Srijan R Shetty

Srijan R Shetty

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finance, tech, digital assets, culture - not in that order. Cofounder @fuzefinance | @iitkanpur | @superteamdao

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Srijan R Shetty

A few things that I've been carefully about: - Separate dev machine. This has agentic infrastructure. Should soon be replaced by dev boxes - Dev machine has no passwords, gpg keys, ssh keys. - all cli tools are scope with PAT with RO permissions. - github/bitbucket/gitlab use scoped PATs - use yarn v4 or uv which allows you to exclude *new packages* - If you *really* need passwords, then store it in apple keychain. But I would recommend avoiding it. - Separate browsing machine where you don't install random binaries, this can have passwords. Yes, this is draconian but this is the only way to stay safe.

North Korea is targeting npm maintainers -- not for crypto, but for write access to packages downloaded trillions of times a year. Several Socket engineers were targeted in this campaign -- myself, @ljharb, @jdalton, and others. None of us fell for the bait. Unfortunately, the

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I've always argued that the one thing most stories get wrong is platonic friendships. Storytellers cave into the allure of romantic tension, because it's an easy cop out to engage audiences But not with Harry and Hermione, their friendship has and will always be platonic and that makes a whole lot of difference for a generation that does not have any good pop culture displays of platonic friendships. Do this and you ruin the beauty of the ending and the character arc of Ron. twitter.com/srijanshetty/statu...

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As much as this advice is well intentioned, this does not play out well when the number of people is large. I've seen many a well-intentioned smart individuals try their luck for 4-5 years in non deterministic competitive examinations, fighting against millions for a few hundred seats. If you're smart, play games where the odds of success favor you. twitter.com/srijanshetty/statu...

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If asking for a free upgrade is acceptable, then so is asking for free breakfast. My personal issue is framing this as a trick is that it transforms what is essentially a prerogative of the hotel to a privilege of the customer which in most cases turns sour. Do this enough and the hotels will constitute a policy that all such requests will be blanket rejected - tragedy of commons.

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Let me share an anecdote from college. Getting internships abroad was prestigious. And all students vied for it. Over the years a database of sorts was generated - of professors and universities which were open to providing internships and entertaining students from our college. Decorum maintained that was you were expected research the papers of the professor and only email the ones who overlapped with your interests. Lo and behold someone thought they could automate the whole process by creating a python script, injecting a random paper with an excerpt and reduce months of tedium to a few hours. This absolutely worked for that student multiple times, till he shared it with some other fellow students, who in turn shared with their friends. Within a span of a year the university domain (and this is a respectable university in India) was blacklisted and universities worldwide decided to stop taking internship application via email. Not to forget our emails landed in spam. The moral of the story is what you make of it. twitter.com/srijanshetty/statu...

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Dubai airport is state of art, no doubt about it. Now they even have a Smart Tunnel, you just walk through it and the cameras take care of immigration. That being said, Uru T2 is exceptional as well with FTI-TTP. In both these airports if you have status - priority check-in, priority security, and face recognition you’ll be able to get similar mileage. twitter.com/srijanshetty/statu...

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The whoop is a status symbol - the high performing executive, the suave tech bro/gal into fitness, or the high agency creative who cares about themselves. The objective is performative and it’s okay. But on the science, Apple Watch doesn’t sample as often as a whoop so Whoop definitely will provider better analytics. It’s great from aerobic activities and not anaerobic ones like lifting as the strain doesn’t register. Personally the sleep score made my sleep worse as I tried to game it. I’m on the use a watch only during workout bandwagon.

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We get everyone (engineers or otherwise) to use the best model/models on the enterprise plan to avoid training on data and Zero Data Retention provided there is no PII exposed. We pay it out of the company card, don’t want the extra step of reimbursement.

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Similar to why Lupa despite its exceptional food is rated low. We don’t want to pay the price for good sourcing.

Srijan R Shetty

Curious what happened to devcontainers, and also curious about which solutions is the best to run sandboxed agents. twitter.com/srijanshetty/statu...

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