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soamv

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About soamv

Systems/Infrastructure software at various layers.

Previous work: cohesion.dev, fission.io, filesystems at VMware.

Generally: interested in the systems of change in software and people.

Specifically: working on developer tools at Stripe.

contact@soam.dev; no sales pitches please but I'm always interested in grabbing a coffee and talking about developer tools, infrastructure, or startups!

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48983537

    Well, the headline was great. I'd love to read a non-slop version of this article, if anyone were ever to write one.

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    Comment #47869665

    Which clients?

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    Comment #45771633

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY

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    Comment #45720052

    > New nullable columns are kryptonite to large Corrosion tables: cr-sqlite needs to backfill values for every row in the table Is this a typo? Why does it backfill values for a nul…

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    Comment #44220934

    This is a great point! But there's an important tradeoff here about human engineering time versus the "learning in the open" benefits; a PR discarded privately consumes no human en…

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    Comment #44047665

    Yes, but: https://sqlite.org/wal.html

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    Comment #43246064

    This leaves me with more questions than answers, how did these three companies come up with the idea of using that logo? Did they just independently arrive at same design (seems un…

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    Comment #41288117

    It might have, I remember attending a talk by Peter Chen when I was at VMware around that time, and I know there was some kind of collaboration. (I wasn't involved in record-replay…

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    Comment #39659713

    > Just accept the grief and venting Maintainers do not owe you this, in addition to maintaining the software that you can use for free. You're entitled to be upset, and they're jus…

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    Comment #39192745

    I think you'll get a different distribution of answers to this question from managers and ICs :)

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    Comment #39030754

    Here's a link to the actual paper: https://tangchq74.github.io/XFaaS-SOSP23-Final.pdf

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    Comment #38801108

    Well, it may be legal to create such a painting, but (depending on details) it may be a derivative work, in which case the original work's copyright still applies. In other words, …

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    Comment #38607612

    Great question. I tried it and I got `elephantmouse`. I was surprised by this, but FWIW I've never encountered this edge case in actual usage.

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    Comment #38453826

    Nice app! How did you source the sounds? Are there permissively licensed tabla and santoor samples somewhere?

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    Comment #38256388

    People here testing out the example on this page and reporting errors seem to be missing the fact that this demo is "trained" on one example. The linked paper[0] goes into error ra…

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    Comment #37824412

    Yes, and rather nicely done I think. The tagline in the footer is "Give ChatGPT root in prod. What could possibly go wrong?"

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    Comment #37808240

    It's an interesting claim, but the post doesn't even try to support it with any kind of data.

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    Comment #37525667

    A chess position , not a game (still very interesting though!)

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    Comment #37289709

    The link in my comment is a long read but links to lots of original sources.

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    Comment #37289166

    They are privately operated since the 80s, but the vast majority of their initial development was government funded. As far as I understand the privatized companies are monopolies-…

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    Comment #35486333

    > help me determine what % of the company I'd be getting in this stage? Just ask them what % of the company you'd be getting at this stage. They should absolutely tell you that; th…