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I have been shielding my 6 years old son from electronics, except 40 minutes of TV twice a week. I have no idea how to grow his patience and perseverance, though. He is like me, wh…

I have been wondering how to train my 6-year old son and myself to increase my attention span. Some rules are obvious -- cutoff mobiles and pads completely (he doesn't have access …

Exactly. I'd argue that all those programming Gods and Gods because they went through that period. Whatever didn't kill them made them stronger. We should replicate that experience…

I think it's just bad timing.

Yep I wouldn't be surprised. I think Meta had seed $$ from some intelligence-backed VC, too?

I think most ordinary people would say No, but most of us do not have a say in any important things. They put up the facade of voting while all the important stuffs are decided wit…

I used to read a lot about Michele Sindona who was supposed to be connected to the Mafia and the intelligence community. His currency trading firm was one of the first to trade the…

How can one move horizontally and then vertically? I have been thinking about getting into a more technical position. I work as a data engineer but essentially just a data modeller…

I'm very frustrated that I don't have time to learn stuffs on job. They basically assume the productivity I'm supposed to get from using AI on tasks I'm familiar with. And it defin…

The shadow world has its own rules and morals.

Maybe this is part of the shadow money. CIA has been working with business people since the beginning of Cold War and I wouldn't be surprised that they have deep roots in the finan…

I'm not into them either. I'm more into second-handed bookstores where I might get some pleasant surprises once for a while.

It's pretty much the same in my place, too. The old malls are dying. There are new malls coming up, but I'm not sure how they are going to hold in the future.

I have seen bookstore (second-handed books) thriving near universities. Your idea is actually very interesting and remind me of the mall model -- the mall model worked because ever…

I think once they stopped being "Personal Computers", they stopped being fun. The most interesting era was from the 70s until the mid 90s, before MSFT completely grabbed the home c…

Well that's how you get convenience and comfort. That's how you build civilizations. Specialization started many millennium ago, when people probably didn't know much, if anything,…

That's for sure.

Thanks! This is so interesting. > It so happens that on the 80386 chip of that era, the fastest way to get from V86-mode into kernel mode was to execute an invalid instruction! Con…

Also the hardware and software are so complicated, that probably no single person on this earth can carry any 64-bit CPU into his brain -- unlike back in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras,…

Thanks Joe. Interesting knowledge. I managed to find a FAQ and was surprised that it made to the year 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20110708212436/http://www.ctosfa...

Looks like this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat... Thanks for sharing, never heard about it before. What was kernel programming back then? Briefly…

I have always had this itch to work on some real life serious system programming projects, with the most recent wave OS kernels. I completed the MIT xv6 labs (a very small repo) an…

I have used something like that (mentioned in my original reply ^). It was even worse -- there were about 3-4 plugins available. Basically that company (a well known social media c…