utbabya

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by utbabya 4mo ago
As others have said, try it yourself, it's very low effort nowadays. For me the lowest bandwidth option was to dual boot then load existing library with https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-
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by utbabya 6mo ago
Even justice system considers the trustworthiness of a witness, evaluating incentive, conflict of interest. Having worked in another FAANG, I realize a large number of criticisms do come from imaginations, since I could see the contrast fir
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by utbabya 8mo ago
We're mostly agreeing except I'm optimistic about current generation of tools being closer to assembly > C than C > VB. There are good signs AI would eliminate whole classes of costly human errors, whether the new classes of
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by utbabya 8mo ago
As an M$ hater from last life I've to disagree it's more expensive. You numerate the instance where they've lost value, but can you even count the value it produced over the years by lowering the entry bar? I don't even
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by utbabya 8mo ago
I managed to get around ~7W idle on a 2024 dgpu/igpu laptop, with room to further optimize. From my limited casual checks (nowhere near proper benchmark), it's better than windows. But yes it's an area that still requires twe
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by utbabya 8mo ago
Kudos to the high velocity action. Given it has to at least go through decision makers, finance and legal, I bet they made the decision almost immediately. Curious how we would solve this class of wealth distribution problem in the future.
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by utbabya 9mo ago
As much as we meme about it internally, one of my favourite things about AWS was the leadership principles. I always worried I've became cult like biased. Seeing how these converge to similar great ideas is a relief. IMO the most commo
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by utbabya 10mo ago
Most of the time I find the pros of not mutating variables out weight any potential memory / performance gain, of course it depends on what you're doing, but I find it rare other than perhaps scientific related code.
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by utbabya 1y ago
Am I the only one who see the title immune system suppression and think weapon?
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by utbabya 1y ago
Trust is hard, it all comes down to trust no matter what you do. The more general idea is sandboxed build, it doesn't eliminate all problems but one class.
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by utbabya 1y ago
Blog author company's runner detects anomalies in them, but we shouldn't need a product for this. Detecting outbound network connection during an npm install is quite cheap to implement in 2025. I think it comes down to tenant and
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by utbabya 1y ago
Given the 2.1kg after detaching the graphic module and the seemingly large battery capacity for on the go sessions, it's so close to a laptop that fits all my use cases. Although from what I've read 8GB of VRAM seems insufficientl
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by utbabya 1y ago
Whatever is making plain HTTP requests in 2025 should be a cause of concern. Wouldn't it be nice to have a low resource daemon watching for common pitfalls alerting users so we eliminate or minimise classes of problems like this? I thi
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by utbabya 1y ago
If they use any form of filtering / evaluation along the line of STAR, the positive way you chose to deal with it plus the outcome of it being a top post on HN should score you half the position already, good luck :)
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by utbabya 1y ago
This honor system mostly worked at scale because interests align, which seems to be no longer the case. Does information no longer wants to be free now? Maybe internet, just like social media was just a social experiment at the end, albeit
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by utbabya 1y ago
Interesting, DDoS in real life. Or rather slashdotting, since those are legitimate queries. If I were Visa/Mastercard leadership I think at least part of me would be happy to see this blow up, long term wise. Hey it's not me pushi
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by utbabya 1y ago
> At the state that we're in the AIs we're building are just really useful input/output devices that respond to a stimuli (e.g., a "prompt"). No stimuli, no output. It was true before we allowed them to access ex
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by utbabya 1y ago
Metrics for things like FCP, better screenreader and refactor are less straightforward so having the capability to correctly evaluate the cost and benefits, making the right judgement calls and communicating it to everyone is vital. Not men
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by utbabya 2y ago
I can explain the "pile-on", because the climate has been unsafe for the last 10 years or so he might have gotten cancelled harder, with tangible business impact to his acquaintances. I know because I faced similar dilemmas as I c
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by utbabya 2y ago
Focusing only on prevention at the bandwagon phase, and speaking from direct experience. I was there when there was an internal thread trying to pressure management to effectively ban a book in a FAANG. I really wanted to expression my view
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by utbabya 2y ago
There are a lot of nice things I enjoyed when I was still working with Kotlin extensively. Null safety, data class, sealed class, exhaustive when, top level functions, object class, higher order function, extension functions etc. They funda
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by utbabya 2y ago
To address "over", here's my perspective. The invisible force is much stronger than any explicit demands. Would you agree sociopolitically trans transformed from the underdogs to a politically correct blessed identity group a
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by utbabya 2y ago
> there is absolutely no reason for them or anyone else to back him up If you don't uphold the principles all you have to do is wait until it bites you too. What happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to t
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by utbabya 2y ago
Once upon a time when mobile data wasn't as common and cheap, I found that starbucks wifi allowed ping to any where :)
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by utbabya 2y ago
Not that I'm fixated to this idea just a passing thought following this line of reasoning, but.. There might a world where if we lower the bar of medical school, it turns out at the end it results in fewer mistakes because of the incre
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by utbabya 3y ago
I agree with you mostly, not a big fan of this talk, there are large leaps of inference, I failed to see actual data or concrete logic linking the few disjoint things he talked about back to the 2016 statement he started with. OTOH at least
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by utbabya 3y ago
Skimming through the paper format article I struggled to find any grounding. I was curious to see hard numbers such as time to parse information, instead I only see anecdotes like "one participant said". Not that I agree or disagr
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by utbabya 3y ago
Pretty sure they'd get into troubles with blue check mark buyers implicit promises if it's not temporary.
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by utbabya 3y ago
Greping through IRC logs has a 10x better UX
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by utbabya 3y ago
When I was with AWS I advocate for ISO8601 "Z" whenever I could or need to influence, say internal systems. If all systems talk this we'd save tens of thousands of man hours. Just do the conversion for us mortals, or other ne

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