markus_zhang

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by markus_zhang 5d ago
I think HN users are usually hostile to committees, even the C++ one!
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by markus_zhang 5d ago
I think this needs a strategic change. Unless you have a clear cut life objective and you are really into it, everything else you try to improve are at most tactical wins that will be lost to time. And those small wins actually make the en
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by markus_zhang 6d ago
> so the thing to do is actually to drop a level. not to try to be a higher-level engineer, but to almost drop a level and simply become the greatest teammate for a while. Thanks, this is going to be my answer to “what’s you first 30 day
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by markus_zhang 7d ago
Ah, the young innocent years! Wish I could go back…
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by markus_zhang 8d ago
Eh, I just want a dump phone. But they all use the bigger SIM slot so it’s a bit hassle to use a micro/mini SIM.
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by markus_zhang 9d ago
What a surprise!
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by markus_zhang 10d ago
It is very difficult to tell at the moment. We don’t know what is the upper limit of AI’s capabilities. If it happens that AI is able to replace say 25% of the office workforce (including programmers of course). The result could be catastro
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
I found myself fascinated by two topics -- Synchronization and Virtual File System in kernel land. Do they have similar websites? I know SunOS was the first one who implemented VFS and they wrote a white paper about it back in the 90s.
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
Who did it is irrelevant. The more important thing is who the propaganda is blaming. Then we know what the elites (behind this piece of propaganda) want.
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
I think most of us are not worrying about AI killing us like the terminators, but taking over our job and killing us slowly. Or, at least disrupting the global society enough that a hot war has a 10% of chance to occur in the next 20-30 yea
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
Thanks for sharing. Can someone tell me what does this paragraph mean? > Use a lock where you tell the system that you're waiting for the lock, and where the unlocking thread will let you know when it's done, so that the schedu
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by markus_zhang 12d ago
The culture of QA sailed off like 10-15 years ago I think.
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by markus_zhang 14d ago
The great filter is upon us.
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by markus_zhang 15d ago
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
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by markus_zhang 15d ago
Aren’t they all? I guess it is better that they fight each other.
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by markus_zhang 15d ago
I guess you only need maybe 20% of them to be puppets to mess around. It’s a lot easier to damage than to build.
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Be Engineering Insights: Adventures in Graphics Drivers(haiku-os.org)
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by markus_zhang 18d ago
Yeah that's the one.
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by markus_zhang 19d ago
I remember watching a movie about Hitler coming back and became a media and political star. That movie was probably more than ten years old but I still find it very relevant.
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
For me, writing is an activity of expressing my feelings and conveying my thoughts. I rarely left that to LLM simply because one does not contract out activities one cherishes. I (am kinda forced to) use LLM to generate maybe 40% of the cod
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by markus_zhang 21d ago
Mine: - Good health - A calling (something I can devote my life to) I think getting either is good enough for me.
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by markus_zhang 22d ago
I really like the analogy of “pinball” from _The Soul of a New Machine_. It matches my imagination of good engineers perfectly.
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by markus_zhang 23d ago
Definitely going to impact our productivity, considering the top rank developers delivered as many as 20k loc in a day sometimes. For me it’s OK because I deliberately reduces AI usage even for boilerplate stuffs. My daily loc is around a f
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by markus_zhang 23d ago
I imagine that was one of the happiest moments in his life (completing Altair BASIC).
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by markus_zhang 23d ago
I checked the documentation and looks like even the 4K version supports single precision floating point numbers (32-bit). Not sure how they managed to do it in 8-bit machines but I guess they just had to use more registers/memory for e
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by markus_zhang 29d ago
The Angel part reminds me of a scene in “In the mouth of madness”: (Knocking the wardrobe) This is reality!
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by markus_zhang 1mo ago
Thanks. He is just 6 so maybe too early.
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by markus_zhang 1mo ago
We have similar rules for condos in Canada, so we used a portable one back when we owned a condo. It’s also kinda expensive to install one, too.
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by markus_zhang 1mo ago
I wonder when is a suitable age to introduce Home Alone to my son…maybe 8 years old is good enough?
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by markus_zhang 1mo ago
Ah thanks for clarification.

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