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I got a "so what" effect in under 1.5 seconds from opening the website which resulted into me ctrl+w'ing my ass out of it. If your landing page is like this it just blows.

Fantastic update for me.

Sublime maybe

They never had the profits to compensate for their capex/opex from it, ie. Uber / food delivery slavery, so yes unless they hike the prices.

I would love an answer to this. They look like bad mobile games because it has to run on mobile hardware. Interactions, latency etc. are all worse than on some average PC game.

You could just log into, I don't know, ARMA III server as a department and host your meeting there instead of this torture.

By being anti-social enough to be basically immune to peer pressure, and then eventually just finding drunk people very boring to be around with so I never got into it. I've drank like twice in three decades.

Hmm, I guess I never started it now that I think of it, lol.

Some of the things he says are not self-evident to companies attempting this transformation 10 years later.

smh.

The first indicator was that he was a journalist.

> systems

exactly.

let your own organization and system just spring up on its own

But you can just slam memory management into your types if you know type theory (affine / linear types)

It died because it's complete dog shit.

The author defines systems research as:

> What is Systems Research these days? Web caches, web servers, file systems, network packet delays, all that stuff. Performance, peripherals, and applications, but not kernels or even user-level applications.

This seems false. DBMS and OS research is pretty interesting today. Look into Andy Pavlo or Onur Mutlu's courses and students to get pointers.

I think UX designers have already caused enough havoc, we don't need more of them

Personal: Obsidian

Public / when I want to share: make something in Notion

my job here is done, was about to reco this too

> Some people involved in the project are talking about "100% unit test coverage" as a target.

100% targets ignore that software engineering is different from programming: costs in engineering hours, resource invested, maintenance burden etc. all should lower the target.

Also think hard if unit test is suitable for your program. Most compilers aren't unit tested. Distributed system unit testing requires an absurd mock infrastructure.

> The project include some fault-tolerant distributed servers, proxies and various API proxies/converters

Make the unit test target ~20% and focus rest of the time you would've spent on writing unit tests to making the system debuggable: all the best distributed systems are extremely debuggable, since there are no unit tests that will help you once there's an RPC (such things subvert any and all invariants you programmed)

- https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste... also p. fun read

I think longer than 3 years and you are committing yourself to wage depression, from what I've read from various hiring managers.

> "There must be job market value in it."

Then the answer is simple, look at the jobs you want that use FP and learn that stack. In my region that'd mean Clojure and Scala.

Writing Chromium grade C++ seems like a hard job with all these extrinsic rules and regulations to make it work

I mean I'm sure the cows and pigs I ate at one point or another ate plants so.

It's funny the obfuscation that was done earlier this year wrt. energy security in EU. Got told that "we can afford" to do it. Now you have state mandated demand destruction to stop the proles from having access to energy.

All things considered, well played.

look for a new job at your work time, resign, only do your explicit contractual obligation

Firefox is so bad I don't really even care.

Also: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

Don't do it for free.

Only podcast where I felt the information value was high enough to listen to was "Signals & Threads", and even they provide a transcript. You can just put on most Youtube videos to 2x too.

It's just such a useless thing, podcasts. Maybe if you have a long commute in public transport so you zone out for the duration.

ULTRAFINITISM and CONSTRUCTIVISM gang gang

One of the worst programs I've ever used. I would LOVE to meet the guys in charge of it and ask them so many questions about it. It is like Peugeots, you can't make something so bad without it being intentional at this point

The first two CMU courses are goated. I recommend reading at least some of the papers Pavlo says to, but if I'd have to recommend a particular one it'd be "Architecture of a Database System": https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf

Courses:

CMU 15-445: Intro to Database Systems

- https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/

CMU 15-721: Advanced Database Systems

- https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/

CMU 15-799: Self-Driving DBMS

- https://15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2022/

DBMS specific:

PostgreSQL 14 Internals

- https://postgrespro.com/community/books/internals

Others:

A handy list of distributed system links

- https://pierrezemb.fr/posts/distsys-resources/