hnthrowaway0315

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by hnthrowaway0315 3mo ago
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, who doesn't have a lot of patience to begin with, so I c
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by hnthrowaway0315 3mo ago
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 to them so it's for me), sit in the library and st
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by hnthrowaway0315 3mo ago
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 by deliberately writing in low level C and assemb
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by hnthrowaway0315 3mo ago
I think it's just bad timing.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during testing in Florida(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago|1 comments
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
Yep I wouldn't be surprised. I think Meta had seed $$ from some intelligence-backed VC, too?
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 within the circles. I think it really makes sense to consider o
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 Eurodollar contracts back in the 60s, IIRC. I think intelli
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 while manager and staff engineer took all the fun jobs -- i
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 definitely doesn't help when everyone hi
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
The shadow world has its own rules and morals.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 financial world -- after all both Intelligence and Finance n
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
I'm not into them either. I'm more into second-handed bookstores where I might get some pleasant surprises once for a while.
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Kiewit-built Key Bridge could have cost $9B(thebanner.com)
1 points by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 everyone in the family gets his/her own share of pleasure.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 computer market. After that it is all servers and c
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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, about other careers. I'm sure we all wa
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
That's for sure.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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! Consequently, Windows/386 used an invalid instruction a
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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, good programmers NEED to do that. I think the year 2,000 wa
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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...
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 checked the wikipedia and looks like
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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) and did a few Linux device driver labs (very large repo and it
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
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 company, not FB) tried to implement everything on their own.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
OK, this was probable me telling other people I have never worked in a large repo without telling other people that...
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
I can't imagine people enjoying web based IDEs. I used to work for a company that has everything made internally, including IDE -- they used the same method OP described -- using VSCode on web. The experience is horrible. I guess maybe
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Lake Tahoe residents to find a new power source after energy source redirects(finance.yahoo.com)
13 points by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago|2 comments
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
SWEs do feel the pain, too. Not everyone has a 200K+ gig. Especially for a big family.
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by hnthrowaway0315 4mo ago
The United States is simply an imaginary entity. Some people have been winning for quite a while.

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