angarg12 (u/angarg12)

angarg12 commented on Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations apnews.com/article/trump-... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

hodgehog11 · 2 days ago

How many "mistakes" are going to be made in this process, I wonder? A colleague of mine had his student's visa status suddenly revoked a few months ago. Fortunately, the student's lawyers successfully argued in court that there were no grounds for revocation. It still isn't clear why any of it happened.

angarg12 · 18 hours ago

This isn't discussed enough. One argument I've heard is that "this only applies to people who break the law".

One thing to consider is how easy is to make minor mistakes that technically count as an infraction. When acting in good faith, the administration can acknowledge this and promptly fix it, as it happened to me during my immigration process.

Then there are random mistakes out of your control. For example, when I first moved to the US and tried to get insurance for my car, I received extremely high quotes from the insurer. When I inquired why, they replied that my file showed several traffic infractions years ago in a different state. Simply clarifying that they'd mistaken me for another person was enough to fix it. Imagine if instead they deported me to a prison in El Salvador without a chance to defend myself.

And this is not talking shadier practices, such as changing the rules so that certain things suddenly become offenses, or simply fabricating evidence against someone.

angarg12 commented on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to... · Posted by u/research_pie

kmoser · 3 days ago

This may work for the author, and for other people, but I would never give this advice. It supposes you are able to articulate where you want to be in five years, and have the ability to break that down into actionable tasks. Most people just want to have a stable job, apartment/house, and good relationship. Any further breakdown is often guessing, unrealistic, or outright fantasy.

My advice to people in this situation varies tremendously given their background and what they're trying to learn, but it tends towards the same general method: start with something ultra simple and achievable, repeat it a bunch of times (perhaps with some minor variations) until you're relatively comfortable doing it on your own, then begin to branch out. If you're stuck for ideas, show it to somebody else and see what they think; having a training partner or mentor can help you feel less overwhelmed.

angarg12 · 3 days ago

It's worse than that, it assumes that where you want to be in 5 years won't change during that time.

My experience is that our needs and wants change over time, and they are shaped by our actions. Overcommiting to a future that we think we want can end up quite badly in my experience.

angarg12 commented on Airbnb and Vrbo are going downhill like a hippo on a water slide washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/diogenes_atx

angarg12 · 2 months ago

I live in the pacific northwest and have 1 week of PTO coming up. I wanted to maybe rent a cabin and chill with my family for a few days.

Browsing Airbnb the cheapest options available in my area are tents and RVs for 200-300 USD a night, and prices go up for there. Think about that for a moment, spending 250 USD a night to rent a tent, probably in someone's backyard.

Beyond ridiculous prices, Airbnbs have just become a pain. They often come with long lists of rules. Here are some of the most ridiculous that I've seen: clean everything before you go (what is my cleaning fee for?), put on the laundry (very common lately), or bag up the trash and take it out to the nearest t

angarg12 commented on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype unixdigest.com/articles/i... · Posted by u/smartmic

angarg12 · 4 months ago

> In technology, AI is currently the new big hype. Before AI, it was "The Cloud", which unfortunately has still not settled, but are now also being interwoven with AI.

Cloud computing is a multi-billion dollar industry and it underpins many of the largest internet companies out there. I fail to see how that's hype.

angarg12 commented on You Don't Have Time Not to Test medium.com/@DougDonohoe/y... · Posted by u/attila226

angarg12 · 5 months ago

So I joined this company as a lead of a team of 4 developers. I found a medium size Java codebase with not a single test. Instead of unit tests, we had a list of scenarios, and at the end of each sprint a QA guy would manually go through each scenario and verify the software.

One of my first moves was to ask the developers to write tests for their code. I got terrible pushback, specifically from one of them that said the dreaded "we don't have time to write tests".

This went back and forth a few times until it got escalated to the lead of the whole project, who sided with the developer: writing tests takes too much time and we don't have enough.

Two days. It took me two days of my own time to go through a completely unfamiliar codebase and get a reasonable code coverage with unit tests.

