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randtrain34on System76 – Pangolin

what year/model are those XPS? They seem to have improved a lot in the past year or two.

randtrain34on AWS Proton

Would this work as a substitute for fargate + codedeploy + codepipeline?

randtrain34on Next.js Commerce store, one-click deploy to Netlify

Agree, we also use it at work, it's fast, reliable, free, pretty much works out of the box, has SSL...

randtrain34on Stripe raising at up to 100B valuation

So assuming IPO price > last valuation, this would make it by far the largest IPO of all time?

randtrain34on Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached

the 3070 is $499, roughly equivalent to the 2080 TI

randtrain34on Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin's latest bubble?

Despite all its controversy, Tether's technically a stablecoin, so it's should be more stable than Bitcoin, which may be desirable to some people.

randtrain34on Babylon.js 4.2

This has so many more capabilities than Three.js and the gap seems to be growing

randtrain34on Volt: A reactive web framework where your Ruby code runs both server and client

Is this similar to what's behind Stimulus Reflex?

randtrain34on Spiderbasic

Charging for it might hurt adoption a bit

randtrain34on Deno 1.5

I wish this gained adoption faster but unlikely that it'll surpass Node.js anytime soon...

randtrain34on Deno 1.5

I think not having a package manager was pretty intentional and unlikely to change. I personally like the new import from url functionality, especially when combined with the ability to alias some of those away.

randtrain34on Hoppscotch – A free, fast API request builder

Fun fact: this used to be named Postwoman as a play on Postman being a popular API client.

source: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/1111

randtrain34on Working Open Source

This is an impressive level of dedication

randtrain34on Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith

Can you elaborate on the differences between Appsmith and Retool from a feature standpoint?

randtrain34on Trump approves funding for revolutionary nuclear power plant

Seems the gov is also helping NuScale develop a reactor in South Africa. Source: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-government-ba...

randtrain34on The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Two Weeks In

It's shocking that there's barely been any coverage in US news outlets

randtrain34on What if we had Local-First Software?

seems data centers have 2k exabytes https://www.statista.com/statistics/638593/worldwide-data-ce...

randtrain34on Svelte: Cybernetically Enhanced Web Apps

React in combination with something like styled system and tailwind, as well as a huge array of react specific libraries (eg. react-query, react-hook-form, downshift, etc.) make it tough to move to other ecosystems where those things need analogues, which are often less battle-tested.

randtrain34on Webpack 5

Are there any benchmarks to get a rough idea on how much improvement in all these areas we can expect to get by upgrading?

randtrain34on Show HN: Better Blinkist Front End

The copy pasting view source threw me off a bit, seems like a weird workaround...

randtrain34on Gitter is joining Matrix

> Our plan is instead to merge Gitter’s features into Element (or next generations of Element) itself and then - if and only if Element has achieved parity with Gitter based on the above list - we expect to upgrade the deployment on gitter.im to a Gitter-customised version of Element. The inevitable side-effect is that we’ll be adding new features to Element rather than Gitter going forwards.

Wonder what existing Gitter users think about this?

randtrain34on Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)

This seems very similar in concept to https://caprover.com/

randtrain34on IPFS 0.7.0, the SECIO retirement edition

I wonder if there are statistics on the versions that the nodes currently use?

randtrain34on F.lux automatically adjusts your computer lighting to match your environment

the Linux equivalent is http://jonls.dk/redshift/

randtrain34on The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files

As much as they try to add security to this feature it inherently breaks out of the "sandbox" concept of the browser and scares me.

randtrain34on Opencats Applicant Tracking System

and fun XSS vulns https://github.com/opencats/OpenCATS/issues/406

randtrain34on Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

I'm surprised that the "+" operator isn't commonly known either in gmail (eg. I can type "johnsmith+345@gmail.com", and mail sent to that address will redirect to "johnsmith@gmail.com"

randtrain34on Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML

Has anyone tested with different browsers? Would love to see if there are differences between rendering this in Chrome/FF/Safari, etc.

randtrain34on Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML

I think it's pretty hard to get more performant than webgl, especially as the number of vertices increases/geometry complexity increases.

randtrain34on White House announces creation of AI and quantum research institutes

> $1 billion falls on the conservative side of the AI investment spectrum. When U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios revealed last September that U.S. government agencies requested nearly $1 billion in nondefense AI research spending for the fiscal year ending in September 2020, representatives from Intel, Nvidia, and IEEE said the U.S. would need to set aside more for AI R&D. Separately, national security think tank Center for a New American Security called for federal spending on high-risk/high-reward AI research to increase to $25 billion by 2025 to avoid “brain drain,” and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence asserts the government must spend $120 billion within the decade on AI research and education and the national AI ecosystem.

While great to see progress in this area, this is ultimately not enough.