nvarsj

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by nvarsj 5mo ago
This sucks to hear. I honestly think the rise of LLMs will be the death of open source in the long run. Already, apparently, quality of OSS has dropped significantly since 2025 (so most models stop training on github after this). I don&#x27
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by nvarsj 5mo ago
Thank god for Kagi. It literally saved search for me, although I mostly use kagi.com/assistant these days.
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by nvarsj 5mo ago
I almost always use orchestration tooling nowadays. cc itself feels too basic, even with things like superpowers.
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by nvarsj 5mo ago
Can golang do zero copy networking nowadays? In the past golang was terrible at this kind of thing due to allocations and copies of all relayed data.
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Don’t really agree with this. That dev is productive with AI precisely _because_ they have a good mental model. AI like other tools is a multiplier - it doesn’t make bad devs good, but it makes good devs significantly more productive.
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Yeah it was a bit reductionist. I guess it was my reaction to the negativity. I think his experience is quite common in big tech, and even swapping teams doesn’t seem to help in my own experience. It’s the rare teams that have any agency
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Imagine an entire world of interactive, colourful ascii art. I mostly started on my local BBS on Long Island playing tradewars in my teens, around 14 (where I memorably won as top player for a few months and got tons of credits). I actually
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Everyone's circumstances are different right? It's not always so simple. Big tech was a bit of an experiment for me in my 40s, I always worked at small/med size companies before. I think it was worth it (for the learnings and
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Sean, I wonder why people are so negative here. I think they’ve never worked in big tech. As a staff swe in big tech your blog posts resonate strongly and reflect my own experience. But I can see if I didn’t have that experience I’d be unab
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by nvarsj 6mo ago
Cc is buggy as hell man. I frequently search the github for the issue I’m having only to find 10 exact bugs that no one is looking at. Obviously they don’t care. Adoption is exploding. Boris brags about making 30 commits a day to the codeba
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Hanlon's razor applies.
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
I don't really understand what is going on with Ofcom. This nonsense, and yet they allow GBNews to keep spewing propaganda and violate almost all broadcast standards that Ofcom is supposed to enforce.
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
You can buy good quality replacement batteries. I got Cameron Sino "CS-EC003XL". It lasts at least a week before needing a charge, depending how much you use it.
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Possibly it's a paid for ad. But the trend is real, at least among Gen Z/Alphas. I recently modded an iPod Mini 2nd gen for my daughter and put Rockbox on it. The thing is amazing, and I am thinking about buying an iPod classic my
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Seems commonly used in Big Tech - first time I heard it was in my current job. Now it's seared into my brain since it's used so much. Among many other acronyms which I won't bore you with.
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Honestly seems like the moral panic of the day. I was just reading about some “red vs blue” school meme in London which led to a lot of hand wringing and parents keeping their kids at home. The kicker? There was no actually school battles,
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Not sure why you got downvoted with a perfectly valid opinion! I’ve done what OP describes but I’m heavily introverted and likely HSP too. I’m pretty good at it but it’s incredibly exhausting. My father is exactly the same way. As I get old
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
There’s an entire generation of mostly childless adults who are shocked to find they enjoy contributing to others’ happiness. I have friends like this, their only purpose in life is to have no responsibilities, FIRE, and never give to anyon
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by nvarsj 7mo ago
Very wrong. Arbitrage is not “insider trading”.
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by nvarsj 8mo ago
Because ergonomics is largely pseudo science. Everyone’s body is different. I actually developed RSI for the first time using a kinesis advantage because it forced a certain posture that doesn’t work well with my long arms. For me the best
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by nvarsj 8mo ago
I barely use facebook.com but I don't have this issue at all. I just checked - my news feed is filled with extended family posts, posts in groups I'm in and related things. TFA looks completely alien to me. I guess this is kind of
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by nvarsj 8mo ago
I don't think you can put OpenAI and Anthropic together like that. Anthropic has actually cracked Agentic AI that is generally useful. No other company has done that.
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by nvarsj 8mo ago
iOS keyboard is such garbage. Almost a daily pain point for me. But I suffer for the amazing battery life and hardware. Like all Apple kit the software is crap.
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by nvarsj 8mo ago
Big company syndrome has existed for a long time. It’s almost impossible to innovate or move fast with 8 levels of management and bloated codebases. That’s why startups exist.
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
Why is it insane? You sound like someone who says to depressed people “just be happy”. I’m on tirzepatide but not for obesity. It completely cures my life long IBS. These are miracle drugs imo and should be as cheap and widely available as
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
It is pretty simple imo. AI (just like humans!) does best on well written, self contained code bases. Which is a very small niche, but also over represented in open source and subsequently by tech celebrities who tend not to work on “ugly c
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
I'm a bit out of date now, but 'go mod vendor' did not in fact vendor all dependencies when I last used it. It seemed more like a CI caching mechanism then actual complete dependency vendoring.
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
godep and vendoring completely solved this problem. Go modules relies too heavily on dependencies being good citizens, which is a very naive approach to dependency management.
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
I went down the rabbithole when I started getting into seasonal Anime watching. Doing that manually is a huge PITA for every show/episode. Now I just get a pop-up on my phone that Plex has the latest episode. I sit on my couch, hit pla
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by nvarsj 9mo ago
Meridian is a great way to see what high quality HDR content should look like. The dark parts of the film are beautiful. A shame the rest of Netflix’s catalogue isn’t the same.

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