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by saled 5d ago
I think John Carmack was looking for you recently. https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2094450188911845827
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by saled 2y ago
Hmm. Am I the only one who immediately jumps to the thought that any VC backed "open source" tool is just using open source as a cost of customer acquisition, and will soon find a way to pay-wall necessary features? The majority o
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by saled 3y ago
FYI it seems ChatGPT could have answered this for you. > The book you're describing sounds like "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. In this near-future sci-fi novel, set in 2025, one of the subplots involves a project called t
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by saled 3y ago
Snowflake uses foundationdb as their metadata store to find files in S3, though I believe the actual queries are run on separate nodes. https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowf... But yeah you'
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by saled 3y ago
The Enabler team type is outward looking, evaluating and bringing new tech and concepts into the business and training other teams. They will collaborate with other teams often in order to help train and transfer knowledge. This is differe
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by saled 3y ago
Formally verified, bug free software exists. It just costs a LOT to produce, and typically isn't worth it, except for things like cryptographic libraries and life or death systems. As the discipline has evolved, the high integrity tool
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by saled 3y ago
I think you mean "artists". If they were really artists they wouldn't be afraid of AI.
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by saled 3y ago
You know that there's nothing stopping an open source project funded as a not for profit from doing the same thing right? If something is hard, that's an argument for making a standard not for profit version of it, so it becomes
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by saled 3y ago
In kotlin you can use backticks to "unkeywordify" a name
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by saled 3y ago
Why do you think that collecting evidence from experiments leads to truth though? What about the process gives you certainty? What evidence is important to making progress and what evidence is irrelevant? What does progress in understanding
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by saled 3y ago
My understanding for the reasoning behind this is that they don't want apps to have to ship the runtime stuff to avoid downloads and app sizes getting large. That could be fixed by just shipping an updated shared library to all phones
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by saled 3y ago
These points are solved by the workers electing an executive or directors who makes those decisions, until the workers are sick of them and replace them in an AGM or an emergency meeting. Works the same as shareholders.
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by saled 3y ago
I wonder if this might apply to code as well. All these businesses using AI to write code might find out that they don't actually have any copyright.
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by saled 3y ago
Something else I was caught out on recently is cross availability zone traffic, especially for multi AZ kubernetes where the nodes are very chatty. It's possible to get the services to consider network topology to limit cross az traffi