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shruubi

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About shruubi

I build programs which run on machines you don't own and talk to programs on some other machines you don't own, and call it "web-scale".

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49078211

    This is why you should refuse to participate in these "trust and honesty sessions". You don't owe your employer or colleagues any insight into your personal life and the HR people …

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    Comment #48799436

    > n+0 friends Does this still hold if n=0?

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    Comment #48470008

    I have a theory, this is obviously based on speculation based on how Anthropic is treating Mythos and the whole media noise around it's dangers and who gets access to it. My theory…

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    Comment #48180651

    You are absolutely not a "random person on the internet", you are a very public figure with the wealth and influence available to you that could allow you to take revenge on someon…

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    Comment #48019706

    Am I the only one who looks at guys like Addy Osmani and Steve Yegge who before LLM's had a good reputation and since then get the feeling they are cashing that reputation in to ri…

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    Comment #47917592

    Honestly, things like this just depress me. Someone makes a mistake and then they try to cover themselves by saying "Yeah I am somewhat to blame, but look at all these other things…

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    Comment #47917540

    Two questions 1) Do you not feel self-conscious or weird about calling this "EvanFlow"? Seems like a lot of people these days are naming their AI tools/skills/whatever after themse…

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    Comment #47330738

    If Meta paid more than ten dollars for this then that is eleven dollars too much...

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    Comment #47321944

    Amazon - Where the beatings and layoffs will continue until AI usage improves.

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    Comment #47194009

    > Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years - to get the same amount of output, combined with hardware and (mostly) software upgrades - you can use 99% less power. This i…

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    Comment #46909510

    I realize that the example is contrived, but what is the point of writing a test of a fibonacci function if your test harness is designed to just take whatever it tells you and upd…

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    Comment #46565934

    I'm willing to admit I may be the odd one out here, but I find this entire article to paint the author as self-entitled and manipulative. > One might even call the art of accepting…

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    Comment #46307462

    So not only are we measuring lines of code as a productivity metric as though that has any actual relation to productivity, but across the board they are boasting that lines of cod…

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    Comment #46093407

    I understand the intention of what the author is trying to achieve, but I think the problem they will run into is how do you define "evil" in a legal document or license? There is …

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    Comment #46030130

    Not sure how geographically diverse it is to have two "highly secure sites" on the same continent.

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    Comment #45950160

    The problem with investors these days is that too many of them seem so focused on short-term gains and showing their numbers increase quarter-over-quarter that we seem to be incapa…

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    Comment #45410294

    As someone who was the victim of a lot of bullying myself, this article is a very mixed bag for me. For one, I like the idea of creating some degree of systems of support to try an…

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    Comment #45284149

    I'm of two minds on this, I think all comedians should be able to make fun of anything, but at the same time, just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you get to…

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    Comment #45217854

    > What's with "defend them no matter what"? Defend from what and why? In my experience, a lot of sports fans love to debate and argue, claim some strategy was "unfair" when used ag…

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    Comment #45206583

    The fact that we're talking about this using terms like "sides" is the problem. American politics has long since stopped being about policy, but is treated like a sport where you f…

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    Comment #41866368

    Poor Alan Kay not even getting a mention for pioneering the basis for this idea in the design of Smalltalk.

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    Comment #37378674

    I'm 30, so roughly the same age as the poster of this article. But for a person who (rightfully so) derides the ageism and racism they encounter, their whole section on technical l…

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    Comment #35161264

    I'll be honest, all these asides feel like there is some kind of explanation or big reveal that never comes. I can understand a bank identifying a large-sum account and wanting to …

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    Comment #32325641

    > I approved and took responsibility for our ambitious staffing trajectory—this is on me It's all well and good to say that, but what has he actually done to take responsibility?

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    Comment #31602209

    Mum: "He does something with computers on the internet. It's all very complicated." Sister: "He builds websites or something." Grandparents: "Complicated computer stuff." What I ac…