vaidhy

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I am all about traveling and enjoying life while building products and teams. Reach me at vaidhy[at]gmail
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Comment · 3 months ago
I am also very curious what the actual cost of this is, esp. if you are not an Anthropic employee and have to pay the API cost.
Comment · 5 months ago
On a side note, what is your take on AVIF vs WebP? I recently moved my site to 11ty and looking to re-encode several hundreds of images. I do want to keep the quality of the photos as much as I can, while reducing the network load.
Comment · 8 months ago
I think there is a fundamental idea that the only way to measure success of companies is the monetary value to shareholders. US companies optimize for that and they cannot believe other countries/cultures would have a different value system.
Comment · 10 months ago
Neurodivergent is not just one thing.

Are there people on the autism spectrum at leadership level? - Steve Jobs was considered to be one even though he was not formally diagnosed as one.

Are there people on ADD/ADHD spectrum at leadership levels - yes, I know of a few..

Are there people with sociopathic tendencies at leadership level - You can answer this one :)

Comment · 10 months ago
I guess you have not been to LinkedIn in a while :)

The fact he did not even spot the actual problem is worrying. Did someone know that the button color was changed in the new version of the software?

Comment · 11 months ago
I do not remember where I read this, but it has struck with me for the last 35+ years - "Poverty is a crime, but the poor are not guilty of it".

I have seen abject poverty growing up in India.. It is right in your face most of the times. I have friends from the other side of the street and pretty much, you live in very different realities.

Comment · 1 year ago
Looking at the graph in the article, it starts falling off from 2010 and it is actually on a uptick in last year. A honest reading would be that internet has increased access to information and AI is obfuscating it again.
Comment · 1 year ago
As in, you witnessed 5 murders or 5 people you know got killed/happened near you etc?

If so, I do not know how to tell you that this sounds insane..

Comment · 1 year ago
From what I am reading, that is not the final price.. that is the room price and they add a ton of fees to that price
Comment · 1 year ago
Winning is different from taking over.. Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it.

US was all into destroying Afghanistan and Iraq. They had no intention of being there long term.

Comment · 1 year ago
You know senior developers can also be off-shored, right?
Comment · 1 year ago
A tariff across the board is same as a sales tax (rather a value added tax, as it is dependent on the value of goods).

I would love to understand why you think it is punitive for the ultra rich.

Comment · 1 year ago
Where does it say logistics shortage? A shortage of mercy and empathy is more like it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Further, the tariffs have not be implemented across the board. There were only the threats. If and when they are implemented, we will see how all of this falls out.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am a bit confused.. If you are willing to work at Applebee's for minimum wage job, then you are employed. Why should you be considered unemployed?

If you all you can find are the minimum wage jobs and you choose not to work there, then you should be considered unemployed and if you are long term unemployed, U6 captures that.

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