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Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#61

This kind of sarcastic social critique well designed site reminds of better times for the Internet... before the dark times... before Facebook.

On the flip side this is a real process that essentially works. The book "Algorithms to Love By" decides a chapter to solutions to meat space retrieval problems.

I’m pretty sure you mean “Algorithms to _Live_ By”- but I love the typo, since one anecdotes involves using CS/mathematical principles (secretary problem) to find an optimal romantic partner. Enjoyable read for sure!

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#62

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I am a competitor of Shitbowl, and my product ("Shitdrawer") solves this issue!

However, while it's true that your product is O(1) even in the worst case, when you look closer it's actually O(1) + O(1) even in the best case, as you have to open the Shitdrawer to even get the the most recently used item. Do you have any solution to this?

I would recommend not looking closer!

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#65
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To enable Sharding: throw your shitbowl against the wall. NB: Cached items will be need to be reindexed once sharding has been enabled.

If you have a glass one you can even shard the bowl!

Um. Yeah. Thanks for explaining my joke :-)

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#66

Looks like a nice prototype. In the real world Id like to see some basic provisions for type safety though. If the last thing used was a half drank rocks glass of tequila the integrity of the entire cache will be threatened. * they all sound like "stupid problems" till your boss is calling at 3AM because the system is down.

If your boss is in your house using your shitbowl.
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