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by xchaotic 5y ago
I once put together a blockchain-like solution that was actually running on top of a distributed database. Because it was using db's native replication, it was much faster and more efficient to distribute the blockchain among the parti
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by xchaotic 5y ago
airplanes haven't changed much because safety is paramount and every crash is big PR fiasco so planes have not changed much because the industry is heavily regulated and there are duopoly players in the commercial space (Boeing/Ai
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I also hope this doesn't happen, but it's a valid scenario.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
This is definitely an area that is going to grow. I think most of the initial growth will be in the low-end, cheap, disposable projects - stuff for managing your home (IoT), for example where you want as much control over the whole stack as
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Thanks. It's the same for me, actually - I built a lot of my career around XML and other W3C standards and the great thing about those, while complicated is that you can refer to a well defined spec to see what the behaviour SHOULD be.
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Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
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by xchaotic 5y ago
How much work does an oil sheikh do? If he deserves the billions, you deserve the millions
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Given how quickly the virus mutates, giving it less frequently makes even less sense.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I work with a 'nosql' database vendor and I take care of customers with PBs of data doing this. A very common pattern is having a DR setup - i.e. two separate clusters, with the database replicated, then breaking that replication,
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by xchaotic 5y ago
solving people problems with tech.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Exactly. If you want to buy any NFT, you have to go to a centralised marketplace like opensea.io. On top of that you probably have to exchange fiat to ETH in a centralised exchange. If any of those two stop existing your NFTs become worthle
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by xchaotic 5y ago
and what is that 'real innovation' exactly? Writing checksums of everything in multiple copies, very slowly? Databases had these features for decades.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I still find it enjoyable to at least try to predict trends. But I agree some things like technical analysis are 100% BS. for my feed of economy related tidbits try Financial Time Alphaville, it's free if you register: https:/&#
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I work with a company that contributes to some open source but most of the code is closed-source. I feel that the reason many enterprises pay for the software is that when there's an exotic bug that only happens with LDAP with a certa
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by xchaotic 5y ago
just don't tell Gwyneth Paltrow ( https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gwyneth-paltr... )
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by xchaotic 5y ago
No matter what the science about the microbiology of this, the social science says that people will not comply with this. There's also the logistics of it. There must be a better way.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
as the op says - they could have issued stock instead of real money
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by xchaotic 5y ago
This doesn’t solve dependency management? All it does is it separates your env and you can install what you need there. But installing with pip is still subject to version incompatibility etc.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
it's probably a blockchain-cannabis tech company by now (to boost stock price)
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by xchaotic 5y ago
What OP is trying to say is that a disproportionate amount of effort is spent on a rather narrow attack vector and it’s still not 100% secure anyway. The people creating these procedures had goals but good UX was not one of them and definit
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by xchaotic 5y ago
But does Monzo (or any other bank at this point) have a sustainable business model? Finance is getting commoditised so there’s very little money to be made from saving accounts and Monzo has been loss making since the beginning. It’s great
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by xchaotic 5y ago
AMP made some technical sense to speed up page load but it’s proprietary nature and the available http3 and quic protocols mean that It’s high time to say goodbye to amp pages.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
they're playing the long game - making you make the connection and feel smart and smug about yourself. It's all in the game
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by xchaotic 5y ago
This. Most cyclist fatalities in London are caused by Heavy Good Vehicles illegally overtaking and then turning and therefore trapping the poor cyclist in the blind spot. Nothing to do with the wheel hub design or bicycle braking system.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
also proper fixie/messenger bikes. I used to use one when commuting in London, due to low price it was relatively unattractive to bike thieves and it was very simple to maintain - no brakes, no gears (you had to skid/backpedal to
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by xchaotic 5y ago
yup - even Campagnolo's own EKAR is 1x13
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by xchaotic 5y ago
It’s worth saying that it’s not to hard to train up to being able to do 100-200km rides with no electronic assist. At such distance, the weight saving is probably outweighing the battery and you can use the space in the frame can be used fo
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by xchaotic 5y ago
what a flex on your new M1 MAX ;) But yeah, homebrew should ship as default with any OS X at this point...
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Yes, you can write some storage solution or yet another database without knowing ACID terms but you will still end up somewhere in the CAP triangle. Using common terms like these makes it easier to communicate with other engineers and makes
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by xchaotic 5y ago
„ workers view being forced to be in the office full-time as equivalent to a 5% pay cut” They clearly cant do the math. Commute alone costs more than 5%

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