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pstoll

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Unix nerd. Glad Linux unified OSes after experiences on sys v, Solaris, SGI Irix, etc. Hopeful Risc V does the same for compute.

OCR @ Xerox, longtime Akamai, then startups, now engineering lead at $BigTech.

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pstoll
·20 hours ago·discuss
Except that Mac ultra M3 they talk about is now only being sold in the 96 GB configuration. It’s no longer being sold in larger Ram configurations by Apple Apple because of the global RAM shortage. And you can not add memory after purchase because it’s integrated/soldered on.
pstoll
·3 days ago·discuss
Agreed on - it took a long time to get to the “so what is new here” vs the broader topic of distributed consensus. Stylistically would prefer more upfront “here is what is novel here”
pstoll
·3 days ago·discuss
TBH I’m doubtful of most people building their own crypto libs and distributed consensus implementations. But maybe cloudflare can pull it off. Good to see them pushing the state of distributed consensus.

Take aways:

* it’s not in prod yet. I suspect those many round trips are going to get expensive on median aka typical redistributed deployments. Curious to see how it goes once in the wild.

* they say it isn’t likely suitable for eg databases.

* they talk about formal verification, which is good and feels appropriate.

Looking forward to seeing more!
pstoll
·29 days ago·discuss
“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.
pstoll
·2 months ago·discuss
Feels like all the write ups that point out the short comings of eg Python for scientific computing.

Sure, except that once you have a community at critical mass around a reasonably good tool, that trumps most other things. Momentum builds. People write tutorials, explainers, better documentation, etc. it hits escape velocity.

Feels like Lean, with Terrance Tao as a strong proponent / cheerleader, is in that space.

Everyone who argues “but language X is better” … may not be wrong, but they are not making the argument that matters. Is it better than the thing everyone else knows and can use and has more people hours going into it to improve it?

Feels like a “worse is better” situation; or maybe “good and popular is good enough”.
pstoll
·3 months ago·discuss
PLG. Any article I have to search for an acronym and don’t find it - nope.
pstoll
·4 months ago·discuss
And a group has published an independent working implementation today, nice to see:

https://github.com/tonbistudio/turboquant-pytorch
pstoll
·4 months ago·discuss
Good post but link at the end is broken.

“”” For the full technical explanation with equations, proofs, and PyTorch pseudocode, see the companion post: TurboQuant: Near-Optimal Vector Quantization Without Looking at Your Data.“
pstoll
·4 months ago·discuss
And the lower precision float variants.
pstoll
·4 months ago·discuss
TLDR the recorded media isn’t end-to-end encrypted and they aren’t selling it but instead using it to train their own systems. What is new here?
pstoll
·5 months ago·discuss
Ditto - completely appeals to me. I’m good starting with mail.
pstoll
·6 months ago·discuss
I’m the opposite - I much prefer a structured query language (ahem) for this type of thing. If I’m looking at someone’s (ie my own 6 months later) script I much prefer to see the explicit structure being queried vs “why are we feeling for foo or grabbing the 5th field based on squashed spaces as the separater”.

Nice use of CEL too. Neat all around.
pstoll
·7 months ago·discuss
Yes only on that page, not the rest of his blog. Guessing he ansible’d it to redirect ;)
pstoll
·7 months ago·discuss
Neat idea à la regex golf.

But doesn’t seem to do enough shell escaping or correctly. Also seems underspecified, ie “find 5 lines starting with ‘the” doesn’t require a pipe to head -5.
pstoll
·7 months ago·discuss
I get what your saying but I think it’s not the best way to describe it - “GPL is property”? Hardly - it’s a societal common good that can be used by anyone interested in helping that common good.

Are parks “proprietary”? I can’t run my car dealership from one, so it’s …proprietary? No. So using the terminology of “proprietary” doesn’t do justice to what it actually is.
pstoll
·7 months ago·discuss
Lol I was hoping for that too
pstoll
·8 months ago·discuss
It’s the “no longer evil” marketing without actually proving that “no longer evil.com” is in fact … from from evil.

I was assuming that I could point the nest data stream & control UI to my own hosted thing on eg my local NAS or docker farm. That’s what I think would warrant the moniker “free from evil” in this kind of strong privacy preserving marketing.
pstoll
·8 months ago·discuss
Proposal - every new thing needs a “here are the systems we consider and rejected” entry. I can’t find one on the docs here.

Founders care to comment on if you evaluated if Tremor (https://github.com/tremor-rs/tremor-runtime) would suit what you needed?

Seems to me that the lists of features (and use of rust) have a high degree of overlap.
pstoll
·9 months ago·discuss
My first inclination too tbh.

And then I saw Npm references and thought “in JavaScript?!” But at least it’s typescript.
pstoll
·9 months ago·discuss
In TypeScript, interesting. Not the obvious choice IMO but trying to keep an open mind.

Was that because of team expertise or particular aspects of TS you thought suited the domain?