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This! As someone who moved 6 times in 8 years (admittedly, some of those were for work), and every time, I relied on moving things myself/with friends, I was just tired any more! F…

I couldn't help but resonate with a lot of what Kyle says here. If not already, we will soon lose the ability to think if AI is helping humans (an overwhelming majority of them, no…

This is where knowing how to break things down and general analytical skills will come in handy.

Riak was one of the OG k/v stores by [basho]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basho_Technologies ). They were kind of early to the world of distributed k/v stores and flourished quit…

I've been to Cloudflare's SF office many times for meetups and even for an interview and their lava lamp wall is one of the coolest stuff I've seen in an office. So cool to see tha…

Given the fact that multi-modal LLMs are getting so good at OCR these days, is it a shame that we can't do local OCR with high accuracy in the near-term?

Congrats and inspiring to hear your journey! :)

Wow! That was amazing!

> mostly written by junior engineers or even students (because there are so many publicly-accessible Java school-project personal GitHub repos.) I used to work at a Java shop a few…

Does Norway allow Chinese car makers into the market? Skoda is popular but I wish the article also mentioned the median value of an EV in Norway. At least in the US, the cost of ac…

For the most part, one should also likely get a compatible phone and Samsung phones that support DEX are not cheap! I have a Pixel and have owned Pixel phones for a while and it's …

I'm glad someone asked this question and one of my often quipped quotes is - if you squint hard, every software project is some kind of a migration. And there are some excellent su…

They mention in the faq that they use Stripe - https://www.terminal.shop/faq . Stripe does offer integrations that are not natively using their widgets. Ultimately, the PII data is…

How has fastmail helped you?

Doesn't work on phone. Especially if you're on the road. If you're at home and use YouTube on multiple devices, of course you can use a pihole or something. I have a long commute (…

The Top Down book by Kurose and Ross is hands-down one of the best books for Networking and is very relevant even today to understand the patterns. Things like retries, backoffs, c…

As a generalist software engineer, my first instinct to solve problems (day-to-day stuff like making my life better with productivity tools and the like) using conventional softwar…

With the recent OpenAI dev day, I see the scope for Generative AI and LLMs exploding manifold and this pace of innovation is here to stay. While I did spend a while playin with Cha…

At my previous job, I ran a small-ish library at my desk. Just brought up all my books and had them under my desk for people to peruse and take. At current job, I do have a good en…

You cannot expect that from people! People will be people. Anything that is open to abuse, it will be abused!

Are we seeing the case where AI is now suffering from multiple personality disorder? As much as fascinating this is, I think the fact that an LLM cannot _really_ think for itself o…

Fascinating read. I still remember using decorators when writing OpenMP code in python. Instant parallelism without having to fiddle with pthreads and the like.

The best new software that I picked up and used this year was Alfred, the spotlight replacement on macOS. I spent a few hours spread across the initial few weeks focusing on defini…

I'd recommend reading content by copyconstruct on their medium blog and also content by Honeycomb and it's CEO/CTO. Lots of first principles content that you can learn and apply to…

I've been a huge fan of B&N since I stepped foot in the US and was one of the first people to rush to buy the nook color. Admittedly I haven't been visiting the stores since there'…