BraveNewCurency

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by BraveNewCurency 2y ago
> One-Way-Door and Two-Way-Door Decisions See also the "Linux kernel management style" document that's been in the kernel since forever: https://docs.kernel.org/6.1/process/management-style.html
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by BraveNewCurency 2y ago
But BCD is not floating point (generally shorthand for the IEEE 754 Floating Point standard, which nearly every CPU and GPU have hardware support for). And I don't know much about BCD, but it is probably missing niceties like NaN and I
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by BraveNewCurency 2y ago
All models are wrong. Some (wrong) models are useful. Computers can't represent 0.1 (in floating point), yet that hasn't stopped anyone from doing finances on their computer. I don't think this is big news OR a parlor trick.
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by BraveNewCurency 4y ago
> If it worked from the start, it wouldn't need to be fixed later. True. But you ignore the fact that NO SOFTWARE IS EVER DONE. Software always has bugs, and even if it didn't, it will bitrot as the business needs change. In th
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by BraveNewCurency 5y ago
> Does the Wikipedia logo really need to be secured with https? Yes, otherwise your ISP will use it to serve ads.
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by BraveNewCurency 7y ago
> polls showed that people were opposed to breaking up Microsoft 54-35. Sure. But that is entirely based on their perception. If you asked "Should Microsoft be allowed to charge Dell a Windows license for every CPU, even Dell ships
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
> which gives its guarantees per node There is no such thing, because Nodes (and even entire datacenters) can fail. In other words, node failure is an infrastructure problem that is best NOT handled by your bespoke application code. Repl
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
If you want to be online only part of the time, look into IPFS. Even if you go offline, your popular pages will likely be cached for a while, and can be cached forever if someone takes an interest in them.
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
> The results may be good enough for plenty of folks, but I highly doubt they will ever be better than the big budget search engines. On the other hand, that is not the criteria for them to be successful, because they are already better
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
It does have one security implication: Wireguard never responds to an attacker. Your tunnel is responding to attackers, so now they know your box exists and can probe it for problems. Each TCP connection takes up memory. If you limit the TC
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
> Is it generally reliable asking Amazon support what capacity you need for a particular use case Everyone's use case is different, they are not experts at your application, you are. Spend some time learning about the various servic
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
> Definitely doesn't feel like my wealth is growing in index funds fast enough to retire within this life time. Ha ha, I feel the same. But don't discount the fact that small percentage returns are actually exponential growth.
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
Sure, they share a lot, like: - Billing: One bills you before shipping, the other bills at the end of the month. - Cart: One lets you add items to a cart, the other lets you use products via API. - Delivery: One requires warehouses all over
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by BraveNewCurency 8y ago
Don't forget, you should be interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. If you choose to pursue a company with clearly distopian hiring procedures, you are part of the problem.
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> You just need to see what the car sensed I don't think all self-driving cars have the same sensors. If you have LIDAR model X, and they were using LIDAR model Y, will your system "magically figure it out? If your car has came
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Let's say Amazon is about to make $1B in profits. Instead, they go on a hiring spree, and quickly pay out $1B in salary. Ha ha, they say, we have a profit of $0, so we don't get taxed! But that's good. The employees all made
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
The point of patents is to entice innovators to PUBLISH their inventions. A patent should be about some process that is so complex that nobody else has figured how to do it before (i.e. some secret trick). When it's published, humanity
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> how do we allocate rewards to innovators The goal of the patent system is not to "pay innovators" - they already get paid by putting good products on the market. The goal of the patent system is to get innovators to PUBLISH t
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Yes, FastCGI would work, as long as you don't mind wasting money. But what happens when you have billions of scripts, each executed infrequently? You need some way of fetching the scripts dynamically (they are changing constantly), and
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. I think you left out "and a lot of money is involved". Do you think there would have been an eme
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Like dumping a toilet in a driveway because some database pointed you there? https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> That's why Comcast is having such a hard time? That is a terrible example. Comcast would be out of business if their customers had something to switch to. But they are a monopoly (or at best a duopoly) in most of their markets.
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> my calendar every year to retrieve all my keys from cold storage and do a meaningless transaction No, you don't need to retrieve your keys each year. Before storage, create N transactions moving all your coins to the next derived
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Huge difference. It's not the kernel size, it's the interface (ABI). In a unikernel, the kernel is part of the application (like a library). Instead of a complex/slow transition from user space to kernel space, you just ca
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Basically, you have some code that says "go read a byte from kernel memory. if the high bit of that byte is true, then access page X of memory". Normally, that code will just error out right away. But if you add a new branch befor
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Trying to get a mentor is a little like trying to get a Significant Other. In theory, you can "just ask", but in practice you have to fundamentally understand the other person before you can 'ask'. This article sums up h
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
> discounted S3 option for reduced redundancy No such option exists anymore. Sure, they have a Reduced Redundancy "feature". But you would be stupid to use it because RR costs more than the regular redundancy, not less. (One
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
Well, duh. It's a prototype. We had to build the MVP first. As soon as we fill our Unicorn Hunter position, we'll be all set...
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by BraveNewCurency 9y ago
There is also a "not decided yet" state. Hence, you were right, it needs two bits. :)

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