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New comment by andromeduck in "The Karman Industries Heat Processing Unit uses SpaceX tech to cool data centers"

andromeduck — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:22:51 +0000

I wonder if it would it allow for quieter data centers too.

New comment by andromeduck in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

andromeduck — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:42:46 +0000

It'd be simpler to just have a high LVT and treat it as a credit instead of deductible.

New comment by andromeduck in "Flattening Rust’s learning curve"

andromeduck — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:44:29 +0000

It stops being borrowed?! What kind of question is this.

New comment by andromeduck in "I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic"

andromeduck — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:26:23 +0000

Had a similar experience reading Jane Austen, it never really made sense to me until I watched the movies

The Wetware Crisis: The Dead Sea Effect (2008)

andromeduck — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39273245

Points: 60

# Comments: 52

New comment by andromeduck in "RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic"

andromeduck — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:09:11 +0000

I've been pushing to open source a VLIW assembler/codec generator with some syntax like this but alas may not stay long enough to see it through.

New comment by andromeduck in "Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech"

andromeduck — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 04:25:49 +0000

I think root problem here is trying to estimate the net present value of work that may take several quarters to play out. This forces everyone to be fairly conservative in their estimates and generally results in institutional high time prefrence.

Idealy, comp would recognize and compensate the concrete/realized impact rather than expetcted impact but doing so would require that retroactive compensation be dependable implying either payout independent of present employmet status or long average tenures in lieu.

In this enviroment, having people reguarly & annonymously assess/attribute the extent to which their work was enabled/assisted by their peers would be more straight forward.

New comment by andromeduck in "The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium"

andromeduck — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:20:22 +0000

Transmeta lived on in Nvidia's Project Denver but Denver was optimized for x86 and the Intel settlement precluded that. It ended up being too buggy/inefficient to compete in the market and effectively abandoned after the second generation.

New comment by andromeduck in "Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service"

andromeduck — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:23:17 +0000

I think that might be it - it was called "Project Air" circa 2011-2015.

New comment by andromeduck in "Culture Change at Google"

andromeduck — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:15:55 +0000

I feel like the mistake is not having more local zones of total internal transparency but idk what my org is even thinking nowadays.

New comment by andromeduck in "Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service"

andromeduck — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:29:49 +0000

Starlink was originally a google idea, originally a sister project to Loon, the founder quit and brought his team to SpaceX and then got fired by Elon. Everyone who repeats this story to me says it was because "Elon doesn't suffer fools" but YMMV.

New comment by andromeduck in "FAQ on Leaving Google"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:59:56 +0000

The culture started dying when Sundar took over, layoffs merely accelerated the trajectory.

New comment by andromeduck in "FAQ on Leaving Google"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:55:08 +0000

My experience has been the opposite - older googlers want to work from Tahoe/Vagas. Younger googlers want to meet other googlerrs or just travel and work a few months s year.

New comment by andromeduck in "Culture Change at Google"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:31:56 +0000

I agree tbh but it feels like the current environment doesn't reward risk taking and heads down work, especially with diffuse or longer term payoffs, and our AI efforts are still being retardedby safetiests/activists.

Rest & vest types are still doing fine, it's the passionate/care-a-lots that are increasingly burning out and disengaging or leaving.

New comment by andromeduck in "Culture Change at Google"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:11:16 +0000

But then they did nothing to sell their infrastructure because it was seen as a competitive advantage.

Google3/Borg ecosystem should have been productized but that'll never happen now the way things are evolving.

New comment by andromeduck in "Culture Change at Google"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:08:42 +0000

Yeah I get the impression that people don't take as much pride in their work for its own sake anymore - more assembly line worker than master craftsman.

New comment by andromeduck in "Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:11:19 +0000

If you can sign in accross sites in incognito, there's clearly some tracking going on.

New comment by andromeduck in "Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age"

andromeduck — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:29:35 +0000

This is the premise of In Time (film) too.

New comment by andromeduck in "Culture Change at Google"

andromeduck — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:35:31 +0000

just make the corporate income tax proportional to the sqrt of headcount and let the market sort it out

New comment by andromeduck in "Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling"

andromeduck — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:03:44 +0000

just build nukes