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People will do a small amount of work for free. But if something requires dozens or hundreds of programmers working full time, the chances of this happening is much less. And if yo…

This is ultimately a business model problem. There are FOSS projects out there; some of them are even listed in the article. The problem is that making it "Just Work(tm)" is hard; …

Single malt was the currency of choice when bribing and/or placating SRE's and hwops folks. For example, if a SWE botched a rollout that caused a multiple SRE's to get paged at 3am…

Well, by that argument it's trivially easy to run emacs on a binary and change a pathname --- or wrap a program with another program to "fix a bug". Easy, no? And yet, the people w…

There was definitely a certain amount of "I told you so" vibes, but I don't blame the author. It appears that he was attacked by a lot of Ello founders and fans for raising some ca…

But one of the four freedoms is being able to modify/tweek things, including the model. If all you have is the model weights, then you can't easily tweak the model. The model weigh…

They don't have to be low-end. You can buy higher-end Chromebooks, but they cost more money. Do people remember the "netbooks" that were-super cheap Windows laptops with 10 inch sc…

Unfortunately, the supply chain often goes 3 and 4 levels deep. And by the time you get to companies that far in the supply chain, (a) no one has ever heard of that company, so the…

It might be worth taking a look at Bensonwood ( https://bensonwood.com ). They do some very impressive, high-end pre-fab homes, and they solve the "must fit in highway lanes" by sh…

Cgroups are a lot more than just "namespaces". It is also the mechanism by which you can constrain how much CPU, Memory, Network Bandwidth, Storage IOPS or Throughput, etc., proces…

Disclaimer: I work for Google but nothing I say here is Google's opinion or relies on any Google internal information. I'm not surprised that Workspace accounts weren't included in…

> motion sickness is a major barrier I recall a story from a colleague who knew some folks who had worked on the game System Shock (this was in the early nineties). System shock wa…

There is an old AI joke about a robot, after being told that it should go to the Moon, that it climbs the tree, sees that it has made the first baby steps towards being closer to t…

As I said, there are apps that need a Posix interface although my contention is the vast majority of them are "lift and shift" from customer data centers into the cloud. Sure, they…

No one asked for a "block device"? Um, that's table stakes because every single OS in the world needs to be able to boot their system, and that requires a block device. Every singl…

In my part of Google, we use TPM for "Technical Program Managers" instead of PgM. In general a TPM at Level N will have the technical skills of a Level N-1 SWE. So many TPM's have …

Oh, you can certainly do big projects. My project[1] spanned 3 departments, and involved dozens of engineers, and required that we work with multiple hard drive vendors (our first …

Here are the latest development statistics from the just-released 5.19 kernel. (Please consider supporting Linux Weekly News by subscribing if you find content like this useful; on…

I work at Google so my perspective is to be biased, but that's not what I see. I work on infrastructure, and so a few years back, when I proposed a major project, I had to demonstr…

I very much doubt whether the MIT Press Office cares about what Hacker News thinks of their brand. What they do care about is what Sarah J. Student's parents think when they are tr…

Keep in mind that the MIT Press office != the professors at MIT. It's actually quite common for any University's press office to be clueless about the research being done at the un…

Indeed, the statement of slavery not providing any economic benefits as a whole is a country-level statement. Whether or not there exists certain large slaveholders, or business pe…

They way you phrased your "simple question": "Then why don't they give the option to enable this in a "work mode" and not turn it on for everyone by default?" assumed that Google h…

Actually, it is only going to be enabled for "work mode". It is not being turned on for everyone by default. Certainly not if you are talking about the consumer version of Google D…