AI Infra Plumber aka AI-SRE. Metal 🎸. I'm fairly good at dad jokes....
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Harsh Mishra retweeted
What others call luck, I call hard work.
I worked my ass off to get where I am.
But I also know I'm privileged.
I grew up in a stable family, had access to good education, and never had to worry about where my next meal would come from.
So I'll never say, "If I did it, anyone can."
Hard work matters. A lot.
But we don't all start from the same line. And pretending we do is ridiculous.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Smaller towns which you left feel like zombie places now, you do not know anybody, people who did good left for bigger towns or abroad; these places make you feel old and irrelevant; and god forbid if you did not have good memories in your childhood then unnecessary BT
Harsh Mishra retweeted
𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 '𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴'. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Multiple Debian developers have announced that they will be leaving Debian, or no longer maintaining Debian packages, following Debian’s use of LLM’s in scanning and evaluate new package uploads.
“how is this not "Debian endorses the use of generative AI"?”
“For now, I will no longer be uploading to the #Debian NEW queue.”
“likewise. I'm about to orphan everything I still maintain in Debian that I don't *have* to maintain”
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Yeah everyone, I am with FireFox, how is the internet circa 2006 more private than now??
Harsh Mishra retweeted
The C++26 ballot has failed. I am disappointed but not surprised.
The C++ standardization process has been broken for a long time, and it's only getting worse.
Over the last two years, a pattern has emerged in which arcane process has been used to avoid or silence the will of the majority.
It is time for a change. C++ leadership must exit ISO and establish an open and fair standardization process of their own.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Do we want to live in a great nation or do we want to make the nation we live in great?
There is no correct answer and the answer determines what you do with life.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
If this doesn’t boil your blood, what will?
Their daughter was murdered.
They’re still fighting for answers.
And now her grieving parents have been detained during their protest.
Haven’t they suffered enough? 💔
Today, it’s Ankita. Tomorrow, it could be our sister or daughter.
#JusticeForAnkitaBhandari
Harsh Mishra retweeted
We, software people, have a weird sense of entitlement!
For years, we built software that automated others' work. Imagine what a New York driver might think about their life when they first see a Cybercab or an FSD-enabled Model Y. Similarly, imagine what a line worker at a German-car factory might think about their life when they first sees an industrial robot.
We always expected people to deal with it and asked them to upskill.
But we are convinced that our work is special. Writing software needs judgment and creativity that we uniquely possess.
Now that most of what we do can be automated, the reality is starting to sink in.
The answer, again, for us is: adapt!
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Why? Why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on slop tokens when you could direct the same effort and tokens at good, established, distributed projects like LibreOffice, Gimp, Kdenlive, Thunderbird, etc etc
My hunch is that this is pure clout chasing and they have zero interest in actually maintaining the software past its slop-formation
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Even if someone hates Dhruv Rathee, how can they just degrade women and slut-shame his wife like this?
The meme isn’t about his politics or his detention. It’s a direct attack on a woman who isn’t even the one in the public fight.
How mentally sick someone has to be to even think all of this.
“Thoda aaram se karo baby, vo ab 4-5 din aur late aayega” is just turning her into a sexual joke because her husband got picked up.
This is cheap, it’s ugly, and it has nothing to do with any argument.
Disagree with Dhruv Rathee if you want to.
Call him whatever you want.
But dragging his wife into it and writing this kind of stuff about her is just pure women degradation.
These accounts never get banned, and mentally sick people posting them walk around freely.
A lot of these accounts are basically potential molesters sitting in the open, they slut shame someone's wife for political revenge.
This is morally, ethically, socially, mentally and wrong at all levels.
Why aren't they hunted and arrested?
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Exactly and we often get too defensive about "craft" and forget we all are problem solvers.
In fact I envy those who start their careers in ops / consulting because you get this clarity so fast in life compared to an SDE career arc.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
Caste discrimination at IIT: The unfalsifiable theory.
Student:
“I have never experienced caste discrimination at IIT.”
Humanities Department:
“Exactly. That shows how invisible caste discrimination has become.”
Student:
“Most of my classmates don't even know my caste.”
Humanities Department:
“Exactly. That shows how deeply caste operates subconsciously.”
Student:
“My professor didn't even know my caste.”
Humanities Department:
“Exactly. That's structural Brahminism.
Individuals don't need to know.”
Student:
“My friends come from different castes.
Nobody really cares.”
Humanities Department:
“Exactly. That's how caste privilege normalises itself.”
Student:
“Students from every category study, eat and work together here.”
Humanities Department:
“Exactly. That's how structural discrimination hides behind apparent equality.”
Student:
“But where is the evidence of caste discrimination?”
Humanities Department:
“The absence of evidence shows how sophisticated the discrimination has become.”
Student:
“Okay. What evidence would prove that caste discrimination did NOT happen?”
Humanities Department:
“That question itself demonstrates caste privilege.”
Beautiful!!!
Well Done India!!! 👏
Harsh Mishra retweeted
did my B.Tech at IIT Bombay and my PhD at IIT Delhi. I've been a professor for 14 years now. In 22 years of watching the IIT/IIIT system closely, I have never once witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.
During my B.Tech, most of us had no idea what caste our batchmates belonged to. Many of my close friends were SC/ST. We never discussed it. It never entered any conversation or decision. Not once. Our exposure to the humanities department was limited, though — the term "Brahmanical patriarchy" didn't even exist back then.
As a teacher, I don't ask a student's name before solving their doubt. Often I don't know their name at all — some of my classes have 300+ students. We treat them all the same. So does every colleague I know. So did every professor who taught me.
Social media has now filled vulnerable students' heads with a lot of manufactured grievance about caste discrimination that, in my experience, doesn't exist.
Harsh Mishra retweeted
IIT Bombay Director Prof. Shireesh Kedare announced his resignation.🥺
Student: “When are you resigning?”
Prof. Shireesh Kedare: “I am submitting my resignation to the Board on 21 Sept. because I don’t want students like you to get involved in unnecessary protests instead of focusing on studies and your future.
We were only doing our job. We thought stopping students from cheating was our responsibility. But if you think it was wrong and want my resignation, I’m ready to give it.”😤