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keerthiko
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About keerthiko
https://keerthik.github.io
cofounder bitgym, olin college alum, former digital nomad.
O1A visa -> EB1 Green card holder with only an undergrad degree.
Feel free to reach out if you aren't trying to sell me anything @keerthiko
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Comment #48809506
i'd say it is a valid flex if from 16k users, their total volume of support tickets is so low that they can read and respond to them before they're done with their morning coffee -…
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Comment #48749537
> The other users could be perfectly happy about it this could be true about a miracle drug that is untested too. still, human rights laws dictate that humans be allowed to opt in …
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Comment #48496586
Anthropic was making moderate revenue from their API tokens, but everything changed when they started bundling crazy amounts of usage credits at $20/$100/$200 claude max subscripti…
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Comment #48420572
> FWIW kids of rich parents do not procreate somehow better even if they are not constrained by housing market. I don't think this assertion holds true at all: https://i.redd.it/5w…
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Comment #48166143
> The original adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” doesn’t necessarily rule out the converse. I believe the logical term "converse" means swapping the conclusion an…
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Comment #48160753
You're better off creating a 3D model and then taking image-grabs of it facing different directions/doing different poses from an isometric perspective to get your isometric sprite…
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Comment #48025345
There can be more than one person or entity to be held accountable, depending on the details of impact If I install a powerful/dangerous app, and I come under harm, I have some acc…
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Comment #48024368
I think you are misinterpreting gp as saying "LLMs are a tool [like every other tool]" to mean "LLMs have similar properties to other tools" — when I believe they meant "LLMs are a…
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Comment #47990692
there are many[0] many[1] data points like this. even if individual ones seem like outliers, when there's this many outliers, it's like there's at least two distinct lines depictin…
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Comment #47713118
I'm not a big space-switcher on OSX, mostly because each of my applications come with spaces (browser, IDE, etc), but unskippable UI animations are an instant roadblock. Looks like…
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Comment #47653082
Claude Code is fairly notoriously token inefficient as far as coding agent/harnesses go (i come from aider pre-CC). It's only viable because the Max subscriptions give you approxim…
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Comment #47630193
> Being rich != being famous. > decided that simply being rich wasn't enough, they wanted to be famous While these are true, the real detail is that these people were never satisfi…
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Comment #47509500
I'd be sad if "quarterly numbers" is a reason for a privately held company with 40% controlling stake still held by Sweeney to lay off 1K folks. As an indie dev, I generally like t…
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Comment #47509142
Definitely avoid unless you are distributing a consumer application through the dominant app stores (App Store and Google Play) ~globally, in which case you may not be able to avoi…
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Comment #47495854
> “ Estimate: You are entitled to a written price estimate for the repairs you have authorized before the work is performed, only if you deal face-to-face with the facility and the…
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Comment #47358248
It can terminate the current plan where it's at until given a new prompt, or move to the next item on its todo list /shrug
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Comment #47264955
"I may play your game if you trim away a core appeal factor for the people who already play your game by splitting the active player base" is not that convincing a feature request …
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Comment #47242328
Does anyone know where I can read more about which devices will be supported? GrapheneOS website devices FAQ doesn't list any Motorola devices, and the press release doesn't have m…
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Comment #47236791
This is the exact same logic as opting to not go through the hassle of registering to and casting your vote in your national elections (unless that physically isn't an option where…
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Comment #46864386
without having watched the Big Short or having read the article, my first impression from the quote is "Megacorporations are failing dramatically, and the billionaires at their hel…
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Comment #46784383
Almost always, notes like these are going to be about greenfield projects. Trying to incorporate it in existing codebases (esp when the end user is a support interaction or more aw…
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Comment #46520892
> By doing this, you'll chase the ads into IMO regulation never was or is going to force this shift: it's already happening in unregulated ad markets, and is going to keep evolving…
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Comment #46515197
I would argue that limiting the amount of unrequested product evangelism shoved into users' eyeballs is a valuable public and mental health initiative. I wish we could have seen th…
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Comment #46370955
I just received an email from Google Play Developer today morning that they will not be activating the age verification APIs (they will throw an exception) because of the injunctio…
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Comment #46368722
> The fix was embarrassingly simple: once you fall back to screenshots, stay there until the user explicitly clicks to retry. There is another recovery option: - increase the JPEG …