Karthik
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Karthik
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Really not sure what to do here
Not to take a jibe at the presenters that put in the effort for their talks, but an unfortunate circumstance of speaking/presenting about OSS work involves commercial investment ☯️
I’m at KubeCon and some of the talks are bordering on the “we are selling our product but aren’t saying so” messaging.
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Lack of empathy and inability to practice second order thinking is a general problem in American society of which the Trump administration is a key manifestation.

Tanking the economy by starting a trade war was as predictable an outcome as getting wet by jumping in a swimming pool. Yet, here we are
Dow futures tumble a second day, losing 1,100 points after China retaliates to Trump tariffs: Live updates
The three major indexes are on track to end the week down after Thursday's steep drop.
www.cnbc.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Honestly Berlin could have stuck around with TXL and made it the “city airport” with higher landing and emission fees.
April 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If F1 is to real life then … drive to survive is to real housewives of beverly hills
March 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I truly hope there is a PRD in the gmail pipeline on merging the ellipsis’.
January 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Saw a take on LinkedIn by a CEO saying "Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang say AI will replace programmers, random LinkedIn users say it won't, I know who I'm trusting".

The random LinkedIn users are the programmers endlessly having to explain to CEOs that no, 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.
January 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Civ6 on the iPad is the greatest threat to productivity.
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Worth considering second-order effects of the clear trend of fewer (engineering) managers

EMs manage larger teams —> less time per individual —>ore difficult to keep tabs on everyone’s work —> add pressure to report on eng team’s productivity —> build/buy tools to report on this
January 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Failing an eye test when you don’t wear glasses is a terrible feeling.
January 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Squid games 2 in Tamil is a Vetrimaaran movie in disguise.
December 28, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Berlin sometime last week
August 26, 2023 at 8:54 AM