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blerb795on Perspective Server

""" macOS menu bar app that exposes Apple's on-device Foundation Models as an OpenAI-compatible local API. Zero cloud. Zero dependencies. """

blerb795on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

To some degree, they do -- under SEC rules (Exchange Act §12(g)), private companies with >$10M in assets and 2,000+ shareholders (or 500+ non-accredited investors) have to start public-style reporting. I assume there's some clever accounting to ensure they're not at the 2,000 shareholder cap (perhaps double-trigger RSUs don't count as being a shareholder yet?)

blerb795on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

The costs of using Databricks are anything but low, though.

blerb795on Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33

I can't speak to their specific policies, but employees are often prohibited from trading in derivatives on company stock (and are regardless subject to open trading windows, which sometimes do not open until after the lockup has expired)

blerb795on PlanetScale for Postgres

Is there some compliance reason or otherwise that you need one physical database per tenant, and can't just colocate multiple logical databases/schemas on one PlanetScale database?

blerb795on How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy

The linked page specifically mentions that these ZDR APIs are not impacted.

> This does not impact API customers who are using Zero Data Retention endpoints under our ZDR amendment.

blerb795on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself

No need for the friends to be involved -- she resigned prior the the bankruptcy filing so she can participate in the bidding process personally

blerb795on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

I don't believe this is true, but you do have to give one of the iMessage groups a name to make it independent from another group. If you imagine that primary key for a group is its name, and the default name for a group is its participants, this does kind of make sense.

blerb795on Avoid ISP Routers (2024)

It can be fiber speeds! I had symmetric gigabit with MonkeyBrains for 3 years. It just depend on the size of their install; I was in a relatively large apartment complex so they invested more in bigger(?) antennas.

blerb795on United Airlines Jet Loses Wheel in Repeat of March Incident

That doesn't sound exactly correct per the definitions I'm familiar with -- a multi-engine plane with a failure will not safely climb at V1, that's what V2 defines (the speed at which an engine-out aircraft can climb at 200ft/s, with at least 35ft of altitude at the end of the runway). Vr should be when the pilot begins rotation unless an engine is out; I don't believe there's any guidance to wait until V2.

blerb795on The Origins of DS_store (2006)

Many cross-platform applications which store metadata in xattrs on Unix-based systems will use ADS for the same purpose.

E.g. Dropbox, which syncs some extended attributes (and uses some for internal metadata), seems to store them in the ADS on Windows.

blerb795on The Origins of DS_store (2006)

> When Apple finally got rid of it

Oh, they're not gone -- still very much part of APFS. You can read the contents of the resource fork for a file at path `$FILE` by reading `$FILE/..namedfork/rsrc`

The resource fork is still how custom icons for files and directories are implemented! (Look for a hidden file called `Icon\r` inside any directory with a custom icon, and you can dump its resource fork to a `.icns` file that Preview can open)

blerb795on Waymo the Leapfrog

This feels a little pedantic; I assume the commenter means that Tesla relies exclusively on vision, whereas Waymo additionally has sensors (i.e. lidar)

blerb795on Why I love Laravel (2022)

> Another small frustration for me is all the huge adjectives being used

wow you weren't kidding -- the docs [0] for each of the "packages" could easily be confused with AI-generated text written as a joke

[0] https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/octane

blerb795on An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles

I built one of these as I couldn't find anything online satisfying this niche! I always want to charge my phone while on the couch but hated unsightly cables hanging around the armrest or underneath. Plus, it gave me a convenient spot to put my surround speakers without needing to wall mount.

It's a reasonably easy project for someone with little woodworking experience.

blerb795on Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search

Former Dropbox employee, just correcting one assumption:

> Dropbox's peak traffic is 1,500 queries per second (QPS).

I can't speak to search QPS directly, but most individual serving hosts for file sync/retrieval were receiving tens of thousands of QPS. The overall edge QPS peaked at several hundreds of thousands QPS every day across all the hosts. So I'd guess that even just search is an order of magnitude higher than 1,500 :)

blerb795on Lo-Fi ATC

I'm not the creator of this site, but the creator (who showed me this a few months ago) is indeed a pilot!