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by gregw2 3y ago
Re: “Reiser3 pioneered journal metadata only”, a metadata-only approach to journaling actually was not uncommon (although for Linux, journaling at all for a time was not available). This first journalled Unix file system in AIX in the early
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by gregw2 3y ago
In a high-level sense, yes! But it kind of depends on which part of the design pattern you mean by "double buffering for databases". With double-buffering (2d/3d graphics) you are literally writing the final pixel-level data
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by gregw2 3y ago
I am not sure how to evaluate security of my data across Saas tax web apps, but I am warier of smaller scrapier players on that front having worked at startups. Their website is not reassuring to a web/database developer like myself wh
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by gregw2 3y ago
Or that certain "minimum delightful product" features can be abandoned when they are inconvenient to provide.
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by gregw2 3y ago
OpenAI’s claim that it got the content from third party sites raises an intriguing twist to this copyright equities problem that at least I haven’t thought about. It wasn’t clear from the article whether that “third party website NYTimes co
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by gregw2 3y ago
It’s not Smalltalk but you might find OS/400 interesting for having a single level store for object persistence. Old HN discussion with Wikipedia pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18907798
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by gregw2 3y ago
No, Nvidia was not lucky. They are a strong engineering culture who also has deep marketing expertise in 3D in all its facets for decades . Nvidia wisely recognized that only so much horsepower could be used by a conventional 3d graphics pi
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by gregw2 3y ago
I had pure active-active running at one job. We had our app layer centralize all its database access through a single set of wrapper generic SQL functions and had that set of functions implement some failures and hang-handling simple expone
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by gregw2 3y ago
This. But if you use integer surrogate primary keys and seed one server with even ones and one server with odd ones, both incrementing by two, and put some uniqueness constraint on your natural key, you won't have this issue of insert
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by gregw2 3y ago
No need... here's a different twist on that .. make the integer primary key generation setup such that one server has odd IDs and the other even and they each increment by two. I did this for many years on Sybase and on SQL Server for
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by gregw2 3y ago
Kind of silly? Can’t/don’t the three digits get rotated independently of rotating your credit card or account number though? Also some clearer rules/expectations in place that nobody should ever persist the data on disk?
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by gregw2 3y ago
Yeah, there is always the high-level view of these things and the low-level. The way LLMs make stuff up is oft-remarked upon and is unclear whether it's a dealbreaker or not but it might be for any/all of this to come to pass. Her
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by gregw2 3y ago
This article about a robotic head with taste sensors reminds me of a more humorous situation with a similar device many years ago. In that case, a journalist, attending a demo event of a wine and cheese tasting robot, on a curious whim, pla
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by gregw2 3y ago
@dang, this title should be labelled (2002). (This is old news; I first heard about remote viewing projects back then myself.) The article is hosted at "Columbia.edu" but the underlying publication is an Indian foreign policy stra
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by gregw2 3y ago
Encumbrance record keeping was annoying pre-PCs but did any well known RPGs ever implement the D&D encumbrance system and thus steer players to carry lighter weight currencies (gems etc)? Or was it too annoying even with the record keep
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by gregw2 3y ago
Your simple clear explanation of this reminds me of a context where I have seen this sort of female imitation game used “in real life”, without any reference to Turing. In Minecraft, there are some girls-only servers. In order to join, you
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by gregw2 3y ago
They really are awful. You definitely get the sense that these things were developed by software developers who didn’t eat their own dogfood. YouTube options for parents are the worst.
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by gregw2 3y ago
I completely agree that this is a significant risk of the export controls. But China was already expected to climb their way into semiconductor manufacturing with significant investment. What, were they not going to do that? ASML was threa
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by gregw2 3y ago
Agree with your tip about larger RA3 node sizes. An advisor at AWS during a resizing POC clued me into it and having switched one big cluster to ra3.16xlarge, the leader node CPU utilization has definitely dropped for our peak Monday mornin
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by gregw2 3y ago
I run Redshift at scale. On using ra3, I agree generally, but for cost would recommend Refshift Serverless in Dev/QA for cost reasons unless you have steady workloads there. On CPU, even 1 query will cause CPU to hit 100% so I don’t co
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by gregw2 3y ago
The heaviest posted (non-binary) newsgroups with the in the late 90s were political, if I remember some analysis I did back then correctly. Something.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, etc
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by gregw2 3y ago
These old schools in America were originally founded to train ministers for whom knowing Latin and Greek (and Hebrew) to interpret early versions of the Christian scriptures was important so they could have a clearer understanding of the or
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by gregw2 3y ago
You mention there probably several such guns aimed at ASML's head and I have no idea what set of carrot+sticks are involved but want to point out it might not just be sticks/guns. It might additionally be an appeal to ASML or Dutc
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by gregw2 3y ago
Elon Musk, Twitter/X CEO, went to the data center and started unplugging things. You can’t make this stuff up! https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-... Why “Elmo”? https:/&#x
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by gregw2 3y ago
It's worth reading the licensing details whether you authorize them to upload your local data to their cloud and use the data in any way. I have used the TurboTax online for a number of years and they are getting more insistent on try
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by gregw2 3y ago
No offense to its visionary creators, but to be candid, Club Caribe and Habitat were unappealing to me as a teen, kinda dull in the same way bad VR experiences are to this day. Skimming the paper, it was indeed mostly for the reason highlig
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by gregw2 3y ago
I think if we want a python with no gil(l)s we should call that version “lamprey”. Sharper teeth in that version. Same shaped creature though!
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by gregw2 3y ago
Cool totally academic exercise. I shudder at the performance not to mention energy waste. A better question is what chain to use for efficient ( $/op or watts/op? ) verified Turing complete computation. Avax?? I really have no id
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by gregw2 3y ago
Fascinating! Kagi managed to automatically omit and abstract away all the Christian-specific perspective leaving us with something purely deist in its presentation. I wonder if that’s a coincidence, or something inherent in the way LLM synt
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by gregw2 3y ago
Now he needs a different kind of raise? (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

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