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ekropotin··on Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams
It's just slopyfied version of https://www.hellointerview.com/
ekropotin··on Appearing productive in the workplace
> He ended up promoted to management.

I bet, with such qualities he is VP by now.

ekropotin··on Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
That’s the only book you need to read, really. All modern books on this topic are derivatives of it.
ekropotin··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
Fascinating! Thanks for breaking it down.
ekropotin··on China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
Not that I fan of CCP, nor I know details of this situation, but isn’t barring people under investigation from leaving the country a pretty normal legal practice?
ekropotin··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Apple innovate in hardware.

What Google innovated during the last decade?

ekropotin··on WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0
Interestingly enough, Tailscale, that is build on top of Wireguard, work flawlessly on Mac.
ekropotin··on Parallel Agents in Zed
neovim or eMacs are the best text editors as up today.
ekropotin··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
The idea of blaming something you can choice not to do is quite strange.
ekropotin··on Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
Why just don’t send books on the email associated with your kindle?
ekropotin··on The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
Even tho I probably never will get paid for writing Rust, I have zero regrets about learning it - it tough me really think about data ownership in programs.
ekropotin··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
I personally don’t see its being a case, based on my observation.

There is this town nearby where I live - super white, gives old money type of vibe, very expensive real estate. It’s full of free range kids running around on the streets.

It was shock to me to see it, after our diverse suburb, where kids pretty much either locked at home doing homework or at classes all the times.

So in my opinion there is definitely a cultural aspect of it.

ekropotin··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Was the mom Asian? Asking because my pre-teen daughter has a lot of Asian friends and I clearly see a pattern of hyper vigilance among their moms.
ekropotin··on LittleSnitch for Linux
From what I understand, macOS uses weird kernel implementation, which is almost open source, but not 100%
ekropotin··on What being ripped off taught me
Just reinforces the golden rule of not doing business with friends or family.
ekropotin··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
Cold showers - good for immune system. Heat expose - good as well. I guess what doesn’t kills us - makes us stronger is true after all.
ekropotin··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Im genuinely curious what is a use-case for 25GB Internet in a typical Switzerland household?
ekropotin··on Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
It absolutely doesn’t look as sharp as 4k, even on 22” inch screen
ekropotin··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
I find the title very misleading. Linux containers typically means LXC, but when in readme you say it’s intended for running OCI-based containers.
ekropotin··on Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile
I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
ekropotin··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
Are we going to see a trillion dollar IPO?
ekropotin··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
So we do at least agree on the fact that quality of human language <-> embeddings transition depends on how good target language is represented in the training dataset?

Even if it happens at the edge, on every conversation turn, I may assume non captured small subtleties of meaning over time can accumulate into significant error.

ekropotin··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
> it’s clearly not the case that these things only make use of Spanish training data when you prompt them in Spanish.

It’s not! And I’ve never said that.

Anyways, I’m not even sure what we are arguing about, as it’s 100% fact that SOTA models perform better in English, the only interesting question here how much better, is it negligible or actually makes a difference in real world use-cases.

ekropotin··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
It’s just a subjective observation.

It just can’t be a case simply because how ML works. In short, the more diverse and high quality texts with reasoning reach examples were in the training set, the better model performs on a given language.

So unless Spanish subset had much more quality-dense examples, to make up for volume, there is no way the quality of reasoning in Spanish is on par with English.

I apologise for the rambling explanation, I sure someone with ML expertise here can it explain it better.

ekropotin··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Because 90% of training data was in English and therefore the model perform best in this language.
ekropotin··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
That’s good to know your personal preferences. Please keep us posted!
ekropotin··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
Fair enough! Indeed, there are ways to build performant microservices on Java, e.g. Qwarkus + GraalVM, but I've never seen anyone in enterprise world is doing it - 99% of services are still being build on Spring Boot, so in my mind Java in SB are inseparable.
ekropotin··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
I’ve Been stuck with Spring for many years too and I think it’s just awful choice for micro services that need to scale, simply due to startup time.

Not to defend Nodejs ecosystem - your points are 100% valid.

With that in mind, I think Go is much better option.

ekropotin··on Typing and Keyboards
Because of my ignorance, I thought it’s the same thing.

What I actually meant to say is “not staggered”.

ekropotin··on Typing and Keyboards
I use Colemak DH for many years and Dvorak before that and I am of an opinion that alternative layouts are way overrated. I even somewhat regret inventing so much time in learning them. QWERTY is just fine!

The matter I want to preach about tho are split ortolinear keyboards. I believe absolutely every typist should use them. Conventional keyboards are just bad from ergonomics perspective and eventually it’d have a toll on your wrists health. And many of these keyboards stores key mappings directly on the chip so no need to mess with weird mapping software.

Having said that, my split keyboard is one of the best investments I did in my life.

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