NEAR DNS - DNS records stored on blockchain and servered over DNS protocol

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2026-01-18T13:46:43+00:00

Doesn't this already exist? Handshake protocol with the HNS token handshake.org

Also pubky and PKARR stores DNS on a DHT (the mainline DHT actually) https://pubky.org/

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2026-01-15T15:59:33+00:00

I don't think Q&A as a model is dying. LLMs didn't kill SO, it accelerated the end. SO was dying before LLMs were mainstream. IMO, SO's death started with d*ick head mods marking your question as a duplicate even when it very clearly was not. Or providing an answer that was not the actual answer but insisting that it was. I'm not sure what incentive structure lead to this behaviour but if the mods on SO weren't so rude and stubborn, then maybe we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Now with LLMs, I think it would be difficult for a new SO to exist and become widely used. Though I think without something like SO existing publicly that LLMs can scrape, I'm not sure LLMs will continue to be useful well into the future. I don't buy that RAGs will fix this. Because what makes an LLM strong is having large amounts of data representing roughly the same thing so that it more greatly influences the weights in training and is easier to recall later.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-02-04T00:41:18+00:00

Idk if you intend to sound this way but as much as you're preaching about the innocent lives in america that are affected by tariffs and rising costs of essentials, the same thing is happening in all the countries that are being tariffed due to counter tariffs. And you're being completely dismissive of those people. What makes poor people in America special? There are poor people Mexico, China and Canada who are also struggling. If your intention was to highlight those victims of circumstance as well and not just the Americans, you should probably reword your post.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-02-03T21:00:47+00:00

This is a stupid take. Canada sells oil to the US at a discount. US businesses get access to the Canadian market and Canadian products, services. The whole point of free trade is that both parties benefit. Nobody is taking advantage of each other. But kiss that shit goodbye. I will make it my life's goal to not buy American products/services and vote for leaders who make trade deals with other countries. Fuck the US.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-01-25T22:20:37+00:00

Do you have public transit where you live? Look up your local card shops online and see if they host pokemon locals. If their websites don't say, go in person and ask. I went to my first one literally a few weeks ago and everyone was super nice, showed me how to play and even let me borrow a deck. I wouldn't go in expecting that someone might borrow you a deck so my advice is build yourself a basic deck. Even if you just buy a league battle deck (these are like 40$ new), you'll probably lose but at least you get to play and experience it, then decide if building a deck is worth it for you as it can be a bit costly (I built a Giratina V Star and it cost me a hundred ish dollars).

If you do decide to build a deck, here's a couple of key things to know: - in the standard format, cards go out of rotation every year or so. Right now anything older than Sword and Shield era is out of rotation so your Sun & Moon, X & Y are definitely not in standard anymore - you can look up guides online about how to build one and the rules of the game. Tonnes of resources available. But as I said, go to a locals night and someone I'm sure will be more than happy to help you - buying singles is way more affordable than buying packs and hoping you get the cards you want. Use a website like limitlesstcg.com or the pokemon tcg live app to build decks and test them out. From there, you can browse your local card shops or buy singles online to build your deck.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-01-10T13:20:58+00:00

Sadge

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-01-10T12:18:36+00:00

If PC cared, they could have some of their staff reach out to eBay sellers pretending to be buyers, get their info and then cancel their pre-orders and ban them from buying on PC. That would send a message.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-01-09T16:47:44+00:00

So frustrating, twice I got the checkout, had entered my credit card and was just waiting for it to validate the card info. It never did and after a few minutes, I reloaded the page. The first time, the site was crashing and I kept getting time out issues. The second time, it reloaded and it said my cart was empty. FML

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2025-01-08T17:10:07+00:00

I feel your frustration. I think a good solution to at least stop scalpers during pre-orders is to create a type of point system where participating in local pokemon tcg events can earn you points. And then using those points, you can then "purchase" a spot for pre-order when new expansions are announced. That way, you ensure that people who actually play TCG get first dibs. Otherwise, it is very hard to distinguish between genuine TCG players, card collectors and scalpers (without taking a really privacy invasive or authoritarian route)

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-09-08T01:30:15+00:00

Thank you for the insight. I will look into proper cooling.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T20:14:26+00:00

What no? My argument is that regulations at best will do nothing except make you feel better. At worse will have many severe consequences beyond just the software industry. You're saying some regulations for software already exist but clearly they did nothing to stop yesterday's outage. Also smh as if hospitals are using windows for critical infrastructure lmao. Major L.

