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Re:Google layoffs hit Flutter team on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:10AM (#40194684)
They are so entrenched on gerrit, it's so uniquely terrible. Should have bought Gitlab when there was the moment
Re:The current state of OpenTelemetry on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:09PM (#38973278)
Yes, but the schema def is still in protobuf
Re:The current state of OpenTelemetry on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:17PM (#38972575)
The first issue is that protobufs arent a standard. That inherently limits anything built on top of them to not be a standard either, and that limits their applicability

Also depending on the environment you run in, can code size bloat vs alternatives can matter

Re:The current state of OpenTelemetry on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:47PM (#38972164)
Give me something that isn't based on protobufs at wire / request level. CBOR with CDDL for a fully standards based approach that can work at any size of the stack
Re:Git archive checksums may change on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#34671390)
That's the whole point, source tars when properly versioned don't change. And you can get unchanged versions from any mirror in the world. sha256 of linux-2.6.10 release is 404e33da7c1bf271e0791cd771d065e19a2b1401ef8ebb481a60ce8ddc73e131, it wont change
Re:Git archive checksums may change on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:13PM (#34589434)
That norm still exists, and it's offered by Github in form of Github Releases feature as well.

It's the downstream tooling ( i.e. all the builds and package managers ) that need to clean their act up.

Re:Git archive checksums may change on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:12PM (#34589419)
This is a false choice. "Vendoring" is much more of a mess than this is, and second, there's no reason to rely on these on the fly tarballs for anything, when proper versioned software releases exist.

Github has pretty much a one-click ( or one API call ) workflow to create properly versioned and archived tarballs. Just because lots of people try to skirt proper version management doesn't mean you should commit the world into your repo

Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:25PM (#34458387)
github had subversion support ??? :)
Re:Opening the North American Charging Standard on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:32PM (#33568662)
CHAdeMO / GB/T were harmonized into a new connector ( CHAdeMO 3.0 aka ChaoJi )
Re:Opening the North American Charging Standard on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:04PM (#33566822)
> What legal guarantee is there that Tesla won't reverse course in the future?

None. There would have to be a governing body set up for this to have any legs

Re:Opening the North American Charging Standard on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:02PM (#33566789)
Are you trying to imply that just calling something is a standard doesn't make it a standard ? Hmmmm
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:32PM (#33025905)
Yep but incentives haven't shifted, and the organizational inertia to fight in their fiefdoms is super strong
Re:Star Citizen has officially reached half a billion in funding on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:34PM (#32934223)
You could actually go to space several times for this cash
Re:Political Chips on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:16PM (#32334425)
I've lost count how many misguided bids of taking x86 to low-power they made. Also the apparent unshakeable confidence that ARM will never become viable on server and desktop.
Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:05PM (#32167748)
ABI with a clear major version number would solve this. It's what C++11 should have done with CoW strings.

You just ship 2 version compiled targets of std libs

Those rendering frameworks are being written as well, for no other reason than promo
Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:43AM (#25475618)
Somehow those promos have to get done right ? Couple of OKRs, a few perf cycles, launch, and move on. Also great perf stories for people who took care of sunsets
Re:Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:45PM (#24550075)
Are they trying to put trained monkeys out of the job there ?
Re:The Day the Standard Library Died on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:55AM (#22411390)
Here's a battle that Google lost
Nah, this is bunk. The cost of code sharing on top of something like Ionic is next to nothing. And for every platform specific feature you can just plumb in whatever plugins you want.
Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:05AM (#18986826)
It's very much a focus and resource allocation problem. Double the number of engineers working on the keyboard and it doesn't happen
Re:Would you still pick Elixir in 2019? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:06PM (#18839953)
Rust has also embraced the very small packages mentality more and more, and it's already showing, things turn far more brittle quickly
Re:Would you still pick Elixir in 2019? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:05PM (#18839943)
Also, your average npm module packages incredibly small amounts of functionality, making dependency trees huge and hence also very brittle.
Re:Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers on Saturday January 05, 2019 @09:08PM (#18835916)
> how potentially complex it can be

Welp, time to go back to BASIC everyone. Or Go

Powerful tools can be complex, who would have thought

Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:05AM (#18832308)
That's a very confused take on how things work. Celery functions run async, and Django frontend view responses are normally lighting fast
Re:Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:55AM (#18830522)
Moxie Marlinspike came up with the concept of trust agility some time ago. I think it's imperative that the agility of the trust network is guaranteed, because this can be a fast changing situation.
Two things: they normally have a mass market / volume counterpart that is not rad-hard.

Second, they actually are full of bugs, and take a ton of money to qualify. Qualification, among other things, means thoroughly documenting the bugs.

AM335x PRUs are exactly the reason why its under ITAR. Hard-realtime running alongside general-purpose OS

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