christopherbalz

The article raises awareness of a pitfall that is easy to fall into, and that will only appear at runtime.

Not your keys, not your coins.

Is it really that much for the browser vendors to support TypeScript? Then, the only reason to compile would be to optimize for production by removing the excess code of the data-typing.

Browser support for TypeScript would invite developers to use those browsers, which aligns with browser-vendor interests.

Sweet! 'never' seems to have historical roots in IE's ancient 'unknown' js type.

+ And worth re-reading as well. Totally generic to field but definitely applicable here.

Why call it "NixOS" when it seems to be a package manager?

Great in-depth write-up!

My two cents: Formal Methods (e.g., "Z" and Promela) and also, teamwork stuff (from old days, Team Software Process, and any more modern material like that).

A page of practical examples that are easy to understand and clearly offer advantages would help for those with limited time.

It would be really nice to not always have to do a worker thread or iframe to get multi-threading. Web apps with more involved and/or extensive ui's would benefit a lot from this in terms of the ui responsiveness.

Kind of surprising that the article doesn't mention the profits and sway that Big Tech has to afford the approaches he describes. Borrow money very cheaply, buy back stock, profit from higher stock price. As well, Big Tech has market power (not necessarily monopoly) to allow for a lot of flexibility in deadlines.

+1 Also, the author of the article was able to do the job in an article that one can read in just a few minutes - a rare feat.

Lots of good data in this article.

It is a day of true irony: https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/13823814747338219...

Girard's theory also applies very well to mass culture movements for social and political change. Shameless plug: My book rests in large part upon his theories: https://www.nottotouchthesun.net/doorsinpoetryandhistory/

So, macOS keychain simply doesn't have the ability to store in secure enclave?

BAT rewards have been live on seemingly all reddit comments for a year or so now.

An oldie but a goodie: https://labs.detectify.com/2014/12/08/hijacking-of-abandoned...

"Distributed computing project, Rosetta@Home, is using the BOINC infrastructure to model covid-19 proteins that may be drug targets. " - https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f5as77/distributed...

I have run BOINC on my own computers for about 20 years. I really like it because it always properly steps out of the way whenever the computer is being used for something else (including config to do that when simply other processes need more resource), and because it's cross-platform.

Not surprising; the Fed is intent on ever-inflating the housing asset bubble.

Interesting research on stock-to-flow: https://medium.com/digitalassetresearch/plan-b-is-now-plan-a...

I am enjoying "Quantum Computing for Everyone". It's by an MIT math professor, and is certainly for "everyone" . . . who wants to learn quantum techniques for linear algebra (e.g., everyone who wants to do some serious work).

Well-said.

On macOS, brow.sh doesn't make it clear as to what hyperlink I am focused on when browsing.

Also, it doesn't handle terminal shutdown; it leaves Firefox running but won't reconnect if you open up a new terminal and try to run it again.

Overall, unusable at this time, imo.

Charts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

Sounds lightweight in implementation but very powerful. Seems like it could be used by the likes of `npm` to filter out packages that do operations such as `prototype` modification. Then those would be flagged in `npm audit`.

Is this something that could/should be done by the package repositories such as npmjs.com?

I think that the README could be improved by adding a brief description of how it works, in maybe 20 to 50 words. Then, consider adding another paragraph if more detail would be helpful to the reader/prospective user.

Separately, a command-line tool to do basic hash verification would also be useful - has anyone seen one?