LinuxAmbulance

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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Financial min/maxing strikes again. Then again, if something costs more money than it brings in, that thing is probably not long for this world. It's nearly impossible to escape economic restraints.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Not familiar with database concurrency implementations, how does it get it wrong vs say, MySQL?
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
The author seems to confuse the existence of probability with those that use probability in an unsound manner. If the universe is non-deterministic? Probability exists.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
How large of a watch was it? Digital, I take it?
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
One of the best Youtube channels in existence, fantastic work.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
A social network with people who's voices could serve as a check against one's internal mental state of the world around them going out of sync with the real one. There's the old joke about how several different blind men per
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
A better title is "Once you start keeping financial state, there are no rollbacks". The current title might as well be click bait.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
I am not a fan of this evolutionary step in design.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Far too much of anything singularity related depends on "And then magic happens". As if intelligence and / or consciousness arises spontaneously once there's sufficient resources to support it. Which is ludicrous, on the
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
That's dispiriting.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Sometimes simplicity is not the best goal. Redundancy, scalability, decoupling, resilience, best possible handling of errors, cost optimization, etc. may be more important at the scale Netflix operates at.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
That's an excellent article on the subject!
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Seem wise? Knowing the most useful answer to a given question someone has, being right 95% of the time or more, not making statements on subjects one has no understanding of. A great story I once heard was someone asking a wise man how they
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
They all sound like good recommendations, but there's not much in the way of a total drop in replacement for Splunk. You can build an ELK stack or something that resembles it, but you have to hire someone to directly maintain it and bu
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
What is the Irish bike shed controversy?
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Excellent write up and solution. Cheating in video games makes for a wretched experience for those who don't cheat. It's crazy how rampant cheating in multiplayer games, especially competitive ones has gotten. Ten years ago, I tho
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Snow Crash made me work on being a writer. Just an incredible book, and I am only saddened that he will never again write another book like it.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Ulysses feels more like Joyce showing off his command of the written word and extensive vocabulary - of which both are greater than any other writer I've read - than it feels like a novel meant to tell the reader a good story. In that
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Why is that?
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
It was tough watching European countries make cut after cut to their military forces, because without a military that's able to actually defend the country, there's a lot of expectations that the US will step in and do the job. Fo
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
AGI would seem to require consciousness or something that behaves in the same manner, and there does not seem to be anything along those lines currently or in the near future. So far, everyone that has theorized that AGI will happen soon se