srkiNZ

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by srkiNZ 2y ago
Great essay! Really seems to have tuned into the current feelings of cynicism and loss of belief in progress as a tool for a better future. Reading the comments, it feels like a lot of people seem to have read this as an anti-capitalist pie
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
Great article! I feel like I am dealing with so much of this behaviour at my job recently. It feels like most of the people espousing Best Practice never learned that "appeal to authority" was not a reasonable argument.
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
Really enjoyed this article. Longevity and health increasingly seems to be intrinsically tied to planning for better things, hoping for better things and enjoying the process.
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
This looks really cool. Would have bought it but the price is a bit too high for me (I live in New Zealand as well so when you convert from USD then add shipping costs etc...).
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
FWIW, I consider that definition to be both reasonable and (in the context of "distributed systems") authoritative.
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
Great! I agree 100%. We have to assume a "reliable network" within a "boundary" (i.e. a computers CPU, memory, busses etc...). Distributed systems (from which these rules are taken) are specifically systems where anythin
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
> why can't I choose to view "the system itself" as the thing that is on the other side of a de-duplicator? because the "de-duplicator" would either: * be somewhere else on an unreliable network (in which case we
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by srkiNZ 2y ago
If "you" are "downstream" of a "de-duplication mechanism" how do you ensure "exactly once delivery" between "you" and the "de-duplication mechanism"?
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by srkiNZ 4y ago
This comment really hit home for me, thank you for posting it. Thinking about it, for the last few years the only motivating thing about work has been to "do it for the person next to you", to try and help them, make their life ea