juskrey

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by juskrey 7y ago
I have avoided RAID for the past 20 years and will avoid it in future. The whole technology and its benefits is about picking pennies before the steamroller, with explosive complexity of failures. I prefer much more simple and understandabl
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by juskrey 7y ago
I have started from already existing FSM libs (which did not fit well) and after couple of experiments understood that creating own custom FSM processor is a no-brainer with clojure/core.match
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by juskrey 7y ago
Yes. Can't share the whole repo (it's our internal product), but here are two files (FSM macro and FSM itself) you can explore. Let me know it that helps. https://gist.github.com/juskrey/61148c98bdde871a8d3743
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by juskrey 7y ago
Once upon a time I have implemented POP3 server protocol state machine in Clojure. 180 lines in total, of which 40 were FSM declaration, 140 command handling functions. Not sure I'll ever want to approach FSM in any other language,
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by juskrey 7y ago
Basically optimizations and "modelling" are the reason resource allocations are total failure in the case of rare emergencies, like ongoing. You assume the worst "one in a 1000 years" case, multiply by 2..10, depending o
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by juskrey 7y ago
Time Machine has one huge issue: when it doesn't work, it becomes a bigger problem.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Who said that, say, laptop or phone replacement is not an essential item?
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by juskrey 7y ago
Virtue is what you do in silence
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by juskrey 7y ago
A book on casualty with no any single hint on mutual information.. hm
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by juskrey 7y ago
I was asking about actual progress
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by juskrey 7y ago
Any actual progress have been made from all that decades of distributed folding?
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by juskrey 7y ago
And larger entities, I guess, are connected to some extraterrestrial gold source, right?
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by juskrey 7y ago
Yes, to be exempt from tails is basically the definition of their business.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Sorry, I barely understand, what insurance against economic crashes?
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by juskrey 7y ago
We are talking about business death
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by juskrey 7y ago
Insurance and reinsurance just clip the tail contractually, they never take "infinity multiplied by some small percent" risk! They don't go underground when their client does.
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by juskrey 7y ago
You can quantify in normal domains e.g. probability of seeing a human over 2.05m tall. You CAN'T quantify tail risk in unbounded (for practical purposes) domains, period. This is just ridiculous: "For this example, there’s about a
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by juskrey 7y ago
He is a PR consultant, what would you expect him to sell? PR conultant's way of doing things: Spend the budget. If project was a win, claim own success. If the project was a failure, blame a business, never show results.
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by juskrey 7y ago
I think idea of 8 hour sleep can be revolutionary only for someone born in the office cubicle.
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by juskrey 7y ago
How about really antifragile generation: you just quit 5/9 job, have a long walk, take a good nap, and ideas come by themselves. Carmack, with all of his all-work no-rest culture, is hardy antifragile. Or did he change his attitude?
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by juskrey 7y ago
Mostly the preservation of brand name, which is never the same as the company. Especially true for different public facing things like restaurants and breweries, which is almost always a retrobranding trick. Family tree washing.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Transferwise has real human phone support, which so far was great for my business account. +1 for prices - I am paying Transferwise fees with pleasure, knowing all those money are returning back to me via great services.
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by juskrey 7y ago
If it forces you to check every single return code, this does not mean you can't have equivalently safe implementation without that level of detail.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Rust forces you to deal with edge cases using very low-order, often Procrustean bed reasoning. This does not mean there are much more powerful higher level ways of doing this. (Pattern matching I got in exchange have made me cry)
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by juskrey 7y ago
Recurring revenue seems a golden cow of IT nowadays. But remember, while it devoids of volatility, it also makes business much more fragile. And you see problems too late.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Never missed FrontPage/DreamWaver..
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by juskrey 7y ago
I think he means account can be locked at any moment, and German guarantee doesn't not help much when you are say, on travel or on bills payment day.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Mind that in .NET or JVM tooling has total control over underlying machine, which is also the same on any platform. So VMs have a lot of sense nowadays, especially with multithreading. No one can now dismiss them because they are "heav
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by juskrey 7y ago
Allowing to park people and outsourcing is not a tech boom. Different mindset, different understanding, different risks, limited upside at the end. A country on salary.
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by juskrey 7y ago
Rental car GPS is pretty much one of the few tracking things I actually want to be there. It makes my rental MUCH cheaper and road help much better. If you need to hide from the radars, chose another method of transportation.

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