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nine_k

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> "I study Zen every day and all I got is"

* My two principal strengths are solving puzzles and talking to people. * http://dmitry.cheryasov.info/resume

--- nine_k.at.hn

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1 points·by nine_k·7 месяцев назад·0 comments

Robyn: A curiously fast Python/Rust web framework

github.com
2 points·by nine_k·8 месяцев назад·1 comments

Authentication (sorry, no whitepaper for you)

medium.com
9 points·by nine_k·9 месяцев назад·3 comments

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nine_k
·1 час назад·discuss
Not touching JavaScript might be a reason enough. (Though I bet it has a Typescript API, and Typescript is great.)
nine_k
·1 час назад·discuss
It's a different kind. Say, some reaction should run 1.23x faster theoretically. But the theory is approximate (in order to be tractable at all), and so are its predictions. This particular element is special in its own way, diverging from the theory a bit, even though its neighbors fit well. That particular bond requires a bit less energy to break than the theory predicts, due to a complex interplay of bonds nearby, understood only qualitatively. Etc, etc.

A general theory of everything might describe all of it from first principles, without magic coefficients. But likely computing it would take a decade with current methods.
nine_k
·24 часа назад·discuss
Tencent seems to have subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Subsidiaries

Also they have large European / South African shareholders.
nine_k
·вчера·discuss
Mr Madison, and a bunch of other Founding Fathers, might disagree a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
nine_k
·вчера·discuss
Amending the US Constitution takes a lot of voting, with very large majorities in Congress / Senate and state legislatures. This has been achieved a number of times, and some of these decisions were rather unwise, like the Prohibition (18th amendment).
nine_k
·вчера·discuss
Maybe it's even the other way around: different cultures and tastes give birth to different languages and community norms around them.
nine_k
·позавчера·discuss
Open protocols are great. The software in question is OSS.

But this software is not for expanding the audience, it's for limiting it, and their exposure. Much like Tailscale is not for extending your network with more nodes that can freely join, but for limiting it to a private subset you trust.
nine_k
·позавчера·discuss
But the point here is that you don't want the network effects. You want a chat server for people you know and explicitly invite, for a specific purpose, under your control. Maybe you want the data to never leave your colocated box and your VPN, and your server to have no public presence at all.

There are things that Slack cannot easily offer.
nine_k
·4 дня назад·discuss
Ah, these so-called SciFi routers.
nine_k
·4 дня назад·discuss
But usually it is a phased-array setup, or it seems to be, with a row of antennas.

Another setup is circular or semicircular. I suppose it allows for a more uniform directional diagram across the entire 360°, because a straight phased array has harder time emitting sideways.
nine_k
·4 дня назад·discuss
The spider look comes from multiple antennas. Multiple antennas are needed for beamforming [1]; they represent a minimal phased array.

[1]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/967954/beamforming-expl...
nine_k
·4 дня назад·discuss
Do CoMaps somehow support overlays, like bus routes? OSMAnd does that, but I see no such option in CoMaps anywhere (a map layer, a separate map, etc).
nine_k
·4 дня назад·discuss
Looks like a glue-together narrow-purpose kind of app that AI is relatively good at producing.
nine_k
·5 дней назад·discuss
Mosquitoes depend on the existence of highly developed, warm-blooded vertebrates. Are they therefore a luxury?

A luxury is something that makes your life actually better, but too expensive for most people.
nine_k
·5 дней назад·discuss
> today's luxury is tomorrow's necessity

Indeed, see stuff like fridges, cars, phones, internet access...

> pop-up ads, selfies, subscriptions, the cybertruck...

None of these are a luxury, or ever was; in a way, they are the opposite.
nine_k
·7 дней назад·discuss
Maybe not many, but some rather large. Say, Congo, or Sudan. But more often that would be not outright warlords but rather corrupt peacetime officials, who would try to extract or extort some additional personal / clan gain from something that could be a commonly accessible good.
nine_k
·7 дней назад·discuss
> Why post it now?

Apparently a explanatory document has been extended in a recent commit [1]. Maybe the project is waking up.

[1]: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/commit/d92677084114619...
nine_k
·7 дней назад·discuss
Existing PLs are often excessively powerful and complex in some aspects, and not powerful or ergonomic enough in other aspects, pertaining to a particular subject area.

A good DSL makes certain things easy, and deliberately does not support some other things. Think about bash; imagine how bothersome it would be to use e.g. unchanged Python (one of the most readable languages) as a shell language.

Same with build systems.
nine_k
·7 дней назад·discuss
Failed social institutions are the source of all poverty in the world. The world produces enough of every basic necessity already. It's the distribution, not availability, where the source of hunger and depravity is.
nine_k
·7 дней назад·discuss
It sort of worked with malaria mosquitoes.