nvarsj

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A mostly professional engineer in London.

Former quant dev. K8s contributor. OMSCS alumni in computing systems. Distributed systems enthusiast. Anime enjoyer. Employed at big tech as a staff swe.

All comments are my own and represent my own opinions.

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Comment · 7 days ago
Well, it seems Claude mostly built this.
Comment · 12 days ago
I love narrow fonts with coding, but it's all preference in the end. Obligatory "PragmataPro is the best" plug.
Comment · 20 days ago
OpenWRT - not sure why anyone would want to use dd-wrt?

I’ve thought about this as well, you could market it to gamers or content creators who care about latency. Nano pi r6s with openwrt and buffer bloat configured for their connection. Nicer/simpler UX on top maybe.

Firewalla did something similar but imo their UX is nice but actual product isn’t great (lots of issues on gigabit links ime, overpriced).

Comment · 1 month ago
Pi is the "I use arch btw" of harnesses right now.

But I do love it - super customizable, and my token usage seems way more efficient (this is purely vibe based ofc) compared to codex/cc.

I basically just install pi-fabric, pi-blackhole, grill-me and that's it. Tell my AGENTS.md to prefer subagent workflows. Herdr to manage all the terminals. I spend 99% of my professional work in this environment, I can't even remember the last time I had to open vscode/nvim.

Comment · 1 month ago
Seems like the owner @jesse has even unregistered from the discourse server. They're not responding to emails at all, and nothing on Discord. No parting message or anything. Rumour is the US tarrifs killed the business.
Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe she enjoys it? Kids especially ones leaning ASD tend to have these kind of obsessions. I don't think anyone can force a 6 year old to practice rubik's cube 2 hours a day.
Comment · 1 month ago
Insert "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme
Comment · 1 month ago
This kind of thing is almost always a result of the performance culture. There are a lot of promo oriented people in big tech who just want money and have no ethics (or engineering competency usually), sadly. These people have no issue at all plagiarising or stealing credit to get themselves more money and success. And it works.
Comment · 1 month ago
Kind of bizarre tbh, given the software market for VR seems absolutely dead. Announcing it with a 7 year old game is like, what? What's Valve's plan here?
Comment · 1 month ago
Except far less comfortable and motion sick inducing for a non-trivial portion of the population. No thanks.

HL Alyx was awesome though, nothing else on VR has been worth it for me.

Comment · 1 month ago
I purge my box every few years. Do you really need 20 usb cables. I do save the esoteric ones though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Triple fold just seems awkward as heck, plus you have to design the UI for it around the fold section. I’m pretty bullish on the duo design. Hopefully we see some more unique designs in the future if this works out.
Comment · 1 month ago
What's up with all the negativity? Apple is finally doing something radical (for them) again with the iPhone, their bread and butter. And I'm all here for it. 10 years of the same form factor was getting old. I'm gonna buy this on release, easiest decision ever.

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