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Good question. Mycellm is the protocol layer: identity, routing, credits, reputation. Similar to how BitTorrent verifies pieces match their hash but doesn't judge whether the conte…

This is exactly what I've been building — mycellm.ai. Seed GPU when idle, earn credits, spend on inference. BitTorrent economics for LLM compute. It's live now (my homelab serves t…

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This article is a good primer on how AV1 works (and compares with VP8 and VP9): https://www.red5.net/blog/av1-vs-vp9-vs-vp8-comparison-for-l...

When using Promise.all(), it won't fail entirely if individual promises have their own .catch() handlers.

In my xp, React Native was far more fragile a few years ago, but it has improved immensely since then. I quite enjoy working with it these days.

> Hetzner isn't an American company so why should they accept American drivers licenses? When in Rome ...

I've found React Native, especially in recent times, to provide a very good mobile dev environment. I wrote an app and had it running in both iOS and Android in no time (with minim…

> Amazon says it has acted properly in response to FTC demands to ensure the preservation of relevant evidence. The company says it gave executives “explicit instructions on how to…

Banks have either a federal or state charter. This bank has a state charter. https://www.dobs.pa.gov/Documents/DoBS%20Forms/Bank%20Forms/...

Washington state makes it so easy. My ballot is mailed to me weeks before the election date. I have plenty of time to research and fill it out. I then drop it off at one of the man…

> Then they got lazy and just numbered the months. * Chinese et al have entered the chat This pattern is fairly common around the world. It's amusing to me that in the Western worl…

Fyi China calls itself 'Zhongguo' — literally 'Middle Kingdom' (Country)

Check out DietPi — Debian-based OS with optimized software packages for devices such as Raspberry Pi. And super easy upgrade options. https://dietpi.com

The US plunged into the worst recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s when Lehman Brothers bank collapsed, which quickly cascaded around the world. 2008 is aka 'The Great…

Twitter definitely punched above its weight as the go-to forum for companies, politicians, celebrities, media, etc.

For the record, United Airlines leaked that. (Though Apple could have similar provisions with other airlines — we just don't know.) https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/11/apple…

Once upon a time, Apple shipped a few models with both Motorola PPC + Intel x86 CPUs. Eg: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad...

As a Bernie-style 'leftist', I can't say a response to this abortion assertion any better than Pete Buttigieg did on Fox news ( https://youtu.be/wKOoWYfIzIw

As I've matured, I've found the words of Stephen Colbert ring truer and truer: 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias'. I'm a millennial. I've moved from libertarian in college to …

It's especially bad when put into context that America is the richest country by far on the planet, yet wealth distribution is extremely out of whack and we allow such conditions t…

The USA — with the 'most rights of any people in the world' — incarcerates the most people, by far, in some of the most inhumane conditions (slavery is explicitly legal in such con…

I use Finicky to seamlessly route links to the right place (browsers and apps, such as Zoom so you don't have to bounce in a browser then the app). You can use the args param in th…

Innocent, accused, or even found guilty — the conditions in American jails and prisons are barbaric and anathema to the proclaimed values we claim to hold. Our media and politician…