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by anp 1y ago
I have said a lot of times that I feel like people keep trying to reinvent a state and taxes to pay for shared infrastructure with open source maintenance. I don’t know how to use the state to solve the problem without severely degrading th
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by anp 1y ago
I think there might be interesting time scales in between “now” and “my entire career” to which the bitter lesson may or may not apply. As an outsider to ML I have questions about the longevity of any given “context engineering” approach in
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by anp 1y ago
Not GP but as a 90s kid who didn’t learn programming until my 20s my impression is that script kiddies with cute hacks are a huge source of creativity. And maybe even playful tools, which I personally enjoy. Something about not focusing on
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by anp 1y ago
I’ve definitely seen all of these problems in Rust programs but they certainly aren’t limited to Rust programs. I do think it would be nice if Rust libraries were a bit more misuse-resistant when it came to preserving a coherent terminal. I
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by anp 1y ago
Maybe not fair, but it’s pretty normal for people to assess paradigms based on their most popular implementations.
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by anp 1y ago
I’m currently at google (opinions not representative of my employer’s etc) and this is true for things that run in a data center but it’s a lot harder for things that need to be tested on physical hardware like parts of Android or CrOS.
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by anp 1y ago
Ha yeah tough crowd indeed. That’s fair that you only really need one call and so trying for ubiquitous interception is probably overkill. Anyways I am quite excited to have a use case to try it out!
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by anp 1y ago
FWIW I think the project is quite cool even if you “only” manage to roll out the subsecond integration into popular ecosystem runtimes. Have you considered aiming at lower level dependencies that are even more ubiquitous? Like libc function
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by anp 1y ago
This doesn’t seem connected at all to your previous claim. You said that the default is an absence of subsidies?
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by anp 1y ago
To start, rules for deductions aren’t tax rebates. Rebates also aren’t necessarily subsidies unless they’re targeted. Deciding whether labor is a capital or operating expense and deciding how to depreciate it if capital is also not a subsid
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by anp 1y ago
No but if a TV was in my house yesterday I’d bet that it’ll be there today. And my point about there being no natural state of subsidies is more important.
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by anp 1y ago
To head off the likely questions, I downvoted this comment because it is a gross misrepresentation of section 174 and the changes made to it.
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by anp 1y ago
The default situation is whatever was yesterday. I’d be astonished to learn that even a single significant civilization functioned without subsidies or patronage of priorities held by a society’s leaders.
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by anp 1y ago
The root of this subthread makes it clear why the current provisions to force software expenses to be amortized are different than other kinds of R&D.
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by anp 1y ago
I’m definitely interested in seeing this kind of content in Rust, have you looked at Rayon’s implementation for work stealing yet? Can result in some very nice high-level code.
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by anp 2y ago
Same reason Facebook is still Facebook to me, probably.
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by anp 2y ago
> Fascinating area to work in! I agree! Lots of fun stuff to do. > What's the driving use case for Starnix? The Starnix code is open source like the rest of Fuchsia and anyone is obviously free to read it and form their own opini
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by anp 2y ago
FWIW Fuchsia has a not-quite-a-microkernel and has been building a Linux binary compatibility layer: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/starnix?hl=en . (disclaimer: I work on Fuchsia, on Starnix specifically)
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Google offering 'voluntary exit' for employees working on Pixel, Android(9to5google.com)
141 points by anp 2y ago|80 comments
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by anp 2y ago
I’ve often joked that rustup with a little buildscript copy/paste to use the cc crate could be the fastest way to set up a C++ toolchain and project on lots of systems, but I also haven’t received much enthusiasm on the topic from peop
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by anp 2y ago
FWIW Rust also has null-terminated strings available under its std::ffi module. I’m not sure it would be feasible to migrate C++ to the approach of multiple string types now, and I’m not sure it would have been the right approach for C++11
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by anp 2y ago
As a possibly interesting data point I also have no visual imagination, and I did a lot of mind-altering substances in a past era of my life. However the only interior mental imagery I ever saw was seemingly random and intense fractal pat
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by anp 3y ago
As a former Expo employee and someone who took a run at this space (moxie) before running out of steam, it’s really exciting to hear this is the approach you’re taking! I’ll be keeping an eye out :).
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by anp 3y ago
I hate that states do this, but yeah it’s called “surveillance” when legitimized by norms, statute, and precedent.
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by anp 3y ago
I’ve usually had this attitude in the past and for me it came from my background: I worked IT, help desk, PC repair, etc for years before I got into programming and none of those contexts allow customization. And then for a while I did infr
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by anp 3y ago
I interviewed with them in 2018 and at least at the time (much much smaller company of course) everyone there was very focused on the tech being an enabler for the logistics people. Their claim at the time was that all of the projects they
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by anp 3y ago
The TIOBE index’s[0] methodology is definitely flawed but it currently lists Rust at 19 and Ada at 22. No mention of SPARK. [0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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by anp 4y ago
Not OP but have had some analogous thoughts. Compared to the state institutions and startups I worked at before, FAANG-scale comp and perks literally changed my life, having grown up rather poor. I can afford to save for retirement while al
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by anp 4y ago
No, still crappy to use.
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by anp 4y ago
Ha! Learn something new every day.

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