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New comment by omgitspavel in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

omgitspavel — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:06:15 +0000

But there is a system design interview, for staff+ there should be even two system design rounds if I remember correctly.

When I interviewed at faang I was only once asked a leetcode hard question. Mediums in 99% of cases are manageable with just "remembering your hash maps and trees".

I'm in no way saying there aren't people who ask hard questions, but most of the times it is not the case. Also, how would you check that the person can code and solve problems with only checking their past system design experience?

New comment by omgitspavel in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

omgitspavel — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:11:21 +0000

A decade+ is plenty of time to spend a few weeks brushing up on CS basics. There is really only a handful of algorithms and data sctructues and none of them are rocket science.

And what's the alternative? Quizzing people on some random C# framework methods? The "I don't use algos in a day to day job" argument has been around forever, but nobody making it ever proposes a better filter.

New comment by omgitspavel in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

omgitspavel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:28:30 +0000

agree. We can easily compare it with docker. Of course people can use runc directly, but most people select not to and use `docker run` instead.

And you can blame docker in a similar manner. LXC existed for at least 5 years before docker. But docker was just much more convenient to use for an average user.

UX is a huge factor for adoption of technology. If a project fails at creating the right interface, there is nothing wrong with creating a wrapper.

New comment by omgitspavel in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

omgitspavel — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:22:07 +0000

there is a feed for stripe: https://stripe.com/blog/feed.rss

New comment by omgitspavel in "Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments"

omgitspavel — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:48:36 +0000

it has a fatal flaw: 80% of the screen is taken up by the code editor window and a file explorer. Why do you need to waste 80% of your screen on things you don't use anyway?

New comment by omgitspavel in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

omgitspavel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:42:18 +0000

Why would you store secrets in your dev environment?

Regarding the code, I don't believe it is a concern for most of the people, because they use 3rd party git repo anyway, which has exactly the same level of risk

New comment by omgitspavel in "Introducing Gemma 3n"

omgitspavel — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:32:27 +0000

I use gemma3:1b model (well, gemma3n:e2b since today) to summarize articles in my RSS reader. Works extremely well for such a simple task and runs on CPU on my hetzner server, so I don't have to pay electricity bill for running it on GPU at home

New comment by omgitspavel in "Try Switching to Kagi"

omgitspavel — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:11:18 +0000

Legally they can. But we all know that Yandex had always had very strong ties with the Russian government. I used to work for Yandex for more than 6 years in early 2010s and even then there were signs of the state trying to influence it through censoring Yandex.News and various other means. And these days you have to be very naive to assume that it is not controlled by the state and people close to it.

New comment by omgitspavel in "Try Switching to Kagi"

omgitspavel — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:03:58 +0000

I also want to add that Kagi recently partnered with a Russian state-owned search engine Yandex: https://kagi.com/changelog#5340. This means they are paying money to the Russian state through taxes and sharing my search queries with it. This was a critical issue for me, and it led me to stop using it and request a refund earlier this year.

New comment by omgitspavel in "99Wh Battery Linux Laptop"

omgitspavel — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:23:55 +0000

The only reason I wanted to get a macbook is because of its impressive batter life. I've been looking at Tuxedo laptops a while ago, but the battery durability was still a concern. Looks like this is not the case anymore, so will definitely consider buying this one soon.