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> Earlier this year, we introduced the private beta of increased project item limits, expanding the capacity from 1,200 to 50,000 items in a project.

This reminds me why smaller companies can steal market share from larger companies. I can understand that at GitHub scale, it's probably difficult to support more that 1,200 items per project. The result? The entire ecosystem has these limits imposed on them. A smaller company could easily support 50,000 issues for a repository since they are hosting fewer repositories.

Not sure I'd classify this under "volunteers", but you can run a 5G hotspot on the Helium network: https://www.helium.com/5G

> Explainer for 1-4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem. TL;DR: If the connection breaks while an ACK is outstanding, the sender will have no way of knowing whether the segment was received, and this turns out to be an insoluble problem no matter how much complexity you pile on top of it. You need something resembling Paxos or Raft to get a guarantee like that

The hashgraph algorithm is pretty sweet too and doesn't have the issue of a single write leader like Paxos and Raft. Basically multi-writers / leaderless

https://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-01.pdf

But to be fair, I'm not certain that CAP theorem and partition tolerance really belong in a conversation about TCP anyway

I'll admit I'm not up to speed on the affect of the aggressive logging of Seattle on the hydrological cycle. From the little time I've spent there, I managed to gleam one small fact, that by the 1950's the Seattle city sewage system was dumping up to 50 million gallons of sewage into the Puget sound (per day).

I'm only a software engineer and have no understanding of hydrological cycles, but I suspect the evaporation and precipitation of that alone would have an impact on the nearby watersheds used for drinking water.

There are vast amounts of land in this country that only have roads and infrastructure because of logging and mining.

Anyone who spends any mount of time outdoors at any longitude west of Denver, is sure to drive down these forest and mining roads when camping. Not to mention, these roads often open up access to lands for new towns and communities. And, as we are approaching the season, these roads are used for emergency services and additionally the maintenance of forests through controlled burns and the prevention of further spreading wildfires.

People often forget the original purpose of these state forests was to harvest the timber and pay the teacher salaries as part of the Oregon Common School Fund... As the great great grandson of Francis Elliott (Oregon's first state forester), I have been reminded of this by my family many times over the years. I'm unsure of it's purpose today, but I suspect the teachers wouldn't mind the extra pay.

Thanks for the recommendations! Guess I'll be watching all these! ...There goes my day :P

Interesting, I guess I'll have to dig deeper. I definitely want to understand this better.

I dove deep into this topic after reading your post and discovered something fascinating: electricity doesn't actually flow through wires in the conventional way I was taught. It's more about the electromagnetic field around the wire. This video explains it really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

The lack of DC power is rough for boats, vans, and RVs. If someone wants to put this in a backpack they really need to get a DC power supply version. There are solutions out there at this point for the standard dishy but the flat high performance has a crazy power supply with it.

Oh I'll have to try that thanks!

Nice! I was just thinking it would be sweet to have something like this to proxy all my Thunderbird email connections through my Tailscale exit node, without having to direct all my traffic through the exit node.

I'm getting tired of the "Google employee who created X". There is so much prior art it makes me roll my eyes when I see these posts.

Need to get some more Helium hotspots proving location with proof of coverage and then people wouldn't have to rely on government controlled GPS.

This is awesome. Discord is the worst for trying to search and follow threads of information. Seems like I'm always answering the same questions over and over again.

I'm surprised there isn't a gimmicky VisionPro app for it

> Most smart people are actually terrible at having the drive/follow through to take things to completion. They’ll usually want to give up at the first sign of failure or slowness.

You can also hire that really "smart" person from a large co to a startup and watch them be extremely successful in a low-friction environment for crossing the finish line.

That flagship app you are looking for seems to be https://nft.storage/ (by Protocol Labs).

I have tried two G.iNet devices. One completely stopped turning on, and the other the specs were so low it could barely keep up.

I would buy one for sure!

WiFi is always a problem with flashing random devices. If they can build a device that has stable WiFi with external antennas, it would be a game changer.

How is this not still on the front page? Is Carta a YC company?

Sad to say but I would believe a hallucination from OpenAI before I would believe anything that comes out of the NY Times. I mean the confidence interval for the NY Times is what again?

Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013

Nightly should have the fix: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.63.59

How safe is the contact that is uploaded to the iCloud? How safe is the contact from being modified by some app on your iPhone? The contact containing the verification code seems to be one of the weaker link in this whole thing.

If Mallory can change the verification code in the contact to their own, the communication between Alice and Bob is no longer protected.

CVE-2023-7024

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/12/stable-channel...

Currently imagining my productivity while waiting 10 seconds for the results of the `ls` command.

Does anyone have links to resources that someone new to Rust should read on how to conceptualize async code in Rust? Based on reading the comments, it would seem there are ways to start with writing synchronous code, and if necessary make it async but do it in such a way that is runtime agnostic... don't just reach for Tokio.

If I'm implementing a library, how should I write it so that the consumer of the library doesn't have to pull in Tokio if they don't want to?

If you try building a framework on Arrow, you are most likely going to start with thinking about types and how you munge everything you are doing into the Arrow types.

I think in general, the idea is that you can execute SQL using the query engine on Spark.

I bought this book back in March 2020 and it was a great read then. Since I've received numerous updates from Leanpub on the additions Andy has written!