Felix Rieseberg: belief

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…Who had the phrase like, desktop OSS are just poorly deep, uh, poor implications of the, the actual os, which is Chrome, which like actually works everywhere. And this is this, this is the platform where you ship apps. I, I think the wild thing is that like as engineers, we so often sort of assume that the platform, like the layer below us is like super stable. Mm-hmm. And then you talk to those people and they’re like, ah, we are also just like guessing. Um, uh, and I had like a distinct moment at Slack where one of our customers at Slack was Nvidia, and for a while I really put GPU developers on this pedestal in my head. And I do think they’re still probably much smarter than I am. But I was like hardware engineers who built the chips, who then like built the drivers. Their work must be so much harder than mine. They must be very good. And we had like one bug in Slack where like if you had a YouTube video in Slack, it wouldn’t quite render why. Like it would have these weird artifacts. And, um, that ended up being a chromium bug. And I ended up on this like giant thread. So I got to see a lot of the source code. And they also are just like common to do. We don’t know why this is weird, but if you flip this bit, things work. You know, this is just like happening with every layer of the stack. Maybe the, uh, you know, the, the end of year a GI prediction is that clock can build chromium. You see, you see you, you laugh now. But yeah, like, you know, someday…

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