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jeffbee··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
> "I am feeling lucky"

YouTube Music still has this feature and it even uses the die icon, just like always.

> you could upload your library to it.

You can also do this in YouTube Music.

> But they killed it

They rebranded the exact same code base with largely the same staff. I don't know why you perceive this to have been a break.

jeffbee··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Google itself was shipping transformer-based features to consumers within 2 years, notably BERT for websearch.
jeffbee··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Nah. If USA returns to its senses we are going to need tons of tradespeople to build all the stuff we need for the billion Americans.
jeffbee··on How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
In addition to cycles, I suggest gathering TLB miss rates. eBPF isn't magical and any maps of significant size may pollute your virtual address translation caches. The last time someone asked me to profile eBPF at work, over 90% of the cycle time was attributable to page table walks, and this also had severe collateral impact on the applications.
jeffbee··on Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
It's pretty wild that 99% of participants came from Instagram, Facebook, or Tiktok. It never escaped that bubble? The other platforms, Reddit, YouTube, word of mouth only amounted to 1%?
jeffbee··on Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles
Telematics systems for insurance are not even lawful in my state.
jeffbee··on Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
Redis uses jemalloc by default, if I recall correctly, but its hostility to the way systems actually work arises from the way that it forks, then changes one bit on every page in the entire virtual space, which causes a lot of kernel work to support copy-on-write by blowing up huge pages into smaller pages. That's what happens when your program is antagonistic to the way the machine actually works.
jeffbee··on Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
Linux also has support for it but it is up to the distribution, or the user, to enable or disable it. The whole discourse was poisoned years ago when the author of Redis told everyone to disable THP on Linux, but this was caused by Redis being a poor program, not by THP being a poor feature. Unfortunately, even though the Redis project finally removed their document about this, many people still carry this bias.
jeffbee··on Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles
You can disable connectivity in any car by pulling fuses.
jeffbee··on Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
One of the drawbacks of relying on the virtual memory subsystem is large page tables, that the machine has to manage on your behalf, and that pollute (or at least occupy) caches. That is another reason why Go, like all other software, benefits significantly if you adjust your Linux boxes to use huge pages, or larger-than-default pages, or ARM contiguous page bits, or whatever other features your platform offers to make virtual address translation more efficient. It is unfortunate that Linux usually comes out of the box with all of these post-286 features disabled.
jeffbee··on Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch
Sure, with LSE. But you have to target LSE and get a system that actually contains it, i.e. not the default compiler flags and not the original AWS Graviton.
jeffbee··on Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
The combination of "I have an idea for changing one of the fundamental experiences of modern life" and "my website is obnoxious and hostile" didn't really work for me.
jeffbee··on Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch
Whether the allocator calls are "naive" or not depends entirely on the allocator in use. If you need thread/core locality and batching you can get that by replacing global new/delete functions with a decent allocator.
jeffbee··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
The costliest floods in state history were in the winter 1994-1995 which was a weak El Niño year.
jeffbee··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
I don't think gcp customers were hoping for higher latency, 5% packet loss, and modem speeds.
jeffbee··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
Twenty years ago this would have been wrong with a kernel of truth. Today, it's just wrong. There were chips that integrated all this but they weren't that popular in the West and ultimately nobody cared.

https://www.mediatek.com/press-room/mediatek-announces-world...

jeffbee··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Workspace users have different terms of service. This is why new features always launch to consumer first.
jeffbee··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
Adjudicating whether an individual is eligible to vote is not and has never been the domain of any federal agency. It is categorically none of their business. The only federal intervention in elections that the Constitution permits is for the executive branch, traditionally through the Department of Justice, to ensure that states are not improperly preventing voters from voting, via the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments.
jeffbee··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
ICE is less than 25 years old.
jeffbee··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Modesty, I suppose. The larger your machine is, the more obviously faster it is.
jeffbee··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Parallel is ok but rush is nicer and much faster.

https://github.com/shenwei356/rush

jeffbee··on The Voice of Google
> People don't like google

I only wanted to clarify that you must have implied that this statement applies among people who don't like Google, but whatever their reasons, those people are few. In aggregate, Google has a strong reputation and is one of the most well-liked businesses on Earth. It is on par with Cheerios. Disliking Google for "creepy stalker" reasons is not a mainstream thing.

jeffbee··on Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings
Yeah those are pretty weird questions. I suggest you may have been spending too much time online. If you ever come across someone marketing property as the ultimate in Libertarian dirt, I would carefully investigate what liberties have been taken with it prior (dumping out New Jersey sewage trains, for example).
jeffbee··on Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings
It's nice to have a better UX the the USDA WSS offers, but I feel that this hides too much information. If I click, I am getting soil information at a point, but that might be a minor component and doesn't tell me about the overall area of interest. Also, as a Californian I feel that is irrelevant bordering on useless to display the non-irrigated capability class, as everyone irrigates. Looking at a parcel I am intimately familiar with, it is "4 of 8" but it is class 1 irrigated farmland, prime land of high value.
jeffbee··on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
Gemini is so prone to saying masterclass that I have standing instructions for it to never use it, expect literally.
jeffbee··on CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Collagen for osteoarthritis is well-supported by research. I was responding to the statement about connective tissues.
jeffbee··on CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
If I understand the literature correctly, there is no strong evidence in favor of collagen as a dietary supplement outside of a dose just before weight lifting, because without the exertion the amino acids in blood simply don't reach tendons and ligaments.
jeffbee··on CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Mine was 26 mmol/L yesterday, but the reference level is given as 22-29 by my lab, not 20-32.
jeffbee··on CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
The same thing anyone else can do: bomb an oil refinery.
jeffbee··on My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
Users are complicit. Why did this user install the update? Were they suffering from an issue it supposedly solves? My six-year-old Honda has never had a software update, and in any case "OTA" updates can only be initiated by the user.
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