UUIDs are generally uncompressable. This is because their values can be anything and multiple UUIDs generaly don't repeat in a payload. So you may be surprised to learn that a JSON list of UUIDs compresses to 56% of their original size. Here's an example:
[
"572585559c5c4278b6947144d010dad3",
"b97ec0750f67468d964519e18000ccf6",
"c1c69970b9bc4c0a9266a3350a9b2ab1",
"2eb10805db484db7a196f89882d32142",
"4b3569aaac154195aaa5ea114eff6566",
"e253f04c1f414b7291e682ea465e8e19 …A life full of activity is a fulfilling one. So the saying doesn't go. I made it up. And now that I have a car in the City of Steel I can fill my days with activities beyond food festivals and coffee shops. Here is a list of adventures now …
read moreThis is a simple strategy for confirming that some values are shared between requests. There must be a more 'correct' way to inspect values in concurrent requests, but I was unable to find it. I normally use a debugger to set breakpoints, but there was no way to set a …
read moreI'm writing this post several months from when I visited Chaco Canyon. I visited Chaco Canyon in the first week of February on my drive up from Albuquerque to Monitcello. This was a beautiful drive.
I was listening to Brave New World as I passed valley and mountain. It just …
read moreYesterday I implemented a predicate to compute the min and max of a list. Today I'm doing the same, but now with constraints.
The code looks pretty much the same thanks to the handy min and max
constraints.
:- use_module(library(clpfd)).
min_and_max([V], A, B) :-
V #= A …As a fun exercise I implemented a predicate to calculate the minimum and maximum element of a list.
min_and_max([A], A, A).
min_and_max([H|R], N, X):-
min_and_max(R, RN, RX),
N is min(H, RN),
X is max(H, RX).
Next I wrote …
read moreIt's been a year since I've written any Mercury (the purely logic/functional programming language), but there's one feature I miss. It's nothing fancy, and certainly one of the less interesting features Mercury has to offer.
To understand this particular feature let's look at where other languages fail …
read moreHere are some photos from Redwoods National and State Parks, an hour and a half north of Eureka, CA.
A storm rolled in before I left Apple Valley.
One thing the West has that the East doesn't is independent drive-thru restaurants and beverage stands. Ever since New Mexico I've been seeing coffee trucks and smoothie wagons. I've also seen a good number of drive-thru Mexican restaurants. All of them …
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