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ayush--s

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ayush--s··on When the cheap one is the cool one
it's 2026, apple's computers do justify their price.
ayush--s··on Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary
this "documentary" has already been on all national news in India for past 2-3 days, so this is not an example of Streisand effect. Most people who turn on TV once a day are aware of this.
ayush--s··on VLC media player banned in India
> Our government is run by monkeys

except the fine print is decided by bureaucrats, and not politicians themselves. your bias against the current government is blinding your logic.

ayush--s··on Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
apple music is the best advert for spotify
ayush--s··on Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
been there with crows. they attack you for a month or so.
ayush--s··on Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
is this sarcasm?
ayush--s··on ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
this is the non-vandalized version of the doc if anyone's looking for it
ayush--s··on A viable solution for Python concurrency
It's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot by using global mutable variables. How do you guard against those when using gevent in production?
ayush--s··on Built to Last – RSS, HTTP (2015)
After a long search (5 years), finally happily settled with selfhosted miniflux.
ayush--s··on Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
So should I move it to docker? Since X11 socket will be shared, I'm assuming screen sharing might work
ayush--s··on WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
why would you miss apple music? spotify wipes the floor with apple music!?
ayush--s··on Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
Even though we are currently replacing ES (hosted on elastic.co) with Postgres for ~100M docs + low QPS usecase, it's no real competition to Elasticsearch. There are better™ alternatives for niches (like Algolia), but nothing just works like elasticsearch at scales when not everything can fit in a single machine.
ayush--s··on Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
You get a waiver from legal persecution when you comply with the new IT law, something Twitter hasn't done yet.
ayush--s··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
I was in the same boat - until I jumped over to RSS feeds using a selfhosted Miniflux instance.
ayush--s··on GitHub Copilot
wow I'm going to have lots of opinions about this.

1. A lot of people on this thread are concerned about licensing issues with GPL etc. I am sure Github will restrict the beta until it figures out that stuff.

2. I wonder if eventually our corrections to the code suggested by the model would be used to feedback to the model, and if that'll lead to a differential pricing - If I let it see my code, I get charged lesser.

3. I believe a mini-GPT-3 model is where it's at. GPT-3 (and similar) models look to be to too big to run locally. I've been using TabNine for past year or so & it gives me anywhere between 5-10% productivity boost. But one of the main reasons why it works so well is because it trains on my repo as well. TabNine is based off GPT-2 from what i've heard.

4. prediction: Microsoft is probably going to milk GPT-3. Expect a bumpy ride.

5. In all likeliness, this would be a great tool to make developers productive, rather than take their jobs - at least at levels that are more than just code-coolie.

6. Eventually all tasks with enough data around it will see automation using AI.

ayush--s··on GitHub Copilot
I'm curious as to how relevant Copilot would be when autocompleting code that is specific to my codebase in particular, like Tabnine completes most used filters as soon as I type the db table name for the query. I'm a big tabnine fan because it provides this feature. I'm much more often looking to be suggested a line than an entire function because I'm mostly writing business logic.

also tabnine is useless in multi-lines completes. which is where co-pilot should be strong.

ayush--s··on AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
This is quite true. Right now we are working to move our $(msg queue software) from $(one of its market leaders) to AWS's in-house offering, because the network transfer cost is twice the cost of our subscription on the $(one of its market leaders).
ayush--s··on AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
it does feel like the whole issue blew up so much because AWS & Elastic.co are unable to work together. We many never know the details, so can't say who's in the wrong here.
ayush--s··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
owner of the content is held responsible
ayush--s··on Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals
it will be published in govt's library, to which you login using Aadhar linked creds
ayush--s··on Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
but what if I generate my binaries on a CI-CD server?
ayush--s··on Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc
that'd be rewrite
ayush--s··on Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3
Also a big plus is the abstraction poetry provides over virtualenvs. I can just do `poetry install && poetry shell` to enable virtualenv from nothing. This is a nice upgrade over virtualenvwrapper.
ayush--s··on Uninstall Nano Defender
The only adblocker I trust is uBlock from gorhill. I used Adblock way back in 2013-14 and jumped ship when they started allwoing some ads.
ayush--s··on How to Be Helpful Online
nedbat was very respectful when I once asked a rather stupid question on #python (I was a noob back then). I am very grateful for his replies that day because it led me to go deeper into python.
ayush--s··on Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines

REST API guidelines from Microsoft

ayush--s··on Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
All sizable codebases eventually grow their own patterns & utils that have similar abstractions. I'd rather spend my time writing business logic than boilerplate.
ayush--s··on Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
There is functools.wraps in standard library for similar "delegation" in decorators
ayush--s··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
It's not optional for all software. Eg: Authy only publishes their electron based app through snap
ayush--s··on India, Jio, and the Four Internets
Opera mini used a proxy to compress & downsize content (including images) on the fly
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