tazjin

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Architect at Yandex Taxi. Based in Kazan. Previously Google/DeepMind, Spotify and others.

I kicked off TVL (https://tvl.fyi), a community mostly around monorepo tooling and Nix.

You can find my personal stuff at https://tazj.in/

TVL's open-source work is on https://code.tvl.fyi/

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Comment · 2 days ago
Muslim is not an ethnicity.
Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 11 days ago
It's baffling that these kinds of organisations which are obvious targets of attacks are still using stuff like Wordpress, and then getting exploited through it. Competence doesn't grow on trees ...
Comment · 13 days ago
At some point I hosted my blog in DNS; it was a bunch of chunks in TXT records which the frontend would reassemble. It had really strange side effects, e.g. editing a post could shuffle the chunks but then they'd end up being cached separately and some people would see weird artefacts in the text.

I don't know why I did that, but it was fun!

Comment · 1 month ago
> Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google

Man, I remember back in the days when the cppnext team was refusing to even consider Rust, instead looking at absurd stuff like Carbon and Swift (!), even though half of the engineering staff already knew where this was headed. I hope they got a few good promos out of the delays at least.

Comment · 1 month ago
Currently, switching to GrapheneOS means giving Google money. Next year's Motorola-based alternative is also likely going to be several price classes above the Pixels you can currently put GrapheneOS on.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, we do - there's a famous episode where after rotating the board both contestants stubbornly kept picking 1, and after a couple of iterations one of them was Wangernumb.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't think that this produces correct results, as it seems to determine whether each individual number is Numberwang. However, whether a number is Numberwang can also depend on the previous numbers in the sequence or other factors.

So I think as it stands right now this model can only determine whether a number would be Numberwang as the first number of a sequence, but even for that I still wouldn't rely on this in the actual game show.

Comment · 2 months ago
Currently 6833 people in Sweden have the last name "Malm", and some large fraction of them were born before 2005 (could not be bothered to check how many, sorry!).
Comment · 2 months ago
Ironic, considering the content.
Comment · 5 months ago
Your posts are very much like "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain".

If a definitive answer on this topic was known then it, well, would be known.

Comment · 5 months ago
Neither you nor any of the other people making confident takes in either direction actually know. You're just guessing.
Comment · 6 months ago
It does, but only for chats between two specific devices. Multi-device support is one of its best features that you lose with E2E.

Key distribution is just too hard. I think we won't get a messenger for non-tech people that works well with multi-device and E2E basically ever.

Comment · 7 months ago
EWM implements a Wayland compositor as a native thread spawned by a dynamic module in Emacs, it's a full compositor within the Emacs process: https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm

So it is architecturally possible (but infeasible in plain Emacs Lisp).

For river (the thing this article is about) I wrote an Emacs WM, but also opted for a dynamic module for the Wayland protocol parts: https://code.tvl.fyi/tree/tools/emacs-pkgs/reka

This one could technically be written in plain Emacs Lisp, but I'm happy to use something that already has all the XML codegen stuff for Wayland figured out. Dynamic modules work pretty well, fwiw.

Comment · 7 months ago
It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.

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