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| 1 | +Date: 13-12-2025 |
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| 3 | +Duration: 2 hrs 15 mins |
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| 5 | +==== Topics Discussed |
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| 7 | +* Nirmal Panchal shared his ongoing research on CPU architecture (GPPCU). |
| 8 | + ** He discussed his ideas and insights on executing traditionally serial tasks in parallel at the hardware level. |
| 9 | +* Hritik Jaiswal shared his experience using GitHub Copilot for troubleshooting. |
| 10 | + ** He encountered an issue where a button was removed unconditionally. |
| 11 | + ** Copilot suggested using commands like git stash and git log via the Git MCP server to resolve it. |
| 12 | +* Chetan, Hritik, and Bhavesh discussed the job market and hiring processes. |
| 13 | + ** Chetan asked about the AMCAT exam and if it helps with hiring. |
| 14 | + ** Hritik shared his journey from college to landing a job, advising the use of platforms like Glassdoor and Indeed. |
| 15 | + ** Bhavesh suggested cold emailing strategies, noting that he secured his current internship through this method. |
| 16 | +* Wahid Khan and the group discussed developer tools. |
| 17 | + ** Wahid mentioned Trae, an IDE similar to Cursor but with a different feel. |
| 18 | +* Hritik Jaiswal discussed technical concepts found in a blog post about GitHub Cline. |
| 19 | + ** He explained database caching layers, how read and write operations work, and why Merkle Trees are used. |
| 20 | + ** link:https://medium.com/geekculture/understanding-merkle-trees-f48732772199[Understanding Merkle Trees^] |
| 21 | +* The group discussed the value of Tech Meetups. |
| 22 | + ** They explored why people attend such events and talked about various niche communities, including CNCF Thane, AWS User Group, BreachForce, and FOSS. |
| 23 | +* Hritik explained how to setup a bare metal cloud on Ubuntu. |
| 24 | + ** link:https://linux.harshkapadia.me/kvm-qemu[KVM QEMU Guide by Harsh Kapadia^] |
| 25 | +* Ayush Shukla gave a short introduction to NixOS. |
| 26 | + ** He demonstrated his setup and explained how Nix works, including concepts like Valgrind and Flakes. |
| 27 | + ** He also touched upon Nix packages and shared the WTFPL license link. |
| 28 | + ** link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL[WTFPL License^] |
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