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by firebacon 8y ago
I agree, if we are allowed to make the UUID arbitrarily large (and not be limited to the 128 bits from the "official" UUID algorithm), it should always be possible to set B to a large enough value so that our scheme assigns a uniq
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by firebacon 8y ago
Ah ok; I have made a habit of typing "<name> {software,github}" into google as well as the WIPO trademark search when picking a name for a new project. I started doing that after having to go through two iterations of renami
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by firebacon 8y ago
Well I for one think that it's not really "cool" to just copy the name for more or less the same thing. BTW, it also appears there is an active US trademark (#78010053) for "centrifuge" in the computer database cont
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by firebacon 8y ago
That only seems possible if both processes were running on the same physical machine (and hence share the same input MAC address). It's a nasty corner case, but I'm sure the UUID designers considered it a valid tradeoff, since I b
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by firebacon 8y ago
The difference here seems to be the exact definition of "unique". A UUID has a finite length, so if we generate N new UUIDs in a finite time-interval it seems clear that - in theory - we must have collisions for large values of N
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by firebacon 8y ago
GP pointed out the special version of the algorithm that handles collisions gracefully. Note that this algorithm ("open addressing") is so frequently used that you will probably find a variation of it in pretty much any piece of s
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by firebacon 8y ago
Is "Shaffer" a typo of "sharded"? If not I'm curious what the term means (all that google turns up are a bunch of papers by a guy with that name)?
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by firebacon 8y ago
EDIT: Doh! It appears I missed what blutfink was trying to say and that their changing of quantities from energy to power was intentional. Sorry for the confusion.
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by firebacon 8y ago
"Adding the hour" doesn't make it have "two time components" -- it makes it have no time component. The joule is a unit of ENERGY. The watt is a unit of {WORK,POWER}. Confusingly, the germanic languages use "Wo
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by firebacon 8y ago
When converting 68GJ to another unit of energy, it would be 18,888KWh or ~18GWh (note that h!). EDIT: But of course, 18GWh/68GJ "per month" also gives us an average continuous power consumption of 26KW, as you have said.
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by firebacon 8y ago
I'd like to understand how this system deals with failed writes. I.e. if a switch fails while a write is in progress, is it guaranteed that the in-progress write either becomes fully visible or not visible at all after the reconfigurat
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by firebacon 8y ago
What a loveley sidecar ad-hominem. I'm sure his religious beliefs had a major impact on the telemetry issue.
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by firebacon 8y ago
This comment is misinformed and should be deleted because it is so dangerous. HF will kill you for looking at it in the wrong way; please don't handle it unless you understand the danger it poses to you and the people around you.
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by firebacon 8y ago
> LuaJIT with the JIT enabled is much faster than all of the other languages benchmarked I'm wondering if somebody knows about a good benchmark showing this? The ones I found in a cursory google search all seemed to show that for ex