onmobile2022

Link to the paper?

Slightly more verbose: it is an ELF library that is mapped into every process containing kernel code that runs (due to app calls) in userspace. Most often it works (like in the case of gettimeofday) by reading values from another shared memory segment mapped between the kernel and user space. Getting time just involves carefully ordered reading from that shared mem

Google> we'll engineer a cloud gaming service

Gamers> um have you even met us? What about the speed of light?

Google> we'll beat the speed of light using genius engineering

Gamers> lol

Google> we're shutting down because nobody uses us

Gamers> lol

Yet another case of having never spoken to the actual customer

Perhaps I'm stupid, but I thought they were differentiated from classic missiles by actively diverging from a birds eye path at random during flight. Do ICBMs already do this?

This generalizes to whether or not you would be willing to e.g. get an Uber. This money is absolutely everywhere, is there really some moral high ground in measuring how far away you stand as you accept it? What about working for a public company with Saudi shareholders?

For me at least, the willingness to take Uber rides I know are subsidized by Saudi money is little (if at all) different from a moral perspective than working directly for a fully Saudi funded entity, although I am sure many will attempt to define a spectrum between these two that happens to align well with general conveniences

This is a great parable in the making, something something depending on vendor APIs

Not going by their Glassdoor reviews. I know it is not a reliable source and its incentives are all wrong, but I've never seen a more damning set of reviews for any tech company