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by vbsd 7mo ago
Even if we accept this metaphor of English as a programming language, it’s used in a highly unusual way. With regular programming, you have a full specification of the program (the code) and it gets turned into an executable. When you want
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by vbsd 10mo ago
> A simple example where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 is ℤ₂, the group of integers modulo 2 under addition. That’s a good example of an algebra where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, but the article is specifically about systems where in addition to that condition, this
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by vbsd 2y ago
What sort of an interleaving would produce 1? Seems provably impossible to me, assuming atomic assignments.
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by vbsd 2y ago
Ah, I missed that you were talking about the code in the appendix, not the top examples. Yeah, you’re right on every count then, aplologies.
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by vbsd 2y ago
Huh, you're right about this, thanks. On the other hand, I maintain that this is an incidental rather than essential reason for the program finishing quickly. In that benchmark code, we can replace "sleep" with our custom sle
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by vbsd 2y ago
> because `tokio::time::sleep()` keeps track of when the future was created, (ie when `sleep()` was called) instead of when the future is first `.await`ed I’m not a Rust programmer but I strongly suspect this updated explanation is erron
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by vbsd 2y ago
Even if CockroachDB uses Postgres wire protocol, it doesn’t mean you can easily migrate all workloads supported by CockroachDB to Postgres. The scaling properties are different.
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by vbsd 2y ago
This is true but you’ll have these risks with any paid service/dependency that has non-zero migration cost. Startups still use such products all the time, assuming that a huge price spike is not that likely or that there’s going to be
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by vbsd 2y ago
Yes, and this is probably a common issue with these “pricing on request” schemes. Unpleasant, yes, but this unpleasantness can still be worth it if you’re running a big business and you need the database with the properties that CockroachDB
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by vbsd 2y ago
There’s one problem with this model. Let’s say I’m running a pre-revenue startup and I want to use the self-hosted version of CockroachDB. The license allows me to do it for free until I get to $10M annual revenue. Well, that’s great and al
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by vbsd 2y ago
I got a subscription and the problem is gone. There are still other issues though, for example, the instant reminder feature doesn’t seem to work, the partner doesn’t get a notification. On an unrelated note, do you accept feature suggestio
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by vbsd 2y ago
I might find this app useful. However, for some reason it heats up my iPhone SE (2nd gen) and everything grinds to a halt after a few seconds of using it.
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by vbsd 2y ago
Would you expand on the Python issue? I find recent Python additions either useful or non-intrusive, I wonder which ones you think are born out of FOMO.
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by vbsd 2y ago
Curious that there’s no talk about nogil. Or did I just miss it?
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by vbsd 2y ago
You are invoking an argument that's called "group selection" [1], it's the idea that genes propagate based on whether they benefit the species as a whole. This argument has been heavily criticized and it is not used much
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by vbsd 3y ago
What texts by Jorge Luis Borges are you thinking of? Wikipedia quotes him calling himself a conservative, and none of the short stories I’ve read strike me as revolutionary. Perhaps something from his youth?
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by vbsd 4y ago
This Django example is more of a "[one or zero] to [one or zero]" relationship, that's likely what the grandparent post means. I doubt any of the mainstream relational databases have a way to enforce exact one-to-one correspo
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by vbsd 4y ago
I was curious what 6th leading cause of death means in terms of percentages. From the annual report on MAID (medical assistance in dying) in Canada: > In 2021, there were 10,064 MAID provisions reported in Canada, accounting for 3.3% of
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Adam Neumann’s first interview since WeWork(youtube.com)
1 points by vbsd 4y ago|0 comments
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by vbsd 4y ago
You can scroll by holding down the middle trackpad button with your thumb and pushing the trackpoint in one direction or the other. You can even scroll horizontally this way. This is the main reason for the complaint about the missing middl
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by vbsd 5y ago
There you go: https://vbsd.github.io/chimp-game/ In medium mode, the numbers are hidden only after you click on 1. In hard mode, the numbers are flashed for 210ms. I couldn't succeed with that one, not even close.
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by vbsd 6y ago
I suspect it was meant to be read as “I don’t [ just ] believe in climate change, I’ve researched it, it’s something I’m concerned about.”
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by vbsd 6y ago
Do it while procrastinating on something more important. That’s the gist of the essay.
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by vbsd 6y ago
Probably a reference to Jesus.
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by vbsd 6y ago
This line of thinking would be very relevant if Ukraine was a member of NATO. But since it’s not, could you elaborate? Which alliance do you mean?
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by vbsd 7y ago
I’ve first read posts about your website many months ago, and I’ve been intrigued ever since. Could you share a planned release date, even if approximate and preliminary? Also, it’s seems that your product has been “almost ready” for some t