Sajal Choudhary

Pods are the smallest unit of compute in Kubernetes.

Finland faces prospect of biting cold winter, FMI meteorologist says This could mean biting cold temperatures or very heavy snowfall, although Punkka further noted that wintry weather can manifest in different ways.

Review This book is Tove Jansson's autobiography.

Review Like Cory's last book I had read Enshittification, I knew most about what this book would entail.

When you deploy a Kubernetes cluster, what you are deploying are nodes, which run the containerised applications.

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I finished reading Lucas Käldström’s bachelor’s thesis about the patterns and reasons behind the cloud native paradigm.

Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out by Emma Roth Curious, I asked Muse to tell me where it got that information.

Review I’ve been wanting to read this book ever since I watched the 1997 movie by the same name.

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia Buckmaster said he asked OpenAI whether it had accessed his sessions on Codex, which he had used while tackling the problem, but that OpenAI grew increasingly evasive, even hostile, in…

Apple Announces iOS 27 Release Date by Joe Rossignol iOS 27 has already been available as a developer beta since June and as a public beta since July, and Apple today said that the update will be released for all users with a compatible iPhone model on Mo…

Audi’s new A2 E-tron is its most affordable and efficient EV yet The German automaker’s new A2 E-tron compact crossover is inexpensive, starting at just £32,200 (about $45,000).

First Xiaomi, then the world: why Arm might give phone gaming a huge graphics boost by Sean Hollister By following Nvidia’s playbook, Arm-powered phones are about to have PC-like technologies to make games run faster, at higher resolution, with advanced l…

Bangalore India hospital flow by Derek Sivers Medications that cost $50 in New Zealand or $100 in America are only $2 in India.

Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers by Tom Warren If you want to use more than the 15 hours included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you’ll need to purchase additional cloud playtime through the Xbox store s…

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I have high expecting going into this meetup.

The Safest Job from AI may be Writing While the programmer's job description is getting completely refactored, writing remains surprisingly unaffected.

Games I want to play (or atleast buy) this year - FC 27 GTA VI Control Resonant

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Review I loved this book.

I uninstalled NetNewsWire from my iPhone today.

The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster by Jay Peters CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th.

Where to preorder the updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio by Brad Bourque Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them.

# To list available shells cat /etc/shells # To list current shell echo $SHELL # To change shell chsh --shell /bin/sh username

# Delete primary vm multipass delete primary # List vms multipass list Name                    State             IPv4             Image primary                 Deleted           --               Ubuntu 26.04 LTS devops-vm               Running        …

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Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself.

Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January by Jess Weatherbed Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of the animated series, and confirmed the series’ return for a third and final season.

The new edition of FC is out.

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot by Will Knight Generalist and some other robotics startups are investing heavily in a general robotic model trained by humans.

Reading Dan Wang’s Breakneck.

It was a double rainbow kinda day.

## Create a default ubuntu vm ## Default config is 1 cpu 1 GB RAM and 5 GB disk multipass launch --name "vm-name" ## To list instances multipass list ## To open shell to primary vm multipass shell ## To open shell to specific vm multipass shell "vm-nam…

Multipass is a Canonical utility to run VMs on the Mac.

Maybe you’re not overwhelmed.

Review This is another one of the books that I have been wanted to pick up for a long time.

Review This book is a direct continuation of The Courage to be Disliked and it promised practical instructions on how to apply Adler's philosophies in life, so I picked this up.

Temperature Zero for Culture The mode gets shown more, so it gets picked more, so the model grows more confident the mode is what people want, and the tails starve.

How I read and use technical books feels outdated and something that needs to be re-thought.

A Swarm of Blood Robots by Craig Mod LLMs are excellent at taking your messy spreadsheets, making them look great, and re-ordering them intuitively.

Watched the solar eclipse indirectly (via the light on the opposite building).

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Reinvent Software Development for the Agent Era by Laura Entis A few interesting things in this article including the art and visualisation.

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On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport “Writing your own code, slowly but surely, and using LLMs for narrow or particularly annoying tasks (say like writing tests or throw-away scripts), is the best way to produce the highest quality code, since i…

Give me one reason by Seth Godin The honest rejections would say something like, “my boss didn’t like you,” or “I was in a bad mood,” or “we realized that our spec wasn’t very clear and the person we liked didn’t fit it either,” or “we wanted someone who…

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics · Laurentiu Raducu by Laurentiu Raducu While I was analyzing new AI bottlenecks that might slow down data center buildup, I realized there are many aspects of chip production that I do not know.

Defending my own brain against enshittification His days are punctuated by cups of coffee and tea at strict intervals, cigarettes, ironed sweater vests, empty time for deep thinking, placing a bench outside his office for passersby each day, and most nota…

Oooohhh Summer, How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk?

On building scalable control planes by Dr Werner Vogels One thing the team talked about constantly, almost to the point where it became a mantra, was that no matter what happens to the control plane, VMs that are already running need to keep working.