mihvoi
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Comment · 5 days ago
TLDR: to get rid of the ?m=1 indexing problem on Blogspot, the only solution I found is to use a personal domain and a reverse proxy worker at Cloudflare.
Comment · 3 months ago
Indeed, one should choose the the lowest consistency guaranties that are required - to favor scalability and availability.
Some more thoughts on minimum requirements for a read-after-write consistency: https://software.mihvoi.ro/2026/04/2-flow-consistency-read-y...
Comment · 4 years ago
An intuitive and simple Phone application/theme on Android smartphones - especially for old people.
Comment · 4 years ago
The main thing that keeps me using Windows and not Linux is a tool to index folders and files from all my DVDs and external hard disks. It also accounts for total size of each folder and browse the archive.
I only use the search file/folder name feature, I don't even need any content indexing that this tool has. It just needs to scale to Terabytes size (like millions of files/folders) and optionally do de-duplication.
If you know such tool on Linux, it would really help me to be less dependent on Windows. Or maybe someone you can build such a tool on Linux. I tried to create my own tool in Java but it took too much DRAM to index the many files I have. This Win tool indexes all my files and folders in a file of 1-200MB and searches all in 10-30 seconds. No server/database in involved, just a standalone tool.
I share the tool just for reference. The tool didn't had any update for years, I hope the programmer is still alive and healthy. https://www.whereisit-soft.com/
Comment · 4 years ago
Make multiple copies in various places, including read-only like CD/DVD. Re-copy at regular intervals.
Do not underestimate the resilience of paper format, however it's harder to move it to digital again.
More ideas that you could also use for programs: https://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/05/backup-your-smar...
Comment · 4 years ago
I only "believe" in the computable numbers - that can be defined by an algorithm at arbitrary precision.
That includes all rationals along with irrational that we have a way to approximate by algorithms - like sqrt(2) and PI. It does not include the incalculable numbers like Omega.
Being linked to algorithms, such numbers are only countable many, so they cannot contain "most" of irrational and therefore they lack most of "Real numbers".
There are mathematicians that take this view seriously, like "Constructivists" and "finitists". For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REeaT2mWj6Y
Comment · 4 years ago
This crypto madness kept way too long. I say it from 2017:
https://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-bitcoin-will...
Comment · 5 years ago
Dogecoin was created as a joke. The founder removed himself from the project, other people are probably use it for scams. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-rise...
Regardin all crypto: https://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-bitcoin-will...