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by scruffups 6y ago
Why not have a meta discussion like a Wikipedia Talk page so comments like these would have room and critique won't be shut down. Yesterday (you can look in my comment history) I ran into a situation where the person doing the down-vot
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by scruffups 6y ago
My other comment on this thread followed others in congratulating the author. It specifically said "Bravo!" and guess what? It got down voted. So the explanation may be that it is useless input but believe me it is not useless to
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by scruffups 6y ago
Why is this down voted? I hate it when people do that and offer no explanation. Totally useless input, even harmful. HN should force comment on down-vote.
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by scruffups 6y ago
Bravo!
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by scruffups 6y ago
That's not true. The quantum tunneling effect is what gives physical (as opposed to simulated) quantum annealing an advantage over simulated annealing (classic thermodynamics) Google that. "Quantum annealers are physical quantum d
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by scruffups 6y ago
I saw the CuMn reference and thought they're leveraging quantum spin dynamics in glass alloys. It's not quantum parallelism but quantum annealing that I was referring to. Very different models of computation. So this seems to be a
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by scruffups 6y ago
Maybe you could explain where the paper contradicts the above?
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by scruffups 6y ago
My understanding is that the D-Wave quantum computer uses quantum spin-glass annealing (by tapping into these physical effects) to solve combinatorial optimization problems faster than classical computers, including simulated (thermodynamic
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by scruffups 6y ago
Elimination means removal of something. Eradication means it will never come back. So maybe they meant (or should have meant) that the risk of exponential spread has been eliminated.
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by scruffups 6y ago
The title is a great test for conversational AI. I thought this was about driving (in a car) engineers to an arbitrary (blind) date.
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by scruffups 6y ago
Very nice and much needed. What worries me is the consolidation of great resources in the hands of one party. We know from our collective experience since forever that concentration of any resource does not give us resilience. Your thoughts
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by scruffups 6y ago
My own comfort is in knowing that this virus can be kept at bay if my immune system is strong enough, and as a mindful engineer and a living being I understand which behaviors are optimal for health and which are harmful... and in these tim
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by scruffups 6y ago
I understand. But a significant percentage of people keep voting for stooges and corporatists. What do you call that? Maybe not your self but the collective self is responsible, no?
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by scruffups 6y ago
<< society is selforganized. There is no oppression.>> Self-oppression? Sure. But it does not mean that oppression doesn't exist. It's just that it is self caused, and self here refers to society as a whole. Oppression
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by scruffups 6y ago
Count me in.
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by scruffups 6y ago
Apple spends more than $30M/mo. on AWS. [1] Comcast, I was told, spends over $1B/year on AWS but I cannot find any public references to back it up. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/apple-spends-mo
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by scruffups 6y ago
I suppose redundant communication channels (that go over different network modalities, e.g, data center native, satellite, 5G, etc) can be used to recover from network partition. Still, having a protocol with at-least-once delivery guarante
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by scruffups 6y ago
The post you're replying to does list compensating transactions (a form of rollback) One gotcha that is not covered by Sagas (I could be wrong) is when one or many of the network paths involved in the distributed tx become unreachable
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by scruffups 6y ago
Sorry, it took me a while to catch up on the latest developments in webrtc and write my response. If I had seen yours first, I would not have replied redundantly.
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by scruffups 6y ago
Local IP Leak SOLVED: Chrome (and maybe other browsers, too) no longer share local IP address. They share the mDNS address instead, which is often generated and registered locally by the browser. It's used only if the peers are on the
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by scruffups 6y ago
" but these seem to be relatively rare nowadays " AT&T 5G uses Symmetric NAT. It's not rare if you have an iPhone or iPad with cellular. No way to do P2P without relaying traffic unless you want to "guess" the r