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reindeerer··on Google layoffs hit Flutter team
They are so entrenched on gerrit, it's so uniquely terrible. Should have bought Gitlab when there was the moment
reindeerer··on The current state of OpenTelemetry
Yes, but the schema def is still in protobuf
reindeerer··on The current state of OpenTelemetry
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

reindeerer··on The current state of OpenTelemetry
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
reindeerer··on Git archive checksums may change
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
reindeerer··on Git archive checksums may change
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.

reindeerer··on Git archive checksums may change
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

reindeerer··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
github had subversion support ??? :)
reindeerer··on Opening the North American charging standard
CHAdeMO / GB/T were harmonized into a new connector ( CHAdeMO 3.0 aka ChaoJi )
reindeerer··on Opening the North American charging standard
> 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

reindeerer··on Opening the North American charging standard
Are you trying to imply that just calling something is a standard doesn't make it a standard ? Hmmmm
reindeerer··on Google is shutting down Stadia
Yep but incentives haven't shifted, and the organizational inertia to fight in their fiefdoms is super strong
reindeerer··on Star Citizen has officially reached half a billion in funding
You could actually go to space several times for this cash
reindeerer··on Political Chips
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.
reindeerer··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
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

reindeerer··on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
Those rendering frameworks are being written as well, for no other reason than promo
reindeerer··on Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January
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
reindeerer··on Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts
Are they trying to put trained monkeys out of the job there ?
reindeerer··on The Day the Standard Library Died
Here's a battle that Google lost
reindeerer··on The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
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.
reindeerer··on Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
It's very much a focus and resource allocation problem. Double the number of engineers working on the keyboard and it doesn't happen
reindeerer··on Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
Rust has also embraced the very small packages mentality more and more, and it's already showing, things turn far more brittle quickly
reindeerer··on Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
Also, your average npm module packages incredibly small amounts of functionality, making dependency trees huge and hence also very brittle.
reindeerer··on Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers
> 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

reindeerer··on Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
That's a very confused take on how things work. Celery functions run async, and Django frontend view responses are normally lighting fast
reindeerer··on Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust
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.
reindeerer··on The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 mission [pdf]
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.

reindeerer··on The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 mission [pdf]
AM335x PRUs are exactly the reason why its under ITAR. Hard-realtime running alongside general-purpose OS
reindeerer··on The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 mission [pdf]
Unprecedented in that it has never been used in space before. Studies and projects yes. NASA is working on their own version for Mars 2020 rover, although the system ( called ALHAT ) hasn't been officially included yet
reindeerer··on Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
Seconded on Django. It's excellent, especially if you get it out of the box with cookiecutter-django and DRF ( rest framework )

Plus, with things like Zappa it's easy to go entirely serverless

Django + NewRelic for APM is plain magic

EDIT: Oh, and Celery if your use case needs it. Brillant

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