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by jsolson 5y ago
Speaking for the depraved, I think the obvious questions are how little I _must_ drink, how much I _must_ exercise, etc. Ideally it would be "uncorrelated" and "none" Seems unlikely, though
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by jsolson 5y ago
Within the US, with a modest amount of pre-pandemic international travel, WhatsApp was a thing I was aware of, but never had cause to use (or even install). I'm not certain I've even read the name since the pandemic started before
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by jsolson 5y ago
As others noted, it only supported horizontal walls and floors. More specifically, though, it only supported _one_ gap (e.g., a single window or door). You couldn't stack floors on top of each other. This allowed a single ray cast agai
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by jsolson 5y ago
Below a certain level I mostly agree with you. One company in my past didn't work this way, and one too many pages in the middle of the night for a business I wasn't personally invested in made it an easy job to walk away from. Th
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by jsolson 5y ago
Protobuf supports sum types in the higher-level generated descriptors and languages -- on the wire they're just encoded as, well... oneof a number of possible options.
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by jsolson 5y ago
Firecracker relies on KVM in the Linux kernel which relies on VT-x or similar. Offering VT-x inside a VM that's already using VT-x is called nested virtualization. EC2 VMs do not support nested virtualization, while others do. That sai
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by jsolson 5y ago
Awwww, I kinda like Buganizer -- but also it allows for much more direct engagement between Googlers and the issues reported by the public.
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by jsolson 5y ago
For my personal work, I treat GPLv3 (and similarly licensed) projects as essentially the same as anything behind a commercial license -- they don't exist. Rather than thinking about how to re-implement a thing that doesn't exist,
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by jsolson 5y ago
Without going into details that would spoil things, the TV series "The Good Place" touches on this idea, although it's Madden rather than Mario.
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by jsolson 5y ago
Well, if it helps, fixating on this choice allowed me to collapse your entire thread without reading most of your comment with zero guilt :)
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by jsolson 5y ago
> I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID I'm a little confused by this. I live in King County, WA (and I work at Google). According to data reported by the county (as tabulated by the NY Times), one in 19 residen
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by jsolson 5y ago
If you're curious, The Secret Life of Groceries is a good (and interesting) read. One tl; dr thing is that the supermarkets are a _supplier_ to both end customers and those with products to sell. They supply shelf space and customer re
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by jsolson 5y ago
+1 to congrats -- my read on this: - There's a bunch of RJ45 up top that I don't quite understand :) - A bunch of storage sleds - A compute sled, 100G QSFP switch, compute sled sandwich - Power distribution (rectifiers, I'd t
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by jsolson 5y ago
Going a bit off-topic here, but as a tiramisu lover I feel compelled to say that if you like desserts and coffee, generally, you might consider trying some if the opportunity presents itself. A bit more on topic, I'd generally agree th
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by jsolson 5y ago
Taking a glance at levels.fyi, in NYC for people with one year of experience there isn't a single entry from Google below $150k. Similar for Amazon.
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by jsolson 5y ago
It's not an influenza virus. That said, even if it was, a "very strong flu" with global transmission and impact _is_ a pandemic -- see the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The death rate in 2020 in the US also surpassed that during the 191
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by jsolson 5y ago
At Google it mostly _is_ your responsibility to do that, yes. There is substantial tooling assistance to assist with this, and it's common to make changes by adding new functionality, writing an automated transform to shift usage from
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by jsolson 5y ago
There have been some changes that make this entirely untrue for earlier promos and partially untrue for promotions to L6/Staff. There's considerably more locality at this point.
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by jsolson 5y ago
> Just as you can’t go back to buying a prebuilt PC if you’ve built one in the past. Eh, I think it depends on where your life takes you. Other than an IBM PC XT, I'm not sure we ever had a pre-built desktop PC in our home while I w
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by jsolson 5y ago
I'm very solidly in Peloton's target market. I have _zero_ interest in anything related to pro cycling, and to be honest near zero interest in cycling. I needed to lose weight, and it helps to have someone on the other side of the
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by jsolson 6y ago
I feel like our usernames covered that...
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by jsolson 6y ago
I will almost guarantee you two know each other (as someone who knows both of you from Google :)
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by jsolson 6y ago
... how high did you expect CPU core count to be at this point with close to uniform memory access costs, and what changes did you expect to enable that degree of concurrent bus access without catastrophic stalling due to contention?
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by jsolson 6y ago
In general, 9P2000 is simple and fairly elegant. If you don't need POSIX semantics (and fs metadata), it's really quite simple to implement. For a bit more cost in terms of complexity you can go for 9P2000.u which makes things POS
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by jsolson 6y ago
For many things I would take HLS over writing SystemVerilog. My background is software, but I've written a modest amount SystemVerilog professionally in recent years. While there are specific cases where I'd still pick SystemVeril
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by jsolson 6y ago
Less than $200. The board there is overkill -- if you really want something with a Zynq including an Arm Cortex A9 that can run Linux, the Arty Z7 from Digilent is another Zynq board that's essentially a one-stop shop for this: https:
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by jsolson 6y ago
I certainly knew about the connections between Go (and so very much other stuff at Google) and Plan 9. I was surprised, at the time, to see the OS itself in use in a production role. Just another example of unexpected tools getting the job
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by jsolson 6y ago
It's not entirely abandoned. A few years ago Brad Fitzpatrick dropped by my desk because the latest Google Compute Engine virtualization stack rollout had broken Plan 9 on GCE. This was interfering with cutting a new Go release (the of
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by jsolson 6y ago
> We rely on AWS, and now I'm thinking this is a giant mistake - what if they unilaterally decide one day that our business is politically unacceptable because a bad person says nice things about us? You're making the argument
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by jsolson 6y ago
This was my feeling in 2010 when I accepted an offer. It was a much bigger company by then, but upon joining it still felt stodgy and like any other big corp. I wonder if it still feels that way if you're there (I left in 2013).

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