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It can be achieved with a zero-knowledge proof - there are many schemes, but in essence, they all allow you to prove something (e.g. your birthdate, validated by a government agenc…

> And you will never know code as well as a reader and you would have as the author for anything larger than a very small project. This feels very true - but also consider how much…

Or shard it - divide your objects up based on some criteria (hash the name of the object, use the first N digits of the hash to assign to a shard), and distribute them across multi…

To add another anecdote to this thread, a few years ago, I picked up an old Consew 226R compound walking foot machine to do canvas work for a boat. That machine was a beast once I …

> but why would you expect that from it? If you understand what it is doing, then you don't. But the layman will just see a computer that talks in language they understand, and wil…

You always have the option of creating a map style and using Mapbox's Raster Tile API - although that does mean you probably can't dynamically adjust your raster images in time for…

It's possible, but not without security implications: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/

My company is in a similar situation - have large teams in several eastern European cities (primarily Minsk), and a few long-term remote teammates in Ukraine. A couple have fled (f…

Economics has also already given us lots of information on how much money people are prepared to sink into transportation - the owners of the self-driving cars/rental companies wil…

It's somewhat complicated - timing of cold weather is important to kill off the beetles: https://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/fo... > For example, an under-bar…

I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, an…

The sad news is that the credit card scammers have ruined this - automated credit card testing often looks for small donation pages like you're suggesting, then uses them to check …

For running, this sounds very much like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_band_syndrome Non-specific knee ache leaving you crippled walking down stairs, and some other spec…

The difficulty is in deciding what needs to "stop". Do you "stop" rent payments when those businesses aren't allowed to operate? If yes, do you "stop" loan payments for landlords w…

I've had some success with some of the off-the-shelf laser distance measurement modules, like the ones Bosch sell at big-box hardware stores: https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/bosch…

Not seriously. I work on other similar optimization problems for my day job though, I can definitely imagine adding a bunch more complexity to guide the solver toward the right sol…

If you want to get fancy with your meal planning, you can use a constraint solver like Google's or-tools to figure out what recipes to cook to meet nutritional (and other) goals se…

I addressed this with my side business by keeping the free option pretty limited. Only a very small set of my potential customers qualify for free (very small, volunteer orgs, with…

The cruise control on our Subaru seems to behave like you’d expect here. If someone cuts in front of you going roughly the same speed, it backs off a bit to open up some space, but…

The term "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was coined by Microsoft, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I think "non-practical" was perhaps poor wording. I assume what the parent meant was a "data structures and algorithms" course, compared with say, "How to code in Java using the st…

clang-format kinda does what it says - parses your code, then indents and spaces it according to the rules. It doesn't try to understand code intent, it just looks at syntax. clang…

Here at Mapbox we're doing navigation on OSM with traffic data - we collect our own telemetry, and use it to guide OSM-based routing. There are numerous Android/iOS apps using our …

There is some element of random chance. A random mutation happened, and that mutation ends up dominating the gene pool because it's more successful.

I was going to post this same comment. When I was a kid, I used to look out the window and worry that the wings might fall off because I could see them flexing. Then I watched the …