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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
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IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
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recent activity (3,567 total)
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Man that reminds me of Project Loon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
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Yes but in exchange you get way more bandwidth. No idea whether it would be enough to run a city-scale text network though.
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> My area has a couple of very well-placed mountaintop ROUTERs that tend to suppress most of the low level urban flooding noise What does this mean exactly and how does it address GP's concern…
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Public ads should be illegal and customers should go to a catalog when they want to see ads.
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Ah makes sense
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OAuth2 is not inherently stateless.
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Wouldn't this be super slow if you're using a proper password hashing algorithm?
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"Trust this device" is the modern day elevator door close button.
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For sure. I wonder if it's a pendulum that will keep swinging, or if most things will go small and stay there.
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> I think Spectre probably kills the security model What's the threat model exactly? As far as I can tell all the apps are compiled directly into the kernel, and the web browser doesn't r…
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Did you mean to link to this one perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAACYA1Mwv4
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Don't want to derail from the interesting technical conversation, so feel free to ignore. This is maybe more of a philosophical answer, but IMO the answer is to play games with people you trust. …
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I love this because it shows what we've lost in the push to add JS, CSS, and endless features to web browsers. Certainly we've gained a lot as well, but there's a cost. And that cost is…
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I recommend not engaging. I've tried once or twice, and when I shared a concrete example[0] of a real problem wasm solves for me that I'm not aware of another way to do, pjmlp just stopped r…
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I wouldn't say square one. It's still way simpler to control what a program can do. The host runtime decides what's on the other side of those WASI calls.
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It's awesome that Wasmi is fast enough to run GUI apps. I'm working on an app runtime for making highly portable GUI apps. I'm targeting wasm because it seems to strike a good balance b…
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This is a great example; thanks.
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How about your web browser?
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An embeddable library that lets you launch Linux VMs that works across Windows, MacOS, and Linux hosts would be incredible.
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You might be able to get away with running QuickJS compiled to WebAssembly: https://til.simonwillison.net/npm/self-hosted-quickjs …
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It essentially boils down to we don't have control over what software can run on these devices, so the extent to which we can harness the hardware is limited to what the OS vendors decide, and th…
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Good thing Apple and Google hamstring the hardware for us. Users can't be trusted with so much power.
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What are your motivations for porting in the first place?
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This is really interesting. One naive thought that immediately came to mind is that bots might be capable of making cross site requests. The logical conclusion of this entire arms race is that bots wi…
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How is the conf going? Would have loved to attend but couldn't quite swing it. Can't wait for the videos to drop.
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Juce is more common for music creation apps right? I believe Overtone is more of a Spotify alternative.