kashyapc

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by kashyapc 2y ago
"CodeSquish" in this article is a fictional example! Edit: from a quick search, there is a SaaS company called "CodeSquish". I haven't checked if it's also an open source project.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I know the author says this for humor and effect: "[...] I'll Google CodeSquish and discover it does everything I need, costs nothing, and is 100x more performant—even though it's maintained by a single recluse who only emer
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by kashyapc 2y ago
> Never have an AI agent call someone unless the customer specifically requests that [...] Are there real humans / customers who ask, "yes, have an AI call me?"
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by kashyapc 2y ago
How about studying some philosophy? If you dedicate yourself to it for a couple of years, it'll hammer in a sense of what truly matters. (While at it, it'll wean you off the Silicon Valley's empty humblespeak.) Particulary, a
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I agree; a new instrument can inspire you. But many people tend to fall into the so-called "gear trap", especially those of us who work in tech. I was not referring to the "Medieval" in specific, but just lamenting abo
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Very well said on gear-trap. Last night I was watching an old video[1] of the kind of gear Ólafur Arnalds uses. I was amazed and aghast at the amount of expensive "outboard" gear and other vintage hardware such as "compressor
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Thank you, that was absolutely worth it. :-) I just heard their medieval version of "somebody that I used to know" -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1aVmjvYTI The lyrical changes were wonderful.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I didn't read the book, I'm afraid. I don't know if he actually mentions it anywhere.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I agree; there's a lot of muddiness in the term "open source AI". Earlier this year there was a talk[1] at FOSDEM, titled "Moving a step closer to defining Open Source AI" . It is from someone at the Open Source
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I get your frustration of a scorched internet. But I don't think it's all that gloomy. Whether we like it or not, LLMs and some kind of a "down-to-earth AI" is here to stay, once the dust settles. Right now, it feels
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Yeah, I didn't know it either that it was Aristotle until I started researching for the article! :-)
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by kashyapc 2y ago
A well-written article. On a similar theme of essential vs. accidental complexity: FWIW, I summarised a talk gave by Paolo Bonzini (a Linux/KVM/QEMU maintainer) here in the past: https://lwn.net/Articles/87232
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Ah, thank you for the clarification. Maybe this disambiguation was already somewhere on the website and I missed it.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
If you only read the headline, the phrase "sustain open source" can be misread as "sustaining open source communities". This this is talking about environmental sustainability. A key quote from the article: "It
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Good question. To be frank, I haven't given a thought about all these details. Just to riff on this hypothetical scenario, it's not a clinical setting. Ideally, I'd working with a small group, where we can work together with
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by kashyapc 2y ago
You ask one thing in the title and something else in your text. I'm answering only the question in the title. As of now, I'd split my time between a couple of things: (1) In winter and autumn, become a part-time psychologist to h
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by kashyapc 2y ago
The linked FAQ in the article says: "terminal multiplexers are a bad idea, do not use them, if at all possible". This sounds like the author seems to ignore the ground reality. For the vast majority of users, tmux simply does it
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by kashyapc 2y ago
No, I don't. That why I put it in "scare quotes". You wouldn't get that impression had you read my comment I linked above :) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40425735 I was trying to be a bit res
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Great, if these documents are credible, this is exactly what I was implying[1] yesteday. Here, listen to Altman say how he is "genuinely embarrassed": "this is on me and one of the few times i've been genuinely embarras
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I agree. By tactical charisma, I didn't mean to imply that he has genuine empathy. I mean that he says things the other person finds pleasing, in just the right words, and credible-sounding seriousness. Tactical in a tempting sense:
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Altman often uses tactical charisma to trap gullible people, government entities, and any unsuspecting powerful person for his ends. He will not bat an eyelid to take whatever unethical route if that gives him "moat". He relentl
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by kashyapc 2y ago
As coldtrait says in this thread, if you're simply building a wrapper business on top of such existing APIs, you're on thin ice. Be prepared to fall any moment. It'll be the fate of more or less all start-ups that are built
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by kashyapc 2y ago
That was my original intention indeed :)
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Oh, I now see I was not clear. I was indeed talking about age when I said "below 50". Not speed. My bad.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Yeah, nicely done, on the single speed e-bike. I didn't know that's a thing. I naively assumed all e-bikes have gears.
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I was explicitly talking about commuting in a small city, where there's a lot of start-and-stop-start bicycling is the "way of life". :-)
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by kashyapc 2y ago
That's the reason I use a single-speed bike (not to be confused with a "fixie") for commuting. I absolutely love the simplicity of it: no gears to muck around with, much less maintenance, light, and hassle-free. Perfect to
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Yeah, most people's lives are complicated enough as is. This "suggestion" is asking you to go well out of your way to get buried in some tedious paperwork and investigations. Only those who are into fossils might give a care.
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Last night I happened to listen to an episode[1] on EconTalk where the author of the post (Adam Mastroianni, a psychologist) was a guest. Definitely worth a listen. Adam also supports "open science framework" ( https://
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by kashyapc 3y ago
I agree, these are all really valid reasons. FWIW, I myself have worked with "anonymous" maintainers and contributors that I've never met.

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