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This thing probably never stops and doesn’t have holidays. I read about Operation Gladio back in the day, which was not a cyber operation, but a preparation of guerrilla operations…

DDIA is great. I read and re-read the small section about LSM merge tree in the first and second edition of the book and got interested in this stuff. It is always a pleasure to re…

Does that mean Chris Domas is ready for his next adventure?

At least they are reliable in/after the Windows 2000/XP/7 era? Even as I don't like Windows 10, I haven't reinstalled it for years. Back then the other options for home computers a…

Thanks for sharing. It was that bad back then? As a consumer user the stability brought by the NT kernel was great back then, but maybe enterprise wise it was a different story? I …

I see it at the bottom once you select "NEW GAME".

They definitely managed to create a lot of reliable products. Windows NT was one of them. Up to Windows XP the products were pretty solid and each had visible improvement against t…

Maybe they are still in the same level of forever. Oh well.

I think this is why that I limit the use of LLM in my hobbyist project, but not in my work. I found LLM particularly useful of generating say VSCode configuration JSON files and it…

That was the pinnacle of Microsoft Windows. I’d say mid 80s to late 90s when they focused on the P in PC. After that they went full enterprise mode.

I remember that back in the mid 80s the Application group was not happy about the quality of work so someone circulated a memo about software quality, which I read from Steven Sino…

From my experience, just to say the thing that many such articles never mentioned, because the author has the innate ability anyway: Seek mental stability, or whatever mental state…

I don't know anything about tokens. Does the following argument make sense? 1. Tokens are model-specific: e.g. tokens used by Anthropic cannot be used in models of other companies.…

However, since we do have plenty of fossils from Silurian, it is hard to believe that none of the advanced technologies never left any hint. Any idea?

The thing is they actually pushed the price tags of memory and disks high so we wouldn’t be able to afford it. Unless ofc you rent from them.

Stupid question on toilet: if prime numbers are 1s and other integers are 0s. What do we get from this “digital” landscape?

I need to drink/eat those too to feel like I'm an AWS ops guy!

This also helps downstream a lot.

OK I got it. But it’s not going to happen in my case!

Would love to see computer engineers or electrical engineers.

Can you please remind someone in the iOS webpage development team that they have seriously degraded the experience? Making comments is virtually impossible nowadays. Instead of pop…

Maybe that's what people with strong ideas do. They execute and they kinda push each other around.

I think it helps a bit, but no longer makes a big difference. Guess that's because I'm "old" (40+). But again, maybe it helps more than I thought, because I haven't done any A/B te…

I half-agree with you. I agree with you because I kinda had that experience from time to time. I'd focus on a certain learning project for about 4-6 months, usually without much br…

I kinda realize that the most important factor for personal success (whatever kind of success you want) is mental stability. Like, John Carmack said that he NEVER burned out, never…