Eighth Post!

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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Can't concentrate; am reading:

https://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

My brain keeps flipping between a literal reading and a metaphorical one in which the nodes are people.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished chapter 2. It's an odd read so far; explains some things that go without saying, while leaving out examples that would help with following the more confusing parts. I've already done some work with High Availability stuff so I think I'm following it okay, but am glad this isn't the *first* text I've read on the topic.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Probably didn't help that I got distracted switching out "keeping data consistent, available and distributed between nodes" for "keeping political theory consistent, available and distributed between people" and trying to fit different stumbling blocks encountered by feminists into the different combinations under the CAP theorem. PA? Third wave. PC? Second wave. CA? Not sure we've even managed that. XD But maybe others would disagree with my characterisations. It's a silly activity, anyway, and I should go back to reading. :P

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

What a sentence:

"Zookeeper is basically the open source community's version of Chubby."

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

"Most standard logical frameworks are monotonic: any inferences made within a framework such as first-order logic, once deductively valid, cannot be invalidated by new information. A non-monotonic logic is a system in which that property does not hold - in other words, if some conclusions can be invalidated by learning new knowledge."


Aha, we've solved the mystery of TRA logic. We say "men are dangerous". They say, "but I have new information; this one has Inner Feelings". At this point, our logics diverge. We say "men are dangerous; this is man (with Inner Feelings); this man is dangerous". They say "men are dangerous; this is man with Inner Feelings, ???? STDERROR, Inner Feelings Inner Feelings Inner Feelings, OVERWRITE ALL KNOWN CONCLUSIONS, MEN NOT DANGEROUS."

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

And hence we get:

"It is important to realize the connection between non-monotonicity and operations that are expensive to perform in a distributed system."

:P

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Back on topic, I snickered at the guy in the comments who made it all the way to chapter 5 thinking "partition" referred to "disk partition".