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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I'd also like to remove as many apps as I want. If something breaks I'd eat it and re-install the whole system.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
No insider betting! Ethics, ethics!!
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Each visit consumes X dollars, or tokens that can be purchased by by dollars and each token gives the user access for Y minutes.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I don't think they are going to rise up this time. Maybe laying down flat is more realistic.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Thanks for the recommendation.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
From my understanding, we are pretty close to a Dystopian world where all elites of a certain group collaborate to run a Super Leviathan. We still gotta choose our flavors, which may not be feasible in maybe 5-10 years when those leviathans
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I think they deliberately underplayed their role in this. Especially with Asian parents who think such nurturing is part of the "norm". I wouldn't be surprised that they spent TONs of time tutoring him when he was young -- an
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
That one looks like fake news to me. But we will see. I think the next iteration may reach 1-2 minutes instead of 15 seconds, so we will see 5 minutes of stitched together videos instead of 1-2 mins.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
You just have to decide it for yourself. Note that fluency probably takes months, if not years. For me it's not necessary and I'm not going to touch it.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I kinda think I am lucky to spend my whole life in a rather peaceful, prosperous time. But the good time is almost over.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Go Costco! Costco is now my official restaurant whenever the family wants a bit of treat.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
This is probably true, TBH. I can't think of any work that I can do whence I lose my job. Trade, Uber...those are not for me. I'm not competitive enough with people who bagged so many years of experience. At best I'd be at th
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
> If society collapses because 80% of white collar jobs disappear, I guess I'll just be in my basement wanting to know how a linux kernel driver works. I'll probably do the same (actually doing this), camping in the woods or so
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Exactly. Pick one that excites you, and paint a picture that you are special in a list. I think that definitely excited me and put a meaning, however small, into my very boring and mundane life. Dogs at least have freedom. BTW definitely wo
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Being a grown up man with a family and a kid, I gradually care less and less about my economical "social identity". It is not exciting at all. I bring bread to the table for the family. I am among the backbone of the society i.e.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I always heard that individualism is centric to the American mind, but on the other hand, I found that American interests groups (corporations especially) are very good at "hunting" in a group. I talked to some mid-level policy-ma
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Yeah I think that's pretty good. I'd say Reference + Explanation + Examples is good enough, like the GWBASIC example -- it doesn't give tutorial-size code, just snippets for each function. But having a tutorial section is def
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I still wish manuals are written in the old way, like this one: https://archive.org/details/gwbasicusersmanual_202003 It is not only a dump of functions, but also with examples for each one of them. I think the Go one
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Yeah I agreed. Kinda missed the old days with thick manuals. I bought one for gdb a couple of years ago and love it -- despite it is just the paper version of the online one.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
Thanks, thought MSFT was using its own tools.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
What about the printed manuals? I think they still have some of those not too long ago (e.g. Intel manuals). What was the tool chosen? Very curious to know. Or, maybe a legacy example -- how were the printed manuals of Microsoft C 6.0 writt
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
It's mostly on the business side. If business doesn't care then developers have no choice. Ofc the customers need to care too, looks like we don't care either...in general.
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I have never written any technical manuals, but I'm surprised that Word is the choice of tool. How does one embed e.g. code easily in the document? I feel there must be a better way to do it, maybe some kind of markdown syntax? Latex?
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by ferguess_k 8mo ago
I think back then, due to the scarcity of RAM and HDD, developers, especially elite developers working for Apple/Microsoft/Borland/whatever really went for the last mile to squeeze as much performance as they could -- or, at
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
It's even less expensive! Problem solved. Mr. President, we have successfully axed all H1B positions, as you have wished.
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
Yeah I think he moved away from Windows some 25 years ago, after Windows 2000. He gave me the vibe of trying to build something really solid and then move onto the next important target, never lingering in one place for too long.
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
Yeah, system programming is especially similar to real engineering I guess, which requires a certain characteristics.
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
I actually know. A lot of financial software ran on VBA. I heard from a friend that about 15% of option market-making sits on some 30 years old VBA code...Yeah they should be treated as critic software, too.
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
I could be wrong, but does it have an extra "? BTW I like to use 0x%x or 0x%lx for certain projects.
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by ferguess_k 9mo ago
I think all companies eventually mutate into a MBA company. For MSFT there was a culture from very early that PMs should lead the project instead of engineers. I read in "Showstoppers" that Cutler was very against of the idea and

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