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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

12 days

I am lazy. Success needs hard work. So I had to hack my way into working hard.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

18 days

if you do any research at a good enough level in computer science. It gives you a significant delta over your peers. Especially computer architecture research. The confidence of knowing a system at a very low level is of a different kind. This is my own experience with it:

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

11 days

I make it a point to surround myself with the right people. What you do matters. Who you do it with matters more.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

Prof Mythili from iitb teaches this book in os course. Also has video lectures

Mr. Rc

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4 months

Recently finished Operating Systems: Three easy pieces (a.k.a comet book / OSTEP). Great book to learn about Operating Systems if you have basic understanding of C and Computer Architecture, also has a lecture series with it that you can watch while reading the chapters to…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

I am aiming for wealth creation and freedom. But my investment strategy is a bit different.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

24 days

@shauseth Just grandeur

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

@Khyatigupta369 i hope he tells his son too. Otherwise bad dad. Your children are not some trophy to brag about to others and mistreat them privately. Many parents do it and thats disgusting.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

There is a lot fear about the progress of ai making software engineers 'irrelevant'. Especially among those in college and those just starting out in their careers. I do not share those fears. Because I am not a software engineer, I am a problem solver. A much more powerful…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

@gf_256 This or nothing

Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

Almost every tech I end up looking these days uses the llvm compiler. Ai/ml- llvm (pytorch, tensorflow etc use it) Rust- llvm Even this company called Zama with Fully Homomorphic Encryption thing uses llvm. And this is how their site looks. Absolute gigachads

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

I wish I could share this post with my younger self. It pays to be friends with your inner voice. You can go through hardships and pain together. Achieve more. Go further. And just enjoy life more.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

I feel lucky I found my tribe of people. People who are passionate and weird. Who would look at you straight in the eye and say the most profound/horrifying stuff. Had a lot of fun. Achieved a lot along with these idiots. Hope you find your tribe as well.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

18 days

@karthikRanga92 it is something i see a lot. we had this director of a big bank come on campus. and he was just dead inside. all hollow and fake smiles. i made it a point not to sit for any banks in placement season

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

8 days

It is easy to put high achievers in your field on a pedestal. to think they have perfect discipline. all days were on point. the truth is they had an extremely human and messy journey. it took me a while to realise this.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

Many unpublished articles. The outpour of ideas has been crazy. Spending time with yourself doing nothing is very underrated. I get my best ideas in those moments.

Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

@PatrikarSanket I kinda bore myself into getting ideas. A few weeks ago I was always listening to a podcast or an audiobook in my downtime(eating, walking etc). It was information overload. My general productivity also had gone down. I stopped all of that. I am now just silent and with myself.…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

12 days

When I started my blog I did not think anyone will read it. Attention spans are shrinking. And who reads blogs these days? But I read. I appreciate good clear writing. I love exploring ideas. I care. So I just started writing and sharing online. Write Simply. Write Clearly.…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

The response video of @kirat_tw to kunal is what introduced me to the course. Loved his attitude. Excited to learn new things and grow with this cohort. Thank you for taking this initiative.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

Almost every tech I end up looking these days uses the llvm compiler. Ai/ml- llvm (pytorch, tensorflow etc use it) Rust- llvm Even this company called Zama with Fully Homomorphic Encryption thing uses llvm. And this is how their site looks. Absolute gigachads

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

15 days

I have always tried to be efficient. Tried all kinds of methods, techniques, focus breathing etc. lot of advice on YouTube. Here is what worked for me eventually: Obsession . I can't do balance well(i tried). so I embrace the chaos. I was trying to tame it because everyone talks…

MOHAMED FAWAS T

@MOHAMEDFAWAS182

16 days

Been following pomodoro technique for a long term. Recently I saw this video of @kirat_tw explaining why we should spend more time while coding rather than following pomodoro technique. The tips explained in this video helped me to boost my productivity 100x.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

14 days

@smarika_17 That's the dream

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

20 days

Was thinking of my twitter journey. And how with the right mindset it becomes really fun and rewarding. Here is a little flashback arc of my twitter journey :

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

8 days

Was thinking of the future of compute today. Wrote some thoughts on it. Obviously compute will be really valuable in the future. I feel like we will have some blockchain backed compute coins given to everyone. Now the underlying hardware will be distributed or owned by…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

It's easy to get obsessed with fancy setup and fast typing. The brightest senior I knew typed with two fingers and still has just a simple desk and laptop as setup. He started with Google right out of college. If that matters.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

12 days

Thank you everyone for all the love. I write these on my blog. Has an about me page also if you wanna know more about me. Here:

Kartikay's Blog

Hey, this is Kartikay. A software engineer living in India. I graduated with a CS degree recently. Currently handling firmware for enterprise servers. This i...

kartikay.bearblog.dev

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

@PatrikarSanket I kinda bore myself into getting ideas. A few weeks ago I was always listening to a podcast or an audiobook in my downtime(eating, walking etc). It was information overload. My general productivity also had gone down. I stopped all of that. I am now just silent and with myself.…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

3 months

@altmaiin OS ai research!?

