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maayank··on Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
Nothing an autocomplete shell doesn't solve :)
maayank··on Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
My flow for a time was having ~/.task as a git repo and then when moving devices (laptop<->workstation<->home comp) sync using git :)
maayank··on Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
Just use taskwarrior + git
maayank··on Algorithms for Modern Hardware
Algotrading companies.
maayank··on Why are most sofas so bad?
Oh man… need to check my chair :(

How did you discover this?

maayank··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
Did you mean Ehud Olmert? I don’t believe Ehud Barak was ever arrested.

Also, not to nitpick, but would appreciate publicly accessible articles… from the abstracts I can only assume these are summaries made in the 90s of pre-90s shenanigans

EDIT: saw now the edits with 3-4, will look at when I have time (thanks!)

maayank··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
> It's similar to the Israeli program in the 90s (who's name I'm blanking out on EDIT: Yozma) because just like China in the 2000s-early 2010s, there wasn't a notable private sector VC industry yet.

Quite an allegation... any reference to them sponsoring/encouraging stealing IP or am I misreading and you simply meant it's a government sponsored startup accelerator program?

maayank··on Abuse and Estrangement by Adult Children: A Sad Secret
Thank you for the link, very interesting post.
maayank··on Bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization
What use cases people use eBPF for these days?
maayank··on If architects had to work like programmers (1995)
Sounds like you'd enjoy All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:

"Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have 'distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

maayank··on How to keep engineers out of meeting hell
“An engineer’s impact during a meeting is less tangible compared to coding”

The common disdain to meetings is that in many meetings no one has a tangible impact while an engineer can create tangible value in their “regular” stated mission. If reading this makes you feel offended then don’t worry, it’s surely not your meetings… only those organized by functionaries whose sole contribution is organizing open ended meetings with no impact.

maayank··on McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
I saw it, I thought OP meant another company that others (including paradox) get it from
maayank··on McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
Do you know the name of the company/other references about this test?
maayank··on SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
Why pleasantly surprised compared to Rust? What’s the significance of GCing?
maayank··on The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare
What are the practical hurdles and other tradeoffs?
maayank··on Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
Many thanks, read some and plan on others. Very informative.
maayank··on Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
I’m interested of reading more. Where can I find the blog posts?
maayank··on Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
> People go to work to make money

If that’s the overriding drive then perhaps they should not got to a non-profit and expect it to optimize for profit

maayank··on Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?
Can it though? The chips in 10$ AFAIK have hardware limitation built in to cut/fudge output on high (air traffic scale) speeds.
maayank··on Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids
Doing the same for rinse aid. Didn’t find a practical alternative for the main cleaning solution.
maayank··on Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
> My issue with ChatGPT is that it sounds like an expert consultant but I know it’s likely it’s just making up sentences some of the time

So, just like an expert consultant?

maayank··on PostgreSQL Encryption: The Available Options
Another approach is to have to the DB run in a secure enclave (SGX, Nitro, etc.), the data encrypted in the enclave process during disk I/O and the querying clients also in their own enclaves with encrypted communication between the enclaves. While there are edge cases, this is a more general "treat the db as black box" approach.
maayank··on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
Do you take the vitamin d daily at nighttime?
maayank··on The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)
What mechanisms successfully address this?
maayank··on Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)
> Computer Organisation and Design and Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, both by Patterson and Hennessy

What's the main difference between the two?

maayank··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
Can you tell more about using modafinil for anti anxiety? I only heard about it in the context of wakefulness
maayank··on Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
Sounds like story time :)
maayank··on DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
> and that the person responsible for work prioritization gets every single page in order that they feel the pain of that.

This sounds like an incredibly toxic work environment

maayank··on Effective Spaced Repetition
So… anyone used Chatgpt to generate cards for Anki?
maayank··on How to be a -10x Engineer
"Explain code in private messages. Write wikis that nobody uses."

What the reasonable alternative though? What's the happy medium?

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