grrandalf

Insightful summary. Thx.

> So what I'm saying is that your actual potential has been exactly what you observed!

+1; How close is my paraphrasing to what you were thinking?

achievement(person) = potential(person) - adversity(person)

People implicitly assume the 'adversity' term is negligible. But in reality, the 'adversity' term can very large, and vary widely from person to person.

[yep the "equation" isn't dimensionally consistent. It's meant to be a "completion prompt" to your internal LLM to translate those tokens to a longer paragraph.]

This is good news: it means your plan is actually innovative.

> “execution there was the problem”

Thoughts on this devil’s advocate perspective? “Don’t design/propose what your org can’t build.”

(iirc) I think I used `-fomit-frame-pointer` with DJGPP on DOS on a 486. It was an [unimpressive :)] software-rendered 3D graphics demo, and I was very happy with the substantial free speedup I got.

s/countries/counties/g

thoughts?

(not the author) The metadata is a contiguous range of disk blocks. I think the intuition is that such layouts are likely to require simpler filesystem code to manipulate. [versus (iirc) ZFS which may have metadata blocks scattered throughout the disk, probably requiring more intricate code to keep track of].

the kids are alright

(GenX'er fwiw)

Haha I can totally relate to copypasting a rule and later finding out how it actually worked :)

Thanks! Do you have any thoughts to share on reasons for the migration to Bazel?

3-6 mo of one engineer to migrate to something so hardcore as Bazel seems very good actually, especially since it seems they Did It Right. The flows in 200-engineer size org can be quite complicated.

Thanks a lot! +100 to your second point about language support being uneven.

Thanks. Good points.

Follow up: I was wondering if bazel's hardcore declarativeness + opinionatedness-about-reproducibility might help increase confidence in some situations, e.g. an organization making binary distributions of their software to external partners.

(i'm the submitter) +1000 to this. "Every import you write you have to write in two files or three if you have to export it."

Others are good points too. Thanks!