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To the best of my knowledge, Redis has never blocked for replication, although you can configure healthy replication state as a prerequisite to accept writes.

How does one concretely prepare for socio-economic collapse, beyond taking a long position in canned goods?


There are a lot of ways one can prepare for such a collapse, the most impactful way is to develop skills and preserve knowledge of history, production, and other important information that is being suppressed or pigeonholed to only industry in foreign countries; to a greater or lesser degree.

Preserve the dependencies that promote critical thinking, rational thought, and measured reason.

Aside from that, figure out what you need for survival beyond the basics in a non-permissive environment without a rule of law; and build a community of people that have these skills. The lone wolf always dies, the pack survives.

Austere Medicine, Food Preservation, Guns/Self Defense, Information Recon, etc... Map dependencies, costs, and yields (information that is largely kept confidential these days).

Learn how to make stuff from scratch, and learn what areas you can leapfrog given knowledge of the development of such the technologies in such industries.

Most of the materials we rely on today would not be available because we rely on knowledge of chemistry which few have.

The actual factors that determine the Wealth of Nations are based in the ability of the individual citizen to be self sufficient and produce necessities from scratch that will last without excessive recurring cost. Through a distribution of labor. The book from Adam Smith covers these factors in great detail, and while LTV is now defunct/refuted, the cost portion implicit in the making of intermediate goods resulting from such valuation/economics is not, and remains valid.

Debt-based money-printing on the otherhand is all about distorting the market allowing nationalized industry to outcompete legitimate companies through slave labor under financial engineering. The debasement stolen from everyone holding the currency is in fact slave labor. A runaway positive feedback system that destroys everything it touches (eventually), tainted by Ahriman.


I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.


She's a solo artist now, right?


New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another.

Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.


Decent article, with some technical misunderstandings about MULTI/EXEC, perhaps unnecessary skepticism about Lua, though I certainly do wish Redis had richer built-in functions for CAS and the like.


Agree, there seems to be a lot of skepticism. Maybe this is a cop-out but most people probably don't even need some perfectly implemented rate limiter and having a basic, efficient, easy solution that solves most of the problem isn't horrible, it's just pragmatic. I don't think anyone is running around claiming Redis is the end-all solution to rate-limiting.


> ...unnecessary skepticism...

The URL suggests they might have a product to offer to solve the problem.


Yes - not only is Slack search underpowered, but also records management folks are likely to configure pruning of Slack content older than a couple years or so. This is IME less likely to be a problem with wiki pages.



Water being mostly incompressible is not the same as having high compressive strength. Liquid water makes for a poor tooth or structural column.


That's my point; think about it deeply.


You wrote "water has great compressive strength", sk5t directly (and correctly) refuted that claim. What is there to think about?

Are you confusing "compressive strength" with compressibility?


I think his point is that things very rarely experience purely compressive forces. Just being compressed induces tension in other directions, like water being squished out between your clapping hands. So even though water has great compressive strength, in practice this isn't very useful.


Exactly.

Many materials would have compressive strength easily, just by being relatively uncompressible.

But most loads have a (troublesome) tensile component. Fundamentally, the ability of a rigid material to resist deformation (in the most general sense) is what is most important, and that requires tensile strength.

See this comment elsewhere in this sub-thread that explains it probably better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904800


Look up the Wikipedia definition [1] of compressive strength:

> In mechanics, compressive strength (or compression strength) is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to reduce size (compression). It is opposed to tensile strength which withstands loads tending to elongate, resisting tension (being pulled apart).

Google search AI summary states:

> Compressive strength is a material's capacity to resist forces that try to reduce its volume or cause deformation.

To be fair, compressive strength is a complex measure. Compressibility is only one aspect of it. See this Encyclopedia Britannica article [2] about how compressive strength is tested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressive_strength

[2] https://www.britannica.com/technology/compressive-strength-t...


Please tell me how to make a water prism to test compressive strength and deformation resistance. Water is an incompressible fluid, that is different.

These are well understood terms in the field. Unfortunately, this illustrates the bounds of ai in subfields like materials: it confuses people.


I'm not saying water meets the strict definition of a material with high compressive strength (it does meet some, since it resists forces that attempt to decrease its volume well). I am just using as an extreme example of the issues with the concept of compressive strength.


lower the temperature


Nothing that you wrote here indicates you understand what is being discussed.

Water has very low compressive strength, so low that it freely deforms under its own weight. You can observe this by pouring some water onto a table. This behavior is distinct from materials with high compressive strength, such as wood or steel.

(I say "very low" instead of "zero" because surface tension could be considered a type of compressive strength at small scales, such as a single drop of water on a hydrophobic surface)


Your comments betrays a lack of comprehension and understanding. Please reads my comments and linked definitions carefully.

See this comment elsewhere in this sub-thread that explains it probably better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904800


Very hard to force it to failure into permanent changes in shape.


> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.


> Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form

Oh that's right. You're now giving me PTSD from all this Notes internals knowledge that was hidden away in my brain.


Are those runners and bicyclists not confused? Taking a risk in golf could save a stroke or cost several; are runners making mistakes like "run harder for a bit but fall into a pond" or "run harder for a bit but exceed limits and take an injury"?


Chase it with sudden repeated exposure to "hermeneutics"!


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