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rrdharan
·5 months ago·discuss
Both Redis (finally) and Valkey addressed the multithreading scalability issues, see https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-21-redis-vs-memcache... and/or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860273...
rrdharan
·5 months ago·discuss
I don't follow this logic.

Forget about dating. If you want the AI to be able to send texts from your number, and you own an iPhone, I think your only other choice would be to port your number to Google Voice?
rrdharan
·6 months ago·discuss
This is often repeated but false - it’s not the vast majority, nor even a majority.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/bank-of-america-nearly-half-...
rrdharan
·7 months ago·discuss
GitHub is owned by Microsoft which covers most of what GP is alluding to…
rrdharan
·7 months ago·discuss
No, there actually aren’t. People just assume there are but the majority of desperate people turn to the barter system before crypto helps them.
rrdharan
·7 months ago·discuss
I’m shocked it’s even that high
rrdharan
·8 months ago·discuss
TIL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_anthropology founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss, not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss.
rrdharan
·8 months ago·discuss
I think the parent has a valid point. The actual README says "inspired by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute".

I think it's more fair to say it implements the same idea but it is not an opensource implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud the way e.g. minio is an implementation of S3, so the HN title is misleading.
rrdharan
·10 months ago·discuss
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2201201 and https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-4v56-3xv... are interesting examples to consider (though I'm curious whether Rust's integer overflow behavior in release builds would have definitely fared better?).

> Unless the end goal is to rewrite the whole thing in Rust piece by piece, solving hidden memory bugs along the way.

I would assume that's the case.
rrdharan
·2 years ago·discuss
Deterrence
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
I didn’t pull any stats but I’ve been working at Google for most of the last 10 years (in two stints).

And actually I think even 10K is a very generous upper bound, really if I were betting money I’d peg it at like maybe 2000 engineers that use golang as their primary language and a big chunk of those are SWE-SRE?

There's just _way_ more Java and C++ than there is golang…
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
Your experience doesn’t invalidate the likeliness part of the parent comment.

You just happen to be in the subset / cluster / areas that write in golang. Probabilistically speaking across the entire Google engineering population both you and the teams around you are outliers. That doesn’t mean golang is insignificant.

As to whether golang was worth it I disagree with the parent, I think it was probably worth the resources invested, even if e.g. usage has leveled off internally, but at any rate this is a hard thing to measure so we’re all just opining.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
You might be, but as the parent said, it’s not likely. I think that’s a fair statement, out of 100K engineers or whatever it is, I’d estimate less than 10K of them are writing primarily golang code.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
~Chrome was an acquisition.~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome (Edit: I misremembered / misstated, this is incorrect.)

Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and Spanner were not.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
> how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains

It sucks and the other uses also suck.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
> They weren’t getting equity at Microsoft

This is wrong.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
He's also commenting on other threads in this post.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
> I’m sure there are legitimate crypto businesses.

I’m increasingly sure there aren’t.
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
… using web technologies (it’s an Electron app).
rrdharan
·3 years ago·discuss
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/hackers-have-developed-a-clev...

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/07/be-careful-about-sidel...

Yes it’s niche but it can be, and is, abused as a vector for this kind of stuff…