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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Australian elections: * Conservative were leading in polls before Trump came into the picture * Tory leader couldn’t disassociate himself from Trump and lost his own seat * Progresish party rode the anti Trump wave and won comfortably * Green seats shrank This is oddly familiar…

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

At my previous employer, a female colleague didn't receive annual stock top-ups while my male colleagues did. So glad she asked! Salary discussions bring up vulnerability, which fuels the taboo. But that secrecy always benefit the status quo in our capitalist culture.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hot tip: Kululu soba bowls have off the menu “extra”spicy option. Just ask! Thank me later

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

One more reason to love summer- M is less anxious about the mold in the casa. Wohoo!

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It was one of those “wait, Clickhouse didn’t do that already!!??” moments. Excited for the next release nonetheless

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

PSA for West Coast voters: Liberals are doing well, so if you're torn between them and NDP/Green, consider waiting until 7pm on Monday. By then, the East would have voted, and you’ll have a better idea of whether your vote could make a bigger difference or risk splitting the progressive-ish vote

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Yeah, I know voting Green isn’t the “strategic” choice to stop the Poilievre. But @legreenlaw.bsky.social is the only candidate in my riding who actually gives a damn about climate justice, Palestine, and social change. It’s fucked up rn but don’t let fear dictate your vote. Vote with your heart!

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This was very cute and refreshing read. Anything that fosters intergenerational connections within a community is so valuable these days. Though, sucks that there doesn’t seem to be any woman card.

tokyoweekender.com

Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town

A trading card game consisting of real-life ojisan (middle-aged men) are going viral with kids in the city of Kawara in Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Rust being Rust. Borrowing their posts from Mastodon without moving ownership🦀 ❤️

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Turns out, Trump might not have pulled those random-looking trade tariff rates out of a hat. He (or the AI chatbot he used) just divided the U.S. trade deficit by imports. Might be the most expensive chat session yet? Not sure how real this story is, but vibeconomics is here everybody 🤙

theverge.com

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For each pridicate and each granule (block of 8192 rows by default), it stores a single bit indicating whether any rows in that granule match the condition. It’s like a lightweight bitmap per predicate. Since their granules and data parts are immutable, no need to worry about cache staleness.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The docs on #clickhouse are not super clear about the cache eviction strategy but here’s what I found. They use their standard SLRU caching policy where older results are removed if they exceed the max allocated memory (default 100MB).

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Go Cory! Here's a handy timer on how long Senator has been speaking for. Can't believe it's been almost 23 hours already, and he's still looking strong! www.yahoo.com/news/cory-bo...

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you are using Clickhouse as your cache, you can now cache your cache! 😱 Well not a real cache, but might save you some compute cost with minimal memory overhead if most of your queries are the same. As their docs suggest, ideal for observability workloads.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A friend found Martyr by Kaveh Akbar at an airport bookstore. It was a placeholder filling the spot for the 2nd bestseller because the actual one was out of stock. He bought it just coz other bestsellers looked meh. Weeks later, it became a real bestseller. I’m half way through and it’s so good!

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

xAI’s Grok is probably the flakiest app I’ve used in a while. It took me 10 tries to signup, it logs me out every few minutes, I have to login every time I open the app, image generator never works. I hope it means X’s developers are intentionally building bad software to annoy Elon.

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Western dating timeline (aka date sandwich): You start with a “date”, then you move into this mysterious “seeing” phase, and eventually you officially start “dating.” “Seeing” phase is like the trial period of your subscription, except you don’t know when it ends. Have you tried Speed Sighting??

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Kululu is such a gem! A very underrated cafe to work at- nice quiet atmosphere, great staff, and the best noodles in Squamish!?

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

💯 This is super prevalent within AI critics. “Algorithmic Bias” rather than "Structural Discrimination", or “Data Privacy Issues” instead of "Surveillance Capitalism". Neutral sound-bites work for the masses I guess. But language isn’t neutral, especially not these colonial ones

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Also… when did Spotify start sneaking in personalized in-podcast ads?! Is it still worth paying for the premium subscription?

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Ankit Sharma @ankitonrocks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hopefully, with snap elections announced, Poilievre’s ads will finally chill. I swear, as someone who’d never vote for him, I’ve seen way too many. Wonder how much they’re spending on social media ads! I hit rock bottom when I heard them on Spotify—while listening to a socialist podcast!

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