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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
You certainly do notice that the same "argument" would apply to yourself? Also, suppose some new appliance regularly killed its users due to bad electrical isolation. Would you use the same argument when someone criticizes the man
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Well, yeah, of course, you need some limit on the speed at which the power supply voltage drops, I was talking about the "flushing the cache" kind of "power loss protection", not claiming that pulling a circuit into the
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Why would you want to order the write of every 128 kB chunk of your MP3 album with regard to every other? A rotating HDD also has a latency of around 10 ms, and you certainly can write an album's worth of MP3 files faster than in 10 se
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Filter capacitors producing excessive heat due to inrush current? That would be bad filter capacitors indeed ;-) The claim was that an SSD somehow converted more electric energy into heat immediately after power-up which would damage the SS
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Hu? Where should that spike in power usage come from?
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Hu? What kind of applications do you write where 10 ms is too much latency?!
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Once you have that figured out, try to conceptualize Kelvinbyteohms aka Kelvinbytes per Siemens!
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
That's still no reason why you would need "power loss protection", in the sense of energy storage. What is needed is proper brown-out detection and properly set up reset circuitry so that the write gets aborted before lines s
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
The criticism was mostly very well founded. Just because you don't understand it, that does not mean that it is unfounded. Just because a civil engineer only tells you that a newly built bridge will collapse in about 30 years due to co
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Good morning, no, I can not, and no, I am not thrusting any expectations on you, I am just telling you that there is literature out there that you might be interested in - though it seems like you are already aware of that. Given that you s
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
First of all: One very viable option in science is to say that we don't know. If we don't know, we simply don't know, there is no point in making stuff up. That does not mean that people might not form hypotheses as a first s
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
dragonwriter has already answered this pretty well, I think, I just want to provide one more challenge for your categorization: So when you can't subject something to empirical observation... such as the original creation of the you yo
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Well, nothing wrong with trusting theories with more/clearer/better evidence more, of course. Now, apparently, I interpreted your previous post incorrectly as to how you go about distinguishing better evidence from worse evidence,
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
And yet, the fact that a bridge design contains a pillar that any expert expects to collapse after 30 years might tell you something about the designer's competence and thus about the viability of the whole design. This is not so much
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Yeah, it's like saying "oh but the attack possibilities are so limited" to then proceed to mention how all the components can't bear the load of the bridge. Well, if that piece of steel can so obviously not hold those 10
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
I think you might want to read up on both the philosophy of science as well as science itself. Your notions of empiricism/testability as well as the scientific process strike me as a bit naive. For example, you seem to have some concep
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
The need for notifications is just a symptom of an idiotic system overall. When was the last time that a company offered you to notify you by (snail) mail when there was a letter available for you to pick up at their headquarters? It's
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
It may be that we mean slightly different things here. I am not talking so much about the software architecture, but about the fact that the API between "front-end" and "back-end" should be the public interface. That doe
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
I guess I should spell this out explicitly: Don't integrate data model and UI. That's the most silly thing about the web nowadays: Every instance of the same kind of content comes with a different UI, but without an API, even thou
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
I for one don't take part in discussions where real names are required, as the requirement discourages people with (non-trolling) strongly opposing views from taking part in the discussion, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be an
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y ago
Don't use the Web, don't build a "platform", build a peer to peer system, support threading, use local storage of both postings and read status information, use a native interface for fast and efficient navigation. Or in