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azundo

690 karma · joined December 1, 2011

Co-founder, Numida Technologies. Interested in products for sub-Saharan Africa, especially related to financial inclusion and informal market disruption.
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azundo··on Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
I think they're expecting a daily problem set like Advent of Code. This is not a set of problems to solve, it's a series with one release per day in December, similar to an Advent calendar.
azundo··on Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)
I feel like I'm missing the context of the sleep(1) debate and reading both points of view they seem like they're arguing for the same side? Would love for someone to cleanly explain both sides to this as I clearly don't quite get it.
azundo··on The profitable startup
I think the point is there are many "startups" with similar revenue and growth to Linear that never become profitable. I don't think Linear qualifies as a small business and I don't think they're scaling less quickly than someone in same market with more funding and less profit.
azundo··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
For me the only one would be sketching/painting. But I agree with the point in general, most hobbies cost a lot.
azundo··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
It wasn't quite monthly but on my radwagon 4 I would change the pads every other month at least. Hauling two kids around SF on a heavy bike plus a little bit of poor design on Rad's part.
azundo··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
I think they more specifically mean server side rendering of react components vs an SPA.
azundo··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
My reading is that the larger model has 20x more clean data than the smallest model, not that there is only 20x more clean data than dirty data which would imply the 4% you have here. I agree it could be worded more clearly.
azundo··on Ambigr.am
Ambigrams can be read right side up and rotated by 180 degrees (sometimes other rotations also exist). Some of the ones here say the same thing when turned, and some say a different, usually related, word or phrase.
azundo··on Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays
It's a little difficult to parse but this is hourly share of transactions. If transactions were evenly spread out over 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, each hour would get about 1.8% of transactions. So a 0.4% change in hourly share for a given hour is quite significant.
azundo··on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?
We bought a projector. Would definitely recommend this if you have a wall that works for it. No unsettling frame smoothing, a minute or two warm up that adds just enough friction and no smart functions or ads.
azundo··on The Myth of Liquid Detection
And beyond that obvious path the author is only watching for activity while the port is not wet! Obviously it wouldn't phone home every time the port is dry. While I doubt apple is using this to void warranty claims this is about the weakest debunking of that I can imagine.
azundo··on Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption
> World Liberty Financial has received $75 million from Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun. Last week, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission, now purged of its Biden-era crypto enforcement team, dropped its fraud case against Sun.

This is not just financial benefit for a voting bloc.

azundo··on Write the post you wish you'd found
Looking through the submission history of that user yields https://ahmet.im/blog/index.html
azundo··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
I've recently tried to get into urban sketching and spending any time observing figures in an urban scene makes this immediately obvious. So many people staring at phones everywhere you got. I'm equally guilty but once you start looking it is quite stark.
azundo··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
They're often much cheaper at Costco if that's an option and you don't care about a specific color. They are a complete game changer though, especially if you're a new parent.
azundo··on In the Shack with Robert Caro
The podcast has been amazing. I started reading along at the beginning but couldn't keep up. It's been great to get such an accessible but in depth look into the book. Fascinating look at tactics and strategies for influence and power along with a ton of history of New York. I would highly recommend it.

https://99percentinvisible.org/club/

azundo··on Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
Is python no longer a modern language? Objects are certainly not copied when passed to a function.
azundo··on Ask HN: C/C++ developer wanting to learn efficient Python
I believe lower_bound is ordering by key comparison - python dicts are insertion ordered.
azundo··on Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
Even if they are you can't do business in a country and ignore that country's laws just because you're domiciled somewhere else.
azundo··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Sort of burying the lede - also states that all SVB depositors will be made whole along with Signature depositors.
azundo··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Looks like they advertise that as a feature of the premium version.
azundo··on Proper use of Git tags
Bump it in source to 2.19.4 immediately, and then to 2.20.0 as soon as there is code that requires a minor version bump, then to 3.0.0 as soon as a major version bump is required. Then your version in source is always semver compatible vs by definition being off until you cut the next release as soon as you introduce a breaking change.
azundo··on Proper use of Git tags
We do this by looking at the patch version. For example, current version in source is 2.2.1-alpha0. This means the last bump was a patch version from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, so if you want a minor bump, then you need to bump to 2.3.0-alpha0. Now that the patch version is 0, it's that someone has already bumped the minor version since the last release, so no need to do so again. This would break down if someone bumps to 2.3.1-alpha0 unnecessarily but otherwise it's immediately obvious looking at the current version in source whether someone has already bumped the minor version.
azundo··on Proper use of Git tags
> The commit that changed the version in source is the one to be tagged

I've never understood this practice of not immediately bumping the version in source after a release. We update the version in source to the next logical version (usually a patch bump with an alpha0 pre-release tag) immediately after tagging and publishing a release. This way you just need to look at the version in source to understand where you're at in a release process, and only a single commit has the full release version in source, which is also tagged as such. This doesn't seem to be a common pattern, so shat are the downsides of this approach? Am I missing something?

azundo··on Coinbase Q1/22 Shareholder Letter [pdf]
Citation? I'm not sure how withdrawing of funds would be considered an operating loss. That's not how banks work either.
azundo··on Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007)
I would posit rainy weather means some lower performance quarters in terms of stock price or performance in some way and GPS misalignments are strategic missteps with the overall direction of the company.
azundo··on Not everyone should meditate
All that you see is also a representation in your mind formed by your brain. Is everything in your visual field similarly "you"? If not, what makes thoughts different?
azundo··on Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flagging and A/B testing
Congrats on the launch, this looks like exactly what we need at our stage, combo of feature flags and experiments that fit my mental model of how they should work. Excited to get it integrated and our first feature up and running!
azundo··on Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
I'd go one step further and say that the article's value is also in pointing out that being aware takes practice, you can't just flip a switch and decide to start being aware of your current mental state. You need to pay attention many times to start to connect the dots and be able to recognize the state you're in and the best way to respond.
azundo··on My parents collect cans for a living
Presumably the owners and operators of the grocery stores are losing, and are constituents of the city, pay payroll taxes, property taxes, etc.
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