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New comment by abhiyerra in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

abhiyerra — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:35:42 +0000

The Irish too… though they were given things like prisons.

Scots legacy of the empire can still be seen in the bank HSBC. Unfortunately, history sort of forgets that the Scots were involved in some of the more egregious aspects such as slavery and opium.

(Studied British Empire/Indian History)

New comment by abhiyerra in "Sam Neill has died"

abhiyerra — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:38:49 +0000

That I have a DevOps company working entirely on Linux can be directly attributed to realizing as a kid that Unix was a real thing and I needed to install it on my own computer. Interesting it was soon after this movie came out that FreeBSD and Linux were becoming popular.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

abhiyerra — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:41:08 +0000

Never worked at Dropbox, but I absolutely loved Paper.

The problem at Dropbox seems to have been that there was no cohesiveness to all the products. Paper, Passwords, Sign, all seem to have never been truly integrated into a single experience. Each one felt like it was trying to have its own identity.

New comment by abhiyerra in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

abhiyerra — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:43:01 +0000

If you read their annual report they bet the farm on RedHat and Kubernetes. They spun off their legacy services business and have basically have monopoly power over the Federal government, banks and defense contractors. They have been buying out other Kubernetes vendors such as Kubecost. They are are pretty focused now, we will see how well they will do long term.

New comment by abhiyerra in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

abhiyerra — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:48:42 +0000

Heh. Got a customer recently around this. Entire infrastructure and CI/CD vibecoded. They half implemented Kubernetes in Github Actions that were several thousand lines long and impossible to understand.

I think the problem will get worst. I dislike the marketing around AI, but I do think it is a useful tool to help those who have experience move faster. If you are not an expert, AI seems to create a complex solution to whatever it is you were trying to do.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

abhiyerra — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:52:09 +0000

Oh man infrasearch. With Gene Kan right? Was trying to revive xcf at Berkeley with some friends.

New comment by abhiyerra in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

abhiyerra — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:52:48 +0000

The type of oil that the US produces (light and sweet) can't be handled by US refineries which need (heavy sours). Why we are still a major importer of oil.

New comment by abhiyerra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

abhiyerra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:02:53 +0000

All oil is global commodity and the US refineries can’t take the oil that the US produces. So they mix it with heavy sours from Canada so the refineries can handle them. So a lot of the oil in the US is dependent on foreign oil as you said.

New comment by abhiyerra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

abhiyerra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:14:10 +0000

California is more reliant on foreign oil. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

And seems about 23% comes from the Middle East. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

New comment by abhiyerra in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

abhiyerra — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:22:27 +0000

The real problem I see is the one child policy. If China decides to go to war and say they have 1000 deaths. How many bloodline die? I feel like there would be a hesitation to fight on the Chinese side if they were to take any losses.

It is one of the reasons I don’t believe China would take on Taiwan.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs"

abhiyerra — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:18:35 +0000

Anecdotally, I heard some Indians in the USA working at Big Tech are moving back to India to take the skills they developed in the USA to train and organize teams in India.

I’d say what India struggles a lot with is organizational skills so it will be interesting if this is true and to see what results in a couple of years. Will Indians continue on the services path or will they move to the R&D path.

New comment by abhiyerra in "The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil"

abhiyerra — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:50:05 +0000

I’ve been wondering if the showdown in Iran if it leads to a conflict will bifurcate the oil prices, the US vs rest of the world. If the Middle East is in smokes then the US can dictate oil prices with its control of the supplies in Guyana and Venezuela.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?"

abhiyerra — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:58:06 +0000

I have the same problem. It wants to launch iPhone apps instead of the Mac apps. Super frustrating.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Google and Apple warn employees on visas to avoid international travel"

abhiyerra — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:19:03 +0000

I have a lot of contacts in Hyderabad, India and it doesn’t seem like any of them are really worried about their jobs. Haven’t heard of any layoffs there. With additional GCCs being built out I do think there will be more offshoring.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

abhiyerra — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:59:44 +0000

Also found https://crowci.dev/4.5/ which seems to have better docs.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

abhiyerra — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:36:02 +0000

https://woodpecker-ci.org/

New comment by abhiyerra in "Using Python for Scripting"

abhiyerra — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:21:34 +0000

I have been converting a lot of my makefiles to pyinvoke and fabric and it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make. Don't know why I held on for so long.

New comment by abhiyerra in "The future of Terraform CDK"

abhiyerra — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:25:17 +0000

I remember it being a part of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley and thought it couldn’t be true. But apparently it was.

https://youtu.be/VyQEbLx6AEY?si=CwhqHQEdFGCsE33l

New comment by abhiyerra in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

abhiyerra — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:39:54 +0000

I do have a degree in History with a focus on India and British Empire from Berkeley. So no I don’t think I am being baseless. Hindutva is complex, the 20s were a difficult time in India as all the revolutionaries from the different factions were trying to imagine a future independent India. The Islam/Hindu divide was a creation of the British for divide and rule. And while Gandhi imagined a nonviolent basically traditional hierarchical Hindu society, Hedgewar wanted an organization that removed the bonds of caste and creed so that Hindus can function as a single unified front.

I do think Hedgewar won and Gandhi lost. Also please do understand all sources have biases including Wikipedia.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

abhiyerra — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:28:14 +0000

Like Azure. 90% in the UX and the one feature that you need that is only accessible on the cli…