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yeah I completely agree, I think there's a whole logic of reasons to using useEffect/useCallback/useMemo that the post didn't acknowledge. personally, I want to have a comprehensiv…

my understanding (which is definitely not exhaustive!) is that the case between Galileo and the church was way more nuanced than is popularly retold, and had nothing whatsoever to …

one of my biggest subjective takeaways from spending hours scrolling around the map is that my impression that the userbase was dominated by software types was ~mostly wrong! feels…

there are a other few places tracking those stats too; I just counted 14487454 in my database :)

point taken, but as the blog post here and many other comments have pointed out, there is a very sharp qualitative difference between just-Apple and Apple+Google doing this. Apple …

The merkle tree is persisted, and updating it is only log(n). You only have to "hash 2n elements" once, and then incrementally maintain it. It's negligible overhead for free log(n)…

The difference is that a trie over the hashes doesn't preserve lexicographical key ordering or support range queries, which are typically expected from key/value stores. But you're…

it’s definitely not an exact solution, but i’ve been thinking about ways prolly trees could fit into CRDT systems. they essentially give you efficient peer-to-peer entry-wise diffs…

on bluesky (sorry) the devs have been super active and responsive and eager to explain their approach. they have talked about this specific choice at length - that after an extensi…

It's much more similar to a related Protocol Labs project: CAR (content-addressable archives) https://ipld.io/specs/transport/car/

Database applications of category theory!