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

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Post by mikewarot »

crazygringo wrote: post #205
chronolitus wrote: post #125

The idea is pretty good, but misses the mark. Bitcoin has shown that decentralization is a bad idea. What people actually want is Sharebowl: a single bowl, the size of oregon, that you can trust to keep your valuables safe. We plan an ICO by 2022, IPO by 2023, and IBS[1] by next week. [1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/irritable-bow...

No, a single centralized bowl carries massive risk. What happens when it goes down? Do you even trust the SLA? What about privacy? What we need is Peerbowl: a network of millions of bowls interconnected via an interdimensional wormhole. We're in the last stages of ironing out all the kinks. Race conditions have resulted in a few lost fingers but also some extra tentacles which users report are surprisingly handy! Sta…

You mean an EnderChest? ;-)

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

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Post by mikewarot »

Long ago, I wrote a version of this for OS/2, in Assembler... called Forth/2.

There is an interesting parallel idea where you get a large set of nesting tupperware containers, and enclose items in between the ( ) I heard about it from uncle John McCarthy.

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

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Post by OJFord »

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #185
OJFord wrote: post #184

I don't particularly want to be 'that guy', and perhaps/probably it's part of the joke ('whoosh') - but 'the LRU items go to the bottom'.. it's MRU? The top item that you take (assuming you're not digging about) is the most recently used, we don't classify queues by what's at the back/bottom?

No. LRU is referring to eviction policy (which still isn't accurate since this bowl doesn't have a hole at the bottom). (I guess I'm 'that guy' now :)

Yes, right, sorry, of course. Cache.

I think I got confused because a cache is a fixed length queue where 'take one' means evict, but 'take one' in OP means cache hit (if we're calling it a cache). I'd still prefer to call it an MRU queue (not a cache at all) I suppose.

(With some weird overflow property where it starts evicting MRU after a certain point too...)

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

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Post by 9dev »

xyzelement wrote: post #187

This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval. For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open…

I spend my whole work day figuring out those problems but not once got the idea to apply them to organising my personal life. Questioning a lot of decisions now...

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Post by nottrobin »

chronolitus wrote: post #125

The idea is pretty good, but misses the mark. Bitcoin has shown that decentralization is a bad idea. What people actually want is Sharebowl: a single bowl, the size of oregon, that you can trust to keep your valuables safe. We plan an ICO by 2022, IPO by 2023, and IBS[1] by next week. [1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/irritable-bow...

Haha love the simplicity of "bitcoin has shown decentralisation is a bad idea". No whiff of a justification, just a straightforward statement of fact. A masterclass in empty marketing. This company knows their shit.

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Post by extropic-engine »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #190
xyzelement wrote: post #187

This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval. For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open…

Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process. However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes…

ok but the real question for everyone here is do y’all put your leggings in your sock drawer or with your bras/underwear

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

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Post by utf_8x »

Taniwha wrote: post #217
hda2 wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clay is unsafe. You should rebuild it again using food grade Resin.

Surely Rust is far better than Clay, Resin, and/or constricting snake platforms

Go enterprise, use a coffee cup

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

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Post by txtsd »

spacemanmatt wrote: post #171
tailspin2019 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

ShitBox has had sharts since like version 2.4

> sharts

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

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Post by xyzelement »

madaxe_again wrote: post #220
xyzelement wrote: post #187

This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval. For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open…

My wife keeps on reorganising my toolboxes and it’s driving me nuts. She ends up organising the contents by colour, or by size, so now I find my woodworking chisels in a box with filter spanners and solder (the soldering irons are in the box with glue and mallets). It’s driving me crazy, but she won’t stop, and gets mad at me when I can’t find stuff because “it’s organised”. Different people have different minds. I g…

The key at least for me is to recognize that my wife's desire to clean and organize is a huge net positive for my life, with things like you just described being relatively small side effects.

Here's how I manage it. One important thing is to label anything that's messy and needs to remain that way "a work in progress.". It indicates to the wife that (a) you care about neatness and (b) there's an end in sight.

The other thing is to claim areas. Sounds like tools are your domain - have you discussed that maybe you should just be in charge of that one small part of your life? :)

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