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by mihaic 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time for the explanation and the rundown on the architecture. Sounds a bit like an LMAX disruptor for DB, which honestly is quite a natural implementation of performance. Kudos for the Zig implementation as well, I&#x2
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by mihaic 2y ago
That's true, but who are the executives that buy this and then force developers to create a monstrous architecture that has all sorts of race conditions outside of the ledger?
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by mihaic 2y ago
I honestly don't understand why this isn't a Postgres extension. In what case is it better to have two databases? Realistically, I can't see a scenario where you need something like this but at the same time are sure that you
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by mihaic 2y ago
Over a certain threshold, all software companies seem to degenerate into sales companies. Honestly, I'm just mildly shocked of the $23B valuation for a product that I'd expect to have taken waaay less than 1% of that in dev costs.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, I have the same experience with chess, and have never liked it for the same reasons. There's no mediocre version of chess that you can do instinctively, and I don't really like to do tedious and repetitive ment
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Only partially though, since often a proof is much harder than having some arguments. Also, elements of ideation transpire into planning and execution.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Great article and I strongly agree with 95% of it. The only thing I'd like to add nuance though is on the "ideas are worthless" rehash. I think the pendulum has struck a bit too far, and at some point actually there's mo
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by mihaic 2y ago
I find something disturbing in using capitalist analogies like "investing" to reason about core human activities, and simply pinging people to keep in touch. In this mode of thinking having a group of friend from diverse backgroun
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by mihaic 2y ago
Specifically I meant some groups of Gypsies from Eastern Europe, where I've seen this behavior. Most immigrants don't fall in this pattern though, like you describe.
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> I don't think the evidence definitively supports the conclusion that it's down to which group. I've lived besides Gypsy communities, and had during school Gypsy friends. Some were in the top of the class, and many were n
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by mihaic 2y ago
Whatever the solutions are, let's not push burden on the individual. Resources are like highway lanes: even if you don't drive your car, someone will use it just.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm trying to give honest feedback here: it's not that I can't understand your English, the structure of your comment is confusing. You seem to mix your main points with your arguments in a way where it's not clear which
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by mihaic 2y ago
We can choose to collectively change the way of the world. And in this case the title is lying, the website seems to be lying regarding cached generation still being the same price, and I would flagg it as false advertising.
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by mihaic 2y ago
You can just start from the code snippets in C++/Java below the statement and implement the method stubs. We initially had an explanation on x,y,z, but in the end realized its safer to explicitly force people to copy/paste those p
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by mihaic 2y ago
I tried but failed to follow what you're arguing for, since you're mixing too many concepts. To respond on your main question though, I simply can't see a world where states that don't collect taxes to raise an army don&
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by mihaic 2y ago
If the author would have emphasized your conclusion, that taxing wealth would actually normalize asset values and bring them closer to reality, I would have agreed he wasn't against taxing wealth. But when this conclusion is somewhat i
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by mihaic 2y ago
I just want to add that succinct data structures are reasonably straightforward to develop when there's an actual requirement, so I would have wanted to see some better benchmarking numbers here. I had pretty much this same task as the
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by mihaic 2y ago
This article is a bunch of truths that were cherrypicked to form a narrative where taxing wealth is bad, in a way that feels almost like soviet propaganda. The world is complex, some taxes should be lowered, some raised, some government spe
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by mihaic 2y ago
Does anyone know if there is more serious single threaded performance degradation (more than a few percent for instance)? I couldn't find any benchmarks, just some generic reassurance that everything is fine.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I think you mean success rate, but very true observation regardless.
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by mihaic 2y ago
This has been pretty much my experience as well, and honestly I think it's because most of the audience in any public forum hasn't ever needed to push through a complex project. I was talking to a friend about this, and I've
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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that you can sue for malpractice should the misdiagnosis fall below a minimum standard of conduct. In practice, misdiagnosis is not easy to prove, but we're talking Boeing executive level of incompetence here.
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by mihaic 2y ago
What about a crime that was in their job description to have knowledge of? Would a doctor not be liable if he didn't properly diagnose a patient? There is an assumption of minimal professional competency when you assume the responsibil
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by mihaic 2y ago
If we want to let people decide on their learning journey, I think something like this is even more harmful, since it creates an unrealistic standard. It's the equivalent of an Instagram lifestyle for software/hardware engineering
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by mihaic 2y ago
Rarely have I seen such garbage getting so many github stars. It seems to be all signaling of how clever the guy who wrote it is, without any actual substance to back it up. There is literally no way for anyone to get anything meaningful ou
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by mihaic 2y ago
For me these concept seem intuitively linked, simply because derivation measures the rate of change, and that compounding definition aims to find the compounding function with constant growth. The factorial definition only seems to make for
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by mihaic 2y ago
Exactly the same for me and I'm pretty sure this is how Jakob Bernoulli came to define the number as well, trying to see what the upper bound for infinitesimal compounding was.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Yes, I completely agree, I just was giving an example. So it turns out some ideas are hard to explain even if you already agree :)
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by mihaic 2y ago
That's true, but it's not only about perception. It's about teaching people for instance that if something sounds stupid, maybe they're missing something, or that the other person has a different set of assumptions. They
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by mihaic 2y ago
Good article, but one thing I'd like to add from my own experience, is that we interpret a difficulty in communication when people have different styles, when the problem sometimes is that the message itself is rejected regardless how

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