bgmeister

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by bgmeister 7mo ago
The trip was worth considering for a few years. IIRC a first class ticket would have cost too much though. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/adobe-chief-dodges-questio...
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by bgmeister 2y ago
I assume they're referring to Steve Jobs' comments in this (Robert Cringely IIRC) interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE (not a great copy, but should be good enough)
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by bgmeister 2y ago
> why take so long to attack First they need to gain some credibility. And they also need to obfuscate what they were trying to do. The payoff if they were to succeed is potentially enormous, so it makes sense to do things slowly. > a
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by bgmeister 3y ago
She also created Glenda the Plan 9 Bunny: https://9p.io/plan9/glenda.html
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by bgmeister 3y ago
Fun fact for the non-Australians, the actor who plays Bandit is part of an awesome indie-rock band named Custard formed in the late 80s. Worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by bgmeister 3y ago
If you're only using remote caching (ie no remote execution) then all cache clients need to trust each other, because a malicious client can upload any result it wants to a given ActionCache key, and there's no way to verify the A
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by bgmeister 3y ago
They are still used in some places. But they have some downsides: Precompiled headers don't play nicely with distributed compilation or shared build caches (which are perhaps the fastest way to build large C++ codebases). So while they
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by bgmeister 4y ago
Yes, it was computer graphics. He was a great person.
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by bgmeister 5y ago
Norsk Data machines?
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by bgmeister 7y ago
There's also an opensource goma client + server which proxies to RBE (or potentially other bazel remote execution API implementations). Which is great if you can't or don't want to use the bazel client, but can use a compiler
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by bgmeister 7y ago
Icecc (an old distcc fork) also distributes the toolchain, to avoid that particular problem. https://github.com/icecc/icecream
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by bgmeister 8y ago
I think the Allusionist is a really interesting podcast, and this episode was a great one. It brought back some early childhood memories of my time in Scotland (where I first learnt to speak), and also of the responses to my accent and voc