~$ duckgo roll seven dice --- Type: Exclusive Answer: Answer: ", , , , , , " Type: dice_roll
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10y ago
About the duckduckhack platform, I was writing a client for it so that I could make searches without opening a browser[0]. But their api is limited. The searches supported by that platform are limited to short and common keywords, and their