Solzhenitsyn on devs:
“An engineer? I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought,
the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words;
15) The reason, basically, is that large positions--especially in illiquid tokens--can have a lot of impact.
So we charge more % margin the greater your position is.
https://t.co/d14JDRnHYd
Nowadays, if you want to build services on top of email, you have to pay an email sending API which has been blessed by others in the industry. One of "them".
This concept may sound familiar to you. It's called a racket.
That's part-mindset shift (treat performance as a first-class concern) and part-technical strategy (write tools in more performant languages).
Though there are exceptions (pyright, mypy sorta), most Python tooling is written in Python.
ruff challenges that convention.
Just ran fastseg (semantic segmentation library I wrote when working at Nvidia) on @modal_labs and it worked right out of the box, on cloud GPUs
It only took like 5 minutes to write, and in hindsight I should've tried this a lot earlier 🤠