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throwme_123··on Notes on El Salvador
it works in civilization (the game) too

switch to democracy for a long time and it's a mess

throwme_123··on The Epson HX-20 – A Contrarian's View (2021)
Indeed, another instance of presentism...
throwme_123··on Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
Yes, that's the most probable. I use a M3 Max so nothing is really slow but speed difference between vscode and Sublime is abysmal.
throwme_123··on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
Good remark. I think it is simpler to just use a public blockchain that having Rolex properly build "open" cloud services to do that and maintain it themselves over the long run.
throwme_123··on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
You shouldn't be able to transfer the NFT yourself. Each transfer should be attested by an official dealer (for a transfer fee).
throwme_123··on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
You shouldn't be able to transfer the NFT yourself. Each transfer should be attested by an official dealer (for a transfer fee).
throwme_123··on Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
That's a legitimately good use case for NFTs.

When you sell valuable physical objects that have a high risk of counterfeiting, the secure way is to associate a "digital twin" of the object that has verifiable provenance and this is exactly what NFTs as a technology are good at.

edit: Thanks to everyone that downvoted this to -4 despite the numerous good remarks in comment that spark a solely technical discussion on the topic. Please come over your hate.

throwme_123··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
Is this parody?

Of course Wagner is pushing resentment and it's working... you're proving that now.

throwme_123··on Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink
That's the point.

You should not know and should not take it in consideration but in the USA this is part of the application. I understand the whole point is to make sure diverse candidate are not discriminated against (and of course that would be a ridiculous thing to do), but it seems to have been perverted into caricaturical discrimination _for_, even favoring a diverse incompetent candidate over a non-diverse competent one.

throwme_123··on Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink
If you're (much) less competent but the only reason why you get the job is "diversity", then yes we have a problem.

There can be diverse good candidates of course, there's no racism here.

throwme_123··on Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink
More details on this:

https://x.com/restoreorderusa/status/1731058275720831262?s=2...

throwme_123··on Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages
Thanks for articulating this much better than I did.

I loved RoR when playing with it back when it was popular but I was just learning to program + using a computer.

Fast-forward a few years, my last Ruby experience was struggling with dependencies for Jekyll. Horror story indeed.

throwme_123··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
Of course we can blame AI, lack of humans and stuff.

But the good news is you'll never advertise again on Meta and you can inspire others to do the same. These giants have too much power and since the justice system that should break them up is corrupt or not willing to do the job, it is up the users to do it.

throwme_123··on Dianne Feinstein has died
So sad to lose such a great stock trader!

- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/as-feinstein...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...

- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/dianne-feinstein-hu...

etc.

throwme_123··on We need scientific dissidents
In the case of Covid, unlike handwashing in Vienna, the disinformation was organized.

China didn't want to admit the leak occured at their lab, and the US (and Fauci in particular) didn't want to admit they funded precisely that lab for research that could be dual use.

throwme_123··on Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries
Thanks!

Indeed, string decoding may have been our bottleneck as explained in [0].

Will definitely have a look.

PS: Evan from https://github.com/Demonthos, if you ever stumble upon this there is typo in the Dioxus link from your bio :)

throwme_123··on Wayland on OpenBSD
The last full release is X11R7.7 from... 2012

If it's a tractor, it's quite an old one. Give me that new tricyle instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8MZuAwNZc

throwme_123··on Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries
We built a prototype using wasm-bindgen where we computed data values (displayed in a large table). Benchmarks were slower than native js.

This was last year though, maybe things got better now, so thanks for the pointers, will do another attempt!

throwme_123··on Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries
Thanks for the pointer to duckdb-wasm, didn't know about it!

> These micro benchmarks show that there is also no such thing as free lunch in the browser. We are paying for the increased processing efficiency in WebAssembly with a sightly less efficient evaluation on very small input. Our recommendation is therefore to use DuckDB-Wasm if you need SQL, the features or the raw speed on medium to large data sizes. Stick to existing frameworks if your dataset is very small or if your queries only contain simple scans and filters.

throwme_123··on Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries
Why fast?

In our experience, the cost of boundary-crossing between wasm and js make it slower than js implementation for everything dom-related.

throwme_123··on Bolwoningen: Living in spherical homes
Better pictures: https://unusualplaces.org/bolwoningen-neighborhood-of-spheri...
throwme_123··on All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050
Good thing and since it's a world problem, what matters the most is:

1. Also reduce emissions in the US and China[^1],

2. Save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and SEA mostly[^2].

The best would be to introduce a tax from the CO2 emitters paid to the forest countries if (and only if) they protect them.

[^1]: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/co2_m... [^2]: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/img/biome/map-rainforest-m...

throwme_123··on Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'
Wow. Both parent and grand-parent seem wrong.

GP: Bitcoiner, dooming everything else.

Parent: Anti-crypto (the majority here), up to the point on comparing Bitcoin (which might be a bubble, that's not the point here) to a Ponzi (that it is not: Supply is fixed, there is no new deposits paying previous depositors).

throwme_123··on Bugs – opinionated Jira CLI for those of us who hate Jira
This has to be the highest amount of jokes and easter eggs per LoC.

All in all, these 500 lines of bash seem quite alien to all our current codebases...

throwme_123··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Ok, was mentioning without the browser runtime obviously.

Opionated take, but I believe that the web common runtime should be part of the OS nowadays.

Even without this, Tauri is 8Mb.

throwme_123··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Sorry but sand physics is probably doable in a few kb (yes, that's kilobytes) of JS.

This is different and simpler but just 140 bytes (not k): https://codepen.io/KilledByAPixel/pen/WNGQWZG

Nothing in that game justifies being more than 1mb (being very generous...) minified as a browser app.

throwme_123··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Also... 61MB download!
throwme_123··on Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
fairseq is a fairly missed naming opportunity. C-3PO would have been better.
throwme_123··on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
This is a joke, right?

Many of these so called "antiviruses" are malware themselves.

throwme_123··on Axle OS
Is it truly the case? 2015 is not that far away, and from a personal account she was happy to be there and proud to have her image used in a research community.

When you read your article, it seems the _journalist_ tried to extract a saying from her. So she says something quite vague instead, mentioning "time to retire" again... because it's what is going to happen because of "time changes.

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