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lifty
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About lifty
Get in touch via alex@giurgiu.io
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Comment #49104445
Interested in your choice of Raft. How well does that work when you have heterogeneous machines with varying degrees of latency to each other?
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Comment #49040800
But still nerfed compared to the initial release.
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Comment #48998144
Nostr is not blockchain. It's a p2p protocol.
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Comment #48994683
Perhaps you can get hired by a company to do that. You can't compare yourself as an individual with a company with a large budget.
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Comment #48858929
My bad. The only point I was trying to make is that there’s no left vs right conclusions that you can draw from this.
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Comment #48856560
We’re talking about erosion of privacy and draconian internet surveillance. Brexit was a major screw up and I’m not here to defend any side, just to dispel this illusion that someh…
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Comment #48856336
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Comment #48711007
The whole left vs right is a useless caricature. And it’s especially meaningless when comparing ideologies across country borders. Better talk in terms of policies.
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Comment #48710859
Can you give an example of what happened in UK that points to this issue?
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Comment #48602549
But do you agree this bill is positive?
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Comment #48573835
The first wave will be to mandate ID verification for online services. Some people will then start using p2p services, so the next step is to ban devices that can run non-approved …
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Comment #48519966
Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that dispar…
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Comment #48504982
If you have used WASI in the past, can you mention your use case? Very curious if you found it to give you an edge compared to other sandboxing like containers or VMs.
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Comment #48503558
Sure, I do it, and many others. Some people say it's hard, but I think it's much easier than it used to be, technically. You have projects like https://stalw.art which make it quit…
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Comment #48466254
Yeah, but you get to choose who gets to rip off your data. Joking aside, perhaps there would be some privacy focused alternatives and most importantly for Europeans, they would be …
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Comment #48466205
More like EU became anti-Musk. And Tesla had great sales in the first half of 2026 in the EU.
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Comment #48403102
At what age are you planning on introducing it?
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Comment #48368464
It’s very risky to make these kind of claims. If the denominator (USD) gets obliterated they might very well be worth $1T. It’s all about liquidity and central banks have a whole b…
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Comment #48368120
What are you talking about? The Mac platform is so much more friendly for doing Linux related work. First of all it’s Unix so most tooling has MacOS variants, and secondly you have…
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Comment #48361509
Is this comment really necessary?
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Comment #48320204
Anyone here using Zot and can share their experience?
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Comment #48250210
He’s a software engineer with taste. I know taste is subjective but I happen to like he’s taste.
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Comment #48235174
You might combine a general world model with a python coding model in that case. Not sure if it's better, just saying.
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Comment #48119611
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