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So I imagined it, and I came to the conclusion it's not more than a QR code.
Yes, I too thought this, how does a QR code not already accomplish this need?
There’s an entire spectrum of fiducial types based on 2D bar code matrices. QR code is the most well known.
But 2D matrices are not as resistant to motion blur, so there are advantages to some of the other types.
Javascript and Typescript replacements. Started learning Clojure / ClojureScript and keeping an eye on ML languages like ReScript and ReasonML. I wish soon I'll be able to never write JS/TS code again.
Take a look at haxe[0] for a compile-to-js ML inspired language. It's relatively mature these days and integrates with existing typescript definitions via dts2hx[1] I talk about this more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26084187 [0] https://haxe.org/ [1] https://github.com/haxiomic/dts2hx
1. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn't solve everything). https://gnunet.org/en/gns.html 2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification,…
> 3. GUI/WebUI CMS for contributing to a shared versioned repository. Did you have some specific tool in mind? Because I completely agree that this is a great way of working with content. We have been doing that for a couple of months with our own tool. It uses Git and stores content in a pretty-printed JSON file. Techies can update that directly and push it manually. Content editors can use our tool to edit and comm…
1. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn't solve everything). https://gnunet.org/en/gns.html 2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification,…
Data Hubs. It’s queriable like a database but it doesn’t store your data - it proxies all your other databases and data lakes and stuff, and let’s you join between them. Trino is a great example.
Muon-Catalyzed Fusion [1]. Briefly it's a genuine, and scientifically uncontroversial, form of 'cold' fusion enabled by muons — a more massive relative of the electron that was in the news recently thanks to the potentially interesting results coming out of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab [2]. Like conventional 'hot' plasma fusion, in all experiments to date the energy input needed to sustain the process has exce…
Are there recent developments in this field that change that?
Old tech. New software development is 99% aimless churn. We don’t need more new tech. We need better applications of old tech. There is so much software that works perfectly fine already. What’s missing is connecting it to real world problems.
In some circles, you might even be accused of being a boomer for using SQL. I think a lot of developers are missing out on just how much runway you can get out of SQL and libraries like SQLite. You would also be missing out on one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of computer science with regard to our ability to model problem domains and perform inhuman queries against them with millisecond execution times. But hey, maybe machine learning and mongodb are working for your shop.
The final thing a lot of people miss are old ideas. Put your entire application on a single server somewhere, and all of its dependencies live in the same box. Optimize the vertical before you rewrite for horizontal, because 99% of the time you will go bankrupt before you get as big as Netflix so it wont matter anyways. Plus, you would go bankrupt faster anyways by chasing delusions of web-scale grandeur when you could have had the MVP done 3 years ago with just a simple SQLite database back-end and a T3a.micro. More likely than not you would have discovered it was a bad idea to start with and could more quickly move on to the actual thing you should have been focusing on.
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Is this under the radar?
For electric planes, it is. Up until a year or two ago, I still had fairly intelligent people still saying electric flight is “essentially impossible.”
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Forgive me, genuine question. What happens when it snows?
Or what happens if some kids prank a fiducial towards a cliff?