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Readit Newssandeep1998 commented on A conceptual overview of asyncio github.com/anordin95/a-co... · Posted by u/anordin95
I've used Python's asyncio a couple times now, but never really felt confident in my mental model of how it fundamentally works and therefore how I can best leverage it. The official docs provide decent documentation for each specific function in the package, but, in my opinion, lack a cohesive overview of the systems design and architecture. Something that could help the user understand the why and how behind the recommended patterns. And a way to help the user make informed decisions about which tool in the asyncio toolkit they ought to grab, or to recognize when asyncio is the entirely wrong toolkit. This is my attempt to fill that gap.
thank you for that.
Currently a one-man side project:
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.
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wow! all the best to you.
sandeep1998 commented on Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth dealflowiq.com/p/dubai-re... · Posted by u/koolhead17
Yep
I'll never succeed in a world where I have to "dress the part".
Luckily this is an era where it doesn't matter much
Do you run a business?
sandeep1998 commented on Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth dealflowiq.com/p/dubai-re... · Posted by u/koolhead17
I find articles like this super interesting, but they remind me that I’m a deeply technical person and as such would never be able to thrive in the ‘business’ world.
The modern YC startup philosophy of ‘make something people want’ seems to be only partially true. There’s this whole world of coffee dates, relationship building and salesmanship which always feels slimy to me.
Same here. My career situation isn’t looking great, and I haven’t felt truly satisfied at any of the places I’ve worked. I do believe there’s a role out there that strikes a better balance between meaningful work and a sustainable lifestyle—but finding it feels almost as daunting as starting a business from scratch.
sandeep1998 commented on A New Kind of Computer (April 2025) lightmatter.co/blog/a-new... · Posted by u/gkolli
Weirdly complex to read yet light on key technical details. My TLDR (as an old clueless electronics engineer) was the compute part is photonic/analog, lasers and waveguides, yet we still require 50 billion transistors performing the (I guess non-compute) parts such as ADC, I/O, memory etc. The bottom line is 65 TOPS for <80W - The processing (optical) part consuming 1.65W and the 'helper electronics' consuming the rest so scaling the (optical) processing should not have the thermal bottlenecks of a solely transistor based processor. Also parallelism of the optical part though using different wavelengths of light as threads may be possible.
Nothing about problems, costs, or can the helper electronics eventually use photonics.
I remember a TV Program in the UK from the 70's (tomorrows world I think) that talked about this so I am guessing silicon was just more cost effective until now. Still taking it at face value I would say it is quite an exciting technology.
Insightful Note. thank you.
sandeep1998 commented on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard github.com/lunchbox-compu... · Posted by u/MichaelThatsIt
So I’ve actually been in XR for nearly a decade now. So I’ve tried every version of “dev in XR” I even spent the last 2 years trying to build an XR native dev platform.
The feedback was always “this is too heavy” for all devices excluding XREAL.
Also I wanted a device that didn’t feel like a hack. Something tailored to the experience.
I am very interested in this setup as well. I feel Bigscreen Beyond 2[0] has a very good balance of size and weight. But its VR and not AR. I can't wait to create something that does computing in VR well. Something that Simlula VR[1] has been trying for a while now
[0] https://www.bigscreenvr.com [1] https://simulavr.com/blog/intermediate-products/
sandeep1998 commented on Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT mattweidner.com/2025/05/2... · Posted by u/samwillis
How reliable is that?
must be sarcasm I believe.
sandeep1998 commented on Material 3 Expressive design.google/library/exp... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
No see "today, people increasingly see their devices not as tools, but as extensions of themselves."
We are merely catering to those needs. It is philanthropy really. A kindness.
/s
XD
Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club (on /bookclub.html) because we're going to read Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition together after it comes out this winter.