DrJosiah

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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Maybe you can clarify what you mean. Do you mean that you don't believe heavy metals can cause brain damage, cancer, etc.? Lead itself makes people stupid and violent, they used to put it in paint and even gasoline. Don't remember
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
> community Um, welfare, disability, social security, medicare, ... and all of the other "health and human services" related governmental programs are literally our entire country coming together as a community , to "pr
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
It's not not available for public consumption. After finishing, I realized 2 things: SSL/TLS was necessary for nontrivial cluster solutions, and very few people use Redis Cluster in practice (the multi-key issues being the primary
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Multithreading is great, getting data to walk across sockets on multi-socket machines can be a challenge. Source: have dual-socket E5-2670. Multithreading eliminates 99.8% of snapshot overhead: https://www.slideshare.net/sec
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
I think this is an interesting idea. What I did a year ago was just make Redis cluster able to do Lua scripting transactions on arbitrary keys across the cluster. With rollbacks, like my 2015 patch. https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Burned out, hit my limit, and needed to take a break in grad school twice. Once due to contract work (had to pay my bills, so spent a week writing testing code instead of core product), and once due to emotional exhaustion after writing an
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
You should check out the industrial-scale cockroach farming going on in China. Mostly hermetically sealed buildings; you can put them in cold places, you pump food waste in one side, and get sterile, protein-rich cockroach out the other sid
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
viraptor makes a very compelling case for at least 1 option for mobile apps in Python. About 15.5 years ago while I was still a grad student, I released a (horribly designed, mostly self-experimentation) editor in Python + wxPython that I i
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Only got to use the downloadable / bootable BeOS on CD / installable. Had a lot of fun on a P166 MMX in my dorm, and a P2-400 in greyscale at work (Nvidia TNT wasn't supported in color initially). Sad to have watched BeOS go
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
That doesn't look bad. I might actually want to write apps now.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
ctypes is a thing, and gives you access to the world of runtime-loadable libraries on your platform. Beyond that, C modules for Python by hand, SWIG, Cython (can take Python 3.x annotations now), etc., are not bad at all. Can you explain ho
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
You're wrong on every point. Congratulations! Cpython (every edition gets optimizations)/PyPy/Numba/Cython/... -> faster. Dict optimizations -> less memory.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Huh, maybe it's time to start teaching again.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
As a former TA for one of the "bad" professors, you can somewhat rescue your rating, but you basically have to be a hero, and the professor needs to not be malicious (if the prof wants to fail everyone, not a lot you can do). You
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Good to hear that they aren't so bad. The ARMs (Adjustable-Rate Mortgages) here in the US can jump pretty severely, mostly because they are only given to folks with bad credit. Folks with bad credit push to buy something out of their b
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
1. I think your heart might be in the right place, but I think your facts are mistaken / misunderstood. 2. Kochs are horrible people, but historically their union-busting, and other worker rights protection attacks are the cause of inc
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Good point, US-centrism bit me. How often do the rates change? Anything crazy like 2-3% swings? Doesn't that make budgeting tough?
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
In a big city, rents almost never go down. Here's my calculations to buy: I will pay somewhere $1700-$2200/month to rent 2+ bedrooms (wife + 2 kids) in LA near where I want to work (5 years ago). $2200 can cover the mortgage on a
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Most homes are bought with fixed interest rates. If you are buying with a variable rate, 99% chance your credit is shit, and you shouldn't be buying a home, because the bank will own it soon.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
They list the Python Falcon variant in their filters, and it used to be up there in previous editions.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
I look forward to the release, and I know the feeling (writing docs, cleaning up comments, etc.). I've been perpetually ~2 weeks from commercial release of my own product since July or so.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Late to the party, some actual benchmarks using an older CPU with AES-NI: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf Kernel 4.18.14 GCC 7.3.0 Short version, it's ~2
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
I'm a fan of your work; I've personally mangled your Metrohash64 in some of my own work for incremental updates. Any chance you're thinking about releasing the program for generating new (good) Metrohash constants + shifts?
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Built a python tuplespace around '06. Realized it was really just a task queue and / or RPC abstraction with a database. Now mostly just use RPCs and queues directly, depending on whether I need something now, or later.
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
I've been a fan and have passed it around to everyone with the same (hundreds of open tabs) problem that I have. I mean, I'm still seeing 450 megs of memory use from The Great Suspender, but it's better than the 10+ gigs from
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
Some folks who try to be rational pulled out of bitcoin/similar when their stakes were lost in one or more of the exchange hacks / inside jobs. I know I bailed when my ~.25 bitcoin disappeared in an exchange "hack" 5-6 y
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
You may be allergic to something, and/or you could have an infection. A 3x former coworker and friend had a sinus infection that wouldn't go away. Like 10 years. Had his tonsils removed, etc. He finally cut out everything in his d
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/new-bra... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lymphat... Lymphatic system does connect to the circulatory system, s
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
No problem! Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are use-cases for MongoDB for folks that are not me. Because background is important; my doctorate is in Algorithms and Data Structures, so Redis basically fits the problem solving al
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by DrJosiah 8y ago
If you have objects that are happily sharded arbitrarily across machines, don't need joins, transactions, or aggregates calculated on the server, then what are you getting over something like (for example) open-source Redis Cluster? I

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