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what is “move” When you assign a value to a new variable or pass a value to a function, the default behavior for types that don’t implement the Copy trait is to “move” ownership of that value.

Often in postgres, there are some unique stuff that is there for postgres which slows stuff down or speeds up the query.

Asynchronous programming is a powerful paradigm for building highly concurrent and efficient I/O-bound applications.

libraries criterion.rs Has really good defaults and seems to work out of the box.

I mentioned this mildly in my Ship Talk essay.

Reading Kafka is a strange experience.

The first animation movie, toy story was made in 1995.

HeLa Cells, as they’re called by the science community.

oh my zsh oh-my-zsh has hands down been a godsend for me. for that though we first need to install zsh

Mobile development is probably the most highest abstracted operation possible. because of this there are too many pitfalls that trip up

Bill Gates starts this story from his roots up until the point he found Microsoft and it became a really serious thing.

I’ve worked with React Native before but never professionally.

why switch from intellij Intellij was my most common IDE but I’m so tired of having to be a second citizen for every single plugin.

Building a product goes something like this.

notes from fast.ai Practical Deep Learning course.

the book starts with a tragedy and ends with a mild happiness/realization. the protagonist Yunjae is incapable of understanding or expressing emotions because of a problem in his brain.

Went through karpathy’s incredible micrograd tutorial.

Be intense about the task.

dan brown books are special because “lost symbol” book release was how my wife and i started talking back in high school. so dan brown book releases hold a special place in our hearts. this book is even more special because my wife and i were in new york…

tools https://linkpreview.xyz/ weirdnesss https://cult-escape.com/cult-test/ A site to check if you are in a cult Site https://www.languagetransfer.org/ https://www.window-swap.com/ games in arcane places https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-f…

Just like any other tech-pilled software engineer.

I’ve spent all my free time building arcane projects that don’t matter.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t…

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Python package management is a nightmare.

Shipping, because it doesn’t count if you don’t share it.

I write a lot. and I forget a lot.

I lived in Madurai till my first grade.

primes does not handle numbers > 1000 We need a nice cli that is able to take in arbitrary sized numbers and just chug away.

Pittsburgh has the quaint old town vibe with its own special antiquated ecosystems.

What started with Nabeel Qureshi’s Reflections on Palantir led me into an incredibly deep and rich rabbit hole of companies, intensity, operating them and, a whole host of new (to me) industry operators within the palantir circles such as, Tyler Cowen , S…

pg’s essays Incredibly interesting if you are into the startup world and are generally curious about how the world operates.

socratics website: https://socratica.info twitter: https://x.com/socraticainfo Open collective for builders, present in Multiple cities in the US and Canada.

capturing questions: Is it possible to go from, photo/video to high fidelity 3d model, with strong support for texture, without losing a lot of details on noise?

Languages are a lossy communication framework.

Inertia is the best way to keep oneself active and consistent.

The earliest memory of Bangalore I remember is the LalBagh.

Atlanta is what happens if you put too many white collars in the same space.

the problem International Students have a hard time understanding and integrating with the culture.

A friend of yours is going through a tough breakup.

Close on the heels of running a batch processing job over 1M documents , I was thinking about how LLMs are changing the way we process unstructured data.

YC is looking for evidence that you are clever.

setting up new zsh with oh my zsh firs installing zsh involves brew install zsh While I don’t really trust and run randomly downloaded shell files.

If you are on a unix-like environment, ports < 1024 (like 80) will require superuser privileges. disk mounting and unmounting sudo mount -o discard,defaults <diskid> <dir> you can get the disk id by

Library of Congress is really an incredible repository of content.

Vim stuff that I usually use and generally forget clear file gg do go to top of file then, dG do delete till the end

Raw mode in a terminal is receiving the raw bytes from the STDIN file. terminal usually gets opened in canonical mode which means input is fed to the program one line at a time, instead of character by character.

09.27.23 Tried ML model for face classification with, self.backbone = torch.nn.Sequential( torch.nn.Conv2d(3,64,kernel_size=7,stride=4), torch.nn.Conv2d(64,128, kernel_size=3, stride=2), torch.nn.Conv2d(128,256,kernel_size=3, stride=2), torch.nn.Con…