Sandip Bhattacharya
@sandipb.net
Opensource/photog/food/other fleeting interests. SRE/Devops/Observability. Currently Toronto.
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Earlier this yr, I started evaluating a paid search engine Kagi bcoz Google turned trash. I started off using the "Starter" plan. Today I ran out of the yrly quota. Turns out I'm not a "normal" user who only does a handful of searches every day. My monthly avg is ~400!
I now need to pony up more
I now need to pony up more
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Earlier this yr, I started evaluating a paid search engine Kagi bcoz Google turned trash. I started off using the "Starter" plan. Today I ran out of the yrly quota. Turns out I'm not a "normal" user who only does a handful of searches every day. My monthly avg is ~400!
I now need to pony up more
I now need to pony up more
Wtf. I had asked some question back in February related to the Bengali language. Chatgpt apparently created a memory at some time that "I prefer responses in Bengali".
Suddenly in the middle of a convo it switched to Bengali.
🤦 Had to go delete all the memories. There was a lot of obsolete crap
Suddenly in the middle of a convo it switched to Bengali.
🤦 Had to go delete all the memories. There was a lot of obsolete crap
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Wtf. I had asked some question back in February related to the Bengali language. Chatgpt apparently created a memory at some time that "I prefer responses in Bengali".
Suddenly in the middle of a convo it switched to Bengali.
🤦 Had to go delete all the memories. There was a lot of obsolete crap
Suddenly in the middle of a convo it switched to Bengali.
🤦 Had to go delete all the memories. There was a lot of obsolete crap
I can't believe I used Homebrew for so many years without discovering how easy it is to put a (version controlled, preferably chezmoi or some other dotfile system) Brewfile in ~/.homebrew and just run "brew bundle install -g" to keep only the important packages updated
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I can't believe I used Homebrew for so many years without discovering how easy it is to put a (version controlled, preferably chezmoi or some other dotfile system) Brewfile in ~/.homebrew and just run "brew bundle install -g" to keep only the important packages updated
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
That is less way less weird than MSNBC having a connection to Microsoft
September 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
That is less way less weird than MSNBC having a connection to Microsoft
Many decades ago, when participating in the CBSE class 12 math exam, I mugged up ULike after Ulike to ace the exam. The format of the exam discouraged critical thinking and encouraged mugging up question patterns.
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Many decades ago, when participating in the CBSE class 12 math exam, I mugged up ULike after Ulike to ace the exam. The format of the exam discouraged critical thinking and encouraged mugging up question patterns.
End of work day, Spadina street, Toronto.
September 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
End of work day, Spadina street, Toronto.
lmao. The world keeps making less and less sense to me. Is this a sign that I am getting too old?
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
lmao. The world keeps making less and less sense to me. Is this a sign that I am getting too old?
Hah. Idiocracy thought it would take till 2330 for FDA to get sold to private interests. Turns out reality is stranger^Wquicker than fiction.
August 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hah. Idiocracy thought it would take till 2330 for FDA to get sold to private interests. Turns out reality is stranger^Wquicker than fiction.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This made me laugh, both at the absurdity and how likely it is to actually happen.
Credits: www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Credits: www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
August 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This made me laugh, both at the absurdity and how likely it is to actually happen.
Credits: www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Credits: www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Well, so I am forced to move on, I guess.
August 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Well, so I am forced to move on, I guess.
This badge always gives me a laugh 😂
(I was the only committer to this lonely repo)
(I was the only committer to this lonely repo)
July 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This badge always gives me a laugh 😂
(I was the only committer to this lonely repo)
(I was the only committer to this lonely repo)
First take, "oh those stupid Chatgpt users!"
Second take, after reading the comparison to online streaming, , after binging on 8 episodes of Squid Game: ... (whistling nervously looking elsewhere)
Second take, after reading the comparison to online streaming, , after binging on 8 episodes of Squid Game: ... (whistling nervously looking elsewhere)
July 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
First take, "oh those stupid Chatgpt users!"
Second take, after reading the comparison to online streaming, , after binging on 8 episodes of Squid Game: ... (whistling nervously looking elsewhere)
Second take, after reading the comparison to online streaming, , after binging on 8 episodes of Squid Game: ... (whistling nervously looking elsewhere)
Finance related stuff is such a shitshow in Canada. Mishmash of provincial regulations, disconnected accounting etc. I am suspecting anything Quebec is always the outlier.
July 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Finance related stuff is such a shitshow in Canada. Mishmash of provincial regulations, disconnected accounting etc. I am suspecting anything Quebec is always the outlier.
When finally it admitted that it was wrong and the breaking change did not exist, it still invented a past version/change to explain its mistake.
Even human engineers are not so shameless
Even human engineers are not so shameless
July 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
When finally it admitted that it was wrong and the breaking change did not exist, it still invented a past version/change to explain its mistake.
Even human engineers are not so shameless
Even human engineers are not so shameless
It invented a breaking change, when confronted, invented a changelog file, blamed that file for incorrect PR links, invented version numbers.
July 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It invented a breaking change, when confronted, invented a changelog file, blamed that file for incorrect PR links, invented version numbers.
Demonstration of the absolute crapshoot that even current frontier models are.
I asked Gemini 2.5 pro to analyze and summarize changelog between two versions. Thought text processing is the biggest strength of LLMs.
I asked Gemini 2.5 pro to analyze and summarize changelog between two versions. Thought text processing is the biggest strength of LLMs.
July 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Demonstration of the absolute crapshoot that even current frontier models are.
I asked Gemini 2.5 pro to analyze and summarize changelog between two versions. Thought text processing is the biggest strength of LLMs.
I asked Gemini 2.5 pro to analyze and summarize changelog between two versions. Thought text processing is the biggest strength of LLMs.
Answer to some of the questions people on this thread have.
July 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Answer to some of the questions people on this thread have.
Current European companies working on creating alternatives to American tech dominance.
June 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Current European companies working on creating alternatives to American tech dominance.
Current state of the world.
June 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Current state of the world.
Huh. Is this more nickel diming? From 2026, GCP is going to charge per condition and per time series in the alert.
Pricing is not that expensive but got to be careful about the timeseries returned from queries.
Pricing is not that expensive but got to be careful about the timeseries returned from queries.
June 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Huh. Is this more nickel diming? From 2026, GCP is going to charge per condition and per time series in the alert.
Pricing is not that expensive but got to be careful about the timeseries returned from queries.
Pricing is not that expensive but got to be careful about the timeseries returned from queries.
Pretty diplomatically correct answer from Cloudflare CTO. Leaves open the ambiguous possibility of a surprise infra dependency on GCP, maybe via a third party.
June 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Pretty diplomatically correct answer from Cloudflare CTO. Leaves open the ambiguous possibility of a surprise infra dependency on GCP, maybe via a third party.