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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one su…

That point about dependencies -- how well does this play or easy to integrate with a build system like Bazel or Buck?

This is from C++23, right? I wonder how available this is within compilers and how many shops plan on moving to this version of the standard and how long that will take. I imagine …

alias please="sudo" alias amend="git commit --amend --no-edit" alias vim="nvim"

up() { cd $(eval printf '../'%.0s {1..$1}); } So you can just type something like `up 2` to move by two directories.

The Linux kernel received a new scheduler not too long ago ( https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/ ), so I'm not sure how relevant the critiques about CFS are.

And what about Renaissance Technologies? Is that just chance or luck?

> A dumb phone - small and minimal functionality, easy to forget about This requires more diligence, but can't you create the experience you want on a smart phone (no social media,…

To point 1, this almost feels like catch-22. While sleep may be a way to recover from stress, stress is probably the single thing that impacts my sleep the most (aside from alcohol…

What is stopping someone from creating this experience on a modern phone?

It seems weird that Thomas Pynchon's name is nowhere to be found on this page or any other context about the source of this story (its from Gravity's Rainbow). There are also spell…

Here is Brendan Gregg showing how vibrations can affect disk latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

For me, the 'reverse a binary tree' question goes back to the creator of Homebrew being rejected from Google for not being able to answer that question: https://twitter.com/mxcl/st…

I think the subheading may be a better title -- 'This is the story of how I prepared for a decade to graduate in 3 months.' This seems feasible only for a specific set of people: t…

What 50 page section? Are you referring to the Eschaton game? If so, its not in the middle, nor is it 50 pages.

How is your project different than Getafix from Facebook? https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-faceb...

> several smaller and successful subscription-based magazines: ... the economist, ... Maybe I am misreading, but did you mean to imply that The Economist is a 'small' newspaper? It…

For Computer Science, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. For programming, Computer Systems: A Programmer…

Two come to mind for me. The first is Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. This was the first political book I had ever read and it completely rocked my world. I knew the US was in…

I haven't been looking lately, but in the past year, I had no problem getting interviews at FAANG, some unicorns, and some series C/D startups. I didn't even have to apply for seve…

Really? Just off the top of my head, here are some of the people that worked at Bell Labs: Claude Shannon, Richard Hamming, William Shockley, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, John Hop…

I imagine it varies from movie to movie. Generally, the director of photographer is in charge of the camera and lights, but how much independence they have depends on the director.…

Let me know when someone is able to track down Thomas Pynchon.

Understanding Power is a great place to start. Its a collection of past talks given by him and I found it to be a great primer for more focused Chomsky books.

Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. I knew the United States was complicit in some nefarious things, both domestic and abroad, but wow, that book really blew my hair back.