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New comment by mgrosvenor in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

mgrosvenor — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:47:15 +0000

These machines are doing some crazy things to get to the result. That said, I can't help but feel like this is the compilers argument all over again. Are the methods used to get to the result good? No. Is the code that it generates good? No. Does it achieve the goal. Yes. Is it likely to get better with time. Also yes. In my use cases, jobs that would have taken weeks to months are being done in minutes to hours. Involving complex testing and reasoning and experimentation. I'm no fanboy, but I can't argue against the speed gains. I'm sure we'll still have artisans who hand weave incredible code. But for me, I'm switching to the weaving loom for speed and efficiency.

New comment by mgrosvenor in "Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)"

mgrosvenor — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:34:47 +0000

You can go quicker with CXL, but not by much.

New comment by mgrosvenor in "Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)"

mgrosvenor — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:33:47 +0000

No they don’t. At least not on the critical path. L1 switch’s at 4ns simply replicate the incoming electrical signal. That’s all they do.

They also do some packet accounting and cute features off the critical path. None of that at 4ns.

New comment by mgrosvenor in "Seinfeld-sourced paper gets into legit science journal"

mgrosvenor — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:35:12 +0000

The title is misleading. The author of the paper/blog (http://www.precisionscientificediting.com/-uromycitisis-.htm...) knew that the "journal" was a bogus for profit "journal" that would publish anything and he was intentionally trying to troll them. There was nothing "legit" about it.

Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited

mgrosvenor — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365004

Points: 89

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