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Comment · 1 year ago
Very nice. Macs have a new containers program. It’s open source on github but not ready for the current MacOS version. Might be an even better approach as it’s made by Apple.
Comment · 1 year ago
I followed his posts internally before he left. He was strict about resource waste. Hand tracking would break constantly and he brought metrics to his posts. His whole point was that Apple has hardware nailed down and it’ll be efficient software that will be the differentiator. The bloat at Meta was the result of empire building.
Comment · 1 year ago
Big fan of her book as well though I don’t know if the recommended tools are still relevant.
Comment · 1 year ago
Opening an animal crossing next to a school in an area where there are many coyotes is a lot different than fingers pinched by doors. But if you’re making the argument that this animal crossing is so important than the occasional child being killed by animals is as trivial as fingers being pinched by doors, I know all I need to know about you.
Comment · 1 year ago
No it’s not. I live there and my kids go to school there. I do see many coyotes in our area. Some tagged. Some not. It’s definitely a worry of mine.

Edit: I have friends whose dogs were torn apart by packs of coyotes. It’s common in our area. I really do fear that this will cause incidents.

Comment · 1 year ago
An animal crossing built right next to a school. I wonder if the coyotes that will cross will be a threat to the children.
Comment · 1 year ago
The real fear I have is in plausible deniability for filtering and muting discussion, which they do now. Moving it to a NN can always hand wave away the responsibility.
Comment · 1 year ago
You’d be calling libraries that are vetted by the security team. Engineering at Meta is a lot like coloring with crayons. It’s very limiting but the infra does a lot for you.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is great. Do you have any pointers to where those tests are? It’s hard to test the grammar without those.

Edit: Never mind. I see it right there under the parser. Thanks!

Comment · 2 years ago
I actually have some experience porting these antlrs over to tree-sitter. I'll give it a shot.
Comment · 2 years ago
Does anyone have a good EBNF notation for Sqlite? I tried to make a tree-sitter grammar, which produces C code and great Rust bindings for it. But they use some lemon parser. Not sure how to read the grammar from that.
Comment · 2 years ago
Link us your eBPF disassembler if you can. Sounds cool.
Comment · 2 years ago
If you use jupyterlite, you're using the same thing. Bento is just the internal Meta version and the only potential benefits is the internal integration.
Comment · 2 years ago
Meta doesn't use git. It uses mercurial. It does fork it because they have a huge monorepo. They created a concept of stacked commits which is a way of not having branches. Each commit is in a stack and then merged into master. Lots of things built for scaling.
Comment · 2 years ago
I really wonder why they didn’t choose something like RocksDB for more speed.

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