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by fnord123 7y ago
Lightweight in software is a weird adjective. I used to assume it meant light on resources but after seeing what passes for "lightweight" I've disabused myself of that notion. Instead, I've seen it mean any of the follow
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by fnord123 7y ago
>I dig it! I expect to see a lot of folks reject this notion outright, because, well, cognitive dissonance. If you've built your life around conforming, it might be tough to hear someone suggest it's all for naught. Be careful
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by fnord123 7y ago
I'm not an expert but there are large swathes of rough sleepers in SF, SJ, NY, Austin, LA, etc. And even though the % of population in the US who are classified as homeless in the US is less than e.g. UK, there's nothing on that s
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by fnord123 7y ago
>dozens of homeless people in varying levels of distress The homelessness problems in the US vs EU is a whole other topic.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>However Barcelona is in Spain where they speak Spanish so it is hard to learn from them. Federal infrastructure projects are in Spanish. But here is a report in English anyway: http://www.mega-project.eu/assets/exp&
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by fnord123 7y ago
Why not compare a functioning project with a functioning project? e.g. the Beijing-Shenzhen line (2230km (1390 miles to compare to the FTR)) that takes 8h34m and can hit 300km/h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beiji
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by fnord123 7y ago
>I don't have much hope for the future generation of megaprojects. And, you know, we're not really doing them anymore. I wonder what changed. We are still doing megaprojects just fine. And less people die doing them.
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by fnord123 7y ago
How many US officials were tried, let alone convicted, for their role in torturing people from 2001 to 2014? Hint: zero. (The 11 soldiers who were torturing detainees in Abu Ghraib were not tried for torture. Only watered down charges like
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Secondly we have no reason to believe the US had implemented backdoors in major processors. Intel Management Engine has the capability to be a backdoor[1]. Whether the US has keys to it is in question. But it is known that Intel has inc
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by fnord123 7y ago
> I've been using Slack on the desktop daily since the alpha version. I've never found it to have UI lag. Try telegram on desktop and compare the UI performance. Slack definitely has UI lag. Not nearly as bad as Teams though.
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by fnord123 7y ago
That memory is for IntelliJ, Docker images, Photoshop, Final Cut, Blender, etc.
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by fnord123 7y ago
I'm quite sure as soon as there are performant WASM engines deployable outside a browser (e.g. parity-wasm) then Ballista will converge on it and it would hence support anything that can compile to wasm. In fact, I think the time to be
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Eg, for a given model, is the time to implement x cost/hr for a Rust coder less than that of a Java one? time_to_implement * cost/hr + cost_of_bug_damage * P(bug) + time_to_fix_bugs * cost/hr + cost_of_deployment_hw
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by fnord123 7y ago
I'm not an economist but I expect Jevon's paradox to make the cheaper productivity result in increased consumption of the productivity. And that seems to be what we see.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Thanks for summarizing the differences. I think anyone interested in function pipeline data flows will also be interested to know about Rx and RxClojure as they both allow programs to be structured to work over a stream of data in many othe
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by fnord123 7y ago
[action(x) for x in array_of_things if x > 7] Action is the function you are applying. `for x in ...` will pull an iterator from a generator which could be doing a lot of interesting stuff. And `if x > 7` is the filter.
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by fnord123 7y ago
I know! As someone with 500+ contacts to high powered professionals I'm inundated with a huge amount of humble brag posts!
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by fnord123 7y ago
See also: http://reactivex.io/
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by fnord123 7y ago
I have seen completely the opposite in the wild. In fact I've only seen it so far in the opposite direction (Java consuming far more memory than Python) that I have to ask what on Earth you are doing with Python to have found yourself
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by fnord123 7y ago
Slow == performance left on the table. The namenode is a threaded model with a lot of locks for each operation. This will improve with moving to Ozone and RocksDB under the hood (because Rocks doesn't leave much performance on the tabl
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by fnord123 7y ago
HopFS https://www.logicalclocks.com/introducing-hops-hadoop/ https://github.com/hopshadoop/hops
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by fnord123 7y ago
4. HDFS is slow.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Given these calculations, I guess you're right. The surface area facing the Atlantic with air on other side would be 200m x 14000m which would probably require such a width of concrete to be structurally sound that only the largest pay
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by fnord123 7y ago
Looks like the biggest soft target in the world and destroying the dam would make it possible to wipe out millions upon millions of lives in a single action.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Record labels are like bad unions and want a closed shop.
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by fnord123 7y ago
This really comes back to the Capability vs. Suitability model that Gary Bernhardt has spoken about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftT6HWFgq0 IRC is capable. It is a box of nuts and bolts that lets us communicate and bui
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by fnord123 7y ago
That's an interesting choice for a system intended to be high performance. Go's GRPC implementation has been suffering from extremely high resource usage due to https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues&#x2F
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by fnord123 7y ago
Is this in memory like bdb? It says it uses http and capnproto which would indicate that it's not in memory.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>it's all about the UI being dumb-proof Make something idiot-proof and the world will make a better idiot. And it looks like I'm the bigger idiot here because I don't understand the interface at all. I'm in two server
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by fnord123 7y ago
That's a very well written post. Thanks for sharing it.

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