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Comment · 2 years ago
This isn't WebVM specifically, but one example using WebContainers we've built is https://demo.graphweaver.com/

This runs a NodeJS server and frontend in your browser so you can see what Graphweaver can do without having to install or run anything more than a browser on your computer. The example has an SQLite database joined to a REST API. Graphweaver serves a GraphQL API with the result.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, it's all fun and games until you're at Macca's and someone says, "Oi, can you pass me a chippy?" and they get real confused when you go find a carpenter.
Comment · 2 years ago
fast.com checks the speed to Netflix servers. So if they juice that, they also have to juice Netflix streaming speed unless they've figured out a clever way to fingerprint just fast.com traffic over HTTPS.
Comment · 2 years ago
I can't use another company's GPS system in my car, so in the market of, "Using GPS navigation / menus / etc in my 10 year old Mini's dashboard" there's no meaningful competitor. They charge for map updates and everything.

At some point a company is just building a feature, and they're not required to make every single feature accomodate every other manufacturer's competing version of the feature. I knew I was buying the Mini system when I bought the car, and I accepted it. Same is true for iPhone users.

Comment · 3 years ago
This looks really interesting. I'm regularly building systems that are plugged into multiple SaaS things, and would love a way to make that easier.

I'll give this a go with a toy project and see if I can find the edges.

Do you have any performance benchmarks available to compare to other similar tools?

Comment · 3 years ago
System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Pointer

There are options for pointer size, outline colour and fill colour. Go nuts.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's obvious. It's called "x".
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm 40 and I work from the office 5 days a week for roughly the same reasons. General expectation from the company is around 2 days a week in the office, but I prefer it, so I come in every day.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not OP, I built an extension for a site that sent CSP headers. Because the browser extension wasn't allowed in the list of JS sources, it all borked.

Not certain that's this user's issue, but that is another thing to check.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The main counter to this is account limits. For example we had our staging and live environments in one account. We load tested on staging (which has its own VPC) expecting it not to affect production. But because we hit account limits in the process of load testing, production Lambdas stopped responding as we exceeded the account limits.

We now have a Control Tower setup to ensure that anything we do to staging can never take down production, even if it's an account limit breach.

Comment · 4 years ago
Pass laws which provide less grounds for suing these kinds of projects, or at least group them into one class action lawsuit instead of a smattering of actions. Provide abridged proceedings for infrastructure projects so judgements can be rendered more quickly. I'm thinking things like judge only trials, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
He knew what we'd understand and how we'd interpret these laws when he wrote it that way and left the wording exactly like this anyway. If he really didn't want people having Eruvs in their cities, he'd have defined walls and houses better.

All knowing by necessity means knowing about the loopholes we'd exploit, or he's not all knowing.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
In Australia we only have school busses for incredibly remote communities. Most kids just take public transport.

Of course for that to work, you have to have a viable public transport system.

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