Build a computer from scratch, both hardware and software. Build a wood house in the bush. Get better at extreme mountain biking. Build a very athletic body. Travel the world, explore their nature (deserts, saharas, mountains, safaris, etc) and eat their food. Learn to play Rock music. Learn to drift. Live as a farmer in Scotland for 1 year. Own a ranch in Texas. Hunt in North Africa. Too many things mate.
I am from North Africa, from a socio-economic background that's somehow the middle ground between the West and the East. I do agree with the concept of freedom of choice. I always thought about it in such terms. In the West, you have total freedom in whether to keep close to family or not, but it comes with the risk of isolation and loneliness. On the other hand, in the East, lonliness and isolation is pretty much gauranteed to never happen and there is always a large social network to fallback to when life gets hard, for emotional and material support. However, you need to first be loyal to the community and never leave them or disappoint them to be granted such a privelege, which contradicts the freedom of choice. IMHO, the West is better if you manage to succeed and build you own fullfilling social network, but if you fail, you're doomed to love a miserable lonely life. The East is a good default option for most people but it holds back people a bit.
I would never say it's uniquely broken. Loneliness and isolation probably exist in every corner of the world. The thing is that the West gets almost everything done right IMHO. It's an amazing place to be. However, the connection and social part of it is not going anywhere. Families are one of the best constructs to build life-long fullfilling relationships, but everyone is giving up on them now. People are not getting married and are not having children, and if they do, it likely ends up in a divorce. As OP said, it's all hookup culture now. How many people will end up single and lonely after a certain age? Lots and lots and lots ... It's a serious epedimic.
It breaks my heart to see Western people living such lives. I love the West for so many reasons, but the social construction is a complete broken mess. Family and community is completely destroyed. People live and work only for themselves. The amount of loneliness and isolation is just mind blowing and unbearable. IMO, it's a selfish lifestyle. People who manage to make great success (due to a combination of lack, intelligence, hard work and sometimes just beauty) can live very good lives but the rest are doomed to live miserable, lonely lives and no gives a shit about them until they die. Very sad. I wish you happiness and fulfillment (whatever they are for you).
That function is the heart of the page allocator inside the Linux kernel [1]. The fundamental building block for every memory allocation on any system (running on Linux). Whether you call malloc() in a C program, kmalloc() inside a kernel driver, the new operator in C++, load a file in python, or almost any other operation, it will ultimately end up in __alloc_pages() (for small objects, multiple units will share a single __alloc_pages(), then there is a fine grain object manager on top of that such as Slab/Slub, jcmalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc, etc. but you got the point).
Isn't this what rolling updates in container-based deployment systems (e.g., Kubernetes) do? And also the reason we have CI/CD pipelines and micro-services (to decouple processing from data).
So basically, in your example, change the code that handles GET and then trigger the CI/CD. Your code will be compiled, containerised then a rolling update is started to replace the old version of the running web server with the new one.
Cause US is the largest and the most superior on so many indices economicaly, sometimes providing the only top notch opportunities in the whole world (e.g., advanced high-tech). However, lots of hard working people from poorer or less developed parts of the world immigrate to countries other than the US in large numbers (legally, for education and skilled work). Most people in African countries (North Africa in particular, but also subsaharan, with the exception of South Africa) immigrate to Europe, namely France, Germany and Sweden. And immigration is just as successful as in the US (there are lately immigration issues in Europe, but it's a different type of immigration, refugees and asylum seekers, caused by destabilised regions in the middle east. I'm talking about regular immigration for education and skileld work).
Let people say and express whatever they want. Why do you want to censor anything that you "hate" or anything that looks "ideological" to you? I don't see anything wrong with someone supporting BLM or mentioning a verse from the Quran or from the Bible on a technical website. For me, it would be an interesting short read/observation, I don't care if I don't agree, it doesn't matter. If I read a scientific paper from a Chinese researcher that mentions "Glory to the CCP", it would probably give me a short laugh, then I'll just move and focus on my goal (the science).
To be honest, I have no idea how to fix this. This was just an insider observation. Luckily, I am doing a PhD on systems software and I have a large support network of very smart people on the Internet in the form of contributors to large open source projects such as the Linux kernel, GCC and LLVM. My supervisor is the shallow-type of researcher, but because of my special circumstances, it's easier for me to overcome the issue. However, it may not be that easy for other people working on exotic topics such as Quantum Computing.
Academia is no more motivated by a honest interest to understand things around us, raise questions and spend time deeply thinking and genuinely coming up with solutions that really make sense and bring change to the world.
A lot of researchers are very mediocre and they treat research as a simple career where they superficially advise a bunch of PhD students. A lot of those researchers neither think nor raise questions nor make meaningful contributions.
