abhiyerra

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by abhiyerra 11d ago
Chromebooks…
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by abhiyerra 17d ago
Your experience sounds exactly like mine. I downloaded Linux 2.6 which took 2 days to compile. Then when I installed it on my Slackware system completely hosed it. But learned so much…
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by abhiyerra 18d ago
I don’t think people consider the negative ramifications for this on the other side. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have a ton of H1B. Take India, as an example, since that is where a majority of H1Bs come from. It has been pretty leni
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by abhiyerra 3mo ago
The Irish too… though they were given things like prisons. Scots legacy of the empire can still be seen in the bank HSBC. Unfortunately, history sort of forgets that the Scots were involved in some of the more egregious aspects such as slav
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by abhiyerra 3mo ago
That I have a DevOps company working entirely on Linux can be directly attributed to realizing as a kid that Unix was a real thing and I needed to install it on my own computer. Interesting it was soon after this movie came out that FreeBSD
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by abhiyerra 4mo ago
Never worked at Dropbox, but I absolutely loved Paper. The problem at Dropbox seems to have been that there was no cohesiveness to all the products. Paper, Passwords, Sign, all seem to have never been truly integrated into a single experien
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by abhiyerra 4mo ago
If you read their annual report they bet the farm on RedHat and Kubernetes. They spun off their legacy services business and have basically have monopoly power over the Federal government, banks and defense contractors. They have been buyin
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by abhiyerra 5mo ago
Heh. Got a customer recently around this. Entire infrastructure and CI/CD vibecoded. They half implemented Kubernetes in Github Actions that were several thousand lines long and impossible to understand. I think the problem will get wo
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by abhiyerra 5mo ago
Oh man infrasearch. With Gene Kan right? Was trying to revive xcf at Berkeley with some friends.
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by abhiyerra 5mo ago
The type of oil that the US produces (light and sweet) can't be handled by US refineries which need (heavy sours). Why we are still a major importer of oil.
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by abhiyerra 6mo ago
All oil is global commodity and the US refineries can’t take the oil that the US produces. So they mix it with heavy sours from Canada so the refineries can handle them. So a lot of the oil in the US is dependent on foreign oil as you said.
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by abhiyerra 6mo ago
California is more reliant on foreign oil. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo... And seems about 23% comes from the Middle East. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports&#x2
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by abhiyerra 6mo ago
The real problem I see is the one child policy. If China decides to go to war and say they have 1000 deaths. How many bloodline die? I feel like there would be a hesitation to fight on the Chinese side if they were to take any losses. It is
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by abhiyerra 7mo ago
Anecdotally, I heard some Indians in the USA working at Big Tech are moving back to India to take the skills they developed in the USA to train and organize teams in India. I’d say what India struggles a lot with is organizational skills so
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by abhiyerra 8mo ago
I’ve been wondering if the showdown in Iran if it leads to a conflict will bifurcate the oil prices, the US vs rest of the world. If the Middle East is in smokes then the US can dictate oil prices with its control of the supplies in Guyana
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by abhiyerra 9mo ago
I have the same problem. It wants to launch iPhone apps instead of the Mac apps. Super frustrating.
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
I have a lot of contacts in Hyderabad, India and it doesn’t seem like any of them are really worried about their jobs. Haven’t heard of any layoffs there. With additional GCCs being built out I do think there will be more offshoring.
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
Also found https://crowci.dev/4.5/ which seems to have better docs.
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
https://woodpecker-ci.org/
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
I have been converting a lot of my makefiles to pyinvoke and fabric and it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make. Don't know why I held on for so long.
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
I remember it being a part of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley and thought it couldn’t be true. But apparently it was. https://youtu.be/VyQEbLx6AEY?si=CwhqHQEdFGCsE33l
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
I do have a degree in History with a focus on India and British Empire from Berkeley. So no I don’t think I am being baseless. Hindutva is complex, the 20s were a difficult time in India as all the revolutionaries from the different faction
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
Like Azure. 90% in the UX and the one feature that you need that is only accessible on the cli…
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by abhiyerra 10mo ago
I loved how consistent it was. Just peak Microsoft UI for me. Don’t know what happened after that but it all went to hell.
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by abhiyerra 11mo ago
I do wonder if a lot of the stuff that Google has worked on Google Docs, Chromebook were inspired by Sun. Eric Schmidt was a VP at Sun and Novell before joining Google.
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by abhiyerra 11mo ago
I have nickname@berkeley.edu as my alumni email address and I get a lot of interesting emails directed towards more important people…
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by abhiyerra 11mo ago
I worked at two crowdsourcing companies built on MTurk. Humanoid and CloudCrowd. Had millions of tasks go through from transcriptions to labeling.
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by abhiyerra 11mo ago
I’ve been an Emacs user for more than a decade and I would recommend just using Doom especially if you are coming from a Vim background. I started before Doom existed but ended up in a configuration similar to Doom but more brittle. I ended
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by abhiyerra 1y ago
"Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled
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by abhiyerra 1y ago
As a history major turned engineer another thing I noticed is that while pure engineers tend to solve for x really well, people with humanities degrees tend to ask is what we are solving for useful? Definitely need both sides.

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