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Comment · 22 days ago
India's central and Delhi's state government clamping down on protests on unprecedented scale.
Comment · 2 months ago
Ah... now I know that Microsoft is running full weather simulations on each user desktop... pretty neat.
Comment · 2 months ago
Was /s missed or this is AI generated counterpoint?
Comment · 3 months ago
If bug free binary search implementation can take 16 years, I am ready to buy generics implementation could take 20 years.

> In his landmark book The Art of Computer Programming, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth noted that although the first binary search algorithm was published by John Mauchly in 1946, the first bug-free version was not published until 1962—taking a staggering 16 years to get right.

Comment · 3 months ago
One really does that on phones?
Comment · 4 months ago
potential global fallout s/if/when/ the boom turns to bust
Comment · 4 months ago
INR 1/ GB... approximated to dollar.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Of course it is political agenda driven, but at least from surface it does not have _fear mongering_ vibe, comparing for example with Sweden which did not conclude citizenship applications and applied back dated refusal. Also politician openly attribting all immigrants as source of increasing crime and lowering education levels.

10m is larger than current resident counts, so people moving in can decide now if they want to move with uncertainty. It is not what everyone would like, but it is more understandable that recent Swedish changes, for example.

Comment · 4 months ago
This seems a much more rational approach than pure political agenda driven fear mongering campaigns against immigrants.
Comment · 4 months ago
If redis is a database, then by

> doesn’t pose any constraints on the type of data.

logic, raw disk is also a database. One just need to add block level replication to other nodes to build a replicated/ HA database.

We may not agree, but anything not providing transactions across logically related multiple data read/ update operations is not a database.

> multiple instances to provide the same data

is easy and done by a bunch of software out there, but

> multiple instances to provide the same data on non-shared memory computers, with consistency

is a really hard problem, and no one has been able to solve it yet without introducing other problems to be considered (giving up on fast performance being one of the most visible one) by architects/ developers.

Comment · 4 months ago
Point is... with AOF and RDB enabled, and wait command used in sane manner, one can get reasonable consistency with a significant speed tradeoff and increase in application complexity. So if consistent cache is needed, one can have that with some compromises, but then probably one could use a database straight away.

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