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There is no absolute direction for a galaxy’s spin—it’s always relative to the observer’s perspective.

So I’d suspect they’re saying time and distance would need to be factored in rather than just looking at static images relative to our position today since our own spin may have caused a particular galaxy to appear to have been spinning in a different direction at another point in space-time

Nice thing about SQLite is you can “clone” the repository by copying a single file. And in cases where you need incremental sync, you can use an SQLite of diff’s as a single packfile (similar to git).

Things like cr-SQLite also have a lot of potential to make single SQLite per client a lot more viable. But I’m interested to see what you think the problems are? Have you found a solution or alternative?

Juniper Systems | Logan, UT or Costa Rica (Hybrid) | mid - Sr. | Frontend Web, GIS | Typescript, C#

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Is there a public git repo available somewhere that represents a Kart repository?

Are the raw files in the working repository GeoPackages? How is it tracking the changes made inside the geopackages? What happens if it's replaced with an updated copy of the geopackage the was edited via some other application? How does it diff the changes?

Just saw this, which might be a better home page: https://koordinates.com/products/kart/

This looks neat!

I assume it’s using WASM for browser based web encoding? Is local encoding always guaranteed to be faster or could some internet connections be fast enough that an upload would beat out the client side encoding depending on device capabilities?

Automatic captioning and clipping based on transcripts are great features.

And then things like neural implants and BCIs -- seems like your dog could have language capabilities sooner than you'd think ;)

I wonder if language translation will be one of the "killer apps".

Especially if it can be done real-time and according to the context/level of the audience/listener. Even within the same language, translation from a more technical/expert level to a simplified summary helps education/communication/knowledge transfer significantly.

In scenarios where an individual customer/tenant can have isolated data this makes sense. Is there any reason why the client application itself can't be one of the nodes in the distributed system? Does LiteFS support a more peer-2-peer distribution model (similar to a git repo) where the client/customer's SQLite database is fully distributed to them and then it's just a matter of merging diffs?

Is there any documentation on the native schema used to store the documents. Is it sane enough that you could manually roll your own JSON1 queries in SQL to facilitate more relational join like features?

Why not include C#/MAUI on this list to make it 5?

How do serialization libraries, like Newtonsoft JSON.net, work on platforms like iOS/Blazor/Unity that use AOT? Doesn’t seem like anything special has to be done other than reference the Nuget package and it’s just working?

Don't you think we'll get to the point where individual AI instances will be as ubiquitous as calculators? Or will it always require massive compute power that keeps the generative AI population low?

I do wonder how well (quickly) the whole thought is formed in your head and it’s just the encoding into language that tricks you into thinking you didn’t know what the word would be.

Having learned another language, the moment you start to feel “fluent” is when you start speaking first in the 2nd language and aren’t using your first language as an intermediate step to translate to your 2nd language.

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Xamarin/MAUI doesn’t get the buzz/love from HN audience that React Native and Flutter get. I think there is a lot of historical bias here. My company has found success with the dotnet stack. We are able to keep a small team of 5 developers that maintain 3 mobile apps (Xamarin), 2 desktop apps (WPF transitioning MAUI), and 1 web app (Blazor) all sharing about 50-80% of the code base. These are apps that bring our company about $7+mil in annual revenue if you include the associated hardware which dotnet/C# is well suited to interact “natively” with.

At our organization we have a nontechnical sprint tester that executes manual tests and creates customer facing documentation. This sprint tester is part of our pull request approvals on our new feature branch builds.

The engineers write the unit tests, integration tests and create the initial draft of a manually executed (zephyr) test.

The sprint tester enhances the manual test and also creates the customer facing documentation/training content. What’s been nice about this is if the sprint tester finds its overly complicated to explain a new feature they can provide feedback about the design before it gets merged into the production builds. In this way they’re not just documenting what’s been done, but are contributing to the design.

I think we saw the same behavior with Microsoft in the early 2000s. When a company becomes more preoccupied with "shoring up the moat" to keep the stranglehold on the market more than it cares about innovating what's best for their consumer, the internal decay starts to happen.

Fortunately I think for both Apple and Microsoft, they still have internal resources in the upper-ranks that truly care about what's best for their customers. If those people end up being the prevailing voices they will succeed. I think a lot depends on whether the CEO has control of the vision, or if they're actually just managing operations. Cracks are shown in the form of who they are able to retain & hire and who is leaving.

Blazor/dotnet is the framework using WASM. C# is the language.

I know that’s what bitcoin proponents would say, and this appears true to me on the surface. I also see huge incentives for governments, banks, payment companies, tax companies etc. to NOT want this to happen. Some for self preservation and immoral reasons and some for legitimate humanitarian reasons and to prevent anarchy. It’d be nice if someone could paint the unbiased vision of what the future world would look like in that scenario.

I also have no horse in this race, never owned any BTC/crypto, but I feel like the wastefulness is made to be too big of an issue. Seems like it can be solved eventually.

So if it wasn’t wasteful, my question is, does a decentralized currency provide any real value? From my limited perspective it seems like it would solve some problems with things like inflation, free market transactions — but it also probably creates new problems. I guess my question is, would the world ultimately be better off or worse off if a decentralized currency was the predominant world currency?

Probably because it matters what the majority of adopters believe the purpose is.

Right now the belief of most bitcoin/crypto adopters is that it’s a way to get rich quick

Like most macroeconomic forces, it matters more what the majority believe to be true than what the vision is for something, whether it’s true or not.

I watched this video from Friedman just a couple of days ago and found it insightful on the topic of inflation: https://youtu.be/B_nGEj8wIP0

Source? Is this because QE isn’t entirely to blame and there were legitimate supply problems because of the pandemic. Similar to how Friedman explains wars can have an effect on prices that are perceived as temporary inflation?

How is this different from decentralized currency with a fixed/limited quantity? I wonder what Friedman’s opinion would have been in todays Bitcoin/crypto environment.

I agree, this is still a problem to solve. Current inflation levels are evidence of that.

The problem is bitcoin is being treated like an investment because of “greater fool theory” and no one is treating it like a currency in any meaningful way. It’s crashing because it’s not showing its value as an effective currency. At least not yet. Right now it’s a store for excess liquidity and that makes it too volatile to function as a currency.

I’d be curious how products like GitHub/BitBucket handle this with git repository hosting, because I’d imagine it would not be much different. Also if you took a truly local first approach, then fully distributing the database amongst peers and supporting peer to peer synchronization would be another way (which would work for use cases with smaller data storage requirements)

I think the potential exists for many multi-tenancy B2B SaaS products to be converted to an SQLite-per-tenant model.

CRUD Database products like Jira, Salesforce, Airtable, Notion, Clickup, Asana, etc. seem like internal line of business services that just need to be thick clients with a distributed database. Most individual businesses/tenants won’t have to deal with more than 100 concurrent writes at a time (if that) so SQLite could definitely handle that.

I only have experience with Azure's App Service, but their App Service can scale out and still use the same mounted local storage layer that is shared across all app instances. So I've been considering this for multi-tenant applications where each tenant's data can be siloed in it's own SQLite database.

I think the decision of which cross platform technology to use mostly depends on a team's preferred tech stack.

C++ -> QT

C#/.NET -> MAUI/Blazor

JS/Web -> React.Native/Electron

Dart -> Flutter

This is what I think is holding back Flutter -- that it wasn't built on an incumbent technology. Because Dart doesn't have quite the following, it has to evangelize itself a bit more than the other options.