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by sethev 1y ago
The documentation seems pretty clear to me - it describes specifically what each option controls and the implications of using it. Besides debating whether the default behavior is should be described as durable or not, this post's auth
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by sethev 1y ago
One of the things I like about SQLite is how easy it is to understand its behavior if you read the docs. This is one of the potentially surprising defaults - but it seems reasonable for an embedded database, where a power loss is likely to
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by sethev 1y ago
The government took 79.9% of AIG in that bailout - which was the biggest of the "too big to fail" bailouts from the past. People seem to forget that the owners of these companies that were bailed out got almost completely wiped ou
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by sethev 1y ago
They both run over UDP and always encrypt data. Beyond that superficial similarity they are completely different. QUIC is a transport protocol that provides a stream abstraction (like TCP), with some improvements over TCP (like built-in sup
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by sethev 1y ago
There's some faulty reasoning in this post. Without the code, it's hard to pin down exactly where things went wrong. These are the steps described in the post: 1. Write intent record (async) 2. Perform operation in memory
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by sethev 1y ago
I live a few miles away from an old SAGE blockhouse [1]. It's still imposing today - basically looks like a giant block of cement. It's interesting to see pictures of the inside of one of these things when it was in use. [1] http
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by sethev 1y ago
A c5.9xlarge instance has 12 gigabits/s of bandwidth available [1]. A fair comparison to TCP would need to look at end to end message delivery, including framing / parsing of the messages. On the face of it, the ability to use the
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by sethev 1y ago
Or in this very thread, for that matter.
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by sethev 2y ago
He says humans can transcend the rules in a way that Godels theorem shows is impossible for computers.
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by sethev 2y ago
Experience is what's hard to square with computability. David Chalmer's calls this the hard problem. As long as you're taking about producing speech or other behaviors, it's easy to see how that might be a computation (a
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by sethev 2y ago
Gödel's theorem attracts these weird misapplications for some reason. It proved that a formal system with enough power will have true statements that cannot be proven within that formal system. The human mind can't circumvent this
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by sethev 2y ago
I mean, the grants that are being cut is the money that graduate students bring in. Less grant money -> fewer graduate students. In theory maybe it's possible to be more efficient like you're suggesting, but it's hard to s
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by sethev 2y ago
Graduate students are paid to attend - they're more like employees than undergraduate students. Why wouldn't a university faced with funding cuts start by not hiring additional people rather than getting rid of current ones?
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by sethev 2y ago
Penn's endowment distributed $1.1 billion last year. Endowments like this are managed to last a long time - indefinitely, even. Penn itself is older than the United States - they're not going to start blowing through their endowme
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by sethev 2y ago
The linked article is literally about a thing they just discovered. Apparently you were hoping they would discover something different?
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by sethev 2y ago
You cited this reference up thread: "The Wilson Effect: The Increase in Heritability of IQ With Age". It should give you pause for your definition of heritability that this paper is saying it changes with age. As you point out a c
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by sethev 2y ago
Yes. I mean, either you're talking about statistical properties of a population or you're talking about something else. These discussions usually devolve into "something else" almost immediately.
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by sethev 2y ago
> whether or not you wear lipstick has high heritability. Think about this example. The genetic factor here is massive, much higher than anyone is claiming for IQ. Can you imagine how hopelessly lost you would be if your analysis of lips
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by sethev 2y ago
Yeah, I re-read the headline a couple times after seeing the comments and can't spot the ambiguity. Also, there's a difference between 'attention grabbing' and 'clickbait'. This headline seems like the first. I
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by sethev 2y ago
"then you go on to describe things that are not exclusive to Capitalism AT ALL." Why are they required to be exclusive? If I said that uncontrolled train crossings lead to more train crashes, would you retort that train crashes ar
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by sethev 2y ago
I think you're right, but also this doesn't contradict the article. Google reset to a cleaner state (leaving behind the advertising choked portals of the late 90s). Over time both internal and external forces have chipped aways at
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by sethev 2y ago
Yeah, forever is an overstatement since we know there's not sufficient fuel for that. However, my main point was there's not a global speed limit in the sense that a traveler would be prevented from accelerating at some point beca
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by sethev 2y ago
From the perspective of someone on the spaceship, this is absolutely possible by the laws of physics. It's a common misunderstanding that the speed of light is like a highway speed limit that's enforced by the universe. In reality
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by sethev 2y ago
Same here for my wisdom tooth but very clearly remember them mentioning there were two options (one like you described and one where I would be out completely). Absolutely zero connection to the current discussion.
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by sethev 2y ago
I debated this with my boss at my first programming job (this was 20+ years ago). He thought 1/0 should be 0 rather than an error because "that's what people expect". My argument was from mathematical definitions (the ar
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by sethev 2y ago
That's true. The protocol aware recovery paper [1] talked about the challenges of disentangling corruption in the middle of the log vs uncommitted data at the end of the log. This is an issue in other log-based systems as well. The OP
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by sethev 2y ago
The checksum in the WAL is to detect incomplete writes (due to crash or power failure). That data was never committed successfully. Throwing an error for this scenario would mean that sqlite is unable to recover from a crash.
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by sethev 2y ago
> Note that even though the goal, and end result, is that the file is smaller, this is not a compression scheme, since it only works when your values are distributed in one particular way This statement doesn't sound right. I think
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by sethev 2y ago
It doesn't seem inconsistent to say "you can't put a price on a human life" and also believe that it's possible to calculate the economic impact of a human death. For example, saying that a particular individual&#x2

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