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for example, How much disk is needed? I started the uvx command and it started to download hundreds of megabytes. How much cpu ram is necessary and how much gpu ram is necessary? will an integrated intel gpu work? some ARM boards have a dedicated AI processor, are any of those supported?

it seems like all this infrastructure could be replaced by a DNS TXT record with a public key that browsers could use to check the cert sent from the web server. A web server would load a self-signed cert (or whatever cert they wanted), and put the cert's public key into a DNS record for that hostname. Every visit to a website would need two lookups, one for address and one for key. It puts control back into the hands of the domain owners and eliminates the need for letsencrypt.

Sapling is the first AST editor that works how Ive imagined it could. I'd love to leave all the whitespace wrangling behind and move only between AST nodes in an efficient way. This was a fun editor to try and I think there is something to learn here still to make treesitter editors more powerful/efficient.

The syntax choices are really nice here. It has a lot of what I would pick for a language. The one-liner test cases are awesome, <> for generics is comfortable since I use rust, sum types like elm are awesome. If I were to add something (well take it away really) its to use whitespace for array element separators. Eliminates the whole trailing comma issue and looks cleaner, though I admit it might create parsing ambiguities. 'try expr', returning (val,err) is curious and I think I like it better already than try {} catch {}.

for those looking for an open source way to sync photos, syncthing has an android app that works well. While it is 'always running' on my android phone, I love how as soon as I arrive home it connects to wifi and moves any new photos to my home linux box (which is also running syncthing).

General Thomas Percell: How do we fix it?

Dr. Josh Keyes: We can't.

General Thomas Percell: Not in my vocabulary.

(possibly the greatest burn in movie history)

Dr. Josh Keyes: Then you might want to get one of those word-a-day calendars, General, because it's impossible. The core is the size of Mars. You're talking about jump-starting a planet. This is a superheated hyper-fluid of molten iron and nickel at 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And the deepest we've ever been is... 7 miles, with a two-inch drill bit.

General Thomas Percell: If we can go into space, we certainly...

Dr. Josh Keyes: Space is easy. It's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there.

This is like the Encyclopedia Britannica entry for 'email'. I wouldn't call it "from first principles", I'd call it "a survey of everything related to email and email delivery" (propane and propane accessories).

I have a pinetime and the form factor is great (until I lost the back plate, next one will be sealed). All the opensource activity around the watch is also great. The biggest drawback to me is only 64k of ram. Thats a Commodore64's worth of ram. The 240x240 screen is 57kbytes, it must have its own display ram.

Also NordicSemi never seemed to be particularly opensource friendly. I'm hoping for a future RISCV edition of this watch with more ram.