akhilcacharya

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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I've spent the last 5 years being told by people that all of this is "normal". That "all politicians say these things". That "even Obama did X, Y, Z" even when X, Y, Z are completely different. Unfortunate
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Weird for a libertarian to believe that a private corporation should be forced to accommodate potential customers...
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
It's far too early to discuss "precedent" when there's literally no precedent for a lame-duck President inciting an insurrection against the legislature for certifying his loss in this country. I'll get concerned th
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Engineering teams that aren't building apps for terrorists of course.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Complaining about "cancel culture" with regard to a mob that literally tried to cancel the votes of 81 million people is hilariously missing the point.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
"Frightening?" No, what's frightening is the armed insurrection that happened last Wednesday.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Can you elaborate?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Pack only assumed office mid last year and has been embroiled in other crises since then
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I'm struggling to see where I said that. I will, however, state the fact that many of the people who participated in the insurrection on Wednesday, of which a large cross-section believe in QAnon and wore QAnon paraphernalia, have been
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
For those not aware, Gab is notable for having a bunch of QAnon adherents post regularly.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
To be clear, we had another peaceful resolution to this on November 3rd, but unfortunately the President refuses or at best refused to accept this.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
One way things got better is they just migrated to pre-existing, externally available AWS services for many applications. Being able to sell them to Amazon teams at internal cost, getting performance and scale benefits and being able to use
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Provoking and supporting armed insurrection and occupation of the Capitol as a lame-duck president in order to overturn an election is far, far more dangerous than anything you've just described.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> Half of the American electorate currently feels profoundly unheard. They voted, they lost by 7+ million votes, which they stormed the Capitol to overturn. Why should I have to keep sparing their feelings? These people need to stop bein
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
"both sides"?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
But in the US they bargain on the enterprise level, not by sector. I think that was the implication in the comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining...
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I really don't think they see intern as a low status label, especially if they have an MIT jacket on, for example. I worked at a company with a CEO that did something similar and asked interns to come to his desk to chat, which I did.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
It’s plausible - it’s not a terribly illuminating anecdote
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
As an intern you're already part of a chosen elite (top school or top companies on your resume) so this isn't great evidence imho.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
They also just chose someone else last month by a wide margin yet we are still here, talking about this.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I think the reasoning is perfectly sound for doing this but the performance penalty is too much to bear for most use cases - what's preventing nixpkg/guix from being used fully for this use case? Lack of available packages?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> I remember feeling like I'd wasted so much time and was irreversibly behind in my twenties. To be honest I've felt like this since I was 18 and it never went away. What made you realize this wasn't the case?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Honestly given how little reproducibility there is in like 80% of the Dockerfiles I've seen in the wild it astounds me how this became a solution for packaging at all. Are solutions like source2image, jib, or the nix dockerTools.buildI
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
~$500k is what some Amazon L6's and most L7's make. Don't think you can hit that in most Finance positions until VP level, unless you're in Quant finance in hedge funds but then the SWEs make that much too.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
lol, which FAANG is this? I have friends that joined Goldman at the same time as I started working, and I make more and work less.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> of leetcode and go work for FAANG I work at a FAANG and the people that I work with aren't terribly different social status from the ones I worked with during my first internship, they're just ~20 years younger.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I go back to watching North by Northwest every few months. The writing, the sets, the cinematography, the music and the acting all sublime. One of my favorite random facts is that Albert R Broccoli initially wanted to get Cary Grant for the
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
There absolutely was hype for HLVR in the community, and to be clear any successor to Half Life 2 Episode 2. I was a VR buff and a Half Life fan but I was blown away by how good it was and it’s ending.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Half Life Alyx did, and in my opinion exceeded it.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> FB approaches internal code development with the same data driven rigor as their business decisions. Everything is measured, so I knew for example that the slow build times I was experiencing were slower than 99% of everyone else. Easi

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