sumanthvepa

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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Yes. It's mythology. But that story is often told to illustrate that Krishna knew that his advice, however good, would not be accepted. Nevertheless, he gave his best advice. It is meant to provide instruction to people who are put in
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I feel this a lot. There are two ways, that I've found to be useful to counteract the feeling of ennui. First, is to still do coding myself. It's extremely satisfying and helps keep me grounded in the code base. The second is to f
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I'm old school. I usually maintain a swap that 2x size RAM, unless RAM exceed 16GiB, then I usually keep swap between 2x and 1x of RAM. This is particularly the case for mission critical servers. Swap gives me half a chance if somethin
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
“Good artists copy; great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso. By this standard AI must be an amazing artist.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Sounds like the .plan file in a Unix home directory, updated for today's web sensibilities.It would be nice to hook up my .plan to my website. There's a nice weekend project.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
As an entrepreneur, my observation is that the vast majority of the experiments I run result in an outcome where the null hypothesis cannot be rejected. That is the case for most social science experiments (which is what marketing experimen
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I don't know. I miss my old days on wall St. sometimes. I work remotely from home and most days I'm in t-shirt, shorts and slippers. It's nice suit up sometimes. The only opportunity I get these days is weddings.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
So why needlessly call him a management consultant? Yes it is a stretch to say he had much influence. There reason is very simple. Yahoo! was in its death throes. The core products were not bringing in revenue, and it was in the middle of m
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Full Disclosure: Prabhakar Raghavan was my skip-level manager at Yahoo! and I'd known of him well before that, from my days at IBM Research. The author says very few people knew who Raghavan was. Clearly he isn't a computer scient
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
The Jigar Kumar account should be treated with extreme suspicion. It seems like it was part of a social engineering attack.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Yes. But only if you are going there to learn. Not for the credentials.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I'm really disappointed for two reasons. First the existence of XD as a competitor kept Figma innovating and the price in check. Now, ironically Figma is the monopoly here! Second I have a creative cloud subscription and XD was good en
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Something is wrong. The video link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I wouldn't tolerate cruelty from my own people either. That's the whole point of a democracy. It holds rulers accountable for their actions. (to some extent.) Also, as Mahatma Gandhi pointed out, we should distinguish between Brit
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I'm opposed to the death penalty. Thankfully the death penalty is rare in India. But that is not the point I wanted to make. It's that the casual cruelty to Indians was rampant in way that it was not for British. It's not tha
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Yup. The article lost all credibility instantly there.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Every once in a while I come across people with nostalgia for British Raj, and I point them to Orwell's essay 'A Hanging' to remind them to thank what gods there may be that they no longer live in British India.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Sure. I use Java, Python and Javascript all the time. But when I need the performance, for demanding VR/ graphics, nothing comes close to combination of speed and expressive power of abstraction of C++.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Love that observation on C++. That's the reason I love C++. It's a language for those who need, nay crave, absolute raw performance. No training wheels. Short of assembly, it's just as close to the machine as you can get.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
Out of curiosity, may I ask why?
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I know we're not supposed to be funny on this website. But that just broke me up.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
This is a huge problem for Linux distributions. I've been thinking of trying to open source a project (it's a web application simulator) that we have internally, that is built using Javascript/NodeJS and Python/Flask. Wh
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I'm curious has one tried to do what the author did for a subject like physics or geology, mathematics or computer science? I for one would pay for a service that allowed me to discover interesting CS and math papers.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
All that would be left is advertising. Everything else will be paywalled.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
That was hilarious!
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I'm fine with not being bug for bug compatible with RHEL. The thing I'm looking for is a well defined upgrade path across major releases. Fedora has it. Debian has it. But centOS stream does not. If Alma does that then I'm ha
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
This is excellent advice. I would only modify it to say that one should first focus on getting something working, not necessarily the shortest path Then you can refactor and improve the code before you actually deploy it to production.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
This observation is spot on. I was initially euphoric about LLMs like ChatGPT, but it is increasingly becoming obvious that unless you are yourself an expert in the subject you are using the LLM for and can therefore easily verify its accur
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
We've been doing that for years in our org. This works perfectly.we do push open source repos to GitHub though.
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by sumanthvepa 3y ago
I for one would be okay with a distro like AlmaLinux migrating away from being an exact RHEL downstream clone to being an independent stable RPM based distribution. Stability and RPM ecosystem compatibility is what people are really looking

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