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rambalachandran.bsky.social
Engineer, with passion for Automation. Focused on leveraging AI and Tech for Core Engineering Organizations. Loves to Bike, Hike, Swim and Camp
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Daily struggles with #AI. IMAGE() in #Google Sheets loads images that are publicly accessible. Google refuses to implement loading images from drive. However o3-mini-high tried to convice me I'm doing it wrong even after pointing to the documentation 🙄

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

#Documentation was never #AWS strong suit, but now they want premium support to even read some of these knowledge articles, is absolutely unacceptable. repost.aws/knowledge-ce...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My golden standard for #LLMs for #autocomplete is when it detects people are working on #hash values (can be credentials or explicit hash) and stop trying to complete with random hash values. So, far every tool I tested will try to autocomplete with rubbish hash values.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Recently, I had to encode and decode a complex #python object into a #json file. As what you normally do in 2025, I asked #ChatGPT and #DeepSeek . They both wrote custom encoders with some peculiar bugs. Spending a few hours trying to resolve them, I realised i'm digging into a rabbit hole.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

After many many years, I had to use USB. I'm astonished that hashtag#USB devices still come as FAT32. Why would they think that we buy 64GB drives but wont copy files bigger than 4GB. How hard is it to sell with exFAT formatting. Its an absolute disgrace.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#Google #Gemini in #Workspace is OK for basic stuff, but it chokes the moment you need something a little complex. I recently needed to extract the street name from Address in a separate column in Google Sheets. Gemini Choked, while both #ChatGPT O1 and #DeepSeek gave me the answer that works.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The yield might be low. The energy consumption might be high, but China is catching up. Huawei's Ascend 910C now has 60% of Nvidia performance when it comes to interference. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone use #Rust in real world other than to make tools to improve the #Python code? 😁

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: a plane has gone down in the Potomac on approach to Reagan National Airport in Washington DC. Reports that it collided with a helicopter.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

I really want to know the #PM of #GitHub who designed the star lists.Its ridiculous to provide only 30 list names to organise all #GitHub stars. Even #Firefox gives me ability to create and sync hundreds of bookmark folders and tags. With #Microsoft firepower, #Github can do much better

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I always wanted to understand macro #economics, at some beginner level. The recent #trade dispute between #US and #Colombia, got me interested. I asked #DeepSeek to explain what are the economical implications and it gave me a nice summary, through chain of thought and web search.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

#DeepSeek seems to be so good at programming tasks, that serious programmers are starting to use it for high quality #software. Recently, a #PR was created to speed up the #wasm implementation of #llama cpp completely using the DeepSeek-R1. The future of #coding is here github.com/ggerganov/ll...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

#Nvidia #stocks has tanked because of #Deepseek which is able to reduce the Training cosy by 50x. Now I personally think in Nvdia was overvalued and it required a spark for correction and deepseek provided the spark.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you Google for open sourcing pebbel. I used to own a Pebble almost 10 years ago and it felt like magic. It was fast, responsive and had a bloody good battery life. Unfortunately, I lost it in moving, but I hope some one like Repebble can now recreate the magic

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I recently gave an AI task of finding the intersection of two curves to O1, Claude Haiku and Deepseek. I'm quiet impressed by Deepseek capability and especially its reasoning. For more details on the experiment checkout github.com/rambalachand...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

#Mac and #Homebrew still drives me crazy. Apparently, #R packaged in homebrew is fraught with issues that it wont even let you install #tidyverse, which is equivalent of a bundle of pandas, numpy and matplotlib for Python?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Be very careful when using copilot, cody or any other #LLM based code autocomplete. Here is an example of an autocomplete bug when try to copy credentials from cody

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #MetaBlockingPixelfed I just tried posting a message on Facebook that reads: "Anyone here using Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed.Social Within *seconds* I got a post saying my post was banned. Screenshots below.

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

If you’re curious about the design and analysis of encrypted algorithms and encrypted databases, I’m putting together a collection of resources at encryptedsystems.org

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments