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by tytso 1y ago
People will do a small amount of work for free. But if something requires dozens or hundreds of programmers working full time, the chances of this happening is much less. And if you want something which just works, it means you need a hug
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by tytso 1y ago
This is ultimately a business model problem. There are FOSS projects out there; some of them are even listed in the article. The problem is that making it "Just Work(tm)" is hard; it's a lot of work, requiring a large numbe
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Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases(theregister.com)
4 points by tytso 2y ago|1 comments
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by tytso 2y ago
Single malt was the currency of choice when bribing and/or placating SRE's and hwops folks. For example, if a SWE botched a rollout that caused a multiple SRE's to get paged at 3am, a bottle of single malt donated to the SR
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by tytso 3y ago
Well, by that argument it's trivially easy to run emacs on a binary and change a pathname --- or wrap a program with another program to "fix a bug". Easy, no? And yet, the people who insist on having source code so they can
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by tytso 3y ago
There was definitely a certain amount of "I told you so" vibes, but I don't blame the author. It appears that he was attacked by a lot of Ello founders and fans for raising some cautionary notes. And as it turns out, he was
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by tytso 3y ago
But one of the four freedoms is being able to modify/tweek things, including the model. If all you have is the model weights, then you can't easily tweak the model. The model weights is hardly the preferred form for making chan
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by tytso 3y ago
They don't have to be low-end. You can buy higher-end Chromebooks, but they cost more money. Do people remember the "netbooks" that were-super cheap Windows laptops with 10 inch screens? Even if you install Linux on it,
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by tytso 3y ago
Unfortunately, the supply chain often goes 3 and 4 levels deep. And by the time you get to companies that far in the supply chain, (a) no one has ever heard of that company, so the trying to threaten them with reputational damage doesn&#x2
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by tytso 3y ago
It might be worth taking a look at Bensonwood ( https://bensonwood.com ). They do some very impressive, high-end pre-fab homes, and they solve the "must fit in highway lanes" by shipping walls that have windows, electr
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by tytso 3y ago
Cgroups are a lot more than just "namespaces". It is also the mechanism by which you can constrain how much CPU, Memory, Network Bandwidth, Storage IOPS or Throughput, etc., processes in a particular cgroup or container can use.
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by tytso 3y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google but nothing I say here is Google's opinion or relies on any Google internal information. I'm not surprised that Workspace accounts weren't included in the initial rollout. Workspace setups have
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by tytso 3y ago
> motion sickness is a major barrier I recall a story from a colleague who knew some folks who had worked on the game System Shock (this was in the early nineties). System shock was one of the first games that had an engine that implem
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by tytso 4y ago
There is an old AI joke about a robot, after being told that it should go to the Moon, that it climbs the tree, sees that it has made the first baby steps towards being closer to the goal, and then gets stuck. The way that people who are tr
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by tytso 4y ago
As I said, there are apps that need a Posix interface although my contention is the vast majority of them are "lift and shift" from customer data centers into the cloud. Sure, they exist. But from a cost, efficiency, and easy o
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by tytso 4y ago
No one asked for a "block device"? Um, that's table stakes because every single OS in the world needs to be able to boot their system, and that requires a block device. Every single cloud system provides a block device bec
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by tytso 4y ago
In my part of Google, we use TPM for "Technical Program Managers" instead of PgM. In general a TPM at Level N will have the technical skills of a Level N-1 SWE. So many TPM's have a CS background, and a good TPM is an amazi
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by tytso 4y ago
Oh, you can certainly do big projects. My project[1] spanned 3 departments, and involved dozens of engineers, and required that we work with multiple hard drive vendors (our first two partners for Hybrid SMR were Seagate and WDC) on an ent
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by tytso 4y ago
Here are the latest development statistics from the just-released 5.19 kernel. (Please consider supporting Linux Weekly News by subscribing if you find content like this useful; one of the benefits is you can help share subscriber-only co
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by tytso 4y ago
I work at Google so my perspective is to be biased, but that's not what I see. I work on infrastructure, and so a few years back, when I proposed a major project, I had to demonstrate how it would save *many* times the fully loaded cos
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by tytso 4y ago
I very much doubt whether the MIT Press Office cares about what Hacker News thinks of their brand. What they do care about is what Sarah J. Student's parents think when they are trying to encourage their progency to attend Harvard v
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by tytso 4y ago
Keep in mind that the MIT Press office != the professors at MIT. It's actually quite common for any University's press office to be clueless about the research being done at the university, and it is their job to make as big of
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by tytso 4y ago
Indeed, the statement of slavery not providing any economic benefits as a whole is a country-level statement. Whether or not there exists certain large slaveholders, or business people in the North who made their family fortune building sh
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by tytso 4y ago
They way you phrased your "simple question": "Then why don't they give the option to enable this in a "work mode" and not turn it on for everyone by default?" assumed that Google had turned it on for every
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by tytso 4y ago
Actually, it is only going to be enabled for "work mode". It is not being turned on for everyone by default. Certainly not if you are talking about the consumer version of Google Docs, and not even all paid versions of Google
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by tytso 4y ago
In practice it's not hard that hard to solve if you only are supporting a limited number of CPU architectures (e.g., all the world's x86) or only one bootloader. Even if some of the BSD systems support multiple architectures, in
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by tytso 4y ago
Part of the whole point of this blog was to explain why it's not possible to explain and satisfy their curiosity, because the reasons can't be disclosed externally outside of the company (either because the reasons are under NDA,
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by tytso 5y ago
Googler here, so here's a sample size of one. 1) I personally use Google, because it works for me. I will admit freely that part of this may be that I've gotten used to framing queries such that it works with the search engine t
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by tytso 5y ago
Since you live in San Francisco, a number of companies (I know for sure Facebook and Google) have ways where you know somone who works at that company, and who can vouch for you, they can help you get control back to an account that has bee
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by tytso 5y ago
Or (3) companies that make $$$ or save $$$ from using Postgres could hire kernel developers to implement a better solution for buffered I/O. The problem is that the companies who are serious about I/O recovery use Direct I/

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