Isn't Verily a medical devices company... ?
Readit Newsintexpress commented on Verily is closing its medical device program, shifts resources to AI techcrunch.com/2025/08/26... · Posted by u/blevinstein
A version of JIRA that nobody can access sounds pretty good
intexpress commented on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso groups.google.com/a/chrom... · Posted by u/hortense
Yeah, thats fair, but if I understood right- this is a custom built tool to be compatible with Ninja.
That work building “yet another build tool” could have gone in to programmatically generating bazel BUILD files. So, there was an active choice here somewhere; we just don’t know all the information as to why effort was diverted away from Bazel and toward building a new tool.
I trust them to make good decisions, so I would like to understand more. :)
Seems like Siso supports Starlark, so maybe its a step in Bazels direction after all.
> That work building “yet another build tool” could have gone in to programmatically generating bazel BUILD files.
Google did try that for Android (AOSP). They made a tool that generated thousands? of BUILD files to get AOSP building with Bazel.
But the migration to Bazel was aborted for unknown reasons.
intexpress commented on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso groups.google.com/a/chrom... · Posted by u/hortense
Note that Siso uses Starlark (https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/refs/heads/m...) which is the build language of Bazel
I wonder if the end goal is to use Bazel for Chromium and Siso is an incremental step to get there
intexpress commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
The video was filmed at Francis Ford Coppola's cafe. Worth a visit, the last time I was there they had a machine that printed out stories for you to take home.
Waymo is part of my investment thesis as to why Google is undervalued
Public transport is undervalued
intexpress commented on Pakistan's solar revolution leaves its middle class behind reuters.com/business/ener... · Posted by u/alephnerd
Natural gas grids will face a similar problem as people switch to heat pumps.
Not sure about the calculation for home heating, but for hot water it is still ideal to have an instant gas hot water system. Heat pump hot water systems are expensive (to install and to service) and take up a lot of space.
intexpress commented on Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video] fosdem.org/2025/schedule/... · Posted by u/bestorworse
Posix lite didn't lose favor. It's still an important part of writing fuchsia native software. It enables us to use the c++ and rust standard libraries with minimal upstream changes. It was never meant to enable running all existing programs, only lowering the barrier. There isn't really much software that has been ported to run on fuchsia natively. Instead runners are implemented or ported and those provide the environment applications require. For instance a flutter runner, web runner (chromium), and starnix (a Linux runner of sorts) provide the basis of running many existing applications.
Right, that is the current status
But the historical perspective is that Starnix is a relatively recent addition to Fuchsia. Even though Fuchsia is roughly 10 years old now, Starnix has only been useful for about 2 years (RFC 4 years ago)
Before Starnix came along to help run Linux apps, as you said, “There isn't really much software that has been ported to run on fuchsia natively”. Because POSIX Lite wasn’t / isn’t being used much. So I guessed the OP could have been thinking about that. But who knows.
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intexpress commented on Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video] fosdem.org/2025/schedule/... · Posted by u/bestorworse
I work on Starnix and I've never heard of anything meant to replace it. What are you talking about?
They might be thinking about POSIX Lite losing favor