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by gopalv 2y ago
The doctor's prescription is probably applicable even to this day. Food, bitter beer, exercise, early bedtimes and "stop stuffing your head with things you don't understand". > I followed the directions, with the happ
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Sure, if you hit the jackpot and join Facebook, then you're set for life. Back in 2008 when Yahoo was laying off people, joining Facebook was something people did out of desperation. That was an 85k/year job with an expectati
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by gopalv 2y ago
The way most people learned this is because somewhere in the middle of last year, VSCode's node install stopped working with the old glibc. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/201129 Most people w
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by gopalv 2y ago
> The executives were earning significantly more than the employees who were keeping the company afloat. The "Rules for Rulers" CGP Grey video[1] dug a fair bit into the difference between being a resource vs being a key player
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> Being the best at one thing is very different from being good at everything, so it's unclear how that advice applies to your children. My kid pushes too hard when he realizes he's plateau'd at some skill level and then g
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> Nobody says we have to be good at everything we do This is advice I have to push on my kids constantly, because they are obsessed with finding that one thing they are better than everyone else in the world. "Do some" is not a
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by gopalv 2y ago
> BWT be combined with zstd BWT can be combined with anything which does RLE and get a benefit. What does it does is give RLE more to work with.
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by gopalv 2y ago
> why don't they make iodized flaky salt? They'll figure out a way eventually, but it is definitely harder. It is always easy to grow something uniform as a pure crystal, without fault lines on them causing crumbling. As a kid
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by gopalv 2y ago
Burger King continued to use iodized salt consistently, while McDonalds, Wendys etc have switched to flakier salts for their fries which cuts total sodium overall by being flatter instead of grainy, but without any iodine added to it. The d
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by gopalv 2y ago
NYC to LA in 3 hours would be an 8 AM flight which would land at 8 AM, same day. Just mind boggling to think of, no trouble finding 100 people daily who want to do a day-trip to California.
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by gopalv 2y ago
In the days of 56kbps internet days in India, there was a BBS (run by a cabal of sorts) who would download a linux distro CD and mail you a disk. The email would have a link to the original .torrent and if a part of a disk was somehow corru
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Hilbert-curve based clustering which solves a lot of the downsides of hive partitioning Yes, that solved the 2-column high NDV partitioning issue - if you had your ip traffic sorted on destination or source, you need Z-curves, which ar
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by gopalv 2y ago
Hidden partitioning is the most interesting Iceberg feature, because most of the very large datasets are timeseries fact tables. I don't remember seeing that in Delta Lake [1], which is probably because the industry standard benchmarks
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by gopalv 2y ago
> They are still often hands-on, and have a healthy fear of becoming the Ivory Tower version, but what comes next for them? If you can write a title for them, this is usually where a Fellow or Distinguished Engineer lands. Most Distingui
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by gopalv 2y ago
This sort of advice is parodied in "Yes, Prime Minister" as the 4 step strategy for "crisis management" 1: Don't worry, nothing's going to happen. 2: Something may be happen but we should wait and see 3: Maybe
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by gopalv 2y ago
If you're a senior IC who does strategy, then the term "IC" is misapplied. You want to be a 1/2x engineer, not a 10x engineer. I was a Sr Principal for about ~3 years, which taught me that the most valuable thing I could
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Insert national security, wrong hands blah blah That isn't a big reach. Ammonium nitrate is already controlled in several parts of the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO
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by gopalv 2y ago
Dealing with a "more magic switch" this week with Claude. The AI prompting business feels a lot more like the analog circuit where something being "near" something else causes capacitance or inductance without actually b
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by gopalv 2y ago
> there won't be any seniors In the SFBA, Lockheed hires welders who can get a security clearance. Someone I know was in their 70s working there, because there isn't a large pipeline of welders to pull from. In his words, &quot
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by gopalv 2y ago
> with Claude The comment itself is AI generated or the code reference? Here's some of my old code https://github.com/php/pecl-caching-apc/blob/0dd2a69bab58822...
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by gopalv 2y ago
> Although as a customer i'd love to just use Starlink and pay less for better quality of service The radio spectrum is far more limited, so the more people use it, the slower it should get. > If these companies shutdown because
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by gopalv 2y ago
> You can live your life to the maximum extent, without scheduling in the extra time to manage getting to sleep, and feeling tired when you don't. I did this for a year when I was caring for my dad and working at the same time, but
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by gopalv 2y ago
+1 - this isn't even that hard, it is include a single header + annotate allocations/frees, with some redzones around the actual allocation to know when the user-code is writing into the pool pointer areas. https://deve
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by gopalv 2y ago
> That he says LLMs make him more productive at all as a hands-on developer, especially around first drafts on a new idea, means a lot to me personally. There is likely to be a great rift in how very talented people look at sharper tools
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by gopalv 2y ago
> What's the point of homework if they're not going to do it themselves and they're not going to learn? My theory is that most homework is given to ensure the parents take an active interest in the kids education. The fact
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> When you have enough money to not work, it becomes very lonely fast I haven't made enough to not work but once my US immigration was sorted out (H1B isn't very leisure compatible), I took a year off to rediscover what all pas
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by gopalv 2y ago
> then spend the rest of the day learning why I can't do what I want There's a point when learning's fun, I think the OP is still there. I wrote a bunch of realtime C++ in 2003, hated it. But last year, I wrote most of my
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> I do agree that you can learn with trial and observations, but it's way faster to have someone transmit the knowledge either in person or in books. This entirely depends on the teacher or the book author. The "do not try anyt
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by gopalv 2y ago
I read this with an echo of the Douglas Adams passage about the Sandwich Maker in Mostly Harmless. > many was the evening when the Sandwich Maker and the Tool Maker could be seen silhouetted against the light of the setting sun and the T
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by gopalv 2y ago
> If most factory workers saw how little some office workers worked The only morally acceptable form of bigotry in society is against the lazy & stupid. So if you want to hate, you need to turn everything into one of those two things

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