Rajat Vig

Engineer at Etsy

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

Anyone using #firecracker or #katacontainers for ephemeral build agents in CI? Would love to chat about patterns etc

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

I’ve been reluctant to try ChatGPT. Today I got over that reluctance. Now I understand why I was reluctant.

The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x. I need to recalibrate.

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

Victor Mono is so nice for the CLI and IDE - https://t.co/MyKK3C7EcV

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This racemongering dimwit does not realize that Rishi Sunak's premiership IMPLIES the end of racism is close. At no point have we had less racism, & at no point have we have more complaints about race.

https://t.co/wSN7NH867t

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

[Ganesh Vernekar @_codesome]

.@PrometheusIO v2.39.0-rc.0 cut the memory usage of our biggest Prometheus pair by half 🥳. Kudos to @bboreham for adding a bunch of optimisations! If there are no issues in this rc, the final releaes goes out tomorrow 👀

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The main purpose of religion, I wrote in the Incerto, is not to affirm that there is a God, but to prevent humans from thinking they are Gods.

Likewise the purpose of a modern king is not to rule, but to prevent politicians & office climbers from thinking that they are kings.

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@paulg Books as you grow up tend get more complex, less serial and more meta assuming you continue reading. Reading Queneau or Pynchon is just hard and not what you read when young

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@AjeyGore It does let you dream. Get better soon. Just came of it. Was quite bad

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@bboreham Head sampling somehow paints a different picture by default

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@AjeyGore Varies on what you are measuring and what the sample set is.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

In the Park, today:
Walkers (esp. strollers) look meditative, serene &,for the most, content. Bicyclists seem to be enjoying themselves (except for MBAs in aerodynamic skinsuits).
But runners look in pain, w/the expressions of future journalism majors during a final calculus exam

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

There are days I miss the frequent churn of technical choices and not being on call days when I was a consultant.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A founder with knowledge of the US labor market told me that decreased immigration is now a significant drag on economic growth, as boomers leave the work force and there is no one to replace them.

https://t.co/6KotqN0hp6

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@AjeyGore Safari has tab groups that I have really grown to like. Helps categorize and it syncs with iOS so you can read on phone

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

Debating how much #kafka I need to learn to successfully operate it in #kubernetes. Strimzi provides an easy abstraction

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

Will be in Bengaluru end of July. Love to meet up with folks who are around

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@asheerdrop 2 + 2 = 5

[Rajat Vig @rajatvig]

@AjeyGore go is so much saner vs the interpreted languages but I digress