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Can you explain a bit? How can they design chip based on software requirements? I mean - they can add more threading, cores, etc. to ensure that heavyweight software like gaming, p…

Hmm thought so. They make hardware chips first, right, packing as many cores and transistors as possible in heat efficient manner? They make software like OS, apps, UX on top of th…

Oops, sorry, I meant Air. Editing the question, thanks. But the Pro also rarely seems to emit sound of fan, unlike my earlier MacBooks (pre-2016), so something's changed for sure I…

If you recall Jobs' iPhone keynote in 2007 - he quoted Alan Kay saying that companies who are serious about software should make their own hardware. As we see MacBooks today are sl…

How often is Commoncrawl updated? On a daily cadence? Or weekly/monthly? If Meghan Markle wears a Versace gown, that becomes a BBC article, and that article shows up on Googling "m…

Hmm got it. If a Linux skin is rewritten in Qt, and the SDK and tool chain are exposed through Qt, can they be as performant, smooth and give the native feel like Mac OS or iOS app…

Is Xilem remotely as mature a framework as one required for writing an OS and generating a toolchain and SDK at par with Mac OS (or iOS), Cocoa/Swift/Flutter?

Rust appears to be safe and cool language, many discussions going on about rewriting existing parts of kernels like bootloaders to make them memory safe, etc. Is Rust a good candid…

Hi, I thought so too. But then why did it not work for Cloudflare, and why did their custom solution work with Pingora?

Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of reque…

Got it. Thanks. Which servers are best suited to handle such high levels of load, and are available for free and open usage like Nginx or Apache is? I read that Apache has even mor…

TBH, looks like Nginx has bunch of issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOAHkaFU6w&ab_channel=Husse...

Good to know. Any idea why Google chose to use custom servers instead of opting for Nginx or Apache? Specially when Nginx offers excellent load balancing capabilities in-built?

Google uses millions of servers around the world to distribute their load in an even manner, and the servers are custom Google servers instead of standard ones like Apache or Nginx…

I am aware that I need more learning, no need for that advice. I also know that BM25 and PageRank are different, were they the same, there wouldn't have been a need for two of them…

Yes of course. What I meant is - when I query a phrase, that phrase can be found in one million webpages, yet I get a bunch of them sorted by relevance. Surely that is a combinatio…

Hi, I am looking at Elasticsearch currently. Looks like a great search engine tool. I was wondering - what are its performance metrics relative to established players like Google? …

I have a scenario - a shop runs hundreds and thousands of queries every hour. Each transaction has values like merchant id client id, purchase id, item name, item type, price, time…

Yeah, I get the R&D part, what I want to know, what specific improvement here does the R&D here contribute to?