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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 joezydeco »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #60

I'm working on a quantum version of this. Items placed in the bowl may randomly disappear then reappear in a different quantum bowl somewhere else in the universe. We have already seeded the market with test prototypes shaped like laundry baskets that are limited to small pieces of cloth footwear. But we hope to scale up to Level 5 Flinging of Massive Objects (FOMO) before the end of the year.

All Shitbowls possess this feature, it's involved by a simple formula of

(age in bowl x proximity to bottom x urgency of real-time need)

Some items such as padlock keys, unused postage stamps, and nearly expired gift cards will override and invoke a quantum certainty of 1.0 when they are trying to be located.

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

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Post by detaro »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #65
detaro wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

whops ;) I read it as "spread the contents around widely" == sharding at first

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

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Post by drran »

schmorptron wrote: post #51
ThePadawan wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

O(1)+O(1) is just O(11). Not a big problem.

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

oarsinsync wrote: post #38

Tragically, with uMatrix installed and default configuration, no images load, because external third party JS is needed just to load an image. A parody that plays itself a little too well, sadly.

Works for me, third party image host only.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

yepthatsreality wrote: post #56
jrochkind1 wrote: post #33

Why is the HN article title obscured with "*"? Does HN have a forbidden words policy?

Christians. You’re on their time.

Linguistic prudishness outside of specifically around violations of the Second Commandment isn't particularly tied to Christianity.

As “shit” is not, even in the broadest Christian interpretation, a name of the Christian God, that doesn't seem to be the basis of any filtering of that word.

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

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Post by zikzak »

ThePadawan wrote: post #17
xxpor wrote: post #8

This implementation is O(n) on retrieval, rather than O(1) as in the ideal case. Hopefully v2 will optimize that in the near future.

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

I used to love this product but after a few weeks it started to only make the first 15% of the items available. You then have to use elevated permissions to remove the cached items directly behind these which sometimes results in damage to the items or the operator. Please fix this or I'm going to lower my rating.
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