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The blockchain sounds very centralised if it's the only place I can participate to verify my ownership. Decentralised would be if there was no third party(in this case the blockchain) necessary f…

The signed message can have a timestamp on it. The only authority necessary is the signature of the author or the previous owner.

Can't they have a public personal ledger somewhere for people to audit? Saying I sold X to Y. Like a tweet in a personal account. Why is the common blockchain necessary? Seems like centralization…

If you have the NFT signed by the artist's PGP key is the same thing though, no? You're the owner. Or the person you sign it to afterwards. What does the public blockchain offer in this case…

Infinities.

Also grep.app for searching into repos really fast.

It is using HTTP, just doing it through browser APIs[0][1] so in this case the server layer is the service worker but it's still happening through HTTP means. So the client and the server are bot…

Genius! I feel the File System Access API[0] has a lot of potential in bringing data ownership back to the users (instead of being held by some server) but it's very under-utilized atm. Nice work…

How does the dual licensing AGPLv3 plus commercial work? If one creates a derivative are the contributions also dual licensed automatically, or how is it done?

Input: Cars were abandoned long ago. The atmosphere couldn't take it anymore. During The Great Heatwave, survivors migrated to Antarctica, the only place where the climate was cold enough to be o…

Yes, my point was that it's so trivial (and negligible in byte count size) to implement a compiler for the Webassembly text format, as the POC demonstrates, that it's curious why the browser…

You can inline the binary as base64 or simply a Uint8Array and instantiate it without having to fetch a wasm file. Many choose that approach as it also makes the library `import`-able in sync. The cod…

I was also disappointed that this isn't included in the browsers given that it was designed to be very simple to parse and compile. So I tried as an exercise to build such a compiler[0] and indee…

> I also thought about implementing a kind of overlay filesystem, where chunks that are written to the file are stored in a local storage so the modified data is available locally while still readi…

That's pretty good!

Time traveller.

Not sure of the details but it's an interpreter, so I believe it executes the wasm bytecode using its own VM, so there is overhead, where instead a compiler would generate optimized machine code …

Have you seen the Tom Cruise deepfakes? I mean, if you can reliably detect deepfakes like this[0] then the product could be better sold as deepfake detection software. [0]: https://www.yout…

IRC was the first protocol I implemented back in the days. It's so simple you don't even need a client, telnet is enough to get you chatting. I miss this directness.

If the argument is "everybody thinks that" then that's the form of learned helplessness I talked about, which is why I asked here, to hear some pragmatic reasons. The only argument I he…

It's an honest question. I just don't see that question ever being asked by anyone, to me they don't make too much sense. I understand there'd be a period where things would get me…

Why do we still have borders? Is it a form of learned helplessness? As a European travelling freely inside the Schengen zone is one of the most amazing things and you can argue it has stopped war amon…

I agree, I'd love to be able to explicitly annotate a certain function for pre-optimization even if there was some initialization cost but that would also guarantee its performance throughout the…

V8 JS is equally fast or even faster for the same code after 3-4 runs . Cold paths, however, are usually 2 orders of magnitude slower than what you can achieve with WASM, for the same code. So it kin…

That's why there is a profession, to make these kinds of judgements. But what is the alternative? People that are going for medication don't usually have many choices. If it wasn't too …

I agree with the supervision part but imagine you're a doctor, you have these meds at your disposal and someone comes to you suffering with what you assess to be a condition that you know a certa…