Ethers js trivial example

Posted on Mon 05 December 2022 in tech • Tagged with ethereum, solidity, typescript, ethers

The Internet is guilty of having a supreme lack of trivial functional examples. In the past trivial examples frequently functioned as the documentation for various libraries and utilities. While that was probably what we refert to now as the 'bad old days.' The modern focus on documentation and literate code …


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History: Mithraism

Posted on Sun 04 December 2022 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Mithraism was one of the most important mystery cults in the Roman Empire. The principal deity of Mithraism was Mithras, a figure associated with Ahuramazda and Zoroastrianism. Mithras was associated with the Sun god. Mithraism was a male-only religion and followers where baptized in the blood of a bull before …


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Hardware Offload for Unifi Edgerouter

Posted on Wed 30 November 2022 in tech • Tagged with unifi, edgerouter, performance

I recently discovered Hardware Offloading is not enabled by default on Unifi Edgerouter. To enable it you must give up QoS. However many small office networks don't need that and would benefit from the 3x performance boost instead. I tried it on my network and I observed easily a 3x …


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History: ius naturale

Posted on Sun 27 November 2022 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Latin: literally natural law. The Romans believed, at least in principal, that the rights of individuals are inalienable from them. This precept maintains that a person is innocent until proven guilty, and that all people should be equal in the eyes of the law and government. Though this precept has …


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building with rust...

Posted on Tue 22 November 2022 in tech • Tagged with Solana, rust, web3, rustc

"Even high-spec machines can run out of memory while compiling parts of the Solana codebase."

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History: ius gentium

Posted on Sun 20 November 2022 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Latin: literally national law. The Romans founded a sophisticated form of government with a basis in law. The Romans understood the distinction between national law, such as those required in the maintenance of state and natural law. See ius naturale.