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The timelines matter as well: They were working on EUV at Zeiss (who make the lensing/mirroring systems) already in 2005. That's about 20 years of development.

Even if it's success rather than money, you still have survivorship bias to contend with, so it's not really much of a helpful distinction.

IIRC, the most recent and most technical public content we (Google) have published on Colossus are these: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer... https://cl…

Slight problem with that if you would like to live in a functioning, thriving democracy: democracy in the sense of "one person, one vote" requires or at least greatly benefits from…

You're right -- the theoretical particle physicists at my faculty were using Mathematica very heavily when I was still in academia and maintained a dedicated compute cluster for it…

I realize you're making a general point about space/IO ratios and the below is orthogonal, no contradiction. It's actually a lot less user-facing per disk IO capacity that you will…

I think Chips and Cheese is more like a fine replacement for realworldtech.com sans the toxic and highly educational and entertaining forums. Anandtech was much more accessible to …

Google's internal systems have been written against the Colossus semantics for many, many years and thus benefit from it's upsides (performance, cost efficiency, reliability, stron…

Concur, Colossus is one of the examples where Google built what almost feels like magic technology. I work on Google Storage (among other things), and I've wished for a Cloud offer…

4% of revenue is terrifying for large corporations.

https://www.s3ns.io/en This is Google + Thales doing the 3rd party operator model, with the operator being a subsidiary of Thales and not Google. (NB: I work for Google in the EU.)…

Was about to say that we managed upwards of 4k servers worth of MySQL databases (as in 4k baremetal servers worth, not 4k small VMs each having a small MySQL) using "Orchestrator" …

They make it easier, but just at a source code level. They're not a real (and certainly not full) abstraction. An example that'll be making it obvious: if you replace the underlyin…

It's actually quite likely something else (unless it's just an excuse to reap short term savings): in a company large enough, deciding to shift staffing from one area to another is…

Multiple types of TPUs. (I work for Google, but the above is public information.)

Former Perl language contributor here. A sibling comment to this already pointed out that you must use strict mode with Perl to retain your well being. The two languages certainly …

Many moons ago, I made a case for making strict mode the default in Perl. We settled on the current backwards compatibility compromise, which is that breaking changes are hidden be…

It's not an idle use case by the way. mhx wrote and maintains a library that provides important backwards compatibility for native (typically C based) extensions for Perl across de…

See my response to a sibling of the comment you're responding to. The library had shocking code quality issues. It's unlikely that they're all peachy now. The other side of this is…

Zeromq will have changed a lot since then, but some time in the 2010s, I prototyped a system using it (which was going to be a major production system in a large tech company) and …

"Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense." Only poem I can cite by heart a quarter of a century after spe…

I haven't ever used a 3d printer. But your comment made me realize that if PrusaSlicer is based slic3r, it's actually also using software that I wrote many, many years ago. That's …

Apologies for nitpicking, but n^m doesn't mean m loops (ie n^1000 dient mean 1000 passes): that would be m n (1000 n in your example). I think your intuition argument kind of break…

It's easy enough to repeat, but I'd be leaking sensitive info that way. Sorry :/