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I heard that Matrix have already made some design errors that significantly impacts its scalability
Could you please elaborate.
Yeah it's shit for scaling
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#222Mycoworks: which makes leather from mycelium. Will see products 2021. Brightseed: uncovering the medicine that’s in our food. Uses AI to identify bioactive molecules found in common food crops that can regulate genetics associated with health. Imagine safe drugs that only take 24 months to get to market. Atomo Coffee: Makes molecular without the coffee bean; made from sustainable agriculture side streams. Best coffee…
> Mycoworks How did they trademark "reishi," a mushroom variety, for what's essentially mushroom leather?
Good question, and hadn’t asked them this but I assume it’s like Apple, but in this case ReiShi is the name of a material.
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#223- Rust + WASM - WASM accessing DOM directly (and the subsequent explosion of front end frameworks completely bypassing JS) I'm a simple person with mundane wants :)
I want this so bad. I have compiled C code to WASM before but without knowing JavaScript of course there is little that can be done.
Unfortunately for us, I think that most people come from the other camp, and want parts of their JavaScript to be more efficient, thus turning to WASM.
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30 year pescetarian here. I mean, mainly vegetarian but some fish every so often. I gave up meat at 17 on the basis of no reason whatsoever, I was just a contrary teen who liked giving things up. Down the line a few years I find so many compelling reasons to not eat meat. Each individually may be argued out of the room but collectively it's pretty compelling. Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None.…
I think this is a very privileged view. Most of the world does not have the culture of offering vegetarian/vegan meals. And if they did, living that lifestyle can be prohibitively expensive.
Weird, in my experience a vegetable based diet is way cheaper than one which involves meat...
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Can you name a few of Phoenix LiveView clones/similar approaches in other languages that are actively developed and worth looking into?
Here's a Github repository listing Phoenix LiveView workalikes for different languages and frameworks: https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews ps: The BEAM is what makes LiveView so great, do not expect the same in the other environments.
Is the last sentence in your comment about developer experience, functionality, performance/scalability or something else?
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#226Nanovms (https://nanovms.com/), a Linux-compatible unikernel for cloud deployments.
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#227The market for self diagnostic medical technology is going to boom at some point. It will be a long time before we have an AutoDoc, but until then, diagnostic equipment and diagnosis automation are something to keep an eye on and possibly invest in. Very few doctors will see it coming, because they don't want to believe that they can be partially automated.
Except this is already heavily regulated and/or the AMA will lobby to regulate it, making it impossible/expensive in many cases, slowing innovation, and keeping doctor’s salaries and health care costs high
The taxi industry was highly regulated worldwide. It didn’t stop Uber.
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#228https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. https://temporal.io/ - is the new kid on the block of state-dependent service-orchestrated application development platforms. https://workos.com/ - is building enterprise-readiness as a service, enabling new companies to start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. htt…
I tried to get my team using Around.co as I love it, but we're too entrenched in Slack, installing the app isn't catching on. It's a hard problem to beat 'good enough' with 'better'.
Just installed it, I'm in awe because of the clean UI an aesthetic of it, and having your head floating around, just makes sense. At least I hope they inspire others in this line of superior UI/UX
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#229I’m still bullish on AR once Apple launch Glass in early ‘22. Having a real-life videogame HUD with a blue marker showing my next destination sounds fantastic.
Me too! I think it will truly be the next big thing. I just recently got my first VR headset and it's very cool, but AR by Apple will be way bigger.
Do the VR glasses in any way affect your eyes other than a regular display? I want to get into VR but I already tear up from a long work day of staring at a screen and my eyes get dry.
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#230As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
30 year pescetarian here. I mean, mainly vegetarian but some fish every so often. I gave up meat at 17 on the basis of no reason whatsoever, I was just a contrary teen who liked giving things up. Down the line a few years I find so many compelling reasons to not eat meat. Each individually may be argued out of the room but collectively it's pretty compelling. Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None.…
If ethics are a priority, then how can you be a vegetarian as opposed to a vegan? If as a vegetarian you acknowledge consuming animal products, which ethics are you compromising (just curious).