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by zelly 6y ago
Go discourages C FFI but it runs those in kernel threads just to be safe. If you are using a lot of C FFI calls that all block, then it could be a problem (all cores are blocked).
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by zelly 6y ago
Tier 1 and 2 is as much of a monopoly as public utilities. If they all deny me service, it would be as hard to get connected as it would be to build my own water pipeline.
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by zelly 6y ago
Hypothetically, how would you go about staying online completely independently? Let's say you build your own data center, buy the real estate (because a landlord could be pressured to cancel your lease), purchase all the network equipm
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by zelly 6y ago
PRs welcome
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by zelly 6y ago
Why does the vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 work so well but there was no vaccine at all and still isn't for SARS?
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by zelly 6y ago
we could have had decentralized computing (urbit) for a while now but you keep playing
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by zelly 6y ago
You would have the same problem in Rust/Tokio and many other languages. The compiler is not able to know which calls could block. Suppose you have this async state machine server on a single thread, super fast, but somewhere it opens a
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by zelly 6y ago
It's single threaded and completely userspace. Rust async/await is a fancy way to write poll/epoll. It can limit the amount of time your program is blocked on IO (insofar as the implementation is as you would expect it (not g
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by zelly 6y ago
There will always be more downtime on Slack/Discord. There are more users, more updates. Slack/Discord is a giant distributed system with nodes all around the world. An IRC/XMPP server on one machine that 100 people use is no
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by zelly 6y ago
it's trivial and essentially free (<$5) to run an IRC server supporting tens of thousands of users. it also doesn't take gigs of memory on client devices.
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by zelly 6y ago
it's a GPL violation as far as i'm concerned, so anyone who uses it deserves what they get
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by zelly 6y ago
the SDK will always be free, but that's not the business model. the business model is get more people to buy Windows licenses. to that end, they give you a second-class experience on non-Windows (both for development and end-users). ev
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by zelly 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics#Second_Law
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by zelly 6y ago
someone has to pay to keep machines running and urbit's game theory is the only tractable one. you could either be a chattel slave farming sponsored content clicks in perpetuity (a la fb and twitter) or you could be mooching off some
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by zelly 6y ago
Interesting, I remember being able to pay cash a couple years ago, but now I see most airlines stopped accepting cash, ex: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2020/07/07/sout... Even Amtra
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by zelly 6y ago
I don't think a new social network should be centralized. what the world really needs is a user-friendly interface for urbit
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by zelly 6y ago
thats pretty cheap considering the convenience and availability it offers
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by zelly 6y ago
if there are any that don't sell your data, they are legally required to let the government see all the transaction data due to 9/11 the only way to free yourself from counterparties is to use cash or crypto. no company will help
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by zelly 6y ago
you can go to an airport, which has never closed, and buy a ticket in cash you can purchase things in cash at Walmart, Target, etc. which has never closed during the pandemic
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by zelly 6y ago
This is intentional
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by zelly 6y ago
They'll just throw out all the ones spammed from your IP. If you become obnoxious they will call the FBI because this would be a CFAA violation.
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by zelly 6y ago
Linking directly to the image file (and in fact a cached version of the full image) is one of the best reasons to use DDG. Reverse image search is also intentionally gimped, unlike non-US jurisdiction Yandex which is quite good. It's c
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by zelly 6y ago
It should violate the duplicate content guideline, since 100% of Pinterest content is not original and lifted from another website. Then again G also ranks those Markov-generated "blogs" with nonsensical text, not sure what to cal
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by zelly 6y ago
Python is basically pseudocode so if you don't like Python then you don't like programming.
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by zelly 6y ago
Julia or Swift I'm hoping the default choice becomes Julia. For one, it's Lisp. Imagine tensorflow or whatever being distributed as one Julia codebase, no separate C++ to compile, no need because Julia can do it all. I hope it rep
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by zelly 6y ago
paywalled article
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by zelly 6y ago
GCP PaaS stuff allows gRPC and WebSockets but that's it from what I've seen.
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by zelly 6y ago
My intuition is that network transfer uses almost no energy, on a marginal basis, because the network links are always on anyway. When you pay for bandwidth, you're paying the amortized costs of building and maintaining the infrastruct
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by zelly 6y ago
Just pull fiber and you or the next owner won't have to worry about it in the next 50 years. You can buy pre-terminated or use quick connectors. Most don't realize that fiber is cheaper to produce than copper; the expense comes fr
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by zelly 6y ago
Wait until you see the "data transfer" costs for what is basically or literally free from the bare metal/colo hosts. $10 is too much for what you're describing. You could be paying $0-$3. Most users of the top public clo

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