rossjudson

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by rossjudson 5mo ago
Stadia was pretty technically awesome, and also a rounding error on Google's overall engineering budget. "Ambitious" engineering means something very different inside of Google. Example: Spanner. Infra Spanner is correctly de
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
I came from storage, so the monkey knife fight there was between PARMs. Very entertaining. For storage engineering could basically say "Well, figure it out, because if you don't find XX capacity, Google will stop working. Like, al
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
Oh so it's YOUR fault. ;) Don't worry -- I came to love Cider for the simplicity. I tolerate Cider V, but its "anything" nature means it's not good at anything in particular. These days, I mostly use it to peek int
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
The Acquired podcasts on Google are a solid background. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
My standard joke here: Q: Say, what does this Python code do? A: Nobody f&%^ing knows.
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
Nefariously how?
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
From a systems engineering standpoint, the purpose of LLMs is to construct, verify, and "push down" abstractions and deterministic layers. Deterministic layers are able to cope reliably with the law of medium numbers.
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
I have an Audi Q7 and a model X. Don't miss the physical controls of the Q7 at all. Given a choice between Tesla software and Android Auto, I'll take Tesla's. Then again, I'm someone who likes the yoke steering, and inve
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by rossjudson 5mo ago
No thing-you-don't-want. No second-thing-you-don't want. Just thing-you-want, the-way-you-want-it.
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
third outcome: 3. JD buys them, competition works, others notice they can just "build a tractor that's simple", and suddenly there are more competitors to choose from. JD still can't compete, and can't buy them all.
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
Everything you need to know about the US tax system in one convenient, incredibly disconcerting package: Ezra Klein https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mX5U5DNUfBc&si=4XEYfEl6lbW...
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
Seems like you've just agreed with "concentrated in the hands of a few" -- it's just a different "few" than before AI.
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
Perhaps you could clarify your definition of "remote assistance", or describe scenarios.
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
I find it odd that you simultaneously declare AI-assisted bioweapons to be scaremongering, while noting you don't know anything about it. The other side of the scaremongering coin is improbable optimism. Consider reading the CB evaluat
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
Security by obscurity is over. The security vs usability balance is about to get a hard reset. I think a number of black swan events are imminent, and it will substantially change the financial calculus that decides to put security behind r
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by rossjudson 6mo ago
With respect...Security through obscurity is dead . We are approaching the point where only formally verified (for security) systems can be trusted. Every possible attack will be attempted. Every opening will be exploited, and every usef
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
You've just described most of the information economy.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
"Sora, generate a video of Mickey Mouse beating up Sam Altman."
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
Crypto is how you can invest in crime without doing crime.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
I guess it all depends on the meaning of the word "handle", and what the use cases are.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
+1000. Who cares. It's good enough.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
Where does "20 years" come from? What's wrong with "10 years"? At the 200,000 mile mark battery life is expected to be ~85%. That's what actual data shows. 200,000 is 13 years of driving 15,000 miles a year. h
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
Gas powered cars can't fully replace EVs either. After three years and 50k miles with a Model X, the idea of buying a non-EV seems ridiculous.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
I see no reason to downvote this, so I upvote it. I think you're missing something. This war is an inflection point. Consumer behavior is likely to change after it. So yes, this is just a transient thing...but I think the effects will
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
The number of people who think they're top tier drivers never ceases to amaze me.
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
You drive an ambulance? Or a fire truck?
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
And yet Java outruns pretty much all of them, because it doesn't actually allocate everything on the heap all of the time. And you've been able to declare and work with larger structures in raw memory for ... 20 years? You mostly
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
No idea what you are talking about. Google internally has a massive amount of code based on JDK 21, and the (amazing and completely transparent move) to JDK 25 is nearly complete. That's the full OpenJDK @ Google, and it has been for a
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
GWT was a huge success, and eventually became obsolete -- which is not the same as "failing horribly". It took a long time for the web ecosystem to build up the capabilities that removed the need for GWT. For a while, it was qui
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by rossjudson 7mo ago
Different tools for different purposes...which is good/right. TypeScript is a superior programming environment for the browser, for sure. Using it on the server? Why not, if you're not trying to scale (in capacity, or functionalit

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