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by whoevercares 14d ago
Token bucket is all you need
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by whoevercares 8mo ago
My guess is SRE culture is a tough sell at Anthropic. When you’re a frontier lab, almost everything else looks more prestigious and more immediately “impactful”.
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by whoevercares 8mo ago
Flatbuffers are fine - I think it is used in many places that needs zero-copy. Also outside google, it powers the Arrow format which is the foundation of modern analytics
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by whoevercares 9mo ago
Absolutely. LLM inference is still a greenfield — things like overlap scheduling and JIT CUDA kernels are very recent. We’re just getting started optimizing for modern LLM architectures, so cost/perf will keep improving fast.
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by whoevercares 9mo ago
From an enterprise adoption standpoint, remote MCP addresses the connector problem and can be easily retrofitted into enterprise-wide gateway services. In contrast, building tools is significantly more expensive for enterprises with large,
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by whoevercares 9mo ago
many people especially those with chronic illnesses died because Zero-COVID blocked access to basic medical care and food. Those deaths were policy-driven and avoidable.
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by whoevercares 9mo ago
Zero-COVID was an absolute disaster. It involved severe human rights violations and caused immense social and economic damage, including unnecessary displacement, homelessness, and even deaths. The number is lower sure, but China had the ca
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by whoevercares 9mo ago
I don’t blame the dev teams who ended up creating mini-frameworks. In many big tech companies, central framework teams are chronically underfunded. What I do blame are ego-driven mini-frameworks built by senior principal+ engineers that don
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by whoevercares 11mo ago
China has been a developing country for most the time of the past 25 years. It is indeed a huge problem if it is still rising rapidly. But it is also not fair to limit China’s per capita growth for most of the past two decades
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by whoevercares 11mo ago
It is 8.89 China vs 14 according to https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
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by whoevercares 1y ago
I thought Elastic as the company has been economically damaged by OpenSearch and AWS for many years.
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Hmm very good point!
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Same story back in 2016, they either laid off or pivoted heavily on the production plan. Can’t trust those real sense folks
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by whoevercares 2y ago
There’s another reason for the decline of Scala - much less people are writing Spark code in Scala. At peak I think Spark accounted for a large portion of Scala’s growth
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Does anyone tell their manager they are leaving and still expecting anything nowadays? I thought dive-and-save is very rare since the flattening trend happened (esp. in big tech)
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Good news is the system in China frequently get in the way - people with connections wins the government or state owned businesses contract, making it tougher for many innovators to strive with a shrinking private-owned/consumer-demand
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Computer vision and deep learning conferences have been overwhelmed with Chinese authors since many years ago. No surprises. However the quality of the work skyrocketed recently
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by whoevercares 2y ago
There was a talk in 2023 of a non-TCP based protocol, Homa in RPC for data center use-case https://youtu.be/xQQT8YUvWg8?si=g3u5TogBe0_QpPpj .
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by whoevercares 2y ago
gRPC is indeed for backend service to service calls with strong contract/model first approach. It’s important for company in serious API and SDK vending business.
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Netflix, Coinbase, Spotify and several big/medium tech company pretty much all in gRPC. I guess there must be a problem with the haters here who could not get the value
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Yes, simply because there are mass number of people making a living there. Be a realist
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Everybody loses? The fact that TikTok remains available to millions of users is a significant benefit, especially for those who rely on it for creative expression, community building, and small-business promotion.
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by whoevercares 2y ago
In the current geopolitical climate, just how far might we go in barring Chinese H‑1B visa holders from industries we label “critical to national security”—sectors such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence? Could such fear and sus
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Curious why Murat left the project before it’s launched
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Oh yeah nowadays AWS believes more choices more footguns
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Fun fact, log4j use disrupter
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Would Taiwan have time to “pursue”? CCP will see this as deal breaker and with the level of spy infiltration Taiwan can’t keep this a secret. Edit: USA will see this as a huge red flag as well. Remember USA only want to deter but not a real
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by whoevercares 2y ago
I wonder if similar performance can be achieved with Spark accelerator like https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet . Of course it didn’t exist 4 years ago, but would it cheaper to build?
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Is it really AWS? I don’t recall any service called BDT
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by whoevercares 2y ago
Prepare the rollback/fallback pre-mortem, not surprised

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