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by octacat 3y ago
Available = you can see one of replicas, you are good to go. CAP is good to understand what are the limitations when you have partitioned network. FoundationDB does not give you Availabity though, only CP.
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by octacat 3y ago
It is same for all CP systems in terms of CAP. During partition, clients that have access to the leader, could read/write. Clients that have access to non-leader servers could only read consistent data to the point when non-leader lost
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by octacat 3y ago
"FDB can tolerate f failures with only f+1 replicas." is too vague. What kind of failures and in which situations? If "failure" is a netsplit, only single partition would allow writes, because they choose CP from CAP the
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by octacat 3y ago
> It’s going to be interesting to see how Meta chooses to implement interoperability in WhatsApp when it comes to advanced features, such as file sharing, video calls and audio messages. It would be as bare bones as possible, unless regu
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by octacat 3y ago
instagram's highest resolution is 1350x1080 for photos.
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by octacat 3y ago
How is it different from stock images? People could sell not their work on the stock sites, and it is pretty hard to detect. Or impossible to detect, if you ask some AI model to repaint the image first, before putting it into the stock.
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by octacat 3y ago
yes, but they could just simply add more and more memory to consumer and cloud versions of cards. So, nvidia is safe. More memory, bigger models.
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by octacat 3y ago
Oh, AWS uses both, does not help much. It has prices such as 0.000001$ per request (which is evil) and virtual currencies like Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU). Circle CI has points too. Basically, everything so you would not figure out t
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by octacat 3y ago
It does as much sense as sites with "Do you want to enable browser notifications?" popups. No sense, sites still do it, regardless of what there users press.
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by octacat 3y ago
It will not compile (sarcasm). Many laws are written with a lot of double meaning (recent eu regulations on allowing or not allowing russian cars is a good example). Though, it could be a good idea to find all the possible double meanings o
221.
by octacat 3y ago
Actually, highlighting "No, Thanks" is good idea, it what an user should press.
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by octacat 3y ago
And nothing hostile here, just AB testing and data. Kinda reminds me social networks algos for some reason.
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by octacat 3y ago
Installation of anything gas related could be pretty expensive in some parts of the world too.
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by octacat 3y ago
Google Maps was also cheap. Initially. So it is aggressively cheap now, but would aggressively change later.
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by octacat 3y ago
It is a nice example, which would be rarely used in the real systems. Could be used for understanding how hot-code reloading could be implemented. Real usage could be if we have some big state and wanna apply some operations on it, we could
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by octacat 3y ago
The way to kill open source is by first killing faith in it. MS: we like "open standards", here is our implementation specific stuff. Amazon: we don't care what would be with a project. If it is open source - we host it and g
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by octacat 3y ago
If tests are very low quality it is the same as no tests. (so recursion here). If tests are low quality, they somehow managed to pass the code review. So, I would have more wider questions to the project, knowing this. Adjusting tests requi
228.
by octacat 3y ago
You are less likely to rewrite something that is proven to work and has absolutely no tests. At least in any company, which relies on the service (because chances to break something are high). Bad (or very "smart) design usually crysta
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by octacat 3y ago
Sadly it is not even means of intergalactic hydrogen. The game is over once the hydrogen in the core is fused :( Tidal energy would probably never go mainstream to cause major issues (too easy to break during the storms, not all places are
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by octacat 3y ago
Solar energy is not renewable too in the long run (very long run).
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by octacat 3y ago
And any sustainable farm (which uses less chemicals / farms in the fish tanks) has no chance, because it is all about the low price in the end.
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by octacat 3y ago
It is like selling bottled underground water in the desert because "we can drill deeper".
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by octacat 3y ago
nah, in this case lobbying "pesticides" is done to pack even more fish in the hellish conditions. Which is bad because it increases chances to get some new viruses/bacterias. Alternatively, it is to fight new infections which
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by octacat 3y ago
More pesticides means more pollution. The farms are in the open rivers. Which means damage to the ecosystem and to the wild life (i.e. pesticides are to fight infection and that infection affects the wild fish population). So, basically get
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by octacat 3y ago
And it still has limited image search results. But much much longer, comparing to google. What's happened with infinite image search results recently?
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by octacat 3y ago
oh, do you have an example for a search phrase? What I see is that google images results are pretty bad: stocks/pinterest first and just a couple of pages of the results (even for searches that should return millions of matches).
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by octacat 3y ago
oh, believe me, regulations would be lobbied. I.e. to run an AI model as a part of some service, you would need to get certification (a lot of money). Even now you could see a couple of talks on tech conferences from "non-profit"
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by octacat 3y ago
Kinda interesting that facebook is switching from "real people" generated content (i.e. someone you more or less know) to "random crap" content (not even the tiktok algo). It is like shooting themself into a leg.
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by octacat 3y ago
Because they are different languages with different VMs and different concerns. Made for different purposes. Number crunching is slower in Erlang VM (you can call C code though).
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by octacat 3y ago
Rewrite would give you a more optimized code almost always, because you know what you are writing. Though the article says that they rewrote the notification system, and erlang/elixir is pretty amazing for that stuff. From the point &q

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