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by habitue 7y ago
The languages themselves have decent support. The problem is that it works great if you code the way Google does internally with all your dependencies vendored. Outside of the googleplex where we have, you know, package managers, bazel ad
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by habitue 7y ago
Nice job guys!
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by habitue 7y ago
I think it's good to keep in mind the concept of signal and corrective[1] when reading this blog post. This blog is a corrective assuming an environment where people don't speak up enough about things that are going wrong. If you&
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by habitue 7y ago
For-profit businesses are particularly tricky for Wikipedia. There are tens of thousands of them. Their owners are often passionate. They compete with each other, so there's incentive to write hard-to-adjudicate competing claims. Many
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by habitue 7y ago
Narratives are things that fill in the holes between the facts. You can't make sense of the world without them. We also call them "models" sometimes. Whenever there's ambiguity or not enough evidence, or uncertainty abou
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by habitue 7y ago
Whenever so many networks are deployed with this that Apple becomes interested in supporting it for their users. Being in the kernel should help with this, but obviously there's no actual timeline. Maybe never
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by habitue 7y ago
Valve is clearly pushing their own Index hardware with this game
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by habitue 7y ago
But the article points out that Disney doing that is exactly why Star Wars performance has been lackluster. They're now taking a step back because apparently the public doesn't want a steady drip of Star Wars same-old-same-old
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by habitue 7y ago
This isolates steam games from the rest of the things running on the machine, which dramatically reduces the number of variables Valve has to consider for supporting a Linux game. This means they can support more games with fewer resources,
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by habitue 7y ago
This has already happened, telegram groups, discord servers, direct IM through signal/WhatsApp/iMessage are where people go to have genuine conversations with a close knit community. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter are for a
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by habitue 7y ago
Those evil tech companies! What would possibly be the purpose of lumping all tech companies together as if there's some collective criminal guilt tech companies must share. It makes sense for something like cigarette companies or oil c
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by habitue 7y ago
Anthropic Hitler Theory: Our current world existing is sensitively dependent on Hitler not being assassinated. Universes where Hitler is killed early result in nuclear annihilation for some reason, and the only Everett branches that have hu
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by habitue 7y ago
I mean, it's implied in "customers" but yeah, they want the data obviously
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by habitue 7y ago
> as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team 2.1B isn't an acquihire. They want the customers, the team, and the manufacturing chain at the very least.
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by habitue 7y ago
So I was one of the developers of RethinkDB's Horizon, and I'm really glad to see someone take the database change stream to RxJS concept to its logical conclusion. This project looks really awesome, and very much has the shape we
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by habitue 7y ago
Note: 9/11 is almost two decades in the past
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by habitue 7y ago
I mean, they didn't claim to have invented the idea of using potatoes. They're examining them quantitatively clearly because they're in use.
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by habitue 7y ago
Some businesses lend themselves to bootstrapping, others are just straight up capital intensive. Others are somewhere in between, and venture capital just allows you to "skip ahead" and find out how good the idea really is by scal
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by habitue 7y ago
I can't wait until this is the norm. Facebook (and presumably, Google if they wanted to) can do this with an army of engineers and some excellent continuous deployment systems. I'm hoping these kinds of systems become commoditized
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by habitue 7y ago
Yeah, I think the heuristic should be "Am I forced to migrate to bazel to solve real problems my company is having?" Vs. "Can I migrate because bazel is the new thing"
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by habitue 7y ago
Yeah, I actually like the speed with which it can build images. But it's a risk that it's an entirely different implementation. If you have a team of people to deal with maintenance, then it's worth it. If you don't, the
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by habitue 7y ago
Bazel may be 1.0 and the internal abstractions of dag solving etc are rock solid from years of use inside Google, but the ecosystem around Bazel is quite bad at the moment. They've been breaking backwards compatibility constantly, so r
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by habitue 7y ago
Right, sorry, so Dragonfly is the thing the shareholders sued to stop. I assumed that was not the result of shareholders suing them to go into china
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by habitue 7y ago
Well, there's a common cause right? The protests in HK
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by habitue 7y ago
So Google pulled out of China, and their shareholders didn't sue them (that I could find. Though even if they did, apparently it didn't cause them to go back into China). The shareholders did sue them to halt their plans for a cen
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by habitue 7y ago
Learning new sequences by analogy seems super valuable, but I'm not sure experience replay in RL is the best way to apply it. Experience replay in their 2015 Atari paper is basically a hack to overcome catastrophic forgetting and extre
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by habitue 7y ago
Maybe they can keep the staircar
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by habitue 7y ago
The article also goes into the percentiles of wages for the profession as a whole. The 90th percentile makes $60K. It says there's a high floor of wages for the profession, but also a low ceiling, which seems fair So if you are looking
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by habitue 7y ago
I feel like there's this continuum: Linux: Free, Doesn't spy on you MacOS: Costs money, Doesn't spy on you ChromeOS: Free, Spies on you Windows: Costs money, Spies on you
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by habitue 7y ago
> A fair price is whatever a seller and a buyer agree upon I think there is an is/ought distinction here. What the price is is your definition here: what they've agreed upon. There are numerous oughts that should be conside

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