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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

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Post by forty »

arcticbull wrote: post #85
qwantim1 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use junk drawers, which scale to available drawers, after which you buy more storage or a larger house.

Personally, I farm to work out to the cloud. I simply purchase whatever I need, have it delivered to an Amazon locker nearby, and then when I’m done with it I throw it out and order a new one. The most frequently used ones are always at the locker and the least frequently used one is automatically returned for a refund. The cache miss is approximately two days. It’s expensive, but you can’t beat the fact that it scal…

"bowl-less" would never work in France. It translates in French to "pas de bol" which also means "bad luck".

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

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Post by annoyingnoob »

adrianmonk wrote: post #122
annoyingnoob wrote: post #48

I thought this was a last-in-first-out stack?

It's actually a self-organizing list with the move-to-front method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list

I suppose the shitbowl supports some amount of concurrency and some times O(1) access to more than just the last item.

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

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Post by doodlebugging »

My personal solution is so much more simple than this shitbowl solution and is trivial to implement. I have been using it for years and can personally vouch for it's effectiveness and scalability.

Skip the bowl entirely.

When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly.

Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor's side of the fence. It is totally irrelevant where you leave it.

Since it is universally true that you always find something in the last place that you look this method that I have employed works perfectly EVERY SINGLE TIME and for objects of any physical description.

It is impossible to lose something if you are willing to spend sufficient time and effort remembering where you put it and revisiting that location.

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

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Post by DavidPeiffer »

adrianmonk wrote: post #122
annoyingnoob wrote: post #48

I thought this was a last-in-first-out stack?

It's actually a self-organizing list with the move-to-front method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list

Thanks for linking! Now I know the name for my strategy in my spice cabinet. Most recently used spices go on the right, slowly moving to the left with lack of use.

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

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Post by ARandomerDude »

forty wrote: post #151
arcticbull wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I farm to work out to the cloud. I simply purchase whatever I need, have it delivered to an Amazon locker nearby, and then when I’m done with it I throw it out and order a new one. The most frequently used ones are always at the locker and the least frequently used one is automatically returned for a refund. The cache miss is approximately two days. It’s expensive, but you can’t beat the fact that it scal…

"bowl-less" would never work in France. It translates in French to "pas de bol" which also means "bad luck".

Still better than bowel-less, a possible misspelling given the context.
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