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You must be joking. When I needed a second MRI after a tumor was removed from my brain my very expensive health insurance denied the payment because it was medically unnecessary ac…

Yes the entire purpose of Ingress was to make meat modules walk to under-documented locations, take pictures, and indicate points of interest. The meat modules seemed to think it w…

I just slept through third period every day.

I don’t get how this is supposed to work with sports and other activities. In high school I had water polo/swimming practice mornings at 6:15. Is that now illegal?

Have you considered/tried using the new ParseContext instead of CodedInputStream? It is performance-oriented. Edit: Apparently it's also the default in protobuf 3.10

More people should try high performance services with non-traditional protobuf implementations. The fact that every language has a generated parser in no way preclude you from pars…

I'm not seeing the 1-year gap? I'm pretty sure where it says "January 2018" is a typo, was actually 2019.

Which part do you doubt: the assistant or the wifi? I never use the assistant stuff but the wifi is great. Gsuite accounts never work right with every product google launches, ofte…

Reading 100k rows per second from sqlite sounds WAY easier than serving 100k HTTP/2 queries in the same time.

Meetup doesn’t “run” these. You’re just picking boring ones. The only meetup I attend is a bunch of random motorcyclists who go up the coast highway every week. Never felt bored.

The result is pretty impressive. Go's scheduler is not this good. When my Go GRPC servers get up near 100,000 RPS their profiles are totally dominated by `runqsteal` and `findrunna…

Inside Google's main repo there are different build targets for libraries with incompatible API changes that are too difficult to fix all at once, e.g. there might be numpy_1_8 and…

All of the supposed flaws of a monorepo in this article are actually flaws of git. This is a very common phenomenon. I often joke there are two kinds of developers: those who prefe…

The Mojave installer just up and trashed my whole file system. No reason to believe it can’t happen again. Always backup.

There isn't any. That's not how electric current works. If you leave a disconnected solar panel out in the sunlight it doesn't explode or whatever.

How can a university draw only ~50kW? That’s not even one rack of computers. I think you missed a large factor somewhere. UCB has a 26MW gas turbine.

It’s not because of the lawsuit. Their grid really is dangerously under-maintained and prone to bursting into flames. Turning it off is the rational short-term move.

The university of California at Berkeley has ample cogeneration capacity but they are tied to PG&E grid and so PG&E can still turn them off.

Latency caused by packet loss. TCP needs microsecond timestamps and the ability to tune RTOmin down to 1ms before it is suitable for use in a datacenter. With the mainline kernel T…

Isn't it a pretty good reason? gRPC is terrible in a datacenter context without Google's internal TCP fixes that Linux won't adopt (and which have been advocated for in numerous co…

Google can't necessarily upstream everything because of social problems in the kernel process. For example their datacenter TCP improvements have never been accepted by the gatekee…

It would be helpful if you could mention your employer so I don't accidentally go work in such a place.

Types improve productivity in large legacy projects. When I have to review a change in python I have to check absolutely everything from scratch. I have to look at the signatures o…

That's so stupid. I've never met a real estate concern that had ANY employees. The fact that a building is owned by 1 guy who outsources everything does not make it a "small busine…

Maybe, but that's not new. Atmospheric CH4 has been far, far above historical levels for decades.