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katee

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About katee

hi@kate.io

I like emails :)

Recent public activity

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    Project Debug | General Engineer | Singapore (HYBRID) | Full-time | debug.com Project Debug raises, sorts by sex, and releases millions of (non-biting) male mosquitoes in Singapore…

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    E11 bio recently released https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678648v1.... There’s an animated version at https://www.e11.bio/ and the dataset is publicly available:…

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    Comment #38423947

    Are you sure it was really a Chase representative on the phone with you? It’s sometimes possible to cause an account to be locked without being able to log in by doing too many log…

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    [I know this is tangentially related to your point] Do you have a source on "leather cows"? My understanding is that cow leather is nearly entirely a by-product of beef and dairy c…

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    Comment #26300075

    Oh definitely! Doing high pressure practice in preparation for my last round of interviews definitely helped, and that round resulted in multiple FAANG offers. VC interviews also s…

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    I'm feel very lucky to have gotten my first "programming job" without a technical interview (it was an unpaid high-school internship that I turned into a programming job, and event…

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    Comment #26244535

    Tools like this are extremely necessary and important. I think that platforms (Twitter, Reddit, etc) don't have a real incentive to build out powerful tools to stop this stuff. If …

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    Huh, I've tested on a bunch of devices/connections and haven't encountered that. Do you know what causes AMP to be that slow for you? I'll take a look at serving non-AMP pages by d…

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    Comment #15460043

    You can't make a valid recursive tree without a pre-image attack against SHA1. However `git` doesn't actually verify the SHA1s when it does most commands. If you make a recursive t…

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    Comment #15120934

    This is super neat! If it weren't for the FAT limitations you could make one of those SD cards that fake their capacity actually "contain" a file as big as the misreported capacity…

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    Comment #15095928

    I'm glad you and squeaky-clean wrote these comments. When I was experimenting in the Python REPL, I was confused by the last line here: >>> 100 is 100 True >>> (10 ** 2) is (10 ** …

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    That's really cool! I used the web audio stuff to get real time audio data for interactive visualizations when I did a 5 minute demo of quietnet, the code is available (but might b…

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    Comment #7026786

    It actually works much better when sending an receiving on the same computer. It's not as fun though.

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    Comment #7026772

    It's definitely a toy and a bit dodgy. I wrote up some instructions over here: https://github.com/Katee/quietnet/issues/3#issuecomment-3187... Basically I only every worked on this…

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    Comment #7026708

    Definitely in no way a unique idea. Also that article is awesome.