The benefits were immense and immediate. For starters, we caught a bunch of regressions before a new release that might have taken days of manual testing by QA. We were also able to ship faster and with more confidence.

As OP say, if you don't have time to test, you certainly don't have time not to test.

angarg12 commented on A few words about indie app business blog.charliemonroe.net/a-... · Posted by u/msephton

angarg12 · 6 months ago

> Don’t get a job.

All advice is circumstantial, and this one seems particularly painted by OP circumstances.

When I got my first job, I was living paycheck to paycheck and partially supporting my family. I can't imagine how could I possibly quit my job to pursue side projects. A few years later I did work in a side project that went nowhere for 2-3 years in a manner similar to how OP describes.

Sometimes dedicating yourself 100% to your own venture is the right call, but this piece seems to assume this is a choice everyone can make easily.

angarg12 commented on It's a knowledge problem Or is it? josvisser.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/0xKelsey

angarg12 · 6 months ago

> the color coding program was completely misguided because it assumed that we didn’t know what healthy food was. I challenged the nutritionist to an experiment: Make two plates of food, go into the restaurant at lunch time, and ask people to point out the healthier plate. My bet was that if you did not purposefully make it very tricky, people would unfailingly point to the right plate.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

I used to struggled with weight most of my young years. No matter what I did I achieved incremental advances at best. At some point I decided to start "counting calories", something that I used to frown upon.

To my shock some foods that I ate that I considered "healthy" weren't so much so. This isn't even counting the fact that most experts can't even agree what is healthy or not, and opinions change over time.

Just like with coding, there are some black/white examples where the average person could make an easy distinction, but then there is a wide range of greys in the middle where people might not really know what's "good/bad".

angarg12 commented on Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 jerpint.io/blog/advent-of... · Posted by u/jerpint

bryan0 · 8 months ago

Since you did not give the models a chance to test their code and correct any mistakes, I think a more accurate comparison would be if you compared them against you submitting answers without testing (or even running!) your code first

angarg12 · 8 months ago

People keep evaluating LLMs on essentially zero-shotting a perfect solution to a coding problem.

Once we use tools to easily iterate on code (e.g. generate, compile, test, use outcome to refine prompt) we will turbocharge LLMs coding abilities.

angarg12 commented on My Colleague Julius ploum.net/2024-12-23-juli... · Posted by u/dabacaba

angarg12 · 8 months ago

I've met a breed of career min-maxers adjacent to Julius that I have a hard time describing.

Picture this: you join a new team with a senior engineer, call him Pete. Pete wrote the initial version of a new product, and you joined the team to take over and continue it's development. Pete is bona fide genius who can work miracles and he is always in the critical path of each new initiative, you are told.

Once you open the lid of this new codebase you discover that this new product is a half baked spaghetti ball of mud that barely works as the demo that it was intended. With no documentation or tests, it takes you a while to even understand what's going on. Meanwhile the clock is ticking. It took Pete a mere 2 weeks to write this system, why it is taking you so long to add new features?

You try to explain to management the pickle you find yourself in, but to no avail. They fucking love Pete, and won't have anyone criticizing him. He has saved their asses in numerous occasions, and why is it always that others are the ones who can't keep up with him?

So you chug along, paying the price of the mess that Pete made while he keeps moving to even larger initiatives under leadership adoration. He also seems to have a knack to leave ship before his acts catch up with him, and when he decided to leave the job for a promotion and significant raise, management will miss him.

I've seen this behavior more than once and it seems too specific to not be intentional. Let me know if you ever met someone like Pete and how you call such people.

angarg12 commented on My Time Working at Stripe jondlm.github.io/website/... · Posted by u/jondlm

angarg12 · 10 months ago

This is what happens when you make your work most of your identity.

At the end of the day work won't love you back. Managers will come and go. Projects will start and end. Colleagues will join and leave.

For most of us work is an important part of our lives, after all we spend a big chunk of our life there. But try to find meaning outside work.