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But how do you even tell something's not correct? For example in the article they had to manually examine the index and find out some words were missing. How do you detect that not on the hardware level but up on the software level?
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> The world’s most robust computer systems... used special hardware that could tolerate single bit-flips. But Google... bought cheaper computers that lacked that feature. > Together, Jeff and Sanjay wrote code to compensate for the of
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The Chinese government also has other sources of income: 1. Land sales. This is a major one especially in big cities 2. State-owned enterprises. These are immensely profitable because they are often oligopolies. Imagine the US government ow
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That didn't seem to be a bad business if you made 25% after all fees. Why didn't it work out?
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A few questions: 1) >631851 tpmC How many servers are needed to achieve this throughput? 2) >4 terabytes of unreplicated, frequently accessed data 4TB unreplicated data? Does that mean if a single node goes down you'll lose data
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> With actix-web, you can run asyncio and sync code in the same server. It lets you take full advantage of Rust's concurrency. Will actix-web become obsolete or be replaced when Rust releases async/await in 2019?
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> Keys are already stored in sorted order in a b-tree I thought FoundationDB stored data in a hash table. Didn't realize it uses a b-tree. Thanks for the clarification. > Secondary indexing involves putting the indexed value to t
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- Secondary Index - some way to store ordered records to speed up range query - comparison & benchmarks of FoundationDB vs other distributed DB like TiDB, CockroachDB, ScyllaDB, etc
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Does this remain a research project or can it be used in production?
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If their license is still proprietary what do they mean by "opening" the code?
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What about caching? If the assets I want to push to browser are already cached in the browser would Nginx be smart enough to not to push?
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> Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem. This is probably a new low in journalism.
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There will still be jobs. People will be flipping houses to each other or writing whitepapers for new ICOs.
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What did you use MyRocks for and what kind of data store you ended up writing on your own? Over 2 orders of magnitude reduction in disk footprint and going from 20s to 20ms in query performance - those are incredible improvements. Would lov
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If I can't reuse code between iOS & Android then what is the benefit of using Kotlin over just building mobile apps in Java & Swift?
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How does Kotlin multiplatform compare to React? In React I can: - server side render a page to HTML and send it to browser, or - send down the React code as JS and render in browser, or - use React Native to write sorta native Android/
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I'd much rather have a robot to do laundry, put on bed sheet, clean bathroom, buy groceries, go pick up takeout food. Dish washing is way down the list.
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This would be illegal (in US) right? Basically you'd be selling lottery tickets for 1 cent each.
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Do these really have RAM-like performance or is Intel calling them DIMMs as a marketing ploy? I still remember when Optane was first announced Intel hyped it as a replacement for RAM. When it was finally available it turned out to be about
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Any plan to have HTTP/2 on the backend?
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If only they had changed their name to On-line Blockchain ICO Deep Learning Self-Driving Cloud Plc...
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Does having to send items back bother you? I'm surprised by the popularity of these services. I always assumed people wouldn't want to go through the hassles of going to the post offices to return stuffs every time they order.
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On a related matter, how does job queue differ from message queue? What can a job queue do that Kafka or RabbitMQ cannot do?
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Is Mach's principle related to equivalence principle? It's so strange that inertia mass just so happens to be exactly the same as gravitational mass. Can Mach's principle and equivalence principle be derived from some more fu
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> Baidu... are using CockroachDB to automate operations for applications that process 50M inserts and 2 TB of data daily. Does this mean CockroachDB is not the database that does 50M inserts daily. Instead it is used to automate the depl
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If I just want to use your Apache 2 code how do I do that? Your documentation ( https://docs.wallaroolabs.com/book/getting-started/linux-set... ) doesn't seem to make any distinction between your open source an
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> Wallaroo is an open source project. > You can run all Wallaroo code in a production environment for free on up to 3 server or 24 cpus. So it is not an open source project then.
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Doug Cutting, the creator of Lucene, was an employee of Yahoo. So does Vespa share any technologies with Lucene?
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What if Satoshi isn't a single person but an entire organization? Specifically what if Satoshi is a decentralized autonomous organization and the original bitcoin paper was an output generated by the Satoshi DAO? Why would Satoshi do t
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It's the Uber of Initial Facebook Offering. I thought that was painfully clear.

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