Shamith Pasula
@shamith09
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SWE @PalantirTech | prev CS @UCBerkeley
New York, NY
Joined February 2023
Why does Microsoft control the world yet cannot go a year without a serious vulnerability https://t.co/VzL22JizUV
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Flights were grounded for hours late Sunday night.
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⚠️WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT⚠�� A fight involving multiple people and a knife happened around 11:30 near UC Berkeley. This happened with a large crowd watching. The video shows one man getting stabbed 3-4 times. The man holding the knife also seemed to be threatening bystanders.
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Is 3000 increments going to be enough to win the $10 prize this week? Only an hour remaining…
⏰ 1 HOUR REMAINING ⏰ Our weekly winner will be announced in just 1 hour! Last chance to increment at thecounter [.] live for your chance to win! https://t.co/Cfaj0GEezA
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So true, not just artist and gamer, but “coder” (as opposed to engineer) was a job title that was never meant to be held by so many people. The fact that many of these people are getting displaced is both sad and inevitable.
Ultimately we have to come to terms with a reckoning that we created temporary stopgap jobs and societal roles for people to placate them if adulthood and economic sustainability took a little longer. But 80% of the jobs for young people weren’t going to last.
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Software isn’t like hardware; things don’t break just because they’re old. If the concern is silent failures like payments not going to the right people, careful migration is worth it. I really hope this isn’t motivated only by “COBOL bad Rust good.”
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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No multiplies yet; looks like someone is gonna keep the whole $10 in profit
🚨 24 HOURS REMAINING 🚨 Our weekly winner will be announced in 24 hours! Keep incrementing at thecounter [.] live for your chance to win! https://t.co/Cfaj0GEMp8
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I need to take a break I couldn’t sleep last night bc I was having nightmares that my environment variables got leaked and my database got breached and all of my users’ passwords got exposed
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Congrats! I wonder who the next winner will be…
🏆 Weekly Winner Announcement 🏆 Congratulations to Cyrus Bugwadia for winning $10.00 this week! Join the competition at
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10 more minutes! Last chance…
⏰ 1 HOUR REMAINING ⏰ Our weekly winner will be announced in just 1 hour! Last chance to increment at thecounter [.] live for your chance to win! https://t.co/Cfaj0GEezA
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Less than a day until the first person gets the $10 prize!
🚨 24 HOURS REMAINING 🚨 Our weekly winner will be announced in 24 hours! Keep incrementing at thecounter [.] live for your chance to win! https://t.co/Cfaj0GEMp8
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Update: you can now only multiply once every 24 hours. This is to mitigate stacking multiple multiplies in a row to create exponential growth.
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Building The Counter was actually quite the challenge; trying to achieve scalability and low latency taught me so much, even though it's literally just a number that always goes up. See the code here: https://t.co/5twgP5v5qq
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If you'd like to promote your startup, etc. on The Counter, there's a marquee at the bottom which can display any message you'd like (50 char max). Spots on the marquee are currently $500/month, and will increase as spots run out.
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Every week at 12:00 AM UTC on Monday, the person at the top of the weekly leaderboard will win $$$$. The currently weekly prize is $10, and this number will continue to rise as more people add to The Counter.
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Each time you press the button, everyone in the globe will see The Counter update immediately. But pressing the "increment" button isn't the only way to increase The Counter. You can also multiply by paying the amount you want to multiply by (e.g. pay $2 to double it).
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