discoball

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by discoball 8y ago
The problem is greed, not money in itself. And you can't eliminate greed. You can make it harder to be greedy but greed always finds a way to corrode any constraints you build into the system. Greed is necessary but it is not good if n
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by discoball 8y ago
In the formal setting of an educational institution you get to engage your mind in analytical and creative thinking in a variety of subjects and on daily basis. Such a consistent process does broaden the mind, for sure, but maybe not every
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by discoball 8y ago
Maybe the cache should be made using Silicon on Sapphire for radiation hardening? But I am not sure if multi-process silicon fabrication is viable.
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by discoball 8y ago
They allowed corporations to vote with their money and buy candidates. Undermined our ”By the People. For the People” fantasy.
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by discoball 8y ago
Live and learn!
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by discoball 8y ago
What you describe is not Autonomous AI that is driven by a dynamic mission, as the military AI will be. An AI killer bot can be developed that not only tries to achieve the goal specified by the mission but also alter the mission as needed
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by discoball 8y ago
The right to bear arms was given to humans who happen to live in this so-called freedom loving country. It was never given to autonomous non-human entities. So while the military may develop robotic kill squads their non-military use is ill
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by discoball 8y ago
With a Lamport Clock (counter, logical clock) you could end up with the following due to dependence on conflict resolution aka optimistic MVCC rather than Wall Time (copies do from another HN): “it is possible for a transaction C to be abor
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by discoball 8y ago
How does FDB compare to Spanner as far as the Consistency model and trade offs?
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by discoball 8y ago
Common sense says that since FB owns WhatsApp no one should trust it. It's no different than if China owned WhatsApp. I mean WeChat. Just common sense.
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by discoball 8y ago
That’s what happens when you think with your brain as opposed to feel with your heart.
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by discoball 8y ago
Sarcastically speaking, it all started with the division of labor between hunters and gatherers. If hunters had to gather too they wouldn't have had developed a specialization for killing other beings, and many of them would have prefe
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by discoball 8y ago
You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?
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by discoball 8y ago
First it was the Chinese motherboard implants and now visions of a great war. What's their agenda? Does Bloomberg news represent Michael Bloomberg's agenda/views/paranoia in any way?
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by discoball 8y ago
Touchy subject.
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by discoball 8y ago
I remember Flight of the Conchords was a huge hit in the Bay area in 2007-2009 amongst the hipster-ish and nerdy crowd. We used to torrent it =) along with HyperDrive (British comedy set in space) and the super popular IT Crowds. All great
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by discoball 8y ago
If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.
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by discoball 8y ago
Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.
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by discoball 8y ago
Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenants
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by discoball 8y ago
At 1/10,000th of a server per each tenant (assuming 10,000 tenants) you can achieve “hard” isolation and far more cpu/memory per tenant using a TinkerBoard or something like that per client and charging a flat $2/mo with no h
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by discoball 8y ago
If it was your own family at a wedding? Seriously? You can tell us with honesty that you would classify the brutal murder of your own family as worthwhile because there was some resistance fighters in your country that happen to be in your
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by discoball 8y ago
But GC doesn’t run continuously! Sure, device drivers and kernel modules should be built in C. Everything else is an approximation.
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by discoball 8y ago
Appreciate your work on Nim. My statement is based on my opinion. There are certainly imperfections in Nim even bugs and things that annoy me but the mental load is far less than working in Rust, for me that is, and so to me it is better in
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by discoball 8y ago
Sorry, within 2ms not absolute 0, but to me it might as well be zero I've yet to notice it in practice.
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by discoball 8y ago
True.
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by discoball 8y ago
Yes, true.
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by discoball 8y ago
<<But there’s a deeper thing here, which is: Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler>> Google was enabling the DoD to be more efficient at killing people and China
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by discoball 8y ago
<< While Mozilla support does help a lot for sure, a lot of the hype around Rust (imo) comes from people trying it out, just falling in love with and then promoting it >> If there was no rampant tribalism, my comment would not b
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by discoball 8y ago
Nim is realtime garbage collected and compiles to optimized C and it can use the C ecosystem of libraries and tooling. It also produces smaller binaries than Rust and is faster for most tasks.
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by discoball 8y ago
Nim produces smaller binaries, has zero-pause, realtime gc (and you can even define gc behavior) and compiles to optimized C. It's a win over Rust in every way including ease of use. Big issue with Nim is tribalism, pure and simple. It

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