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by btilly 7mo ago
To be fair, the simple answer is not so simple within Google. The issue is that Google achieves reliability by insisting on n+2/n+1. Globally your service is in at least 2 more data centers than is required for full load. In each regio
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by btilly 7mo ago
I have been on a rough flight from Denver to Orange County, CA. Based on that flight, it does not shock me that a plane could be torn apart by turbulence. Instead I'm impressed that so few have been torn apart. Our technology regularly
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by btilly 8mo ago
The problem with general surveys is that you find out what people who don't buy your product think that they might like. Then they don't buy your improved product either. A second problem is that we're unaware of what we resp
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by btilly 8mo ago
While some cases have been struck down, about 1/4 of people on the sex offender registry were minors at the time of the offense, 14 is the age at which it is most likely to happen, and this exact scenario accounts for a significant fra
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by btilly 8mo ago
It is worthy of note that John Polidori's model for a vampire was, in fact, Lord Byron. Lord Byron's death was a result of what the medical profession then thought that they knew about blood. Namely that blood-letting was a worthw
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by btilly 8mo ago
When you think about it, creating a structure modulo some relation or kind of symmetry, is also a kind of targeted forgetting.
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by btilly 8mo ago
Building off of this point, consider the polynomial x^4 + 2x^2 + 2. Over the rationals Q, this is an irreducible polynomial. There is no way to distinguish the roots from each other. There is also no way to distinguish any pair of roots fro
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by btilly 8mo ago
There is perfect agreement on the Gaussian integers. The disagreement is on how much detail of the fine structure we care about. It is roughly analogous to asking whether we should care more about how an ellipse is like a circle, or how the
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by btilly 9mo ago
Think of it as an intentional way to turn a spark of connection into long-lasting coals. It can't work without that initial desire on both sides to make it work. But if you really want calculated...try https://amorebeautiful
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by btilly 9mo ago
You don't have to do it all yourself. Join an organization. For example every city has Toastmasters, most have several. Easy to find, and it is an excellent place to meet people. And you'll learn how to convert social anxiety into
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by btilly 9mo ago
UBI is not in contradiction to paid work to make more than the minimum that is guaranteed. Think of it as being like food stamps that you get in addition to whatever you do or do not make. Interestingly, UBI would be compatible with ending
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by btilly 9mo ago
This is a failure to think, disguised as moral judgment. If a police sniper shoots a mass shooter in the middle of their mass shooting, that's a hero. Not a villain.
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by btilly 9mo ago
Either we have to say that the position does not dictate the possible moves, or that this does not fully capture the position. The problem here is that drawing can become an option or a requirement based on information that this representat
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by btilly 9mo ago
For those who don't get this comment, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies to any two quantities that are connected in QM via a Fourier transform. Such as position and momentum, or time and energy. It is really a mathematical t
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by btilly 9mo ago
In 2010, due to the China hacking thing, Google locked down its network a lot. At least one production service went down because it relied on a job running on Jeff Dean's personal computer that no longer had access. Unfortunately I for
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by btilly 9mo ago
You imagine wrong. It was a point that I first remember seeing from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Dyer . Who is not from the US, but is an expert on the subject. It was in his documentary series War , but I don&
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by btilly 9mo ago
That is a misunderstanding. The stated and actual purposes of the UN are different. The actual purpose was to give great powers a place to negotiate with each other, so that we wouldn't get a third world war. That is why the 5 most pow
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by btilly 9mo ago
You have a point. But you still need DNS to an IPv4 address. And the fact that about 70% of websites are IPv4 only means that if you're setting up a new website, odds are good that you won't do IPv6 in the first pass.
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by btilly 9mo ago
I agree with that belief, and I've been saying it for over 20 years. I base it on comparing how the IPv2 to IPv4 rollout went, versus the IPv4 to IPv6 rollout. The fact that it was incredibly obvious how to route IPv2 over IPv4 made it
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by btilly 9mo ago
Current statistics are that a bit over 70% of websites are IPv4 only. A bit under 30% allow IPv6. IPv6 only websites are a rounding error. Therefore if I'm on an IPv6 phone, odds are very good that my traffic winds up going over IPv4 i
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by btilly 9mo ago
No, it can be both the government, and the people. The government for all of the reasons you say. The people because they have fallen for and accepted propaganda. Thereby leading them to support the government and its toxic narratives. I ba
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by btilly 10mo ago
It can. There are a number of charitable foundations that support open aource. For example the Python Foundation. But it is on a case by case basis, and it does take work to get the IRS to accept it.
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by btilly 10mo ago
Thanks. It is nice to hear another perspective on this. But here is a question. How much of SEUs not being problems were because they weren't problems? Versus because there were solutions in place to mitigate the potential severity of
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by btilly 10mo ago
Exactly. SRE is about monitoring and troubleshooting at scale. Google runs on a microservices architecture. It's done that since before that was cool. You have to do a lot to make a microservices architecture work. Google did not adver
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by btilly 10mo ago
Azure's devops record is not nearly as good as Google's was. The biggest datasets that ChatGPT is aware of being processed in complex analytics jobs on Azure are roughly a thousand times smaller than an estimate of Google's r
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by btilly 10mo ago
When I was at Google, on an SRE team, here is the explanation that I was given. Early on Google used dynamic libraries. But weird things happen at Google scale. For example Google has a dataset known, for fairly obvious reasons, as "th
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by btilly 10mo ago
https://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html is a similar story from IBM in the 1960s. Except that there was nothing accidental about the problem.
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by btilly 10mo ago
> nothing he complains about is specific to GenAI. You mean except the bit about how GenAI included his work in its training data without credit or compensation? Or did you disagree with the environmental point that you failed to keep re
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by btilly 10mo ago
That helps less than I'd like with the spoken language given that a trailing о or а are pronounced like а because it won't be stressed. For non-Russian speakers, the two letters get the sound that you expect if stressed, and other
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by btilly 10mo ago
I lost both a classmate and an uncle due to car accidents. I nearly lost my brother. The problem here is not what you know that you don't know. It is what you don't know that you don't know. You can believe yourself safe, whe

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