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by b203 4y ago
Roughly the angular reolution of a telescope is 1.22*wavelength/diameter. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_resolution . Hubble uses visual light (0.5 um wavelength) while JWST uses IR (5 um wavelength) a
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by b203 5y ago
Is it really that important that the time to get to 200 should be small? I understand that it may be frustrating to get started, but assuming I am stuck to this API for a long time, I am lot more worried about stability, quality, performan
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by b203 6y ago
Basically if you want to replicate data across multiple nodes, all of them need to agree on the sequence of data updates. For example if I did [x=6, x=7], then the outcome of those ops is very different if I did it in the opposite order [x
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by b203 6y ago
Consistent hashing is a routing algorithm, not a consensus algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
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by b203 6y ago
Zookeeper is the standard one which has been around the oldest. Zookeeper is not based on raft, but it has similar semantics as etcd. So if you don't care about the impl, ZK may be good as well.
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by b203 6y ago
Oracle cloud is quite a thing. It's in 4th place behind AWS, Azure and GCP and has significant presence. For example zoom is a big customer: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo... . I ass
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by b203 6y ago
The author's advice is country dependent. My assumption is that he is writing from the perspective of buying in India. 1) In India, rents are very low compared to mortgage payments. 2) Home value appreciation is low given the rate of
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by b203 6y ago
There are some painpoints that are being addressed: 1) timestamp : I have had issues with a round-tripping timestamp representation quite a bit 2) decimal : currency is denoted in decimal rather than float and shows the Amazon retail herita
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Replication and Linearizability in Distributed Systems(medium.com)
1 points by b203 6y ago|0 comments