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The main point though, is that running Python in the browser it's an unnecessary abstraction because you get a crappier version of something that runs pretty well natively. If you're starting from scratch, I think that the browser might be close to native performance in some tasks. Porting existing applications is a pain when you start looking into the details.

I don't find it that crazy, if properly compiled with web assembly. The thing is that Blender's UI is all synchronous python, so, yeah, that and the addons system would be to need rewritten. Python in the browser is a no-go performance-wise, of course.

With Dolt, you can view a human-readable diff of the data you received last time versus the data you received this time.

How is this accomplished if the data is binary?

Also, how does this compare to git lfs?

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I like the honest and careful selection of words in advertisement.

People in crypto don't understand the design tradeoff between centralization and decentralization.

Care to elaborate about that trade-off? And could you be a little more specific on who is 'crypto people? (e.g. everyone from users of a crypto systems, core developers, etc.).

Neat! Using a browser add-on and brightness control of my displays improved my sleep.

A simple github page showing a demo with the code next to it might be cool, and the README size can be cut in half.

Very interesting thanks. I'm looking for a balance in great UX and features with a minimalist approach to the code needed in the client. Trying to stay with vanilla javascript with little dependencies might be hard thougg. So many frameworks and old habits. Maybe wasm will change that.

Only slightly slower than Git

That's interesting. In your examples isn't it fast because monorepos are network-based, as in, you only fetch what you need when you need it?

Also reminded me of discussions around CPython's startup time and how one use case where milliseconds matter is in small cli utilities such as Mercurial.

there is no real industry wide vendor lock-in when it comes to formats in 3D

Mmm, Blender had a lot of problems having to reverse FBX from autodesk, which AFAIK is or was a de-facto standard. About open standards, I kinda hate xml, so I didn't like Collada much. I'm looking forward for knowing more about glTF[1]. Thankfully Blender 2.8 had the official add-on from the beginning.

This is pretty cool. After a year experimenting I found that turning things off/on in an if/then fashion doesn't add much value to me. The kind of automation I want is for chores that take time and are not much fun, like laundry. Turns out that doing that is much harder than turning things on/off remotely :).

I'm thinking of an assistant where I show (or tell it) what I want, and it just does it (it 'learns'), improving based on feedback from the users.

Hard-coding times in the day, for example, could be improved if the assistant knew what would be the ideal time to sleep to me, based on all the data collected for each profile of the people living in that home. It might ask me or suggest me things to do, having more flexibility than static rules.

A very well written and inspiring post. I haven't used Godot much, but I feel 2020 and the next decade is going to continue growing much more :)

This was an extremely hard decision to make [work full time in Godot], because at the time, my experience (...) was paid a lot more, and I was receiving extremely good job offers(...). [T]he same happened to Rémi (an Energy Engineer), who also changed his life plans and profession to work full time for the project.

It really speaks of the love for the project. I hope the motivation and joy for writing the engine is balanced with the right compensation.