Nacraile

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by Nacraile 10y ago
>> Uber's bet is Uber controlling the autonomous car market > I think most reasonable people would be able to impute some sort of first mover or early mover advantage into what I was saying. I think most reasonable people are
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by Nacraile 10y ago
As the article indicates, they're similar to ioctl, which is a system call that, roughly speaking, allows arbitrary opaque blobs of data to be passed back and forth between a user-mode -process and a kernel-mode driver. This is intend
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Ah, somehow I missed the part where you mentioned you wanted to use a shared-disk FS. That puts you in the unenviable position of wanting to use properly a niche feature that would be misused to catastrophic effect more often than not.
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Unfortunately, what you're looking for probably isn't possible. You can't just attach multiple writers to a block device, slap a standard filesystem on top, and expect it to work. Standard filesystem implementations are bui
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> Stuff like food and electronics has dropped in price thanks to a combination of automation, exporting the work to cheaper countries, and technology improvements. The same things haven't happened to education and health care. This
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by Nacraile 10y ago
I think your explanation is actually addressed, just not directly: the article touches on the "Government is inefficient" hypothesis (which might be fuelled either by taxes or debt; it's the incentive structure that matters,
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by Nacraile 10y ago
I think Walmart has a good shot at competing effectively, and I hope it does so, because Amazon having a monopoly on online retail is not in my long-term best interests. That said, I don't think they have any sort of clear advantage, f
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> Here's a neat idea: wouldn't it be cool and save a lot of time if the compiler did this for you automatically, from the start? Yes, but when the project started the only existing compiler that met all requirements was C (also
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> I ask this in bad faith: I encourage you to share a single nontrivial codebase which actually creates the abstraction you've described and religiously adheres to using it throughout. As to why this is in bad faith: I'm defini
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> On the other hand the rest of your post discusses the value created out of a failed company which wasn't related to the context of my post. "not relevant"? The entire point of my response was to point out that the funda
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> Failure is failure. It's not awesome. Why would you relish it? You're beating on a straw man. Nobody (very few people?) thinks the failure itself is good in and of itself. The mentality is to observe that even if a business
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by Nacraile 10y ago
I think you're reading dismissive tone into responses where none exists. I was merely pointing out that your inferences around sharding are actually (now) a publicly well documented fact. My intent was to elevate your statement from
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> Secretly DynamoDB is just a bunch of SQL databases with floating masters, or so we surmise. If you iterate across things in native order without randomization and at a very high speed then you will overload individual shards. You can e
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Your situation in Barcelona sounds nice and all, but it is does not describe the typical American's grocery experience at all, and therefore does not really apply to what Amazon is doing in downtown Seattle. The typical grocery store h
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> If rocks on the ground can be (slowly) self aware, then doesn't that mean everything in the universe is self-aware? This is a formal logical fallacy. If we accept the antecedent "rock does not imply not-conscious", your
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by Nacraile 10y ago
AWS is actually a pretty high margin business (~25% operating margin is public, GM is not publicly known but good guesswork puts it ~50%). So, there's some hard data showing a lot of room for price competition. If you'll allow me
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Sure, but making sure your defence of your argument doesn't contradict your argument can hardly be considered to be a
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Your arguments are internally inconsistent. Up one level, you argue that newcomers should adapt to the norms of different cultures, rather than expecting everybody to conform to their own expectations (fine). rpcastanga points out that Li
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by Nacraile 10y ago
From the perspective of someone who already has a job in the industry, I'm really not going to want to do more than one interview per week anyway. This format also doesn't appear to want full days: it should be an hour or two Frid
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by Nacraile 10y ago
That's not how Google 2FA works; you seem to have misconfigured something. When you actually have 2FA on (like I do), you must enter your one-time code after entering the correct password.
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by Nacraile 10y ago
> This doesn't move the needle in the biggest economy in the world. That's not even a viable business in most cities with high cost of living. This sort of penny-wise, pound-foolish thinking is the root of the problem. Many la
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by Nacraile 10y ago
The limits are on the number of simultaneous failures. Data is safe provided that too many errors do not accumulate before they can be detected and corrected. This is fundamental fact: no real storage system can tolerate an unbounded numb
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by Nacraile 10y ago
RAID generally does not protect against bit-rot (i.e. undetected errors); it only protects against detectable errors / catastrophic disk failure. ZFS does protect against undetected (at the disk level) errors. To a first approximation
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by Nacraile 10y ago
My thought was that most binary distributions probably use very conservative configuration that will generate code that compatible with very old processors, and that you would therefore not see much use of modern instructions in /bin.
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Interestingly, you can get the benefits to your credit rating without actually using the card at all (beyond the couple transactions per year required to keep the account active). In fact, this is an optimal strategy: One of the factors i
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by Nacraile 10y ago
The error you're pointing out does not exist in general. % just means "per hundred". If I say A is 110% of B, I'm just saying there are 110 A for every 100 B, which is perfectly reasonable in many contexts. Of course
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by Nacraile 10y ago
I'm quibbling, but: I think the pareto distribution is more realistic than the gaussian. ("80% of your capability is allocated to 20% of your skills")
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Can we stop claiming 52% is any sort of clear majority? 52% doesn't mean "most people want this", it means "the country is evenly split, so we flipped a coin, and it came up Leave". You need much more than 52% of
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by Nacraile 10y ago
Uber? Meh. All they've actually done is start to displace an incumbent rent-seeker by exploiting loopholes to charge a lower rent. It's great for the customer, but if that's you're idea of a revolutionary product...
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by Nacraile 10y ago
You do realize that the cited code names are all acronyms for simple descriptive names, right? (Relational Database Service. Simple Storage Service. Elastic Compute Cloud). It should surprise nobody that simple descriptive names are ofte

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