phyrex

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by phyrex 2y ago
> The same thing happened with the Threads app which was withheld from European users last year for no actual technical reason. Now it’s been released and nothing changed in between. No technical reason, but legal reasons. IIRC it wa
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by phyrex 2y ago
They are complimentary technologies. Think holodeck.
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by phyrex 2y ago
You can always listen to the investor calls for the capitalist point of view. In short, attracting talent, building the ecosystem, and making it really easy for users to make stuff they want to share on Meta's social networks
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by phyrex 2y ago
meta.ai
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by phyrex 2y ago
I don't know how the EU expects Meta to make any money. It's pretty infuriating
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by phyrex 2y ago
Why not buy an copy and put it on your to-read shelf for the next couple of months?
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by phyrex 2y ago
If that’s the case, then what happens next and on what timeline?
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by phyrex 2y ago
Facebook doesn’t really use vanilla mercurial but its own scale-oriented rust fork. It’s open sourced as “sapling”
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by phyrex 2y ago
For the company there’s no opt-anything, its internal tools, of course we need metrics, and presumably you have nothing to hide with your work :) I’ve become a lot more tolerant of telemetry since starting to work there, because I see the u
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by phyrex 2y ago
There’s a good chance they do. Big tech contributes a ton to open source, I can’t imagine that’ll be different with unreal.
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by phyrex 2y ago
Meta, where they run a PHP monolith with mysql? ;)
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by phyrex 2y ago
I work on dev tools at my company. Telemetry really helps a ton to figure out if you're prioritizing the right things and if changes that you made are really for the better
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by phyrex 2y ago
Vegan for 20 years: I check my blood every other year or so and there hasn’t been an issue. I take a multivitamin, like everybody should, but maybe that counts as “properly supplementing”? AFAIK the only vitamin that’s easily deficient in a
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by phyrex 2y ago
Vegan is certainly harder but still completely feasible, especially after the initial learning period. I’ve been vegan for 20 years and it’s only ever really annoying when travelling abroad.
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by phyrex 2y ago
That’s just some guy that asserts stuff though. I mean, so am I to you, but fwiw I’ve never seen or heard of any non-hack PHP in the current codebase
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by phyrex 2y ago
Meta does not sell personal data, they just use it for ads
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by phyrex 2y ago
I suppose, but you’d be limited to a small number of supported languages, whereas bazel works for just about anything. Like my sibling commenter noted, you only need it if you really need it.
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by phyrex 2y ago
It caches build artifacts in a blob store and just downloads them instead of compiling them where possible
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by phyrex 2y ago
I don’t think there’s any vanilla php in use at meta
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by phyrex 2y ago
That’ll be because Facebook doesn’t use PHP as such, but Hack, which isn’t compatible with vanilla PHP. Hack isn’t really used much outside of Meta, so what’s the point of going through the extra work of open sourcing our stuff if nobody el
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by phyrex 2y ago
I admit I’ve only ever used Hack, not vanilla PHP, but that one is a pleasure to use. I’m sure the vast majority of my colleagues will agree with that too
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by phyrex 2y ago
You’re just describing a job, and I really, honestly don’t see how getting shown targeted ads is such a privacy violation. Meta doesn’t sell the data, nobody looks at that data on an individual level, it’s just used to show you the most rel
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by phyrex 2y ago
PHP has static and strong types these days and it (and its dialects) are in use by some of the largest teams on the planet
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by phyrex 2y ago
Facebook supports those in the EU
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by phyrex 2y ago
But they can? They just have to pay then. Which seems fair since targeted ads are worth much more than untargeted ones?
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by phyrex 2y ago
And then how do you propose Facebook make money to support the platforms that people use?
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by phyrex 2y ago
Looks like it, and yes, all PHP. Why did you think Meta was all nodejs and no more PHP anyways?
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by phyrex 2y ago
I had a quick look and.. I have no idea. Frontend development at meta works differently than you probably imagine: things aren’t built locally but on dev servers or on-demand instances that all run services that take care of any build jobs
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by phyrex 2y ago
Python is used all over the place but there is no node that I’ve ever seen. GraphQL is indeed in php, but the AI services are in python (I think)
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by phyrex 2y ago
> All of this with a term I've never had to use once in all these decades, "Server-Driven UI (SDUI)". After reading the explanation, this seems to be returning UI as JSON to be put together on the client, as to avoid waiti

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