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

i was thinking of making an impact page on my blog. basically list out all the writing/things that have impacted me a lot. Someone suggested doing this. would this be helpful to people?

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

Be curious. Play around with your code. What is stopping you?

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@AkshayNarisetti

16 days

One of the Greatest Tweets you’ll ever read

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

3 months

@psychparty Best arrange marriage coercion

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

The value comes from having a place with high barrier of entry. Challenging coursework. A bunch of smart motivated people living in close quarters having random 3 am conversations that lead to startups. IITB has that. Some random online school definitely doesn't.

Aryan Trivedi

@AryanTrivedi_7

10 days

Did @ezSnippet just compare IIT Bombay CSE to some random online institute ☠️😳 It shows how people with such influence can mislead the young crowd Also this company (Scaler) recently fired 150 employees Is this how they are supposed to spend the saved money?

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

11 days

@kodjima33 @Kickstarter Suffering from success 😂

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

24 days

Something I have been thinking about lately is the distribution of the fruits of this techno- utopia we are supposedly heading towards and what part I can play to make it more fair.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

14 days

I have dealt with my fair share of racism, insults and negativity on the internet. But I was lucky to have found a community of friendly passionate nerds early on in my internet journey. I was just a little kid back then. Let me tell you about my internet home.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

I have seen people with a lot of gravity to them. Who can bend the environment to their will. For a moment you even think they can change the team culture. But in the end. Just like in casinos, the house always wins.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

Bought @that_anokha_boy today

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

3 months

@Asif_iiitm 50 lpa software package is inflated with stocks vested over 4 years, after taxes and everything you don't make that much

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

The level of things one can build by themselves these days is astounding. No wonder Sam and his billionaire buddies have bets on when a single person billion dollar company will come

Akshay Narisetti

@AkshayNarisetti

2 months

Today I’m excited to introduce Devika, the first Volumetric Desktop AI for everyday tasks. Devika can do tasks such as checking your inbox, setting your reminders and much more Check out what Devika can do.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

18 days

@AarushRath96836 Hanesey patterson is a pretty good start

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

25 days

@Vivekpanchaal @Atlassian Makes sense. Offer from atlassian is a strong signal

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

Unique visitors to my blog filtered by country. for some reason your boi is popular in china. most likely vpn.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

This is why I love twitter. It is full of awesome people doing crazy super cool things

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

23 days

Optimism will take you places, but delusional optimism will make the ride so much more fun. Balls to the wall, riding in a clown car, smashing all records kind of fun. Today I wrote about my experience with it :

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

14 days

Words written by strangers have changed me so much. Somehow the right words find me when I need them

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@Kartikayb77

11 days

Best example of what I was trying to say

Anvay

@greaterr_fool

11 days

Related to this quite a lot. Took a big calculated risk last year to move to Paris and surround myself with some really talented people. It's made all the difference. It's just starting to pay back and can't wait to how things unfold further.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

@georgian_legion @ServiceSsu Comrade cat is most important asset

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

10 days

This is so cool. Love the retro design vibes

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@runtimeerror55

10 days

Fifth project and as good my previous project. spent ~(230 hours). A productivity tool. Launching Minitype. The all in one typing app. beginner mode: - lessons for absolute beginners. - practise alphabets, symbols, numbers, other special characters and get ready for speed mode.…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

12 days

It's 64 now!

Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

I am getting a lot of traction on my bear blog since yesterday. There are 20 likes rn on my about me page. That is crazy! I sent this meme to my gf last week when I made the blog. I guess its stale now

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Kartikay

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10 days

His articles are great. I have personally gotten a lot of value from them.

Abhinav Upadhyay

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10 days

It's been a year since I started Confessions of a code Addict. In this one year I've published 51 posts, most of them long detailed articles on various topics including algorithms, math, programming, CPython internals, hardware (GPU, LPU), AI/ML. I started from 0 subscribers…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

3 months

@NavalismHQ @naval Life taught me this recently with a hard knock. It is true. But I implore people to not take it the wrong way. You will still have people who love you and who you love. A family, friends. Who will support and be there most times hopefully.But at the end of the day it's just you.…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

20 days

Actual twitter circle :

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

If you don't turn into a cute little kitten the moment you see your girl, you are not a real man

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

the bearblog trending page is a cool place to discover new blogs. it is a simple place with a simple ranking algorithm given right there on the page. a lot of my articles made it here. thank you for all the love!

