Readit NewsfoldU commented on TigerBeetle is a most interesting database amplifypartners.com/blog-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
foldU commented on Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization buttondown.com/jaffray/ar... · Posted by u/samuel246
I think you and the article are referring to abstractions over different concerns.
The concern you're talking about is about the actual access to the data. My understanding of the article is that it's about how caching algorithms can abstract the concern of minimising retrieval cost.
So in some ways you're coming at it from opposite directions. You're talking about a prior of "disk by default" and saying that a good abstraction lets you insert cache layers above that, whereas for the author the base case is "manually managing the layers of storage".
This is correct, I appreciate you for putting it so
coherently :). I think I didn’t make it clear enough in the piece that I’m coming from a stance of fast access being table stakes, and the question being about how that’s accomplished.
foldU commented on Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bitsavers
Didn't have time to make it through the entire (long winded) article, but is it wrong to boil down his thinking to the simple idea that a benevolent, competent dictator is the best form of government? I ask as this seems like a very simplistic and obvious idea. The problem isn't that this is necessarily incorrect, it is how do you find this mythical figurehead? History has shown that we have never discovered a system that did this reliably and I didn't see any indication that he had solved this problem. How do you ensure you get a Sun King and not.. something else.
he addresses this, you simply get airline pilots to pick them
* Got paid a referral fee if I signed up
* Owned shares in the company
* Even was roommates with the founders/CEO but failed to mention it
I would trust that person less going forward.
If you want to be perceived as trustworthy, then you shouldn't say things that you have a hidden interest in saying.