surajrmal

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by surajrmal 3d ago
Having been on the flip side of this divide in the past, there really are a lot of potential safety and reliability problems when using random third party versions of components. While I'm sure there are strong financial incentives to
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by surajrmal 4d ago
Do Chinese labs actually do things beyond distilling other models?
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by surajrmal 5d ago
If I talk to a professor about their field of expertise, does that empower me to talk with other professors in that field on an equal level?
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by surajrmal 5d ago
I saw this happen a bit earlier this year, but most everyone I work with has learned that it was foolish. The feedback that they are doing something wrong needs to be explicit and strong. We're all going through a learning curve and es
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by surajrmal 6d ago
Most of it comes down to avoiding shared data. Unfortunately it requires forethought to do that well. There are also many cases where you do want to share data for optimal performance as other options are ultimately too heavyweight. Also wo
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by surajrmal 8d ago
My suggestion is to not try to idolize individuals. Products should be judged independent of the individuals involved in creating them, especially when many individuals participate in their creation.
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by surajrmal 8d ago
People are all flawed. You can find faults in everyone. Overlooking these flaws is okay to a large number of folks as the product itself is amazing. The fact is that you're likely ignorant to the large number of products and services y
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by surajrmal 13d ago
This feels like the sort of thing that needs to be legislated. Banning accounts after breaking ToS is a pretty common behavior across many companies. The fact a Google account ends up being used for multiple products makes it more interesti
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by surajrmal 14d ago
No, shared peripherals need to go through a central arbiter for access. In the case of things like storage the AP's OS, eg android, provides that roll. This is also true for the OS that runs under the trustzone. Be careful about spread
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by surajrmal 14d ago
The perception that they are able to run rings around Google is not necessarily an accurate one. There are tradeoffs in any engineering situation and GrapheneOS devs make different ones based on different requirements. Google is one of the
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by surajrmal 16d ago
It is sorted this way by default.
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by surajrmal 17d ago
I've written systems level code (drivers and os code) for years and outside of ffi, I've managed to go on year long stretches without touching unsafe. It's really not a commonly needed tool in a well architected code base wit
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by surajrmal 17d ago
Not exactly what you asked, but c++ does this for vtables if you pass the right option to the compiler: -fexperimental-relative-c++-abi-vtables There is a similar proposal for trait objects in rust.
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by surajrmal 18d ago
That's a cultural thing. Push back on it and don't make it acceptable behavior. I would argue most people generally are terrible at code review and do this same behavior with their peers as well, but at least their peers are capab
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by surajrmal 19d ago
You need to fake the cell towers and change your accounts billing address. It's not trivial.
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by surajrmal 19d ago
Who said it's cheaper?
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by surajrmal 19d ago
In some cases it's just because the userbase using the web on their phone instead of the app is incredibly small and it's not worth funding feature parity. It can be difficult to distinguish this case from more hostile takes like
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by surajrmal 19d ago
Most YouTubers still have sponsor sections on their videos so you probably do see some ads. Also why not pay for YouTube premium to remove the ads while still supporting the creators?
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by surajrmal 21d ago
Continuous load is not the use case the beefy cores on phones are designed for. They exist for bursty loads related to user interactions. Humans are fairly slow, but each touch can generate a substantial workload. Being able to handle that
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by surajrmal 21d ago
It's one thing for a maintainer to use AI, and another to review AI code sent your way. The latter has been proven to be unsustainable, low value, and ultimately a challenge for open source. Everyone acknowledges this problem exists an
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by surajrmal 22d ago
risc-v is basically borrowing the ARM SystemReady stuff. This includes the expectations for ACPI and UEFI on servers. The RISE organization has been trying to drive these standards iiuc.
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by surajrmal 22d ago
Considering how consolidated the hyperscalar market is and their natural inclination to reduce hardware SKUs, I'm not entirely sure they would make it viable for multiple vendors to produce chips they could actually use. There is no re
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by surajrmal 25d ago
It's going to be a Qualcomm setup. Any reason to think it'll be any different from usual?
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by surajrmal 27d ago
Who is funding this security audit? Are folks supposed to volunteer their free time? It's a difficult coordination problem. The best folks have come up is to delay adopting new releases by a few days and hope your dependency is popular
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by surajrmal 29d ago
The longer you starve the more delicious the food tastes. Programming language advances were ignored by a significant number of folks for decades. The sudden relief of getting something like rust can leave a strong impact. People also like
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by surajrmal 1mo ago
What enterprises pay for is all that matters. They pay insane amounts for a lot of things I would never do personally, but I'm not the target demographic in those cases.
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by surajrmal 1mo ago
Which is also learning how to monetize their offering via cloud instead of ads. So again your expertise here is questionable.
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by surajrmal 1mo ago
Notably that's not due to subsidization but rather due to investment in capex for future growth. The reason to not subsidize is largely because of already being hardware constrained. There is no extra unsold capacity to use.
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by surajrmal 1mo ago
Companies at the size of Google naturally have different business units with different goals. Flutter solves something from some teams with other parts of the company that do not solve for them. That doesn't mean there are some sort of
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by surajrmal 1mo ago
For devices that are entirely controlled via an MCU and lack wireless connectivity, that is probably true. However that's not true for the pixel watch. The cpus and dram take significant power.

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