markus_zhang

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by markus_zhang 4d ago
The great filter is upon us.
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by markus_zhang 5d ago
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
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by markus_zhang 5d ago
Aren’t they all? I guess it is better that they fight each other.
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by markus_zhang 5d ago
I guess you only need maybe 20% of them to be puppets to mess around. It’s a lot easier to damage than to build.
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Be Engineering Insights: Adventures in Graphics Drivers(haiku-os.org)
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by markus_zhang 9d ago
Yeah that's the one.
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by markus_zhang 9d ago
I remember watching a movie about Hitler coming back and became a media and political star. That movie was probably more than ten years old but I still find it very relevant.
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
For me, writing is an activity of expressing my feelings and conveying my thoughts. I rarely left that to LLM simply because one does not contract out activities one cherishes. I (am kinda forced to) use LLM to generate maybe 40% of the cod
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by markus_zhang 11d ago
Mine: - Good health - A calling (something I can devote my life to) I think getting either is good enough for me.
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by markus_zhang 13d ago
I really like the analogy of “pinball” from _The Soul of a New Machine_. It matches my imagination of good engineers perfectly.
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by markus_zhang 13d ago
Definitely going to impact our productivity, considering the top rank developers delivered as many as 20k loc in a day sometimes. For me it’s OK because I deliberately reduces AI usage even for boilerplate stuffs. My daily loc is around a f
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by markus_zhang 14d ago
I imagine that was one of the happiest moments in his life (completing Altair BASIC).
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by markus_zhang 14d ago
I checked the documentation and looks like even the 4K version supports single precision floating point numbers (32-bit). Not sure how they managed to do it in 8-bit machines but I guess they just had to use more registers/memory for e
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by markus_zhang 19d ago
The Angel part reminds me of a scene in “In the mouth of madness”: (Knocking the wardrobe) This is reality!
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
Thanks. He is just 6 so maybe too early.
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
We have similar rules for condos in Canada, so we used a portable one back when we owned a condo. It’s also kinda expensive to install one, too.
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
I wonder when is a suitable age to introduce Home Alone to my son…maybe 8 years old is good enough?
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
Ah thanks for clarification.
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by markus_zhang 20d ago
CEOs apparently don’t bother to share their calendars with ordinary workers, and in many of the times when they do interact with them it feels more like lip services, so it’s natural to assume that they don’t do much. But in reality it must
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by markus_zhang 21d ago
Oh I see, thanks!
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by markus_zhang 21d ago
Nepal is popular for Westerners I think. Maybe for religious reasons?
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by markus_zhang 21d ago
I have watched a few and they look like the four horsemen TBH.
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by markus_zhang 21d ago
I was curious, is it conceptually similar to Data General Fountainhead project?
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by markus_zhang 23d ago
I’m still resisting the AI flood. I use it but I do read code without its help. I also make sure I have the muscle memory of stuffs that will be tested in interviews — somehow big techs have forgotten that maybe they shouldn’t test people o
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by markus_zhang 23d ago
Because it is a human business, and human business is always messy and unfair. You are not supposed to get any amount of fairness unless you have the power.
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by markus_zhang 24d ago
You probably pivoted your career towards the startup space so you found it effortless. For others it is basically a castle with a 20m wall.
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by markus_zhang 24d ago
I found out that mental status seriously impact it, too. When I’m depressed I keep asking myself why bother losing weight (or anything I was doing that requires some discipline), then I gave up.
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by markus_zhang 24d ago
This makes me think whether the whole chain is an intelligence side business — sell cheap electronics for profit and at the same time own them too.
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by markus_zhang 26d ago
Is there a way to implement this on my Android phone?
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by markus_zhang 26d ago
This looks familiar. Microsoft had similar experiences back in the early Word and Windows era. Too many bugs and too late to ship.

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