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vitno

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About vitno

SWE in HFT. formerly Google, OkCupid & Mozilla. I build platforms.

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    Comment #48302470

    > ask Claude about how to improve on how to ask Claude things How do you evaluate this? Claude is horrible at performance analysis without data, does it have a feedback loop here t…

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    Comment #44288784

    It's a product I actively looked for before setting up Slack for my company.

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    Comment #40674044

    You can go to a normal store and buy a device using fuchsia today, it's just not advertising that is the OS under the hood. That is why I do not think what you said is the same thi…

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    Comment #40672342

    There are multiple devices that have shipped with Fuchsia on it in the home ecosystem over the last 5 years. I don't necessarily think it's going to be a major success, but it's al…

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    Comment #39799240

    Calling out tailscale here is odd considering it's peer-to-peer and encrypted.

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    Comment #39500815

    Reader was killed in 2013, Chrome already had ~40% market share by then. It may have not been as dominant as it is now, but Chrome was already a major influence on the web user exp…

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    Comment #39493993

    > Better UX would have helped adoption and would have led to Google keeping the RSS button The most obvious people to have improved that UX is the browser... aka Google. The way th…

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    Comment #38698922

    "just build more housing" is definitely viable here in NYC. NYC is not that dense in comparison to many other major metropolis in the world.

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    Comment #37949616

    Being condescending is also a choice. Nothing about the GP indicated victimhood, only striving for a better life with real challenges in front of them.

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    Comment #37281625

    We live in different worlds. The Jira I'm familiar with may be extremely powerful, but fast it certainly is not. I also rarely need that power which comes with non-trivial complexi…

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    Comment #37268827

    Feral cats, as much as I love a house cat, can almost be thought of as an invasive species. They absolutely decimate song birds populations.

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    Comment #37120055

    I don't think dart is a problem, but your timelines are very off. Dart was a JavaScript alternative that was started back in 2011. It's evolved a lot since then but in no way was i…

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    Comment #36614505

    How much of that is because we have a bunch of forward secret e2e auditable ballot schemes already? (E.g. ThreeBallot) We already know how to do this, it's policy that the hard par…

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    Comment #36130619

    I've been exploring buck2 for work a lot recently. We're considering switching to either it or Bazel. It'll be an incredibly risky decision to go with buck2 today, but it's so darn…

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    Comment #35983303

    Sin or cosine was chosen explicitly because they are non-linear functions

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    Comment #35842177

    This, is just deeply untrue. Do you really think everybody working on compilers and linkers are deeply ignorant? I can easily saturate my 64 GB RAM home setup during a compile.

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    Comment #35339605

    Everyone else here is not agreeing with you, but having just come back from our India office and dealing a little bit with compensation adjustment, I totally agree with you. Our In…

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    Comment #34968390

    The fandom is an unmoderated site and does not reflect the general community. Racists have edit buttons too unfortunately. If you look at the edit history of the page it'll tell a …

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    Comment #34961046

    Before anyone gets too worried, the Anglish community in my (limited) experience has been incredibly anti-racism/Nazi/etc. They are just a bunch of linguistics nerds who are having…

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    Comment #34276858

    I have a passing familiarity with the webfiction "Beneath dragon eye moons", that this artwork was designed for. All of the things you are complaining about makes sense in the cont…

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    Comment #33982750

    Of course sophisticated tradfi players are in crypto and have been for years making hand over fist in money. Source: I work at a firm that does this.

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    Comment #33752721

    Spinning disk are fine for some workloads. However, I've definitely seen teams engineering around slower spinning discs. NVMe isn't egregiously expensive, and if teams are needing …

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    Comment #33627802

    > If management is not living in reality part of the gig is to push back That's exactly what is happening

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    Comment #33624017

    Nobody is talking about his politics. They are talking about his management style.