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mkarrmann
·mese scorso·discuss
Builder pattern isn't only used in Rust, but I agree it's hideous to use in Python.
mkarrmann
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Ya if anything the real take away is that our satellites are very impressive!
mkarrmann
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It is very fast, Mexico City has serious problems.

My point is that "can be seen from space" is an awful way to communicate that. It provides no useful intuition for the scale of "10 inches per year".
mkarrmann
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Referring to "25 centimeters per year" as "so fast it can be seen from space" is so funny to me.

We have very good satellites! Lots of things can be seen from space. "can be seen from space" is an awful way to provide readers intuition for the scale of something.
mkarrmann
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Idk why it's hard to believe another company would try to outbid.

Discovering good locations for data centers is genuinely a difficult problem. They're relatively scarce. Bidding wars seem completely plausible.
mkarrmann
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I broadly agree with the article.

The described pattern is standard in Meta. This, along with the infrastructure and tooling to support it, was the single largest "devx quality of life improvement" in my experience moving to big tech.
mkarrmann
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Microservices should have clear owners reflected in the org chart, but the topology of dependencies should definitely not be isomorphic to your org chart.
mkarrmann
·7 mesi fa·discuss
And a single producer! i.e. it breaks down if you add support for fault tolerance
mkarrmann
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Horace He at Thinking Machines just dropped an awesome article describing exactly this: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

TL;DR: assuming you've squashed all regular non-determinism (itself a tall ask), you either need to ensure you always batch requests deterministically, or ensure all kernels are "batch invariant" (which is absolutely not common practice to do).
mkarrmann
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Thank you so much for making this!