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by bza 11y ago
> As for writes, a new key could go anywhere in the index This forces index tree rebalancing to occur on many (even most) writes, which is hugely detrimental to performance.
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by bza 11y ago
This technique is unreliable in practice, and the author's discussion is confused. First, their explanation doesn't make sense. They're supposing that there's some determinacy in the order in which a matcher can be expe
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by bza 11y ago
The phrase to google is "elective amputation".
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by bza 12y ago
It's not physics woo; the way the OP's using "duality" is common among mathematicians and physicists. The different types of duality listed in the physics and math sections of the Wikipedia article you linked to are tho
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by bza 12y ago
> This is the trade off we pay for lower taxes. Why would mandating that companies provide meaningful maternity or paternity leave require higher taxes? This topic doesn't have much to do with fiscal policy.
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by bza 12y ago
Whether a system is tightly coupled is independent of whether it's implemented as a single process. Objections to systemd as monolithic, as constituting a single point of failure, etc. are based on its being a tightly coupled set of c
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30,000 Bitcoin Selloff(nymag.com)
6 points by bza 12y ago|0 comments
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by bza 12y ago
"most open source tools and frameworks were developed for OSX, then ported to Windows or Linux" gcc?
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by bza 12y ago
The $1.5 billion figure given in the article is already in today's dollars.
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by bza 13y ago
The current policy (as enunciated by Stefan Monnier, who took over as maintainer from RMS a few years ago) is for new packages to be added to the package archive unless there's a very strong argument for their providing core functional