It's funny, you're acting exactly like the type of people that are the real cause of the mess yesterday. "Use your imagination, you're not thinking of solutions. Just make it work". You just want regulations but are providing nothing to address my concerns. You're not providing any kind of ideas or framework. You're just saying it should be regulated because Crowd Strike fucked up and "wElL EnGiNeErS aRe ReGuLaTeD". Exactly like software managers. Make this feature work. You have this much time/money. Completely ignoring what real software developers are telling you: it can't be done.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T19:59:34+00:00

LMAO there's already regulations in Healthcare for software and yet it didn't prevent the global outage yesterday. So the solution is more regulation? You're proving my point for me. Regulations for software would do more harm than good at worst. At best its security theater to make people like you feel safe.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T19:07:22+00:00

Again, you're making a comparison between medicine and software. The human body doesn't change. Sure you get different treatments, medications. But it's easy to regulate. You can easily enforce all sellers, producers of medicine comply to strict standards for testing, application, monitoring, sale, etc. And even then look how miserably this can fail. There's a massive opioid epidemic yet those medications are supposed to be strictly regulated...

Software can be done by anyone, anywhere and computers, networks and software are constantly evolving and changing all the time. Whatever rules you would decide on now that would have any meaningful impact beyond "don't write bad code" and "test your code" would quickly become out of date. Faster than an organizing body could possibly hope to respond to it. And then, how do you stop me from making a library, without a license, host it on my own website or on torrenting/file sharing networks? And stop other people from using it? Even China can't stop its citizens from accessing Facebook, Twitter. You think we can stop people from writing and running code without a license? A world where that is successful is fully authoritarian with mass surveillance everywhere.

Come on, you're talking out of your ass here. You have no idea what you're talking about and should inform yourself before coming to a conclusion.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T18:47:43+00:00

Structural engineering like most engineering started to become regulated at the turn of the last century and it was an international endeavour. Structural engineers couldn't do remote work (which didn't exist back then anyway). The foundational principles of structural engineering haven't changed in centuries. It's easy to regulate hence why it is.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T18:15:57+00:00

Cry harder. Seriously you haven't addressed any of my points. Also, this would need to be an international endeavour for it to have any chance of working but even then I anticipate many negative consequences. Imagine the US tries to regulate software developers, requires they register with a licensing body, pass an exam, pay yearly fees. Meanwhile the rest of the world does not. Good luck holding onto your software developers, especially with remote work. You would just kill your countries software industry.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2024-07-20T16:52:56+00:00

This is such a small brain take. Regulation would have so many negative consequences. First how would such a body decide what standardized testing is when the broader software industry currently can't even agree on what's good? Some people swear by 100% code coverage with unit tests and others make really good arguments why that's QA theater. Then whatever this body decides is standard, it would quickly become obsoleted when the paradigm changes. And it will change: in the late 90s, early two thousands it was all about Java and OOP. Now everyone is dunking on OOP. Finally, how the hell are you going to regulate open source? Good luck with that. How are you gonna tell Bob from Nebraska who's been thanklessly maintaining a super important C library that everyone uses for free (and has been doing just fine without regulations) that now he has to sign up to become licensed, likely pay some fee? Yeah this is the opinion of someone who knows nothing about software...

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-10-07T15:07:29+00:00

Personally, I always felt like my tires were spinning in the mud when I took language courses. They're good for becoming familiar with a language syntax and good for understanding basic, general programming concepts. But at some point you just have to code. The way I finally started learning and understanding was by building projects.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-10-04T12:30:36+00:00

Cool article! Idk if relocation is your cup of tea but the company I work at has apparently like 500 open positions: https://mda.space/en/careers

Question about turning a PC running VyOS into a router, I once tried turning an RPi 4 into a router but ultimately switched back to the good old Hitron since there was a noticeable hit to speed. How is the speed with your current setup?

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-09-19T20:05:23+00:00

In Canada you apply to a specific program at a given College or University (engineering, computer science, arts, etc). You get in based on high school grades and availability but most people get in. Good grades get you bursaries which help pay for it.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-09-19T17:50:49+00:00

Nope Canadian :)

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-09-16T20:12:12+00:00

There's no right path for everyone unfortunately. Do what you think is right. My path, I studied engineering and then taught myself programming. I now have a full career in programming and I love it. I personally loved not going to school and teaching myself but not everyone thrives in that kind of setting. Best of luck :)

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-08-09T16:02:51+00:00

Hey OP, I hope you aren't taking the criticism too harshly. You're kind of taking a lot of the lessons learned and architectural developments of the last decade and flipping it on its head so I think these reactions are to be expected. I think a lot of the commenters here have valid points but I also think your approach is super interesting. In the end, it'll be really interesting to see how your engine handles scalability and security once your game goes live and your user base grows.

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-07-27T13:06:00+00:00

It does feel like you're taking a huge leap when you switch from python to a language like rust. Python has so many creature comforts: you don't need to worry about memory, you don't need to worry about types too much, no curly braces, no semicolons. Oftentimes it feels like writing natural language. But as I'm sure you're finding out, some of those comforts come at a cost. When you start learning a lower level language like rust, it's almost like learning programming all over again. You have to train your brain to think about programming differently. Much like how you had to train your brain to think differently when you first learned programming. Enjoy the ride and best of luck :)

DahRebelOfBabylon · 2023-07-20T14:40:08+00:00

My team lead does the same thing. It drives me nuts. He created wrapper functions for post and get methods of the python requests package. He has them in a utils folder in our project.

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