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This recent article by Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha is thought provoking. I guess it is justified too in some way or other.
+ code is the cheap commodity now. anyone can generate it instantly. what’s valuable is the talk: imagination, articulation, problem definition, architecture.
+ traditional quality signals are dead. you can no longer tell if a repo was “vibe coded” by a non technical person or carefully crafted by an expert.
+ the physiological and cognitive cost has dropped by “several orders of magnitude.”
+ FOSS dynamics may fracture like when anyone can quickly generate custom libraries tailored to their exact needs, what happens to the incentives for sharing and community?
+ real concern for junior devs. young devs dependent on llms never develop foundational understanding. an entire generation might never meaningfully become seniors.
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@harshmadhusudan The idea that pak wouldn't retaliate after we hit all their strategic air bases plus us getting the last laugh is foolish.
If this continues till the morning we are in for a major escalation.
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Plausible scenario. Purely my speculation though.
Pak, US do quid pro quo on IMF loan, ceasefire. India continues to pummel Pak. When offered stoppage, takes up offer with final blow by us.
China calls Pak. Forces Pindi to resume given huge India victory otherwise. Here we are.
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Sent this memo, yesterday, to all engineers on my team.
I reckon it's a time for some truth bombs.
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A common performance tip given for Python code is that assign a frequently used built-in or imported function to a local variable. For example:
mylen = len
while mylen(mylist) > 0:
# do something
But what is the reason behind it?
Deep at the bytecode execution level, the VM uses the LOAD_NAME instruction to find and load the called function onto the stack before it can call it.
The LOAD_NAME instruction has to search through multiple collections of objects to find the function that you called. And it has to do it in order. It first looks up the locals list. Then it checks the globals list, and finally checks the built-ins.
Because the built-ins are checked only at the end, calling it in a hot loop means you are wasting a lot of time just looking in the wrong places.
Assigning it to a local variable means that it becomes part of the local namespace and LOAD_NAME will return earlier.
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@arpit_bhayani Better question-
How often do you use query+search on the AI platform vs regular google search?
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How often do you search on Google now?
I've been consciously keeping track, and I haven't searched for anything in the last four days. I never expected this to happen.
I now go directly to either ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, depending on what I need, rather than using a search engine.
Looks like the habit has been altered.
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Wrote the slowest, sloppiest, spaghetti code. Tech debt about to be greater than the fiscal deficit type shit.
Bunch of functions calling each other, no classes, OOPS died halfway through.
But it works, so i will gladly wait an extra 2 seconds for that dumpster fire to run.
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@realGeorgeHotz Greg Brockman's "sabbatical" lines up with how long it takes to get a top secret clearance, similar timing as the Nakasone hire and several defections.
Been a helluva year for OpenAI. Sam's been asking for regulatory capture, these are moves to engineer it.
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@UnamPillai @PenguinIndia I'm more excited for the interviews and podcasts that are gonna come! 😄
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Good morning. Happy to announce my new book.
Will release in a few weeks with Allen Lane @PenguinIndia
More details here: amazon.in/Gods-Guns-Miss…
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Today, Google-backed DotPe locked down their APIs by rate-limiting by IP on /external/merchant and blocking others.
They sent a legal notice to the author before fixing it and haven’t publicly acknowledged the issue at all.
Companies must be held accountable for poor security.
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@sangalaviral @CRED_club lmao Kunal talks about low trust societies and this is how cred operates 🤡
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Even though I usually do not fall for the @CRED_club jackpots, but yesterday I just played the friday jackpot without having any hope of getting anything meaningful. But I scored the JACKPOT and it wasn't a small one. It included a Macbook, Ipad, Airpods Max and a TUMI bag worth INR 3.25L.
I filled out the form to receive the items and they took my PAN to pay the TDS on the jackpot. BUT few minutes back I get a call from Cred team that they had to cancel the jackpot because of some technical issue and they crediting back the coins and good will gesture INR 1K cashback.
@kunalb11
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