How big are the commitments here? I’m having trouble finding actual dollar amounts. Does this actually represent an infusion of money into these SMR efforts, or are these “commitments” tied to so many missable targets…
Many of the levels in that game take place on tiny planetoids with spherical surfaces and central gravity. "Spherical" sells it short, there were some truly wild topologies around which Mario could run and jump.
It's an elegant rendering trick, but if their worlds are represented as a torus, then I expect this would make rotation on a spherical globe view unintuitive. One example of this: I would expect each location would not…
Wonderful write-up of attempting to tackle this problem. I believe there must be a significant number of people who have played both Minecraft and Super Mario Galaxy, and had something like this sequence of thoughts -…
Rust uses the traits “Send” and “Sync” to encode this information, there is a lot of special tooling in the compiler around these. A type is “Send” if it can be moved from one thread to another, it is “Sync” if it can…
There are tantalizing ways to create fusion which don’t require these precise conditions. For example, a simple farnsworth fusor device gets fusion reactions just by causing atoms to cross paths at super high speed…
This would work very well for medicine/procedures which are known to work very well, to both doctors and consumers. This includes medicine which is already OTC (pain relievers), but also probably anything they can do at…
I work with this algorithm quite a bit in a personal project. (I've changed from calling it WFC to Model Synthesis; Paul Merrell earned the naming rights, unless we discover an even earlier description.) I mentally…
I think there’s some possibly good investment advice to extract here, if you’re able and willing to invest in fusion startups: based on the need to compete with renewables alone, commercial success implies that highly…
They absolutely were, yes. There are very valuable application profiles where FoundationDB's design is excellent, and you can see that from its internal usage at large companies like Apple and Snowflake.
FoundationDB has, in my experience, always been well regarded in DB development circles; I think their test architecture - developed to easily reproduce rare concurrency failures - is its best legacy, as mentioned in a…
Co-routines can be a great structured-programming tool for implementing state machines. A good article which explains this idea explicitly: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-a... That said,…
Co-routines (when used as an async primitive) are an an alternative to callbacks. Callbacks exist to avoid the overhead of marshalling async results back to the original calling thread: instead of having the calling…
(author) This is a good insight; Live Lock was one of the things that kept me up at night, although my fellow contributors have allayed my concerns considerably. In a write-heavy workload where the transactions follow a…
Post author here: In terms of Google products, CockroachDB much more closely resembles a combination Spanner (http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html) and F1 (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html).…
Post author here Sargun is correct, all of our replication is performed by Raft, which exists at a lower level than the content covered in this post. Every command executed against a cockroach key (i.e. "create write…
Post author here! The on disk part of the "switch", our transaction record, can only be accessed internally. There are only a small number of operations to perform on it - create it, read its value, and a small number…
How big are the commitments here? I’m having trouble finding actual dollar amounts. Does this actually represent an infusion of money into these SMR efforts, or are these “commitments” tied to so many missable targets…
Many of the levels in that game take place on tiny planetoids with spherical surfaces and central gravity. "Spherical" sells it short, there were some truly wild topologies around which Mario could run and jump.
It's an elegant rendering trick, but if their worlds are represented as a torus, then I expect this would make rotation on a spherical globe view unintuitive. One example of this: I would expect each location would not…
Wonderful write-up of attempting to tackle this problem. I believe there must be a significant number of people who have played both Minecraft and Super Mario Galaxy, and had something like this sequence of thoughts -…
Rust uses the traits “Send” and “Sync” to encode this information, there is a lot of special tooling in the compiler around these. A type is “Send” if it can be moved from one thread to another, it is “Sync” if it can…
There are tantalizing ways to create fusion which don’t require these precise conditions. For example, a simple farnsworth fusor device gets fusion reactions just by causing atoms to cross paths at super high speed…
This would work very well for medicine/procedures which are known to work very well, to both doctors and consumers. This includes medicine which is already OTC (pain relievers), but also probably anything they can do at…
I work with this algorithm quite a bit in a personal project. (I've changed from calling it WFC to Model Synthesis; Paul Merrell earned the naming rights, unless we discover an even earlier description.) I mentally…
I think there’s some possibly good investment advice to extract here, if you’re able and willing to invest in fusion startups: based on the need to compete with renewables alone, commercial success implies that highly…
They absolutely were, yes. There are very valuable application profiles where FoundationDB's design is excellent, and you can see that from its internal usage at large companies like Apple and Snowflake.
FoundationDB has, in my experience, always been well regarded in DB development circles; I think their test architecture - developed to easily reproduce rare concurrency failures - is its best legacy, as mentioned in a…
Co-routines can be a great structured-programming tool for implementing state machines. A good article which explains this idea explicitly: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-a... That said,…
Co-routines (when used as an async primitive) are an an alternative to callbacks. Callbacks exist to avoid the overhead of marshalling async results back to the original calling thread: instead of having the calling…
(author) This is a good insight; Live Lock was one of the things that kept me up at night, although my fellow contributors have allayed my concerns considerably. In a write-heavy workload where the transactions follow a…
Post author here: In terms of Google products, CockroachDB much more closely resembles a combination Spanner (http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html) and F1 (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html).…
Post author here Sargun is correct, all of our replication is performed by Raft, which exists at a lower level than the content covered in this post. Every command executed against a cockroach key (i.e. "create write…
Post author here! The on disk part of the "switch", our transaction record, can only be accessed internally. There are only a small number of operations to perform on it - create it, read its value, and a small number…