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

I am getting a lot of traction on my bear blog since yesterday. There are 20 likes rn on my about me page. That is crazy! I sent this meme to my gf last week when I made the blog. I guess its stale now

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

@kirat_tw You guys are getting refunds? I am not following cohort and it was on me so didn't ask.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

Today I will be starting my 100 days of code journey. More than accountability and learning in public I want it to be a showcase of the ups and downs of the journey. #100DaysOfCode #LearnInPublic And this is where the magic happens:

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

7 days

It is important to define purpose. A sort of moral compass. To help make decisions. As in all endeavours. I don't know where this blog will go or what I will write about in future. But I know my purpose. A simple post which is also a reminder to myself of why I started writing.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

@Rahulsainlll @kirat_tw Congratulations man! Lets connect, how someone starts freelancing is always interesting. Can you do a post of your own experience? I am learning from the cohort rn and planning to start my own journey as well.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

On point. It is something I follow for my blog as well.

Sam Altman

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learning how to say something in 30 seconds that takes most people 5 minutes is a big unlock

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

@SushrutKM Initial tweet is intentionally misleading regardless of clarification. Education isn't pointless. People get really good jobs out of college (ik cuz I and my batchmates did). Depends on what level you playing at

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@Kartikayb77

16 days

People look down on big tech sometimes. Yes there are corporate agendas and senseless politics. But there are also the absolute best of software engineers. Looking at implementing a cutting edge algo? The guy who WROTE it works at your org and will happily explain it to you

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1 month

@ubermenchh_ Unkillable Mosquito in Hostel room once forced me to go to Library and on the way I figured out a key problem for my research. Paper is being written rn. That mosquito needs to be co author on the paper. But my professor won't allow 😔 Mosquitos work in mysterious ways and make…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

Attention is all you need For like farming purposes under the guidance of @dejavucoder

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@Kartikayb77

13 days

I love these posts so much

Alberto Hojel

@AlbyHojel

13 days

Day 7,584 (since birth): "articulate your dreams" cloud microphysics textbooks bought: 2 ($213; someone bless me with a grant for textbooks 🙏) wild sightings of @AravSrinivas : 1 Got my commonsense datasets, ready to run ReFT. Let's see how long it takes us to beat it.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

20 days

You are telling me that there is a programming language I can run bare metal on my raspberry Pi and is memory safe and has cute logo

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

17 days

@AnkitMishraexe There is chapter called day in life of packet in this book. It's a very good scaffolding that covers entire computer networks. Use it as roadmap and deep dive by asking questions to your favourite llm. This is how you can get to 80 percent using 20 percent effort. I did it to…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

2 months

@t31kx A friend told my c implementation of a redis server is just a wrapper over assembly language once 🥲

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

Firmware development in Rust is an exciting field that leverages Rust's memory safety and concurrency features to build reliable and efficient embedded systems software. Rust is particularly appealing for firmware development because it avoids many common bugs found in C and C++…

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 month

real men code in low resource environment before the os kernel gets loaded. Before even the memory and chipset are initialized. Using the cpu cache as RAM like a true chad. Checkout this article by yours truly to know how 👇

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

14 days

Long day of work. Exhausted. Went to gym thinking wont be able to do much. Saw this dude going ham on the leg press wearing berserk tshirt. Got hyped. Tried to match his intensity.Godamn the pump right now is insane. Motivation is real

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@Kartikayb77

1 month

@ubermenchh_ This is how they will advertise their agi worker. Your human needs sleep? Emotional care? Has feelings? Sometimes productive sometimes not?

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

8 days

I have a deep mistrust of centralised authorities. Guess the crypto/web3 bros share that with me. Need to look into what is happening there.

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@Kartikayb77

2 months

@prudhvir3ddy I also felt he was wasting potential as he could go into deep tech and other stuff instead of selling courses. But at the end of the day it's his life and who am I too comment. He is definitely super successful by a lot of societal metrics

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

Day 13: Nothing beats the insane productivity that comes with a deadline. Your boi read 3 research papers today.

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@Kartikayb77

16 days

I asked gpt-2 chatbot(gpt 4.5?) to give me a roadmap on how to learn firmware development in rust. And give me opensource projects active in the field. It gave a very thorough response with very relevant links. Which is extremely useful. Gpt-4 or any other model are nowhere near…

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@Kartikayb77

1 month

@_svs_ @Delta2315 Damn, this is why I love twitter. It's easy for guys like me who are credentialed and have grinded leetcode to get opportunities. While this guy is struggling. Tech hiring needs to get better

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

@prajdabre1 Thank you for sharing!

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@Kartikayb77

8 days

Learned coa from a dusty old copy of this book I got from the Library when I first started. Bought this a couple years back for keepsakes Makes me nostalgic.

