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New comment by tomassre in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

tomassre — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:27:52 +0000

There’s issues specific to workflows “agents”. For example many requests in an agent are all on top of the same previous results so context (kv cache) needs to be longer, and they use these massive connected nodes with direct nvme to cache the part of the prompt that’s repeatable.

It is about agents in that the design is for long context, many requests where the initial “chunk” is cached but spread across many requests.

They don’t call this out specifically but in the technical details like about the sram, how it’s all interconnected nodes in a pod it’s “designed” for it.

New comment by tomassre in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

tomassre — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:11:53 +0000

The functionality showed in ads was never even available internally - and is still not available today how long after their marketing released it

New comment by tomassre in "Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA"

tomassre — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:14:37 +0000

12 hour shifts are 13+ hours of actually being there because of lunch / breaks. For example Genentech in SF / Vacaville are "12 hours paid shifts" with 1 hour mandatory lunch. So no it is not required for an overlap because there i already a required by law break (lunch) that forces overlap (assuming this applies to more states than just CA).

New comment by tomassre in "HTTP/3: from root to tip"

tomassre — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:18:39 +0000

Could be client HTTP/3 --> proxy HTTP/1 --> backend

gcloud load balancer docs: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/#QUIC

New comment by tomassre in "After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue"

tomassre — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:47:22 +0000

I don't think the purpose is to remind him in the BMW case but to get him to purchase it at dealer X instead of dealer Y.

They would be the ones making the ad, targeting someone X miles from them, who is interested in BMW's.

New comment by tomassre in "Google’s revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta"

tomassre — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:11:13 +0000

I believe the difference is this is part of GCP and their terms for GA products are that they will support for at least one year on deprecated versions / products and not just instantly remove something.

New comment by tomassre in "The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting"

tomassre — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:11:00 +0000

Mobile App iOS has autoplay video ads. Twitch prime or whatever its called was the first one I saw yesterday.

New comment by tomassre in "Think twice before signing subscription to Adobe products"

tomassre — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 23:40:29 +0000

I tried to do this for my gym. After many back and forth calls with the bank and them telling me they just have to dispute the charge and do something else. Went in person to the bank (WF) and she said there was nothing they could (probably means will) do and I have to get a new credit card).

New comment by tomassre in "GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon"

tomassre — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 23:13:34 +0000

Thought I would chime in here since I didn't see anyone comment here about gold. We have GCP gold support. They answer all the questions / issues quickly and there aren't any limits to ticket counts I am aware of. During both the outages we have been affected by (~1.5 hour google load balancer outage, >3 hour bigquery outage) in the past few months, the support feels pretty bad even though there is nothing they can do I guess. However during the bigquery one, it was "outage will have an update by some time". There proceeds to not be some update for well past that time. Also 3 hours later its still we will have an update by some time but no more info when both of these were past SLA. Overall feels good and they answer any weird / general questions too which is nice (although sometimes on every reply they say I am going to close the ticket).

New comment by tomassre in "All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta"

tomassre — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:20:15 +0000

I had this same issue (a while ago). I believe the solution was to turn back on icloud photos and then your photos show up in the photos app where you can delete them, and then turn off icloud photos again (convenient)

New comment by tomassre in "DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding"

tomassre — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:16:23 +0000

I have used them for a side project, no issues. The big reason for me moving from DO to them that I didn't see mentioned is because they have actual private networking. And also the option for servers with HDD instead of SSD.

New comment by tomassre in "Free invites to Atom, GitHub's new text editor"

tomassre — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:04:27 +0000

Thanks yarinb! I have 2 if anyone wants one!

Edit: corrius got the first one, one left