wildmanx

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by wildmanx 4y ago
For you and everybody else complaining about this aspect: This is open source software. GPL licensed. It's provided as-is. You are free to use it and express what you think about it, and the maintainers are equally free to do with your
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by wildmanx 4y ago
A == "Design of your system" B == "Inconsistency between your caches" GP: A -> B You: "Imposing order and synchrony is [bad things]" == "If you don't do A then [bad things]", i.e., (not A) -&g
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> > the inconsistency between your cache nodes is a consequence of the underlying design of your system > I disagree with this. First of all, imposing order and synchrony is expensive, slow and unreliable. Even if we do that, cache
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Read the room, Uber. We are in a climate crisis.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Yet so many supposedly intelligent managers use such approaches... Yet so many supposedly intelligent engineers work for such managers...
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> It seems that productivity growth is still necessarily limited in the end by physics. Biology will put limits in place long before physics will. Sadly, most techies completely ignore or miss this point.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> That open source software forms some part of a commons is not really a thing in practice. Open source software is ran by maintainers, those maintainers own the projects, and they do with the software what they deem fit. One should make
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> In particular there's a big divergence in availability, and security requirements. I strongly disagree about the difference in security requirements. I don't want anybody to pwn my banks servers, not less or more than pwning
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Big-O assumes all "operations" are equally costly. This is a big misconception about "Big-O". It does not "assume" anything. It's just not what people think it is. It's an asymptotic upper bound
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by wildmanx 4y ago
That's a lot of work just to show a "hello world". The point was that it's hard to do it with the thing you already have . Of course it's easier if you just get a new thing -- which installing a new OS corresponds
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Messing around is how kids get their start in computers And, sadly, they tend to get punished for it, once it's found out.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> but there's just something about today's Internet and a lot of the overwhelming amount of technology that just isn't fun or memorable. That's right -- modern age stuff isn't as _hackable_. Especially not at the
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> OP is more valuable than a toilet cleaner, or a starbucks barista Not to kill your point, but those two are dramatically under-valued and under-appreciated jobs in most societies around the world. Every time you use a toilet (other tha
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> This comment is saying "No one else here knows as much about this as I do", and little else. No, it's not. Not at all. But your comment is saying "How dare you suggest that we listen to experts? We all should ha
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I appreciate the story and the pride he must have felt. But this is the entirely wrong message. It perpetuates that the superstars are those jumping in last second in some heroic effort to save the day. This is not how projects should work,
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by wildmanx 4y ago
As a counter argument, imagine an infinitely good insulation and 0 standby power (and a spherical cow inside, for illustration purposes). Then keeping it "running" is clearly better than letting the fridge warm up since power draw
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by wildmanx 4y ago
While I agree with the overall sentiment (fix the big problems first to maximize payoff), the issue is one of attitude. Keeping a "save where possible" mindset, no matter how large the immediate payoff (within reasonable limits) h
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> It actually uses less power being powered on continiously for 2 weeks (12 days from departure to arrival), than it does being powered off and working overtime for 6 hours trying to cool down. It's not much less power, but still le
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> i very much fear arriving at a summer house where the fridge has been unpowered for a couple of weeks. Another solution to this problem is to just empty the fridge and turn it off while not in the summer house for a few weeks.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> To be human is to desire freedom and be free. Hm? Like every species, being a member of that species means having been selected by evolution over countless generations to further the species. It's an ingenious distributed algorith
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised by all those dismissive comments here. Isn't it useful that _some_ people sit down, think hard about what are the worst things that could happen to us as a species, and consider preventive measures? In every co
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Bostrom's brand of fear mongering does not appear to be based in science, logic, or basic common sense. I mean, a lot of world issues are obvious to the naked eye: overpopulation, consumption, housing prices, destruction of natura
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Somebody needs to pay their bills. It's not going to be money coming in from the open source free tier users.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> But yes, once you do all of that...it actually is a money printing machine that will never end as long as markets have volatility. And despite this being inherent in the DeFi world, people still believe that such systems are better t
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> better data-density and durability than a stack of paper Eh, what? Paper has survived for hundreds if not thousands of years. Show me your RPi 1000 years for now, next to an equally old bible, and we'll chat again. (Not a religiou
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by wildmanx 4y ago
To add some understanding: the name does not mean "the child of Schwarz". It's composed of two German words: "schwarz" which means "black" and "Schild" which means "shield". So "Bl
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Every single reason a founder can come up with not to be out there selling like "The product isn't finished", "It needs feature X", "It's not fast enough", "It needs better design", etc
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Maybe those other microwaves have a different design that doesn't make it necessary. So, sure, you can re-design the microwave oven, but that may entail significantly more work than to just deactivate the fan. I could criticize cars wi
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Let me just put it coldly here: career can be re-established, friend can be re-found, losing family is a painful struggle but it's not impossible to start from scratch. But physical health, once you lose it, you'll likely los
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> learned early not to pick useless feature projects and cleanup work. And that's why things slowly rot away. Cleanup should be a priority, otherwise it eventually slows down new feature work. In fact, a project should not be decla

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