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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
Note: the blog post was written by Eric Brewer who invented the CAP theorem.
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
Consider a mathematical spherical construct that contains more than the the r^2 amount of entropy than can be described by the Holographic Principle. What makes that not possible under the theory? What breaks down? Is there a physical analo
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
> With the graphical-model insight in hand, you can give a mathematical explanation of exactly why first-order logic has the wrong properties for the job, and express the correct solution in a compact way that captures all the common-sen
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
How wrong is it to think of "carbon composite" as "charcoal"? Because with that conceptualization, it seems like an inherent risk to store liquid oxygen in a charcoal container on a rocket ship.
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
> Suppose that typically 5% of the client connections are actually active, and the other 95% are idle with no pending reads or writes. I suppose the intent is to then use that 95% memory savings for other work. So what's the point o
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
I wouldn't rule it out completely, though. There is some opportunity to mitigate latency, such as performing the heavy lifting remotely with local transformations on a simplified description of the scene to account for head movement an
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
Latency is also critical for VR and AR
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
I don't know about the most efficient. Looking at the first result of a gasoline powered generator at Home Depot -- the DEWALT 7,000-Watt Gasoline Powered Electric Start Portable Generator -- the description states, "The 7.5 Gal.
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
Re: Shrinking product, the article says, "Americans who use the service via their smartphones spend around 2.8 minutes on it each day, which is around a third less than they did two years ago ...". I think that qualifies as a shri
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
This has been the same story of AMD for approximately 20 years.
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by VanillaCafe 10y ago
The article lost me on the first line, "The U.S. is running out of places for people to live." That's just not true. An trending increase in the national average monthly cost of rent shows that people are competing more for h
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
But why are we arbitrarily reducing the set from "life" to "sentient"? Right now, we humans are looking for _any_ other life in the galaxy. But, when considering life , if applying the Big Alien logic, I should expect t
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
The 'hidden' cost of traditional RAID for your home NAS: I've learned the hard way that the 'R' in traditional RAID truly does stand only for "redundant" and not "reliable". Reliability in tradit
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
To be precise, I'd say the article's core argument is something like: The obfuscated upper bound of $40/mo/subscriber cannot be recovered since the transparent pricing upper bound is $20/mo/fan. ESPN currently
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
I grew up in Oklahoma. I think the first problem is the gallons of Coke people drink every day. People forget that you can actually drink water when you're thirsty.
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
I had to look up GLR: the "Great List Refactor". http://pmthium.com/2014/10/apw2014/ "What exactly is the “Great List Refactor” (GLR)? For several years Rakudo developers and users have identif
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
It's crazy to think that a major breakthrough like this with a factor of seven increase in transistor density is little more than four years of progress as measured by Moore's Law.
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
> Yes, anytime there is a logo change there is a bunch of marketing talk about why. It's all bullshit. You refute that the old logo didn't scale down to smaller screens well? Getting the logo visible across mobile devices was a
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
Maybe I don't quite appreciate the significance. The Informal Proof section seems to boil down to: If the vote is tied and there is one vote left, then that last vote determines the outcome. The existence of a swing vote in this circum
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
That something is "expected" (for some definition of expected) doesn't mean the code is easy to reason about. Initially, modifying "a" also modifies "b". Later, modifying "a" does not modify &quo
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by VanillaCafe 11y ago
That's awesome. I assume a major, practical problem is the power source and how much work such a small robot can do before running out of energy.
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
Similarly, I quite don't understand what in the type signatures precisely tie MutexGuard to the result of access. Like, in the "Disaster averted" example the mutex section, how is it detecting that "error: `guard` does n
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
Okay, but for 56-bits, you can also just have 3 quadruples of a-z, such as "envh zmds vrdq" (dropping the spaces for the actual password). I'm not sure random, punctuated text is so much easier to commit to memory.
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
I think the Microsoft antitrust trial was a cautionary tale to the whole tech industry. You cannot expect lawmakers to make fully informed and reasoned decisions without full information and perspective. You need to be your own best advocat
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
I'm a San Franciscan. $100k is indeed low, but $200k is an exaggeration.
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
I agree with OP. Solve the big problems first. If at some point landscaping ranks as a top consumer of water, then solve it. Attention and effort is a resource -- spend it where it has the most impact. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
Why not just /usr/bin/env make
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
If someone cares about speed, why would that someone be using Ruby? It feels like optimizing a Ruby program is making "really fast slow code".
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
> I do worry that this will further result in Google ignoring the "discoverability" problem in the Google Play app store. Do you think if Google started including ads in their search results, it would affect the discoverability

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