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pvelagal | 1 month ago | on: Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

Kids make friends pretty easily when they go to school and later college. Only after graduating college it becomes very hard to make friends.

So one solution is have folks attend classes in schools and universities or even local libraries during weekends. Classes specifically designed for different age groups - 30s, 40s, 50s etc. Classes related music, personal finance, investing, art, sports, cooking etc

Govt should offer tax breaks for attending these classes. That would attract a lot of people.

pvelagal | 4 months ago | on: The Learning Loop and LLMs

I totally agree. Trusting the LLM means, you are not thinking anymore and are happy with the high level ideas you had before you started coding, which may be incomplete. Missing pieces will be missed until you see issues in Production and I have seen this happen.

pvelagal | 4 months ago | on: The Learning Loop and LLMs

LLMs are doing more than that. They are doing so much that I have seen bad ideas creeping into the code base. I used to trust some engineers code, but with introduction of LLMs, I am working more on code reviews and unable to trust significant portions of code checked in.

pvelagal | 4 months ago | on: Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals

A company's fiduciary duty is towards shareholders, which forces a mindset where Employees fiduciary duty should be towards themselves.

People will Unionize or create laws where companies's fiduciary duty should be towards both employees and shareholders.

Well, this is all until Elon's Robots will change everything :)

pvelagal | 2 years ago | on: The Inko Programming Language

Inko means “one more” in Telugu, a language spoken in South India (Satya Nadella’s mother tongue). So its one more programming language!

pvelagal | 3 years ago | on: BBC Modi Documentary Removal

I am not a fan of Modi and I don’t want him to get re-elected. He is an autocrat and favors a select few. His party is as corrupt as any other party. But I suspect the timing of this ? Why now, when this happened so long ago. ( before he got elected twice in a row ?) Also, How many know that Modi was conferred the highest civilian award by Saudi Arabia ! Even UAE and Bahrain gave their highest civilian awards !

pvelagal | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Renames to Meta

Meta’s goal seems to become a “3D-Internet” browser/platform. But unless the concept of a “3D-Internet” is widely adopted and the related standards/technologies are built/adopted by the major players it might be gargantuan task for one company to pull this off. IMHO the Vision is great and inevitable.. but needs Industry support.

pvelagal | 4 years ago | on: An interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse

Meta’s goal seems to become a “3D-Internet” browser/platform. But unless the concept of a “3D-Internet” is widely adopted and the related standards/technologies are built/adopted by the major players it might be gargantuan task for one company to pull this off. IMHO the Vision is great and inevitable.. but needs Industry support.

pvelagal | 5 years ago | on: Jacquard by Google

From what i read so far from their website, there are fundamental flaws in Google’s approach to this technology. They are not defining any core experiences at all but leaving them open.. eg.1) Skip song by swiping sleeve.. 2) take picture by tapping shoulder strap.. and a ton of other touches/swipes etc to do a ton of other things..so how would a user remember what to do when they want to skip a song ? Should i tap my shoulder or touch my collar or sleeves? Which sleeve ? This will create immense confusion.. it becomes unnatural.. people will get frustrated and would simply go back to their phone to operate individual apps. When users (lets say toddlers) operate a device like iphone , they touch , drag , tap etc and respond accordingly.. and try to do similar stuff on an android device too.. if such gestures mean different things on different phones it will get frustrating..

pvelagal | 5 years ago | on: Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman

I think insurance companies have a role to play here. They should refuse coverage when driver is not operating the vehicle 100% of the time. To them it is two drivers splitting responsibility. Insurance/ law enforcement must demand additional coverage, for self driving cars.. a separate coverage for “software driver”. In addition DMVs should test each self driving car for a special drivers license.. just as they test a regular driver.

pvelagal | 5 years ago | on: Del.icio.us

I used delicious and i loved it.. i am wondering how it will look now..
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