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@Kartikayb77

15 days

Just eating good and exercise makes everything so much better. You don't realise till you eat some absolute junk and fall off the wagon

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

20 days

My Twitter Interaction Circle ➡️

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

12 days

@vishal_balaji_ It gets easier to get there with time. You are generally more bored less prone to dopamine seeking behaviour. Also you get better at gaslighting yourself. Much better. It is worth investing time to get better at this.

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

1 year

day 16 done of the 100 days python course by angela yu #100DaysOfCode

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@Kartikayb77

3 months

@tanyarajhans7 yeah, happens to a lot of people. What to do? You struggle to get in top college. Then you fight to get into FAANG and then what. More promotion. More money. If we question it we realise it is all pointless. Then what gives meaning to life. Is that too much to ask from a job. idk

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@Kartikayb77

15 days

@amritwt I will start a profitable hardware company. Get rich and then invest it all into another hardware company. Software is for soft men

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7 days

@VioletStraFish Hmm. Not a seperate person. But a part of me. Like a hand. Haven't really thought about this deeply.

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@Kartikayb77

11 months

@juliafmorgado @kunalstwt Kunal with the classic introvert smile

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

16 days

I really appreciate Raj sharing this. I used to think successful people are different. Always working and just moving forward. It made me feel lesser. Especially in times when I felt stuck in life.That I could never be one of them. That is till I got to know many personally who I…

Raj Dabre

@prajdabre1

16 days

1. I worked my ass off during my undergraduate at a tier 3 college. This mostly involved memorization. A lot of time wasted. 2. I spent a year of my Masters being depressed. A lot of time wasted. 3. I spent most of my PhD being depressed and borderline suicidal. A lot of time…

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@Gravito841 Even when it comes to placement. The stats released by placement cell makes me laugh. Always expect some dude at placement cell to be a master at the art of telling lies with data.

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3 months

@consultingcmdy

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1 month

You are watching yt tutorial to make a portfolio website. I am learning prompt engineering to have an AI do it for me. We are not the same

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@Kartikayb77

18 days

"floating point is a crutch" now it is stuck in my head

Francis Stokes

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18 days

After hearing the phrase on @hasheddan 's Microarch Club podcast a few weeks ago, "floating point is a crutch" has been stuck in my head. Recently I've been building a fixed-point math library, and learning about the CORDIC algorithm.

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17 days

@rcx86 One of the best books I read. I love how the author is a fan of the socratic method of teaching.

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@Kartikayb77

3 months

@tanyarajhans7 Bias is there we all know it. From more shortlists, easier interviews to specific hiring drives for female candidates.

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@Kartikayb77

2 months

That is the difference between an engineer and a 'coder'. As engineers we rarely get to contribute to the tree of knowledge like the scientists. We are not creating any new branches of knowledge. But it is our job to understand the tree of knowledge. To map the tools to our own…

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2 months

Most people who claim to be "MERN stack experts" would fail to answer anything about it even 2 layers deep. Too many people are pursuing it, but most of them are very incompetent. So despite the illusionary competition, there's not much of it on ground.

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3 months

The Indian comedian and author @KananGill said this exact same thing about writing his new book 'acts of god'. That he felt a shift in his consciousness and the words just starting coming to him as is. As if projected from somewhere.

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retweeting this again such an important idea to understand

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@Kartikayb77

20 days

Something @prakhesar has been saying as well in his blog and most sane people firmly believe. This is probably the best explanation for why technological progress is the solution to everything

Devon Eriksen

@Devon_Eriksen_

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There are people who are wrong once in a while. There are people who are wrong as often as they are right. And then there is a small minority of nitwits so clueless that they would drink bleach if enough of the pet journalists of the political class told them it would avert…

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@Kartikayb77

20 days

I have a lot of 'actual' pending work but here I am at 3 am. Looking at bare metal programming in rust and stalking founders(who are building firmware for servers in rust!)

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Kartikay

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2 months

When your gf claps all your medium articles and cheers you on even if she doesn't understand some of them at all (she is from a non technical background)

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@Kartikayb77

13 days

Keep wedding at far off place(Siberia). Invite everyone. Everybody happy. Only the real homies actually come. Best night of life

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@Kartikayb77

22 days

Models are getting compact and hardware is getting better

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

13 days

@Raj_ghj @kirat_tw Damn man. I love this. I wrote redis in c from scratch once. Event loop instead of multithreading. Intrusive data structures like the ones used in kernel code to make speed fast. I was obsessed with it for a while. Can relate! Best of luck!

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Kartikay

@Kartikayb77

25 days

@the_wilderless People keep recommending the 48 laws of power and other books he has. I always found them icky.

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