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by marklar423 3y ago
What I think the GP means is previously, GFS ran on their own machines and didn't need to participate in the Google-wide quota system for CPU/RAM. However Colossus _does_ run on the general Google compute infrastructure, and so ne
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by marklar423 3y ago
Dead internet theory strikes again ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory ).
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by marklar423 3y ago
I think they're trying to do the trick where they don't ban the emulation per se, but they make it a violation of the license to disassemble the code to understand how it works. Then they go after emulating projects for copyright
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by marklar423 3y ago
This F# code is probably remaining from their Jet.com acquisition, which (IIRC) used it to run some box-packing algorithm.
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by marklar423 3y ago
If you're using protobufs anyway, you can get also get this functionality generated by using a proto enum: https://protobuf.dev/reference/go/go-generated/#enum . It works really nicely and has all the fea
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by marklar423 3y ago
If you like this sort of thing, give Subnautica (and its sequel, Below Zero) a spin.
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by marklar423 3y ago
I'm the opposite, the older I get the more paranoid I get; maybe it's the lifetime of reading news stories of people getting scammed.
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by marklar423 3y ago
The Stadia tech was so much further ahead of others, it's such a waste it didn't get time to flourish. They could have really changed the paradigm if it had better management. One example of an intriguing idea I heard discussed on
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by marklar423 3y ago
I feel like you're working with a different definition of "silo" than the parent. My understanding of a "silo" is "closed off teams that aren't allowed to work with outsiders" who have their own cultu
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by marklar423 3y ago
That's a great idea for a shared 2FA device
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by marklar423 3y ago
That's crazy, I didn't know either.
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by marklar423 3y ago
That's pretty interesting. I wonder if replacing the signing keys could help negate DRM-y uses of the TPM
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by marklar423 3y ago
I don't disagree, but how do you feel about you (the machine owner) also not having access to it? That's my major problem with it; it locks you out of messing with your own machine data, which you can see being instantly abused by
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by marklar423 3y ago
Does Zephyr support ESP32's? I didn't see it listed on their page. I did see an Arduino variant though.
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by marklar423 3y ago
You could make your own with an ESP32 wired to two buttons, then you can customize it exactly as you need it. It shouldn't be too difficult (famous last words, I know) if you use one of the BT HID libraries like https://docs
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by marklar423 3y ago
Honestly it sounds like this person was a success. Their company is growing and sounds profitable, their customers are happy, and they have a working product. They avoided the "megafunds" and the strings attached to them, and stil
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by marklar423 3y ago
How did you handle cleaning up aborted / rolled back transactions after binaries restarted? Or did you just let the pending records hang around forever.
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by marklar423 3y ago
Seconded, Proton has made it absurdly easy, to the point where if you aren't told there's a compatibility layer it's hard to know it's even there.
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by marklar423 3y ago
The "every other Windows release" rule is very real, basically since Win95
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by marklar423 3y ago
This article really resonated with me, I was a Windows fan for 25 years and it captures why I can't use it anymore - it increasingly feels like Microsoft owns the computer and you're just along for the ride. One of my colleagues m
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by marklar423 3y ago
That sounds fascinating, a whole world I know nothing about. Would you mind pointing me at where I could read more?
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by marklar423 3y ago
I think it depends on the topic. On technical / software questions I do still find individual websites and blogs. For something like product reviews, my experience is exactly like yours and the only thing that shows up is the trash you
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by marklar423 3y ago
That's really useful to know, thanks!
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by marklar423 3y ago
Ah yes I've read about the infamous capacitor plague :D. So you start by just doing a visual scan of all the caps on a board to see if any are bulging? If nothing is apparent, where do you go from there?
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by marklar423 3y ago
As someone who dabbles in electronics, I found this to be a cool debugging scenario. The "aha" of the LED doubling as a diode in the circuit, and the fix from that was really interesting to me. It's a small anecdote, but insp
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by marklar423 3y ago
I can second Where Wizards Stay Up Late, I enjoyed it.
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by marklar423 3y ago
That would be OAuth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth . It's a standard meant for system A to authenticate a user with system B. Ever logged in to a website with your Google account, or seen those permission sc
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by marklar423 3y ago
I mostly agree, but with one exception - I think mocks are still useful for RPCs to other systems, where you want to test that you: 1) Call the right method on the interface with the right data, and 2) Correctly handle different return valu
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by marklar423 3y ago
I would add on - enshittification driven by money, as coined by Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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by marklar423 3y ago
I wondered about that myself - isn't a subreddit just ("just") a forum with 1) threaded comments like HN and 2) the ability to sort by upvotes? phpBB + a few addons might go a long way to replicating that, it just takes some

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