Sometimes ABBA ratatouille me back in time. In the time when I was a 10-year-old kid and listening to ABBA on the cheap cassette player with the bad speed controller, wobbly tune, and a full 50 Hz buzz in the background.
TLDR; let’s implement a message queue in Java, oh wait GC is too slow; let’s save data to files instead.
Why not just use a better language (khm, C++)?
https://docs.confluent.io/kafka/design/file-system-constant-time.html
Two days of rain in a row mean that it is two days of the weekend you decided not to stare at the screen and go touch the grass. ☔
I was watching some videos that explained the quantum many world interpretation. TLDR; there is no collapse of the wave function, but rather a bigger world that is always in a superposition. 🤔
TODO comments in your source code are most likely not going to be addressed. TODOs in the source code are invisible; your producer won’t see them, nor will most of your colleagues. If you want to make TODOs work, you need a tool that will extract them from the code and bug you to address them. I have seen a lot of 20-year-old TODO comments.
What would you do as a teacher if you had gone through all layers of knowledge, explaining the topic for months, and you’re on an advanced topic, and a student asks a question, and suddenly you understand that the student did not get the basics from the very first class?
Restrictive laws may make criminals more powerful. I was thinking about laws against collecting and selling personal information. Now, good people’s hands are tied by the law, while criminals still freely collect and use personal information. Did you notice that the number of unwanted calls has declined? I did not. How about the number of scam messages about your undelivered USPS package? Nope.
I cannot find it anywhere, so I’ll play by memory. Someone asked Richard Feynman: is it possible to make an antigravity machine? And he said, define antigravity? If you define it as a device that cancels gravity, I would say the chair I am sitting right now is the antigravity machine. 😜
I work a lot, so I hope my kids won’t have the need to work.
What I have learned over years of software engineering is that if you think it’s impossible, it will happen tomorrow, guaranteed. So now I am thinking everything is possible; nothing happens.
Windows 95 had multiple releases, or patches on them, one of which was called OSR2. It still had a lot of bugs and crashes; it was a minefield of bugs. Over time, you just learned how not to step on the mines. There was a joke circulating: How to fix all the bugs in OSR2 with a change of one byte? How? OSR2 -> OS/2.
I like UTF-8; I think it is a good standard. It has some drawbacks, for example, it is expensive to calculate the number of characters in the string, but I think it has more pros.
I really like how KDE does taskbar buttons; the way I configured them, they don’t have any brains—it is all manual, and they don’t group. I can’t figure out how to do the same on Windows. If I open two Visual Studios, they stick to each other, and I even can’t swap them.
I use ChatGPT daily, and while it is often mediocre and produces poor code, I continue to use it to build my skills so that when the technology improves, I will be ready to hit the ground running. It reminds me of the story with Pixar - the founder made a short 3D animated movie and showed it to his manager at Disney, who didn’t recognize its potential and didn’t see the value in investing in the technology. At that time, making a 3D animated movie was taking about the same amount of time as a traditional 2D one and had worse quality. This forced the founder to leave and eventually create Pixar.
Any productivity metrics software engineers would be able to game; they are smart people. This is why the number of lines of code, the number of commits, anything is useless. What you need is a manager who is a good software engineer. That manager would be able to recognize the talent and give the recommendation for promotion.
There are some solitary experiments, like 50 days alone. And people suffering a lot. I feel like I would have so much fun being alone. I don’t know; 50 days sure, no problem; maybe 100.
Quite often I am thinking about time and consciousness. The more I think about it, the less I understand. Why are we as humans experiencing time? Why is our consciousness like a needle on a record player tracking the timeline? I have no idea. Do we have consciousness, does time exist?
What I noticed that has changed on YouTube is a lot of recycled videos. YouTubers ride on the success of other successful YouTubers. For example, when I want to see the original Casey Neistat video, YouTube is just filled with analyses as to why he is successful, interviews, and straight reaction videos. Why am I complaining? Because it’s become too hard for me to find quality content. Maybe it is good for me? I’ll waste less time on YouTube.
Tesla is a darn good car, but it’s just a darn good car. Nothing more, nothing less. Self-driving - bullshit, even autopilot - bullshit. I use autopilot to have a sip of water or stretch. It is that bad.
What brokers break and why is it in the past tense? Singers sing songs, and they are not sungers.
Spoiler alert: Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. Hehehe
omg
Back in the day, I did not speak English very well; I did not know what a garbage disposal was called. And it broke, so I went to the apartment management and said, ‘The trash disintegrator is broken.’ 😂
There is a lot of controversy around the famous Donald Knuth quote “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Honestly, I do not understand why. People say it is taken out of context, but I think the quote is perfectly concise. It aligns with my philosophy:
- First make it work, and you can make it pretty later.
- There is infinitely more value in a working and ugly program compared to a beautiful but non-working program.
- Don’t guess, measure first.
Steam’s requirement to credit AI reminds me of the time when people were crediting computers in music albums.
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