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by engendered 12y ago
It's a 64x difference. And even that is grossly understating it because most database systems feature write coalescing. It's actually "ironic" in that database systems were built to avoid random IO because it was glaci
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by engendered 12y ago
A block might be 8KB, but the actual update you're making to the block might be much smaller. All major databases will only deal in the 8KB increments (or whatever their block size is, whether larger or smaller, but never as small as
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by engendered 12y ago
While encryption is obviously a tool every developer should be using, this seems a little hand-wavy and built against a rather contrived strawman. It is a little info-mercially -- you fuss, you muss... Is a table and a couple of columns act
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by engendered 12y ago
You do understand that flash erase blocks are around 128KB now, right? How is that relevant to your wrong claim about database 128-byte writes? You word that as if you're correcting me. I don't even know what point you're t
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by engendered 12y ago
I know of no database products that write 128-byte blocks. Most are at least 2KB, if not larger (SQL Server and pgsql are 8KB blocks). Yes, you could conceivably imagine up some hypothetical situation that would be bad for an SSD, but it is
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by engendered 12y ago
But don't expect a machine that does lots of random IO, like a database, to have 1-2% SSD wear after two years. It rather depends upon the database, no? A 512GB Samsung 850 Pro would last 29 years with 100GB of writes a day in a ho
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by engendered 12y ago
And so will AC systems in local banks. You can essentially include the entirety of operations of the bank, and the lifestyle of the people employed by the bank. There are literally millions and millions of people throughout the world wh
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by engendered 12y ago
thereby leaving an inconsistent, incoherent spaghetti mess behind them Generally my experience has been that the inconsistent, incoherent mess develops when people tasked with doing trivial changes try to "fix technical debt" in
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by engendered 12y ago
I'll be the devil's advocate and say that a lot of software development is not particularly novel. A lot of software development is essentially doing minor changes to existing systems, in the same way and format as everything exis
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by engendered 12y ago
I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To be fair, much of the huffing and puffing "I'm leaving Firefox...Chrome is so much better!" was based upon the same sort of rhetoric. Early on Chrome didn't even have ext
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by engendered 12y ago
>As far as I can tell it's nothing more than a similar type of bullying It absolutely is. "MRA" is a short cut to dismiss an entire spectrum of arguments and perspectives. Just as farcical, but on the opposite side, are pe
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by engendered 12y ago
It's surprising how many have fallen for the "MRA" thing. In the case of Adria Richards, she bullied a person and misrepresented a situation to the point of getting a man fired from a job, torch mob in close pursuit. I don&#x
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by engendered 12y ago
Because you're on a device that is guaranteed to have a better mechanism of utilizing the Play Store. You can't install or update from the browser. You can't see that you even have it installed. If the site sees you are in
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by engendered 12y ago
Is this a reasonable complaint? Why would you be browsing the play store from Android in a browser? If you try to open it in the Chrome browser, it just forces you to the play store app, which rather makes sense. Every platform and browser
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by engendered 12y ago
Is everyone so addicted to work? The overwhelming majority of people are in a situation where such a practice isn't possible. Jealousy is a very, very strong emotion, and leads to the crab mentality. http://en.wikipedia.or
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by engendered 12y ago
Whoop-di-fuckin-do Yeah, I imagine it was for the people affected. Further, saying 60 out of 35,000,000 is utter ignorance (not unexpected): Not only are there not 35,000,000 teenaged girls in Canada, and the actual side-effects unknown (
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by engendered 12y ago
The anti-anti-vax thing has become a purpose for some people. Some sort of righteous cause over which they can smugly judge. It is an absolute embarrassment , and HN is certainly not immune to it (it hasn't gotten its anti-idiot vacci
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by engendered 12y ago
It does not help the debate when people say "Yeah vaccines are great, but there are risks". As opposed to mocking and deriding the notion that they have risks? Does that have merit? Because that is the predominate message in any
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by engendered 12y ago
The whole vaccination thing has taken a turn much like the AGW debate -- it has become religion, and people define themselves by their (painfully simplified) position on it : I have Facebook friends who post such clever articles and meme im
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by engendered 12y ago
The author was clearly discussing the recent events regarding the drone that went over the White House. For normal buyers of drones, and for drone companies, such "blacklists" make sense because it protects the drone operator. R
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by engendered 12y ago
Isn't your post a better example of fearmongering? The article says absolutely nothing about banning, or even regulations or laws, beyond those that apply to jamming (e.g. anti-drone). Drones are and will increasingly be used for crimi
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by engendered 12y ago
a law restricting civilian drone use Was this submission originally linked to something else? The submission talks about jamming and techniques to shoot down drones. I coincidentally mentioned on here yesterday the business opportunities
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by engendered 12y ago
You are, of course, exactly right. Right now 3D printing is mostly in the "neato" stage, and is being oversold by a lot of actors. The materials are limited, costly, and prohibitive, and the process is extremely slow and of modera
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by engendered 12y ago
They usually are mutually exclusive, at least in the US and Canada. If an AML flag is triggered, or there is reasonable suspicion, they have to report it and are barred from telling you that you've been reported. Kick you out as a cust
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by engendered 12y ago
Banks have a strong incentive to avoid money laundering activities Most banks have automated systems that flag on certain automated conditions (I know because I built one). Contrary to some of the posts in here, they do not want to flag
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by engendered 12y ago
One inevitable business area is in anti-drone system, particularly in drone-capture systems (e.g. intercept and actually "capture" the drone and its cargo for forensics, etc). If you made such a system right now, you'd immedi
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by engendered 12y ago
>You're just attacking people for showing vulnerability. These missives never simply say "sometimes I feel like an impostor". They invariably mention the whole Dunning-Kruger effect, and invariably claim that this self-d
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by engendered 12y ago
Or maybe your value/worth as a developer is measured by what you achieve/what you do, and not by constantly trying to jockey relative to everyone else? The constant procession of "PR for why I'm actually better than ever
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by engendered 12y ago
"it is fine to come out and talk about how to deal with these odd mental effects" When they are sincere, sure. But increasingly they are becoming like the thin girl forever talking about how she feels fat (or, I suppose, the not t
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by engendered 12y ago
This sort of post seems to do well on HN, so to offer a bit of criticism I'd like to posit that often they seem to be a thin veneer over humble bragging. e.g. I don't know what I'm doing, but then neither does anyone else but

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