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by afr0ck 4y ago
Mind boggling. I wrote my Masters thesis in one week. Mind you, it's computer science (I did some work on distributed systems and contributed to the Kubernetes container orchestrator), the professors don't stress that much on the
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I feel like you are describing me. I speak four languages. I love engineering and building stuff, but I have a limitless love to nature and the outdoors, hiking, biking, swimming in the wilds, hunting, and I love Deserts and mountains.
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Build a computer from scratch, both hardware and software. Build a wood house in the bush. Get better at extreme mountain biking. Build a very athletic body. Travel the world, explore their nature (deserts, saharas, mountains, safaris, etc)
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by afr0ck 4y ago
I am from North Africa, from a socio-economic background that's somehow the middle ground between the West and the East. I do agree with the concept of freedom of choice. I always thought about it in such terms. In the West, you have t
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I would never say it's uniquely broken. Loneliness and isolation probably exist in every corner of the world. The thing is that the West gets almost everything done right IMHO. It's an amazing place to be. However, the connection
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by afr0ck 4y ago
It breaks my heart to see Western people living such lives. I love the West for so many reasons, but the social construction is a complete broken mess. Family and community is completely destroyed. People live and work only for themselves.
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by afr0ck 4y ago
That function is the heart of the page allocator inside the Linux kernel [1]. The fundamental building block for every memory allocation on any system (running on Linux). Whether you call malloc() in a C program, kmalloc() inside a kernel d
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by afr0ck 4y ago
> Others are the golden threads of this world, holding it together at the seams with no more than a dozen people knowing about it This is literally __alloc_pages() in the Linux kernel.
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by afr0ck 4y ago
May I ask why?
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Isn't this what rolling updates in container-based deployment systems (e.g., Kubernetes) do? And also the reason we have CI/CD pipelines and micro-services (to decouple processing from data). So basically, in your example, change
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Cause US is the largest and the most superior on so many indices economicaly, sometimes providing the only top notch opportunities in the whole world (e.g., advanced high-tech). However, lots of hard working people from poorer or less devel
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Europe must regain its independence from the US. Only after that, Europe can defend its interests in the best way possible.
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How do you find out about events, gigs and stuff happening in your town?
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Let people say and express whatever they want. Why do you want to censor anything that you "hate" or anything that looks "ideological" to you? I don't see anything wrong with someone supporting BLM or mentioning a v
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by afr0ck 4y ago
To be honest, I have no idea how to fix this. This was just an insider observation. Luckily, I am doing a PhD on systems software and I have a large support network of very smart people on the Internet in the form of contributors to large o
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by afr0ck 4y ago
It seems like you are very new to Academia.
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Academia is no more motivated by a honest interest to understand things around us, raise questions and spend time deeply thinking and genuinely coming up with solutions that really make sense and bring change to the world. A lot of research
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by afr0ck 4y ago
To be honest, that's the first time ever in my life to read the description of FizzBuzz, which is ridiculous. But I was just answering the parent and providing a data point that proves the correctness of his statement. But in general,
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by afr0ck 4y ago
I am doing PhD in CS. I solved and designed algorithms to solve very tricky and hard concurrency problems (mostly in the Linux kernel). I ported the Linux kernel to a research CPU architecture. I wrote complex system software to deal with m
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by afr0ck 4y ago
That's interesting. I have Myopia and I permanantly put glasses with Bkue light blocking. I always had trouble with my circadian rythm and very often I find it extremely hard to have a fixed sleeping schedule, let alone sleeping early.
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Worse in Edinburgh. Sunset is at 4pm for god's sake.
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He was the Wrangler at the Univ of Cambridge (best Undergrad in Math).
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That's a very cool project for tinkering. It's a small niche, especially that it's written in assembly, it limits the scope of the things one can play with. But nevertheless, it's a very enriching experience as well as a
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Not so many employers. Very few places/teams in this world care about cache coherency or memory ordering in the go-lang runtime on ARMv9 CPUs. You can count them using one hand fingers. The entry barrier is also too high; you need too
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Sorry it came off as offensive to you. I didn't mean to be offensive and in fact the majority of my reply is not directly to you but I was just talking more generally about society mocking normal people with short stature which seems a
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The problem with your comment is that it classifies short stature as a bad negative trait. In my humble opinion, except in pathological cases, short stature is a normal thing. It should not even be a subject of mockery because being short i
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by afr0ck 4y ago
This is one way, but I don't think it's the only way. I believe it is worth to explore other options and you get double benefits: the woman and any other attribute that helped you get the woman in the first place, being it confide
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Thanks for sharing those reflections. Although I lack experience, I feel that all what you said is valuable and that reflecting/working on all those points would certainly improve building connections with women. I am naturally a bit s
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by afr0ck 4y ago
Could you please give more details so that frustrated youngsters like me can learn from your experience. What did you do to understand? And what are your conclusions?
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It could still be a good advice from the parent. I lived my happiest, most motivated life in a very sunny and warm Mediterranean region, then I moved to a cloud cold North European region and boy oh boy depression started to hit me like a r

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