ljchen

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by ljchen 1y ago
Most tech companies need vc money to bootstrap product development and businesses. The question is how much is "too much"? A very subjective question, especailly considering huge diferences across different domains and industries.
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by ljchen 1y ago
It's interesting that at the bottome of this article there is a recommened article about PCIE 7.0 published in June 2025. And it says "While PCIe 8.0 is still years away, PCIe 7.0 is a lot closer." Never know how these commi
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by ljchen 1y ago
Agreed. "Open sourcing" means you do it for free but your work benefits others. And you may have an opportunity to pass the torch to others. For hobbies you keep it to yourself. I played an instrument for many years in spare time.
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by ljchen 1y ago
Interesing idea. I am wondering what are the use cases on top of your head? I am asking because in my understanding people who care concurrency and parallelism are often those who care performance.
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by ljchen 1y ago
My personal feeling is that medical practices have not evovled too fast with computing. Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering etc all contributed a lot to how doctors treat diseases. But whether medical reco
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by ljchen 1y ago
I always find it odd to put the two keywords "blockchain" and "DB" together (though I know quite a few similar projects). The essence of blockchain, in my view, is to decentrialize because people don't want or can&#
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by ljchen 1y ago
I most agree, only except that perf is determined by a myriad of facors. Even if this piece of data fits into a cache line, it may have no or negative effect on the following code. For complex softwares, even if it's faster after the c
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by ljchen 2y ago
I second this. It's too risky and simply not worth it. Nevertheless, I find this "optional ACID" thing interesting. Many years ago when I was a graduate student, NoSQL was a big thing. It was widely claimed that transactions