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Note that Siso uses Starlark (https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/refs/heads/m...) which is the build language of Bazel

I wonder if the end goal is to use Bazel for Chromium and Siso is an incremental step to get there

The video was filmed at Francis Ford Coppola's cafe. Worth a visit, the last time I was there they had a machine that printed out stories for you to take home.

Public transport is undervalued

Not sure about the calculation for home heating, but for hot water it is still ideal to have an instant gas hot water system. Heat pump hot water systems are expensive (to install and to service) and take up a lot of space.

Right, that is the current status

But the historical perspective is that Starnix is a relatively recent addition to Fuchsia. Even though Fuchsia is roughly 10 years old now, Starnix has only been useful for about 2 years (RFC 4 years ago)

Before Starnix came along to help run Linux apps, as you said, “There isn't really much software that has been ported to run on fuchsia natively”. Because POSIX Lite wasn’t / isn’t being used much. So I guessed the OP could have been thinking about that. But who knows.

They might be thinking about POSIX Lite losing favor

Fuchsia has been on life support for a few years now, but not completely dead yet

Jackson Heights is the winner here

Overall I feel like Amazon produced TV and movies have been pretty terrible

Apple on the other hand are making some surprisingly good shows! Not always, but generally much better than Amazon.

The article says:

“That’s a historic high, up from an average age in the low-to-mid 40s in the early 2010s.”

It is dead

Jonathan made a comment a year or two ago that the studio needed cash to complete their new game and "there's a few obvious things we could do", or something along those lines.

My impression is that Braid: Anniversary Edition was one of those "obvious things" to do in order to generate revenue.

So creatively it feels like it didn't really need to exist, it seems more like it was mainly intended as a revenue raiser.

I think it would have been better to create a real sequel to Braid.

As everyone has said, attention and free time is limited these days. People who loved the original may have little interest in playing it again with minor changes, but might have bought a sequel.

I liked the original and bought it on day 1 (or at least week 1), but I have zero time to play a remaster...

> Was Google's plan to replace Android with Fuchsia?

I think the idea was that Fuchsia might replace Linux (so Android, ChromeOS, and various other OS things at Google would have a dependency on Fuchsia, instead of having a dependency on Linux)

But that seems unlikely now.

I think Fuchsia is pretty much dead, unless someone outside of Google starts using Fuchsia for something (e.g. Facebook almost used Fuchsia a few years ago)

I think the most disappointing thing is that the Democrats aren’t running a better candidate. All the betting markets expect Biden to lose, and they have done so for over a year, but the Democrats still have not found a better candidate

I don’t think this stops him from being President again. Because he will appeal and he already rigged some of the higher courts with Trump-friendly judges

> He prided his company on being something it wasn't

To be fair to Sierra, some of their final acts were publishing Half Life, Homeworld, and an expansion for Diablo. They may well have become an enormous publisher if not for the CUC mess.

The new CEO (or at least the interim CEO) would be TK or Ruth.

Not a fan of Sundar, but Google could get much worse

McKinsey strikes again

I get the feeling that you know nothing about Atlassian and haven't checked any statements at all. Atlassian have been profitable since their first year.

Sorry that this happened to you and your team :-(

Strongly disagree that Atlassian gives the most interested work in Australia. Atlassian is not an engineering driven company. The work at Atlassian is super, super dull.

Google wants employees to move to another company faster

That article says the casualty numbers coming out of Gaza are generally legitimate, and it says ~3,000 children were killed as of October 2023.

For a March 2024 casualty update, ~13,000 children killed seems, sadly, plausible.

If they believe the numbers then I'm inclined to trust the United Nations and the BBC, but just in case, here's some fact checking from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/can-we-trust-c...

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Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said he saw no evidence that the numbers were being manipulated.

“We have been monitoring human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip for three decades, including several rounds of hostilities. We’ve generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable,” he said.

“When we have done our own independent investigations around particular strikes, and we’ve compared those figures against those from the health ministry, there haven’t been major deviations.

“Their numbers generally are consistent with what we’re seeing on the ground in recent days. There have been hundreds of airstrikes per day in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.

“We’ve looked at satellite imagery. We’ve seen the number of buildings, and the numbers that are coming out are in line with what we would expect with what we’re seeing on the ground. So you put all those things together and we’re quite confident in the overall casualty numbers.”

Not according to the United Nations and the BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68625406

"The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, says 13,000 children in Gaza have been killed by Israel since the war began"

For the sake of argument, let's assume that Hamas uses children as human shields

Does that make it okay for Israel to kill 13,000 children... ?

Sure, I can understand Israel accidentally killing 1 or 2 children. Maybe even accidentally killing 10 children.

But 13,000 ?

It is hard to comprehend accidentally killing 13,000 children.

I'm just reading up on this now. Sounds like Israel killed 13,000 children? Seems pretty bad.

> Apple has a choice just like Google: leave China.

> It's about Apple bending to China government for money.

I just think your implication that Google is a more moral actor than Apple is wrong.

Google left China due to cyber attacks and the risk of ongoing cyber attacks.

Google leadership wants to return to China and is happy to "bend to the China government". But Google employees are unhappy about this and are slowing the return.

It wasn't just planning. Google had/has hundreds of people working on a surveillance system for the Chinese government. The team's mission was to build a prototype quickly and then to be ready to launch for real within 6-9 months.

As far as I know Apple isn't forcing anyone to work for them in China. It sucks if they are a bad employer, but if people still want to work for Apple, then I guess they must be better than most alternatives.

Actually Google under Sundar’s leadership desperately wants to re-enter China, to the point of already building in backdoors for the Chinese government to spy on Chinese users. See Google’s maybe-cancelled, maybe-not-cancelled project called “Dragonfly”

> this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe

Maybe stop doing random layoffs then, Sundar?