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> and they're probably not open late or even open at all early in the week (maybe this is a pandemic artifact; I moved here in 2021) No, it's a Seattle thing. One of my major peeve…

> - Distributed systems. Everything is distributed these days with NUMA, cache coherency, PCI transactions, etc. You’ll have to know how to use the right kind of atomic memory orde…

Those are fair points. I should've expanded a bit on my list though, since a lot of my points could be interpreted in a way that I didn't mean. 1. Yeah, I have no doubt about that.…

> > 3. Designing systems in general. Some people love the challenge of distributed transactions, eventual consistency and all that jazz, but it just rubs my brain the wrong way. I'…

Or any other kernel, professionally? I've been offered a position at Microsoft to do kernel development work. This would be a big transition to me, coming from a services backgroun…