Tushar

Software, food, travel. Occasionally political.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

To celebrate the new edition of DDIA, revive my writing discipline and my resolve to read the whole damn thing this time, I share my first blog in years: LSM Trees from First Principles.

https://t.co/ya79LTJgZa

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

there’s a new edition of @intensivedata which is one of the most pivotal technical books written in the last decade, and almost no chatter on this app about the new edition or the new content it covers.

Are there no serious engineers and practitioners on this app anymore? 😢

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@vikass4247 @bengawalk Are said parks open after 7PM?

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@viveknshah Jayanagara wins on per capita coffee shop

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@Panthini_7 can you even taste matcha with all that mango?

[Tushar @ditsuke]

pigeons use iron-rich macrophages for magneto-sensitivity!
https://t.co/OG9YrVCc3S

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

This is the UIDAI playbook. Simply deny there is any problem. Never address the direct questions. 😂

All govt software should be built in public, and rolled out gradually.

India's gov-tech "visionaries" have set a really bad precedent. Instead of transparency, they built opaqueness for institutions and vulnerability for citizens.

[Austin Lieberman @LiebermanAustin]

Thanks to the @oasishealthapp I’ve switched from poisonous FairLife Protein Milk to Bourbon and I can’t even begin to explain how much healthier I feel.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Whether the cockroach janta party is a legitimate movement or not, is not the question. Time will tell. But the traction they received, the sentiment behind it, the rhetoric from the youth, all legitimate. And if all that wasn’t legit enough, the utterly dumb move of shutting down their accounts legitimised everything.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@jorandirkgreef the dream

[miten sampat @miten]

on mangoes:

banganapelle >> alphonso

took me too long to realise!

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@almoggavra @FAHADSH97656634 Believe not. I bolted inflight management on top of foyer when I used it last

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

My colleague and I asked questions tonight both on why we should trust India given the human violations rights, and also about the visit.

I tried multiple times to get them to be specific on human rights, but I was unsuccessful. The representatives talked about India’s effort during Covid & also yoga, among other things. My colleague has the videos so I will try to publish tomorrow.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#Imp: A potential conflict of interest has been pointed out in the Bhojshala case by the gentleman here.

A day before the judge gave the judgment holding the disputed place of worship is as a temple—which by the way was enabled by Chief Justice Surya Kant despite the Supreme Court’s continuing stay on adjudication of Temple-Mosque disputes (read my Frontline column on it)—his son was empaneled as an advocate by the Madhya Pradesh BJP government.

Opposition parties must raise this issue strongly. The institution cannot be weaponised in this manner for political gains!

[pH @pHequals7]

happy stripe century to indians who celebrate

[Rishav Koner @rishavkofficial]

The CJI’s reference to us as “cockroaches” suddenly reminded me of a line I had heard in my history teacher’s lecture on fascism.

“Fascism cannot be stopped by the courts, as the judiciary itself will become the strongest pillar of fascism.”

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading.

this is our field's version of "i hoped AI would be able to do my laundry, but instead it does my art"

https://t.co/cT4wzIEH5R

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

STRONG WORDS from former Chief Justice of Madras High Court Sanjib Banerjee in relation to the Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma-Arvind Kejriwal case.

"As a former judge I feel extremely sad, distraught... The appointments that have happened in the higher judiciary in last 10-12 years... More and more politically inclined judges have been appointed... that is doing a great disservice to the judiciary," he says here to @PreetiChoudhry.

Justice Banerjee also states that a judge of the higher judiciary "should not have too much of an ego... drives you in a wrong direction". "Not good for the judiciary. We got to clean up the house... ensure process of appointment is cleansed up," he says.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@Yuchenj_UW Say, has databrick stopped leetcode style interviews?

[Tushar @ditsuke]

@sandeep_PT Yikes

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

Great question.

I don't use LLMs for writing.

I use agents extensively for brainstorming, research, checking facts, handling markup, finding references, indexing data, and so on.

But I think that asking people to read LLM-generated text breaks a kind of social contract.