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by 120bits 21d ago
My first movie that introduced me to Tim Curry was Home Alone 2. It was maybe first few Hollywood Movies that I watched with parents(non-english speaking). Now I'm 42yrs old, and when my parents visit me, I watch Home Alone 2 with them
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Ask HN: Looking for AI Video Upscaler
1 points by 120bits 5mo ago|0 comments
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by 120bits 7mo ago
> 8. Avoid hero culture. Build systems that don’t require heroes. This right here is the what I always have encountered at every team I have ever worked. There will be a production outage, one person comes in and be like "Oh, let me
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Ask HN: Is anyone else having AWS issues?
1 points by 120bits 1y ago|0 comments
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by 120bits 2y ago
Almost 12 years ago, I wrote my first web server in C. It was for a router/firewall device running Linux From Scratch(LFS), I can't recall the kernel version(2.6.x?). Reading this just took me back and made me realize even though
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by 120bits 2y ago
So now its dereference a null uber eats code?!
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by 120bits 2y ago
Funny how I got rejected today from crowdstrike because I couldn’t code a hard leetcode problem under 40mins. I guess leetcode isn’t true software engineering after all.
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by 120bits 2y ago
Fast inverse square root 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); https://github.com/scienceetonnante/Fast-Inverse-Square-Root...
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by 120bits 2y ago
During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work t
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by 120bits 3y ago
I switched companies and I had to use teams. From my experience coming Slack, teams feels heavy app. The bootup is slow and overall it felt like its bloated app. I'm using M1Pro Mac. What I don't like the most of the teams app is,
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by 120bits 3y ago
OK, I wasn't going crazy then. I had recently used Google Maps for a road trip that I was planning and I asked my GF if it looks weird. My initial thought was if someone changed my monitor settings. (I use different one for just gaming
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by 120bits 3y ago
Thank you! Great advise.
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Ask HN: How to Be a Good Mentor?
1 points by 120bits 3y ago|4 comments
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HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products(nginx.com)
232 points by 120bits 3y ago|62 comments
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by 120bits 3y ago
LFS taught me so many things in my beginning for software engineer career(2011). 5 years later, we moved to minimal centos7. I also remember working on getting LFS work on AWS EC2 back then.
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by 120bits 3y ago
My urge to work for FAANG company is faded away. Being in my late 30s I don;t want to grind leetcode anymore. I had interviews in Apple/Google/Facebook and I felt luck played a huge part of that. I got some live coding questions t
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by 120bits 3y ago
I really want to watch Interstellar in 4K on Vision Pro. I do wear glasses so I'm not sure how long I can wear this.
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Counter Strike 2: Sub-tick updates and More(counter-strike.net)
1 points by 120bits 3y ago|0 comments
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by 120bits 4y ago
Tesla. They already have army robots on the streets. Some day the cars will become fully aware and then can replicate. They will make better versions of themselves.
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by 120bits 4y ago
A Happy New Year! I'm always optimistic and I believe humans will do good thing. Looking forward to more advancement in AI, curing cancer, moving to more cleaner energy. Going to watch some good ol star wars my girlfriend and enjoy my
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by 120bits 4y ago
Congratulations! This is a great achievement at his age. Maybe a Fields medal next?
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by 120bits 4y ago
I was working in tech in Bay Area and left to a mid-west 13 years ago. My friends called me crazy. Who is crazy now?!! I was really burned out and though the tech scene was good in silicon valley(startups, good companies), it still felt my
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by 120bits 4y ago
(I had this issue, not sure if its fixed now or I was doing something wrong) I'm not sure if its related, but I had some DNS resolution when I switched on WARP. I know that 1.1.1.1 is DNS over SSL, some ISP don't like that? I don&
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by 120bits 4y ago
I have been in situations were I had to pair program for an interview. The artificial pressure is true, I don't know how to react and even speak out when I'm trying to show my coding skills. I don't have issues with whiteboar
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by 120bits 4y ago
The Hacker News comments was so accurate! I'm having so much fun going through Seinfeld shorts.
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by 120bits 4y ago
This is the 4th time I have heard this news in a month. I wasn't paying much attention till it happened to my girlfriend. A person with a linkedin profile, that looks very legit saying they work for Nike at a senior level position reac
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by 120bits 4y ago
I went from simple flat file with tab separated configs to xml to Protobuf and to JSON/TOML. Every time we had issues, it was because we were trying to spin our OWN version of configuration file. It breaks backward compatibility and ve
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Ask HN: How do I re-learn modern Java?
6 points by 120bits 4y ago|6 comments
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by 120bits 4y ago
My parents are from India as well. They are not the best when it comes to tech and gadgets. My Dad was super excited when he learned to share memes with me on WhatsApp. Before pandemic they were visiting me in US and I invited a very close
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by 120bits 4y ago
This is definitely some interesting stats. When I was looking at the stats, I realized I can never make something like this. Just alone the list of flying spots mentioned are huge for me. I don't think I have travelled at much internat

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