Nilay Savant
@nilay_savant
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INTJ Turbulent Architect 🧑💻 https://t.co/xqjNHakNUZ 🚀 Robotics ⏩ Lowcode AI ⏩ 3D Graphics 🎨 WIP: CAD/Parametric design & Gamedev 🎮 Engineering @snaptrude
Goa, India
Joined October 2010
📢 Announcing: "Pmetra" 🚀. Parametric Modelling For @BevyEngine using Truck CAD Kernel 🎉. 🌐 Live Web Demo 👉 💻 Now Open Source on GitHub! 👇. #rustlang #gamedev #cad #geometry
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This whole thing could literally boil down to not having enough space between your seats on the airline. Flights these days charge a premium and cut costs on the bare minimum. Let's not make everything about caste and religion. People need space without which feel threatened.
I was “upgraded” to a middle seat in premium economy from my preferred last row window by #AirIndia on my Delhi-Pune flight yesterday. What followed was a 2-hour-long exhibition of the “downgrade” of the moral fabric of the Indian society. Of casteism, classism & Islamophobia. 🧵.
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Frontend is dead?. "Frontend" is such a puny term. I'll always be a frontend engineer. Whether I write a CAD program, make plugins for Blender, A Game, heck even writing your own programming language is frontend. Even OS dev is frontend.
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If you can manage 30% of this. No AI is replacing you ever.
Things I would love to be hand held on rn. 1. Transformer architecture.2. Reading papers .3. Lifetimes in rust.4. zig.5. Running a Solana validator .6. Cuda development.7. What makes cursor cursor. I'm sure there's a simple hack there they've figured out.8. Karpathy lectures.
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TLDR: Population and Political will. 2 things beyond the control of techbros. Look inward and decentralise. Change your process, implement remote work and then you don't need to worry about traffic jams and shit that's beyond your control. Spend 1CR wisely. Or give it to me.
A very unfortunate post. While it may have been with good intentions - it reinforces every possible negative stereotype of techbros and quite justifiably so:. - waving a wad of tech dollars as a solution to every problem.- posing technology as a solution to every problem.- (hard
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I have <5 people muted on my feed. You have to be an absolute hate monger to be in that list.
Only a dimwit or an Abdul hiding behind a fake account could say that. Just saying.
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Unfortunately I disagree. Its range will vary from the smartest human to the most stupid. And this will never change until every human is insanely smarter than their predecessor. Best case scenario you can seed the best one v/s the worst. But the uncertainty will always remain.
@slow_developer AI is already much smarter than most humans, just not yet smarter than any human at anything and much less smart than a group of smart humans using computers (aka “a company”). But it will be. Probably smarter than any single human at anything in <2 years and smarter than all.
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No. We confuse people who show material opulence with value. They have no correlation. You have to be an old soul to deeply understand this.
-Anjali Arora rides Mercedes. -HC Verma takes metro. This is how society rewards value
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I have the least amount of hypocrisy in life. I can be blunt and truthy to the point that I piss off everyone. Myself included. I can count the number of times I lied on my fingers. You will never know them though.
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Just like one entrepreneur said ."Let India be India". I say ."Let cities be cities". Don't try to fix them. You cannot fix them without ripping them apart. And therefore you will face impossible resistance. Learn to work around them and not with/against them.
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Just returned home from the mess of BLR. We have better problems to solve than trying to fix BLR. Please leave the cities to the chaos and learn to get work done in a decentralised manner. The faster you figure this out the better you will succeed in the long run.
I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL. 11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!. I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!. But
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Today I had my airport security check in system downed by a windows bsod and reboot loop. I also got to see the entire command line that triggers it. Eventually the security also revealed the kill switch which bypasses the whole thing. I learn shit even while travelling.
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Should try building a cheaper if not open source alternative. I bet there's enough of us who can no matter how sophisticated it is.
Just received quote for a single year license for 1 seat for a software we desperately need . Day ruined
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This is bad code irrespective of everything else. No way you can be justifying this nonsense. The horrors of changing an index is not worth it. You could use Enums/constants for "performance" instead of direct indices. And if your engine lacks this. You're stupid to use it.
It is now fashion to hate @PirateSoftware without reason. If you look at the full code you'll see that he's documenting what each state means, and initializing them to zero. He used an array since it's easier to serialize / deserialize to disk. This is the best way to do this.
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When shit got real, I had to turn off copilot/cursor many times. At that point they just get in your way especially when you want to get things done fast and in record time. Especially hackathons and game jams, when there's no margin for delays of any kind.
I basically don't trust "studies" of any kind ever any more, but, this matches anecdotal observations:.
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Stable diffusion + SDFs + Marching Cubes + Selective Decimate. Not sure where this fits in the workflow apart from concept design. Most of the work is making modular and themed building blocks. We need bottom up approaches more than top down. AI these days is just top down.
"Bro trust me, AI-generated meshes will never be production-ready". The AI-generate mesh:
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As an engineer. 0% of my tech work is AI. 100% of my shitposting is. But I don't shitpost. Anyone who claims AI too good to be true are doing work that holds little value or are fooling you.
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YC is the very brand known for attention. So whether an attempt is made using it for the same is unsurprising. It's not uncommon for founders to be shy of not wanting to display their YC backing for the very same reasons.
This is a shitpost and a craven and sad attempt at attention, FYI. We don't have an "admissions team" anymore, we stopped using that term more than a year ago. The amount of anti-YC bullshit that is going on in the community is off the charts. Please stop.
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If this guy would just pour all that effort into his own idea, he'd make it more than the people he worked with. Now that he's been in most of them, he knows a bit about being a YC founder material. But building a successful startup is nothing to do with getting into YC.
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Also I was wrong about the DSA angle. But this guy has his ethics in the wrong place. Not sure what "financial problem" one can have when they can afford immigration to the USA. I still can't afford to and I'm financially okay.
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He figured out YC AI startups doing the same thing?. Is that the nature of work at YC Gen AI startups now?. All places he worked are pretty much related. One cannot work deeply in ~5 companies unless the nature of work is shallow and similar.
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