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I'm skeptical that AI will automate away any truly valuable labor, but even assuming it will - what do you think is different this time compared to say, the Industrial Revolution?

That period rapid saw automation and reduction of cost of many, many peoples' livelihoods, but society is unarguably better for it. Eventually people were freed up to do higher-order work.

It's basically just writing a design document; Google has a similar culture.

I suppose if you're not actually showing it to anybody it becomes rubber ducking via design document.

There's a cross-platform option that will give your users the best experience but will also be the most amount of work: make a separate - native - UI per platform.

By this I mean put as much of your core logic and functionality as possible into a shared library, and then make a separate Swift/WinForms/whatever codebase for the UI of each native platform you want to target. Each UI app would call into your shared library.

There is a bit of duplicate work in making separate UIs, but the UX is far superior (IMO) and you have the advantage of not needing workarounds or plugins to access platform-specific features.

When they started, I understood them as a CDN - storing copies of your static(ish) bytes on lots of servers distributed globally.

Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks, so they started offering that too. And then I guess they parlayed that further into offering other T1/T2 level Internet services too.

I don't use them for CDN / DDOS but I do use them for other things and I think they're great.

It's a semantic thing and I agree with the feedback - specifically with the "F" in FOSS. That sort of license would be Open Source but not completely Free (as in freedom, not beer).

Over the years I've come to agree with this POV, and distilled it down to this:

If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product.

We've seen this time and time again where a company releases their core software under a permissive license, and then bigger competitors come along and resell a solution redistributing their software.

If the company's central goal is profit, this is an existential threat. However if your company goal is to ensure the software exists (as a non-profit steward), this is a resounding success!

This doesn't apply to software that's secondary to your core product, e.g. a useful tool you've developed but don't make money directly selling to others.

What I think the GP means is previously, GFS ran on their own machines and didn't need to participate in the Google-wide quota system for CPU/RAM.

However Colossus _does_ run on the general Google compute infrastructure, and so needed a way to get CPU/RAM quota where none existed (because it was all used by existing, non-storage users).

Dead internet theory strikes again (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory).

I think they're trying to do the trick where they don't ban the emulation per se, but they make it a violation of the license to disassemble the code to understand how it works. Then they go after emulating projects for copyright infringement, since they must have violated copyright to get a compatible version running.

It's a dirty trick IMO, but it has seen some mixed success.

This F# code is probably remaining from their Jet.com acquisition, which (IIRC) used it to run some box-packing algorithm.

If you're using protobufs anyway, you can get also get this functionality generated by using a proto enum: https://protobuf.dev/reference/go/go-generated/#enum. It works really nicely and has all the features mentioned in the article.

One added benefit is it serializes/deserializes safely (even when you add / remove values), so you can persist and read back values without a problem - even to a different language.

If you like this sort of thing, give Subnautica (and its sequel, Below Zero) a spin.

I'm the opposite, the older I get the more paranoid I get; maybe it's the lifetime of reading news stories of people getting scammed.

The Stadia tech was so much further ahead of others, it's such a waste it didn't get time to flourish. They could have really changed the paradigm if it had better management.

One example of an intriguing idea I heard discussed on a podcast - imagine you're watching a streamer on YouTube and think the game is cool. If it were integrated with Stadia then with one click, you could be playing the game! In browser! Maybe even playing with the streamer (for multiplayer)!

So much potential wasted...I can only shake my head.

I feel like you're working with a different definition of "silo" than the parent. My understanding of a "silo" is "closed off teams that aren't allowed to work with outsiders" who have their own culture that may be at odds with the company.

It seems like you're talking about team nimbleness and cohesiveness, which I want to say is orthogonal.

That's a great idea for a shared 2FA device

That's crazy, I didn't know either.

That's pretty interesting. I wonder if replacing the signing keys could help negate DRM-y uses of the TPM

I don't disagree, but how do you feel about you (the machine owner) also not having access to it?

That's my major problem with it; it locks you out of messing with your own machine data, which you can see being instantly abused by third parties to prevent modifications.

Does Zephyr support ESP32's? I didn't see it listed on their page. I did see an Arduino variant though.

You could make your own with an ESP32 wired to two buttons, then you can customize it exactly as you need it. It shouldn't be too difficult (famous last words, I know) if you use one of the BT HID libraries like https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/....

Honestly it sounds like this person was a success. Their company is growing and sounds profitable, their customers are happy, and they have a working product. They avoided the "megafunds" and the strings attached to them, and still managed to pay themselves a salary.

It's not a smashing unicorn success but it's definitely a success.

How did you handle cleaning up aborted / rolled back transactions after binaries restarted? Or did you just let the pending records hang around forever.

Seconded, Proton has made it absurdly easy, to the point where if you aren't told there's a compatibility layer it's hard to know it's even there.

The "every other Windows release" rule is very real, basically since Win95

This article really resonated with me, I was a Windows fan for 25 years and it captures why I can't use it anymore - it increasingly feels like Microsoft owns the computer and you're just along for the ride.

One of my colleagues maintains a Windows box at home, and tells me he hates opening the thing because whenever he does the OS gives him "chores" to do - you _must_ update this bit, you need to listen to this offer, etc. Like, you're the computer and I'm the human! I give you the work, not the other way around.

Anyways, the sum of my rant is I finally switched to PopOS. It's been surprisingly smooth, especially with Proton making Linux gaming so easy. If anybody is thinking of doing it, now's the time to try it out.

That sounds fascinating, a whole world I know nothing about. Would you mind pointing me at where I could read more?

I think it depends on the topic. On technical / software questions I do still find individual websites and blogs. For something like product reviews, my experience is exactly like yours and the only thing that shows up is the trash you mentioned.

I don't think this is a search problem, I think Google is legitimately surfacing what's available on the Internet for given query. I think this is the dead internet theory at play, and that there just isn't anything valuable to show!

People who would (in the past) run their own website or blog now post that same content on social media, which is why Reddit has become mandatory for people looking for genuine opinions.

That's really useful to know, thanks!

Ah yes I've read about the infamous capacitor plague :D.

So you start by just doing a visual scan of all the caps on a board to see if any are bulging? If nothing is apparent, where do you go from there?