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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…

New comment by abhiyerra in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

abhiyerra — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:58:26 +0000

I loved how consistent it was. Just peak Microsoft UI for me. Don’t know what happened after that but it all went to hell.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025"

abhiyerra — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:56:20 +0000

I do wonder if a lot of the stuff that Google has worked on Google Docs, Chromebook were inspired by Sun. Eric Schmidt was a VP at Sun and Novell before joining Google.

New comment by abhiyerra in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

abhiyerra — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:23:51 +0000

I have nickname@berkeley.edu as my alumni email address and I get a lot of interesting emails directed towards more important people…

New comment by abhiyerra in "Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today"

abhiyerra — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:59:35 +0000

I worked at two crowdsourcing companies built on MTurk. Humanoid and CloudCrowd. Had millions of tasks go through from transcriptions to labeling.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

abhiyerra — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:54:01 +0000

I’ve been an Emacs user for more than a decade and I would recommend just using Doom especially if you are coming from a Vim background.

I started before Doom existed but ended up in a configuration similar to Doom but more brittle. I ended up just declaring .emacs bankruptcy and started over with Doom and was pleasantly surprised that my over 2000 line configuration became less than 30 customized lines.

If you want to do it the hard way I’d start with figuring out elpa and going from there installing the specific plugins that you want. Likely, evil being a first.

New comment by abhiyerra in "Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One"

abhiyerra — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:36:45 +0000

"Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender." -Swami Vivekananda

When I was in my 20s and early 30s I read that and scoffed because I was hustling, building my career and company. But over the last few years, I realize all that hustling just leads to an empty shell of a life. I just want a simple life where I spend a lot of time with my wife, son and family.

New comment by abhiyerra in "If the University of Chicago won't defend the humanities, who will?"

abhiyerra — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:31:42 +0000

As a history major turned engineer another thing I noticed is that while pure engineers tend to solve for x really well, people with humanities degrees tend to ask is what we are solving for useful? Definitely need both sides.