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emamoah··on Show HN: Bandmeter: Per-program network usage monitor for Linux, built with GPUI
Well, for now it doesn't record the interface. Just counts bytes from any interface. But do try it out, and I'd definitely consider this.
emamoah··on Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams
I know, right... Thanks so much!
emamoah··on Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams
Absolutely. Would love to see it!
emamoah··on Canonicals Interview Process
The fact that you'd use that number to automatically disqualify candidates is just insane. It doesn't give you a globally objective measure of a person's performance, because, like I stated, it depends on the competition in their particular group.

I could objectively be better at math than John from another school. But MY school is extremely competitive, so I'm probably in top 20%. But John doesn't have much competition in his school, so he might be in the top 10% in HIS school. But your system will reject me because I'm in the top 20%, and probably accept John because he's in the top 10%. Total absurdity!

emamoah··on Canonicals Interview Process
The "top 10%" thing doesn't make sense mathematically. That depends on the average performance of your classmates. If you were in a school with brilliant students, in a small class, you could be in the top 50%. But with the same performance, just attending a different (low performing) school could put you in the top 5%.

So, keeping performance constant, attending a lower-performing school gives you a higher chance of being accepted at canonical. How crazy is that?

emamoah··on A Tor/ProxyChains indicator for your terminal
This is a Powerlevel10k prompt segment I wrote to make it obvious when in a Tor shell session (after running "proxychains zsh"). It's included in a little framework I wrote to modularise the p10k config. However, it can be adopted without the framework.