Chris McDonald

build systems that don't make us sad

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@royalicing @eeuoss @JustDeezGuy It doesn't, Bazel is telling you how long the cached run took when it was most recently executed.

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@henloitsjoyce steam cleaning will purge the lingering evil spirits from the chair

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

when i was a baby my dad was driving me late at night and a drunk driver asleep at the wheel hit us head-on. my dad was in a coma for weeks. i needed hundreds of stitches. i still have a massive scar.

many years later, i got to work at waymo during the first few years we were testing, launching, and scaling in sf. there was a huge amount to do, but it all felt pretty fucking amazing when we got to see logs like this. superhuman moments.

it's easy to write off these things as just another expensive uber competitor for techies who don't want to talk to people. but humans behind the wheel are one of the top causes of death and injury globally. and one day not long from now self driving cars will make the kinds of accidents that happened to me a thing of the past.

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@steeve @IronRedSandHive @CatGodSandHive @RealTjDunham I would very much like to see this. Splitting up monolithic NVCC invocations into separate & more granular cubin + host code compilations would be a huge improvement to the ergonomics of CUDA in Bazel.

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@corentinanjuna @bazelbuild @buildbuddy correction: one --cubin per arch, not --fatbin

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@corentinanjuna @bazelbuild @buildbuddy This is cool to see. I've spent a bunch of time thinking about this since it seems so close to being possible to stitch together just from the provided NVCC commands, i.e. some combination of per CUDA arch --fatbin actions and one --cuda for the host side + kernel inclusion.

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@RachelZader

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@grhmc @isabelrosesss I imagine at this point you just have one big button that is a macro for this sentence

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

spending the family trip convincing my nieces that it's "bananas bread" just like "attorneys general"

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

"not my circus but I definitely recognize some of those monkeys and have tips on how to manage their behavior"

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@aliceisplaying talking to Chat

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

fun start to my week: setuptools published 82.0.0 yesterday and finally dropped pkg_resources entirely, breaking wheel builds for a bunch of packages that had setuptools in setup_requires with no upper version bound (which they tell you not to do anyway)

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@RachelZader ouch

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@JRROwens @toxictiramisu This book seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of conspiracy theory or creative fiction. I can't find any other works discussing the events as described but I can find reviews trashing this book for its lack of primary sources and shoddy history.

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@helloitslynne would recommend "The Ascent of Money"

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@__phantomderp I had a shower thought and figured you were the most likely person to know the answer: Has C converged on the C++11 memory model for atomics?

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@kramerposts this is the "If you give a mouse a cookie" phenomenon

[Chris McDonald @deepinthebuild]

@shaggysurvives @allgarbled not much, you?