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TerminusDB: In the design of distributed data collaboration, size matters a lot(terminusdb.com)
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by j-pb 6y ago
Can and "well supported and reliable enough that apple does not advise against it" are two different things tho, when it comes to day to day production use at a company.
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by j-pb 6y ago
I had senior support agents from Apple support tell me that they do not advice doing bootable APFS backups, since it interferes with the ids the T2 chip somehow burns into the file system for "security" reasons. At our company we
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah the whole thing is also way to handwavy when it comes to computational complexity of the encodings. It also somehow simultaneously assumes the church turing thesis, the existence of non computable reals and arbitrary functions over the
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by j-pb 6y ago
I don't know the original theory, but this explanation is brief to the point where it's nonsensical.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Sure, we can have both a zadeh, and a bayes ;) I'm not sure if I find Koskos argument convincing, however one could also argue that a bayes is a subtype of a zadeh ;) http://sipi.usc.edu/~kosko/Fuzziness_Vs_Probabi
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by j-pb 6y ago
As the logic dealing with {0, 1} is named after its founder George Boole, a boolean or bool for short. I'd suggest we call a fuzzy truth value in the interval of [0,1] after its founder Lotfi A. Zadeh, a zadehan or zade for short. Edit
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by j-pb 6y ago
Tbh I think you got it backwards. CALM is actually very much about eventual consistency. The gist is basically, that distributed systems are only eventually consistent iff they are logically monotonic. Coordination as used in this article b
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by j-pb 6y ago
I think you're actually confusing the concepts. They talks about a more general concept of consistency that is per se unrelated to graph algorithms. The examples they have use to illustrate the idea are deadlock detection and garbage c
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by j-pb 6y ago
I think you're conflating the deadlock-detection/garbage collector examples with the general gist of the paper, or maybe I just misunderstood? My point is that 'deletion' in every dbms - be it SQL or NoSQL - is equivalen
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by j-pb 6y ago
So basically every system wich allows you to 'delete' stuff, instead of 'forgetting' it has it (distributed state) wrong. Good thing, that that's not every database ever cough
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by j-pb 6y ago
The T-Cells will probably also attack infected T-Cells. The immune system is super complex and self regulatory, with different Immune cell populations attacking each other in case of auto immune disease for example.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah but it's close enough (in the sense that it's like JSX, syntactic sugar over a JS runtime), so an in depth comparison would still be usefull.
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by j-pb 6y ago
The article completely understates the time scale and parralellism involved in evolution. The only reason evolution didn't converge at some point to some equilibrium ecosystem is that the environment constantly shifts (sum activity, me
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by j-pb 6y ago
ISBN numbers are notoriously doubly- and re-allocated. DOI and ISBN are as much locations as URL. Content based URN are the only option.
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by j-pb 6y ago
I love that the controller symbol is a toilet, because on a miss-predict it does a "flush".
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah they do kill birds. 1 Turbine kills the same amount of birds as 1 cat. Highways kill way more birds than turbines. Lived near one, was dead silent. Stop spreading fud.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah but cars will. But whenever we talk about wind turbines, the amount of birds killed by highways are conveniently ignored.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Am I the only one incredibly turned off by that "photos refresh but don't scroll" behaviour? It looks like such a neat idea in theory, but feels so "wrong".
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah but a cat doesn't power 400-4000 households. Yeah we are ruining the planet, but the "wind turbines kill birds" thing is FUD spread by the fossil lobby. The alternative to wind turbines is more climate change which kills
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yet... I'm all in for nuclear, once we know how to get rid of the waste products. It's never been about reactor safety, we have a storage problem, that hasn't been solved yet. Without that we're just slithering into the
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by j-pb 6y ago
"green energy" if you're insinuating that wind power kills birds, that's something you can totally stop worrying about. A single turbine kills as many birds as a cat per year.
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by j-pb 6y ago
You're really bringing up false dichotomies all the time. Nobody ever argued that it was about the programming languages or equal implementations, but about project stewardship and diverging code bases. They influence each other, it&#x
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by j-pb 6y ago
You're forming a false dichotomy, and you're mistaking competition of code with competiton of institutions. Having different organisations with different goals is what prevents these scenarios. Otherwise the webkit blink thing wou
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by j-pb 6y ago
The birth and death of javascript
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by j-pb 6y ago
That doesn't make it any less of a solid foundation for a web SQl engine. It's like getting gifted a car, and complaining that you'd rather have winter tires. So you start building one from raw metals.
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by j-pb 6y ago
How is that different from what we have now? Living specs don't give any guarantees, yet they still "pave the cow paths" while keeping ridiculous bugs and behaviours for backwards compatibility, and breaking existing specs fo
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by j-pb 6y ago
Well that's kind of a different argument. But one I can get well on board with. We should kill JS, and EVERY WebSpec, except for WASM and WASI. Take the best parts of html and css and implement a virtual dom / immutable data drive
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by j-pb 6y ago
I wouldn't mind if they realise that their implementation is bad enough to be replaced, it would be a win for all. The implementations would start to diverge again anyways. The engineering time saved by piggybacking of a working implem
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by j-pb 6y ago
I think your second argument also applies to the first no? Any technology that is implemented in a major browser, be it JS, Webkit, SQLite has incentives to port it to other platforms. Web developers don't expect 100% compatibility, th

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