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The trip was worth considering for a few years. IIRC a first class ticket would have cost too much though. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/adobe-chief-dodges-questio...

I assume they're referring to Steve Jobs' comments in this (Robert Cringely IIRC) interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE (not a great copy, but should be good enoug…

> why take so long to attack First they need to gain some credibility. And they also need to obfuscate what they were trying to do. The payoff if they were to succeed is potentiall…

She also created Glenda the Plan 9 Bunny: https://9p.io/plan9/glenda.html

Fun fact for the non-Australians, the actor who plays Bandit is part of an awesome indie-rock band named Custard formed in the late 80s. Worth checking out if you're into that sort…

If you're only using remote caching (ie no remote execution) then all cache clients need to trust each other, because a malicious client can upload any result it wants to a given A…

They are still used in some places. But they have some downsides: Precompiled headers don't play nicely with distributed compilation or shared build caches (which are perhaps the f…

Yes, it was computer graphics. He was a great person.

Norsk Data machines?

There's also an opensource goma client + server which proxies to RBE (or potentially other bazel remote execution API implementations). Which is great if you can't or don't want to…

Icecc (an old distcc fork) also distributes the toolchain, to avoid that particular problem. https://github.com/icecc/icecream

I think the Allusionist is a really interesting podcast, and this episode was a great one. It brought back some early childhood memories of my time in Scotland (where I first learn…