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

#81

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

#82

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.

I hate to break this to you, but they've beaten you to the quantum bowl: I think it was patented some years ago as the "latrine". It has the same properties you describe, similar properties to the OP's "shitbowl" concept, and can quickly deploy artifacts in one button push*.

(Unless your artifact volume exceeds the recommended capacity in the readme, also helps to make sure the pipeline has sufficient capacity for large deploys to efficiently release to the municipal cloud)

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

#83
post #81

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

Oh no! The Internet is more easily accessible providing more knowledge and access to millions worldwide! It's not limited to our extremely exclusive clique of 1337 hackers who also all happen to be white, college-educated American men!

You could have, you know, all that good stuff also without Facebook.

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

#85
post #59

Why is this a product? I could implement this myself in a weekend with a few open source libraries.

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 scales to a practically unlimited degree.

I call it “bowl-less” caching.

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

#86
post #59

Why is this a product? I could implement this myself in a weekend with a few open source libraries.

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

Ah yes, the old horizontal scaling technique.

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

#87

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.

  /* The PM says this 100% will never happen. */

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

#89

If I put a Docker container in it will it scale seamlessly?

You can use a bigger shitbowl instance, but at this point you might just want to deploy a few of them on a shitshelf cluster. However if you're hitting size limits with only two users, you should tackle the root cause instead of throwing more hardware at it.
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