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by fidotron 1y ago
> So many people I work with (in tech) were on Android for years, and all eventually switched to iOS. There is a curious demographic of people that worked closely on/with Android in the early years that have a particularly extreme a
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Get out of their fucking way when they have their wallet out. Cannot be emphasised enough. I have seen enough B2C funnel optimization work to be able to say that at every minor obstacle you create 90% of the people will fall off. You n
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by fidotron 1y ago
The core problem at Intel is they promoted the myth that ISA has no impact on performance to such a degree they started fully believing it while also somehow believing their process advantage was unassailable. By that time they'd accum
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The Acorn Archimedes talk (2019) [video](media.ccc.de)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is the interview question you would use to spot people that have actually used FDB vs just talked about it.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Foundation is fundamental to iCloud at Apple, and is _something_ at Snowflake, among a few others. Recently DeepSeek used it for https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS "The Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) is a high-perfo
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Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API(foundationdb.github.io)
136 points by fidotron 1y ago|76 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Around here we're just Artificial.
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by fidotron 1y ago
You are talking a lot about performance but using JSON everywhere. You would be much better off using protobuf or flatbuffers for this.
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by fidotron 2y ago
Honestly, I think it's actually https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/h3/
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by fidotron 2y ago
And every country as well.
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by fidotron 2y ago
When I briefly worked in the field the conclusion some others in the studio had come to was it was acceleration that kills you, which makes sense in terms of matching our inner force detectors. i.e. a fixed forward floating velocity is fine
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by fidotron 2y ago
> played for keeps making deals with game developers to publish their games on their store I know rooms full of games industry business people that would die laughing at this suggestion. It's in the same league as talking about thir
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Even if it's collecting dust it's still market penetration. The big question is why so many of these things are collecting dust. In my case a huge part of it is resistance to putting it on again to discover what new account&#
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by fidotron 2y ago
I'm bearish on VR generally, but admire a lot of the hardcore tech R&D Meta have been doing, and that Zuckerberg embraced being a total nerd and went for it. But . . . their whole product direction in the last few years has been ba
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Every major tech company is therefore in Ireland because the country is small enough to essentially steamroll local politicians with lobby money No, it's because Ireland had a very low corporation tax with the strategy of becoming
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Societies rely on imperfect enforcement of the law in order to progress. This is quite a leap. Societies would be perfectly capable of evolution as long as they are not totally convinced of their own perfection at any given moment. It
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by fidotron 2y ago
Or maybe they found a way to outsource brute forcing the keys.
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by fidotron 2y ago
This is bitter gibberish. Advancement has always been made by standing on the shoulders of giants, and that enables small teams to execute different things in different eras. If you can't see what the changes are today you would have b
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Anything sent with Signal needs to be treated as published with an unknown delay. Oddly they have thought of that already, to the point all encryption systems in use in the gov are thought of in these terms. All that matters are the di
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by fidotron 2y ago
You might be on to something there. I was thinking of encrypting a secret in the structure of a Rust program so it can only be decrypted by compiling and running it.
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by fidotron 2y ago
The Xtensa variants also come with dual core options, which means you can offload timing sensitive stuff to a dedicated core. My playing with C3 betrayed that you have to use much larger buffers for things like i2s to make it work without g
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by fidotron 2y ago
I expect Google will attempt something highly amusing, like launching the Play Store on iOS in the EU, with the apps running via a port of the VM (and libraries) to iOS.
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by fidotron 2y ago
> One factor Google didn’t cite was the new trader status rule enforced by the EU as of this February, which began requiring developers to share their names and addresses in the app’s listing. Yep, it was probably that.
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Alliance Ouvrière Bloque L'entrée D'Amazon Web Services à Varennes(noovo.info)
2 points by fidotron 2y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 2y ago
Apparently every WebRTC project devolves into a key or token exchange problem.
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by fidotron 2y ago
Are people choosing Django for new projects much these days?
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by fidotron 2y ago
This is neat. Any plans to add blurs and related effects?
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by fidotron 2y ago
> The episode hints at a wider trend: global economic data have become alarmingly poor. Isn't the cause of this obvious? There is so much political interference in the metrics. Inflation, unemployment, whether it is officially a rec
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Video shows 1975 military jet landing on motorway(bbc.com)
1 points by fidotron 2y ago|1 comments

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