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Databricks Outage

status.databricks.com
2 points·by ferguess_k·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Any Issue on AWS?

3 points·by ferguess_k·7 mesi fa·1 comments

Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?

113 points·by ferguess_k·7 mesi fa·208 comments

Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s?

57 points·by ferguess_k·10 mesi fa·47 comments

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ferguess_k
·11 giorni fa·discuss
I want to do something similar.

Specifically, the project is to create VFS similar to the one in Linux 1.00 in xv6-riscv. I completed the MIT xv6 labs and read the VFS code in Linux 1.00 a while ago, and I don't think it is a particularly difficult task -- but xv6-fs touches a lot of places, so I'd imagine some re-architecture is needed.

The scope of the project is NOT to create more FS for xv6, but to add one abstraction layer on top of the FS, i.e. the VFS. The kernel is supposed to know which FS is picked manually (in this case it is the original xv6 FS) by the programmer in the makefile, and it should load the correct superblock and go from there.

The whole work, once kicked into gear -- that is, once one has gotten familiar with the xv6 kernel and written some code for the labs, should take more or less 2 weeks for an ordinary people who has no experience with system programming to complete. The good part is that there is no need to write tests for this project -- you just keep running xv6 and see if it passes all of the existing tests -- once that's passed the VFS should work fine.
ferguess_k
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Actually I did once. I forgot which ads it was, but it was something I genuinely wanted. But yeah, usually I don't bother with ads and just turns them off.
ferguess_k
·23 giorni fa·discuss
I think a lot of the non-professionals start with parsing and do not get exposed to backend. I have read two books about interpreters/compilers and they don't touch the backend very much.

Maybe this is introductory for backend?
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
The root of the problem is that ordinary people don't make enough noises for any problems they see in life, so they are essentially cattles.

Do you care about cattle's opinions? I guess a few of us do, but most of us don't.
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
Thanks for the tip!
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
I recall that Diablo 1 (and 2) has a lot of enemies that are essentially the same sprite but different palette. Is it the same trick?
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
As a side note, I checked OP's other projects, and looks like he/she was already OK with arts from earlier on:

https://staniks.github.io/articles/inferno/

https://staniks.github.io/articles/worship/
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
I find the most interesting things are the internal tools -- like the Python script to generate the gib animation, or the other Python script to generate 2D spritesheet from Blender. OP is definitely a 10x engineer who can also do good arts. This is very rare IMO. I'm very surprised to find that OP has consistent art direction.
ferguess_k
·mese scorso·discuss
It's too late for me, as I'm already in the prison of family and kids, but you probably still can!
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Is there any extensive interviews with Japanese Console programmers? I feel all these interviews focus on the writing/design side, which make sense for popularity, but I do hope there are extensive interviews with programmers.

There are plenty of interviews with EU/US console programmers.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I wrote my side projects with as little AI as possible. You can still do it in VSCode AFAIK. But this is just for fun.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I intuitively agree. Some of my good ideas come from sprint walking...and sitting on the toilet.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
This is so annoying. I tried to see what passkey is, and tried to sign in, and MSFT always tried to ask me to use authenticator, and when I clicked other ways to sign in, somehow it went to "Reset password", and I clicked cancel, and now I can't sign in any more.

The whole fucking security thing has nothing fucking to do with my security, but with their apps and control. I had enough with this. gonna delete everything MSFT from my world. Fuck them.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I actually agree with him, but maybe they will lower the salary further because of that, to make US workers more "competitive".
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I prefer linux laptops but maybe MacOS is not too bad comparing to Windows at least.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Can relate. A lot of the times it is the process that is slowing people down, and it is unrealistic for any corporation to do security audition for everything developers need on time, so unfortunately rules have to be bent.

Some big corps resort to a different tactics: they ONLY allow in-house tools. IDEs, communication tools, everything you need on a daily basis, they make in-house tools for that. It costs a lot of money but they care about security.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
That's one of the perks of being a global empire.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I probably wouldn't believe that "shredding". Also there will be legal consequences I think?
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Kinda top 0.1%, and all those who are directly integrating AI into the companies' workflow, so that they get richer temporarily.
ferguess_k
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Yeah. So many people drinking the cool-aid dreaming oneself to be the 10%.