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Rajki

@rajki.xyz

nothin'! me? heh, just hangin' around. MAA / MUC / AAR. Postcards / Anime / 70s Rock / Leftist politics. Engineering @ Databricks.

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Rajki@rajki.xyz · 6mo ago

See an interesting post on Facebook. Headline catches attention but link is in the comments. 2 clicks. Article (in Danish) opens in internal browser with no option to translate. 2 more clicks to open it in Firefox. Doesn't auto prompt to translate. 3 more clicks to translate in English.

rob pike@robpike.io · 8mo ago

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Rajki@rajki.xyz · 9mo ago

I understand that something has to put food on the table but it would be very nice if Steve Yegge stays quiet for some time.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · 11mo ago

"How X saves on hundreds of API calls by using a single image" style LinkedIn slop talking about.... Sprites. Oh lord.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · 11mo ago

If dhh and rauchg want to compete for who's the bigger fool, they should just get into a boxing ring and tough it out.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · 11mo ago

Watching this very reputed engineer / C suite person having a very public parasocial relationship with an LLM. I'm hoping it's some stunt, otherwise it's quite disturbing to observe.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · 12mo ago

The worst thing about DHH is what an insufferable asshole he is. The best thing about DHH is that he never lets us forget or grovel for evidence as to why he's an insufferable asshole. Open display in that recent blog post, insane.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

A classic real world use case that needs speed, tradeoff between precision and approximation, exercise of judgement, application of ethics and reacting to realtime updates is already available for anyone that cares to test their claims of AGI. It's called autonomous driving.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

Listen, time for some crazy talk. How about we all settle on a simple notion that if your business hasn't been around for more than a year, you don't really have an ARR.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

I've been a bit steadfast in not using AI in one area of work, and that is to write feedback for peers. But I don't think the same courtesy is extended likewise by others. Requested feedback from multiple teammates and all of these responses are AI generated with prompt for direction.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

Me: "Posting a document within the city. How long could it take?" German immigration office: "Hold my beer." If I chiselled the card by hand, tiptoed all the way from the immigration office to the workshop, back to the office and then to my home, it would have taken less time than this.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

There are too many "Death of the Developer" bullshit takes floating around. They annoy me on the good days and cause me deep anxiety on the bad days. I'll add just one of my observations to this.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

500 rps is actually respectable throughput to have handled as a messaging platform, saw someone represent it as 1B requests per month. Felt artificial, simply to represent the 9 figure number.

Rajki@rajki.xyz · last yr.

I don't think buying decaf coffee itself was a mistake but buying 500g of decaf coffee for a one person household was definitely a mistake.