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That's the fundamental problem with self-documenting negative information. "Self-documentation" rides along with written code, and so describes what the code is doing. Negative information is about what the code is *not* doing.
Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"
Computer Things
Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome orb, that is just science. Oh a guy is building a superintelligent AI and also compiling a permanent electronic identification database of all humans, that’s great, that’s not an alarming science-fiction premise at all. I feel like if you made that movie you’d have to have some plausible back story about how the AI convinced people to hand over their iris scans to the AI, but in the real world you don’t.
Money Stuff: The Moon Emoji Is Securities Fraud
Matt Levine
Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount of space compared to other well-known clock designs. The space complexity is O(n). A vector timestamp tracks the id of a node and the last known event id from that node. Therefore, if there are n nodes in the system, the timestamp would be an n-tuple.
Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
Giridhar Manepalli
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