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OTC CatchUp #237

Authors: Alpesh Bhagwatkar · Ankush Kapoor

Date: 24-05-2025

Duration: 1 hr 36 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Bhavesh shared he was selected for Code-For-Good Competition by JPMC.

  • Siddharth shared his thoughts on applications such as Dream11 are considered as gambling.

    • Viranchee clarified to keep gambling-related discussions off-topic

    • Bhavesh joked about creating a “100% win rate” gambling app using “vibe coding”

  • Harsh Kapadia introduced ROCm which is AMD’s open-source platform for GPU computing. It provides a software stack and development tools for running high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning, and GPU-accelerated applications on AMD GPUs.

  • Discussion on alternatives to CentOS after its discontinuation occured.

  • Harsh Kapadia shared multiple resources on load balancing and performance.

  • Harsh Kapadia and Siddharth discussed branch prediction, Spectre, and Meltdown.

  • Harsh Kapadia shared powerToys for windows.

  • Hritik shared his switch to macOS and smooth experience with Podman, iOS/Android simulators, VS Code, and Chrome.

    • Alpesh shared he was spending hours configuring Linux.

    • Harsh, Hritik, and Pratik discussed age and performance of laptops

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Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. https://twitter.com/\_chiraglulla_(Chirag Lulla

  3. Harsh Kapadia

  4. Darshit Suratwala

  5. Pranav Dani

  6. Rishit Dagli

  7. Siddharth Bhatia

  8. Swapnil Borkar

  9. Viranchee L

  10. Wilfred Almeida

  11. Abhinav Singh

  12. Ayush Shukla

  13. Pawan K

  14. Uma Iyer

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