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by augustl 8y ago
VoltDB comes to mind. This interview from 2013 is still worth a listen imo! http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...
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by augustl 8y ago
"Duplex responding to a sync" makes me oddlly emotional. The AI (or "she", as I'm inclined to say), answers the question "are you here" with: > Yeah, I'm here I don't know why, but a machine d
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by augustl 8y ago
I'll definitely look into Gnome Flashback. I'm not all that happy with Gnome 3. It often fails to restore my windows when attaching an external monitor at work, and the caffeine extension for keeping the display on during presenta
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by augustl 8y ago
Good to hear, I look forward to it! As a seasoned LTS user, would you recommend waiting for 18.04.1?
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by augustl 8y ago
Afaik they rolled back wayland, 18.04 uses Xorg. So maybe that's why.
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by augustl 8y ago
Oh, that's really cool! I had no idea this existed. Thanks a lot!
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by augustl 8y ago
I plan to try, at least! There's an ppa for the latest emacs and fish shell anyway. Maybe I can find a ppa for git. My other editor, IntelliJ, updates itself. Spotify also has its own repo.
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by augustl 8y ago
If you really want to upgrade, you can run `do-release-upgrade --devel-release` (or just -d), which will get you from 16.04 to 18.04. Apparently, 18.04 is considered an development level release from the perspective of 16.04? (I don't
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by augustl 8y ago
I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now. I wonder how my applications will fare. I would li
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by augustl 8y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I've never added an index myself, but essentialy Datomic has to rewrite the main index tree. In other words, all of the stored data, since there is no data stored outside of the covering indies. So I wouldn't
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by augustl 8y ago
That looks very interesting! Do you have a recommended point of entry for a non-academic practitioner like myself? :)
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by augustl 8y ago
It's difficult to implement this by hand, though. What you'll have in storage are encoded blobs of chunks of some kind of sorted set tree structure. So if you are to poke the data directly like that, I would assume it is much easi
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by augustl 8y ago
An interesting point to add is that Datomic can also write to Riak. But since riak lacks an atomic CAS, zookeeper is used alongside Riak. What do you refer to when you say that Datomic inherits the speed of indexing a huge table? The query
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by augustl 8y ago
Forgot to add. The built-in excision API is similar to crypto shredding, in that all the metadata is retained, it's just the values themselves (in Datomic's EAVT structure) that are removed. So a lot of metadata is still retained.
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by augustl 8y ago
Interesting, keep 'em coming! Historical information is not part of datahike, now and it's not on the roadmap as far as I can tell. But perhaps one day :)
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by augustl 8y ago
Mentat is built for embedding, not for large applications. Datascript is in-memory for browsers. But you're right, it's not fair to say that there's not been any effort! :)
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by augustl 8y ago
Yup. You don't create your own views, you get a generic query engine and generic indices instead. On top of all the other benefits, like cheap as-of time travel.
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by augustl 8y ago
We've been using the free version in production for many years now :)
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by augustl 8y ago
I am regularly alarmed by the fact that nobody has tried to make an open source clone yet..
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by augustl 8y ago
OP here :) True, in that there's no solution out of the box. I kind of want to make a "look at all the things I have to do", and GDPR compliance is one of those things where there are probably many ways to do it wrong with Da
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by augustl 9y ago
Isn't it a bit weird to launch a "never delete anything" store today and not mention anything about European GDPR requirements? How would you go about deleting a users data upon request?
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by augustl 9y ago
You raise an interesting point! Maybe everything should have access to everything, and then you keep your _real_ secrets, like encryption keys, on dedicated hardware that locks away the key to the outside world and only does signing. Like a
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by augustl 9y ago
I've been waiting for the 9370 announcement and today I bought a 9360 :) The bigger battery is nice, USB-A is nice. The weight is the same. Don't care about placement or camera. And the slower RAM doesn't bother me. I got the
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by augustl 9y ago
I've been on the WSL track for a while. I've found that when I live in a Ruby/Node/JVM/Clojure world, you'll run into all kinds of problems related to shelling out and handling paths that are bugs caused by all
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by augustl 9y ago
I should add that I also want to use the most standardized desktop environment I can find. Which these days seems to be Win10, macOS, Ubuntu, and maybe a KDE based one? My argument is the same as what Linus points out in this rant (5:33):
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by augustl 9y ago
I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu for this. All I want is a canonical (no pun intended) Linux distro so that app developers doesn't have to target a gazillion variations. So I really want to see Ubuntu succeed. So far, I've had my
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by augustl 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. What I really want is a super conservative LTS system that keeps the core - OS, window manager, file manager, network, etc - on super stable and old versions, and my apps - Firefox, Emacs, Spotify, ... - updated to t
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by augustl 9y ago
This is a very interesting question. To me, understanding in isolation some random function deep down in the code somewhere is not really something I do. Maybe that's why I prefer dynamic languages. And other people like to be able to
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by augustl 9y ago
Wow, that's super interesting, I've never heard about something like that proposed before. Same protocol, but layered and sharded, basically.
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by augustl 9y ago
Interesting question! I'm not an expert, but I suppose the answer is convenience of implementation? By using Bitcoin, the system is already in place for miners to verify signatures, tokens (i.e. "civiccoins") to pay for getti

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