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New comment by en4bz in "The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it"

en4bz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:38:31 +0000

OpenGL and Vulkan are provided by the GPU vendor you can't statically link them.

New comment by en4bz in "How to hire engineering talent without the BS"

en4bz — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:27:04 +0000

Whiteboard coding almost always devolves into leetcode which also requires at home study. You're going to be spending evenings and weekends coding something in either case.

New comment by en4bz in "Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after purchase of One Medical"

en4bz — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:30:33 +0000

Haven't most plans moved to PPO since Obamacare. They usually allow you to just skip primary care nowadays.

New comment by en4bz in "It's TCP vs. RPC All over Again"

en4bz — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:08:19 +0000

Flatbuffers, Cap'n Proto, or SBE over RDMA.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:21:35 +0000

I'm assuming you're referring to the golang model of statically linking everything. That's not really doable when many popular libraries are (L)GPL'd like glibc and libstdc++. It also doesn't work if you want to provide a shared library and need to be compatible with every possible system. That's not my opinion it's just a deficiency of bazel.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:34:53 +0000

> bazel has provisions for patching stuff from http_archive if you supply a patch

That's a hack.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:23:36 +0000

It's literally the default. How can the default be an anti-pattern. I doubt you're using C/C++ because you don't seem to understand the issue.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:15:14 +0000

You're assuming you have control over all the deps and can set `linkstatic` on them.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:08:13 +0000

qux is now forced to be static. Consumers should be able to choose whatever they want. I don't know what end users want to do.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:44:11 +0000

The logic is backwards though. I may have multiple consumers of a library some of which may want static some of which may want dynamic. You need to create/import new targets to do this even though the original target creates both static and dynamic libs by default.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:38:08 +0000

Non-Hermetic is the default for C/C++. And if you plan on using system provided libraries to support multi OSes then you can't use it.

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:10:27 +0000

None, bazel's caching implementation is broken because they don't even know or specify what constituents a build hash/key. See this issue from 2018 that's still open [1].

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4558

New comment by en4bz in "What's New in Bazel 6.0"

en4bz — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:39:17 +0000

No, they are extremely broken. You can only choose:

- Link everything static.

- Link everything dynamic.

- Link user libs as static and system libs as dynamic.

There is no easy way to link a single user lib static/dynamic without resorting to hacks/workarounds like re-importing the shared library or defining weird intermediate targets. It's completely broken.

New comment by en4bz in "Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP"

en4bz — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:14:10 +0000

CUDA Driver API or Runtime API remoting?

New comment by en4bz in "Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP"

en4bz — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:30:57 +0000

That's the biggest problem with this model. With inference it's better to just use a dedicated model server. For training it's better to deploy on a massive dedicated machine. The only real use case left over is experimentation and debug for devs or students.

New comment by en4bz in "Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP"

en4bz — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:26:50 +0000

I doubt this does multi-server. All the GPUs probably have to be on the same machine.

New comment by en4bz in "Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP"

en4bz — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:22:39 +0000

Infiniband avoids the network stack. Has ~2us latency these days over LAN.

New comment by en4bz in "A new CMake Scripting Language?"

en4bz — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:18:47 +0000

bazel is trash.

New comment by en4bz in "A Tour of C++ (Third edition)"

en4bz — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:14:35 +0000

100% agree with this. There's nothing in the new standards past 17 that actually helps me in real life day to day work. Most of the new features are solely for code-golfers (see ranges). Mean while co-routines and other concurrency extensions have languished for years as TSs with only partial support. Here's the full list of TSs [1], half of which only have partial or no support despite being 5+ years old.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental

New comment by en4bz in "The initial proposal for a C++ Ecosystem International Standard"

en4bz — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:05:26 +0000

It's mostly run by code-golfers which is much worse.