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by jedberg 1y ago
Way back in the 90s, I had a hacked satellite dish. This meant that I could get local channels from across the USA. My roommate used this for a school assignment. He looked at how much time local news spent on each topic, categorized by
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by jedberg 1y ago
> looking at their SDKs, it doesn't feel on same level of quality. Interesting. The usual feedback is the opposite. For example, DBOS Python works both sync and async, Temporal only async. > Also, not fully open-source: This is
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by jedberg 1y ago
Curious why you chose Temporal, which requires your users to either run an external coordination server or pay Temporal money for theirs? Did you look at DBOS (which doesn't required an external server and can just use your existing d
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by jedberg 1y ago
I see you too are a scholar in the ways of Harvey and Hilfinger.
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by jedberg 1y ago
College would have been a lot more fun if we had implement this in our intro CS course instead of a scheme interpreter in scheme that added infix operators. :) (but I will admit to this day 30 years later I still remember scheme because of
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by jedberg 1y ago
Pursuing ancillary revenue can still be a moonshot. Look at SpaceX. Musk has specially said his goal is Mars. But they still build ships and sell commercial services to fund continued development. I've invested in AI companies too,
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by jedberg 1y ago
I'm assuming you're trying to get me to say "you don't, they look the same". I'm just giving the view from an investors point of view -- you don't expect these to eventually run like a normal business wher
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by jedberg 1y ago
They still need income to offset the spend.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I've said it before and I'll said it again: The people investing in AI companies (and the big players spending in AI) are seeking Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It's the only way they get a return on their capital. T
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Temporal optimizes for correctness, sacrificing simplicity. You should check out DBOS, which optimizes for both simplicity and correctness.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Except with the randomness you won't know if the window is 5 seconds or 10 or anything in between. So sure you could send in your bit at 4.99 seconds but it won't matter if you're a few microseconds off.
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by jedberg 1y ago
You take bids continuously but publish the bids and "resolve" the auction every X seconds, where X is between 5 and 10. Then there is no speed advantage as long as you can get your bid in within 5 seconds.
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by jedberg 1y ago
It's a lot harder though, because you can only target a single IP at a time and many switches have preventative measures built in. Back in the day the hub would conveniently send all the packets on the network to you and all you had t
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by jedberg 1y ago
Why do you think everything is https now? :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
Of course not. But I was 18 and certainly not a gentleman. Teenagers are morons. :) I would never do such a thing now of course.
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by jedberg 1y ago
The really awesome part about Ethernet hubs was that if you knew what you were doing, you could get everything on the bus delivered to your device. Fun fact, in the 90s, most every college dorm had one hub per building (or if you were at M
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by jedberg 1y ago
Ms. Splashy Pants! I have her tank here under my desk at this very moment. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8y7bc/what_happe...
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fu
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by jedberg 1y ago
I guess I have to earn your trust too. I was actually intimately familiar with Netapp filers at the time, since that is what we used to drive the NFS mounts for the desktops at the first place I mentioned. They were not as immune as you t
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by jedberg 1y ago
My NFS story: In my first job, we used NFS to maintain the developer desktops. They were all FreeBSD and remote mounted /usr/local. This worked great! Everyone worked in the office with fast local internet, and it made it easy
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by jedberg 1y ago
A lot of people don't realize that our entire financial system is eventually consistent. They think that when they go to an ATM and withdraw money, it's instantly gone from their account. The reality is that in most cases the c
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by jedberg 1y ago
You mean it's the only way to make the game interesting! I kid, but I had a roommate who liked to do scorekeeping, and that was an actual quote of his.
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by jedberg 1y ago
It's not really more work to be explicit about the steps and workflows. You already have to break your code into steps to make your program run. Adding a single decorator isn't much extra work at all.
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by jedberg 1y ago
The biggest downsides to their methodology are that the snapshots can get really big really quickly, and that they are hard to introspect since they are binary blobs of memory dumps.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Don’t forget Trump-47 will be another four. So of the last eight Presidents, 4 were one term. That’s still 50%
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by jedberg 1y ago
>? the fact that a president will be in office for eight years unless they do something really stupid. The last two terms (and this one assuming the law is actually followed) will all be 4 years. Going back to the beginning, only 34% of
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by jedberg 1y ago
I wonder why they didn't use rendezvous hashing (aka HRW)[0]? It feels like it would solve all the requirement that they laid out, is fully client side, and doesn't require real time updates for the host list via discovery. [0] h
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by jedberg 1y ago
They have an option for pay per conversion: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7528254?hl=en
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Nothing that they sell, yet.
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by jedberg 1y ago
In many cases, Google gets commissions too. A lot of their ads pay when the person completes a purchase.

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