Exacerbated by research grants which favours researcher with lots of publications regardless of the quality of the research (usually real honest high quality research takes time and produces much fewer papers). Those researchers thus end up chasing low hanging fruit just to increase their paper count, making everything they do shallow and full of bullshit.
To be honest, that's the first time ever in my life to read the description of FizzBuzz, which is ridiculous. But I was just answering the parent and providing a data point that proves the correctness of his statement.
But in general, I find LeetCode style interviewing very boring and dry. Like all of those "Given a string, find a substring that satisfies bla bla condition", or "given a matrix as csv input, read it then calculate some BS and find the best estimation for some other BS, etc".
When I was very young and naive, that might be fine, but at this point in my life, I just get super super bored and annoyed by such questions.
Instead, I prefer contextual questions. Like if you're hiring for a low-level network programmer, let me do some socket stuff in C or Go, implement a backoff mechanism in a given code template, discuss some TCP/IP congestion stuff, discuss some code, add a small feature, put a bunch of system calls and watch how I care about performance (blocking vs non-blocking, epoll vs select, shared-memory vs message-passing, context switching, etc) and how I handle errors, and also observe my workflow, how I check the documentation, the man pages, debugging, etc.
I think this is a much more reliable and less frustrating way of interviewing and I believe it attracts very highly skilled and motivated people.
I am doing PhD in CS. I solved and designed algorithms to solve very tricky and hard concurrency problems (mostly in the Linux kernel). I ported the Linux kernel to a research CPU architecture. I wrote complex system software to deal with memory models, heterogeneity and cross-ISA migration, modfying glibc, llvm, linux.ld and tens of other system software. I worked on KVM, kernel network stack, networked filesystems and implemented distributed systems levraging all of them. However, I have no single idea what is FizzBuzz, and if someone asks me to do it an interview, I would fail miserably. I also only code in C and lots of LeetCode type of questions are a nightmare for me.
That's interesting. I have Myopia and I permanantly put glasses with Bkue light blocking. I always had trouble with my circadian rythm and very often I find it extremely hard to have a fixed sleeping schedule, let alone sleeping early. I wonder if that has smthng to do with it. I also live in a northern country where the sun is a very rare event, especially during the winter.
That's a very cool project for tinkering. It's a small niche, especially that it's written in assembly, it limits the scope of the things one can play with. But nevertheless, it's a very enriching experience as well as a very unusual one.
Not so many employers. Very few places/teams in this world care about cache coherency or memory ordering in the go-lang runtime on ARMv9 CPUs. You can count them using one hand fingers. The entry barrier is also too high; you need too many years of serious CS education, usually a PhD. And then find a place at Google or Meta Kernel/Compiler teams, which is obviously super competitive.
Sorry it came off as offensive to you. I didn't mean to be offensive and in fact the majority of my reply is not directly to you but I was just talking more generally about society mocking normal people with short stature which seems a bit absurd and meaningless to me. Your comment just gave the initial context for the idea to develop. But I understand your point of not mocking people on immutable traits which sounds very reasonable and wise.
The problem with your comment is that it classifies short stature as a bad negative trait. In my humble opinion, except in pathological cases, short stature is a normal thing. It should not even be a subject of mockery because being short is not bad or negative or tragic. If a person is healthy, functional, fit and he is 5'4, I don't see why that is viewed negatively in modern society and it is mocked for, like being a 5'4 is a handicape or something. It doesn't make any sense at all. They can run, jump, breed, fight, think, work, drink, fuck, drive, sing like another other taller person, and they can also even be better and excel. It's really an absurd thing. I never understood this and it has always baffled me and when someones makes a joke on short stature, I just don't get it why it's funny or why it's a valid mockery.
This is one way, but I don't think it's the only way. I believe it is worth to explore other options and you get double benefits: the woman and any other attribute that helped you get the woman in the first place, being it confidence, humour, style, fitness, or any other thing. It's hard but I believe it's also good to give it a shot.
Thanks for sharing those reflections. Although I lack experience, I feel that all what you said is valuable and that reflecting/working on all those points would certainly improve building connections with women.
I am naturally a bit shy and reserved with women. I am also not very witty and humorous (except when drunk) and I have a historical record of nerdiness and introversion. Coupled with a short stature, it makes me lack in confidence (I got some rejections due to height in the past, but in no way I think height is a limiting factor. I believe being fit and confident can make wonders). I am in mid-twenties and I realised that I need to change this and I need to seriously work on it to live a normal life and find a partner.
Could you please give more details so that frustrated youngsters like me can learn from your experience. What did you do to understand? And what are your conclusions?
It could still be a good advice from the parent. I lived my happiest, most motivated life in a very sunny and warm Mediterranean region, then I moved to a cloud cold North European region and boy oh boy depression started to hit me like a rock, especially during the winter.