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The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China [video]

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2 points·by EastToWest·5 jaar geleden·0 comments

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EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
My naive implementation (as shown in the linked question) in Rust was mind boggling slow. C could do around 150MiB/s, while Rust could only do 10MiB/s. A simple `objdump -d` shows Rust is generating a lot more code. I'm not sure how much of that is relevant though.

At that point my coffee time ran out. I wish I had more time to figure out why. :-(
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then, and anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS, or has left POSIX filesystems entirely.

I'm not very familiar with this space, but if this were true why would Fedora use Btrfs by default?

Also on Fedora wiki [0] -- Btrfs is a mature, well-understood, and battle-tested file system, used on both desktop/container and server/cloud use-cases -- which seems to contradict what you said.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Linux is well funded in the sense that corporations put big money looking after their own interest in the kernel. Anything outside of their respective areas of interest? Good luck.

Paragon, for better or worse, is just yet another corporation. They shouldn't really expect other corporations or volunteers to care much about their code, other than the fact that their code may break others'.

Now that they have Linus' blessing, they can just send a pull request. The work paid off in the end.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Not necessarily politics. It could be purely due to lack of interest from maintainers and reviewers.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
It is fine that you don't relate to or understand his contributions.

I would have done the same if I were in Changsha.

Feel free to believe in what you think is true. I'm done with this discussion. Have a nice day.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow?

"Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn't it?
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s.

I'm not sure what your post is about.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Fun facts:

  1. Mars is 火星 ("Planet of Fire") in Chinese.
  2. 祝融 Zhurong, as mentioned in the article, is the god of fire in Chinese mythology.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Bad, sure, we both agree.

Dystopian has a very specific meaning though.

From Cambridge dictionary: relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such a society.

I fail to see how one can derive "a very bad or unfair society" and "a lot of suffering" from a QR code in night sky.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I think it is rather dumb and annoying. Dystopian? Far from it.

Do you consider a plane flying by with a banner behind it dystopian? Isn't this more or less the same kind of thing?
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Your first example lost me. Are you really talking about China?
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate in the US.

They make proposals on various aspects of life in China. Those proposals aren't official policies.

BBC should really have done a better job here.

It is also funny to see the top thread a few minutes ago quickly developed into something like military might and "China must be stopped".
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Incorrect. A lot of Chinese people will see this.

Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is left as an exercise to the readers.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I now wonder what will happen to US Embassy's Weibo account. My impression is that their Weibo account promotes "unpopular" opinions but has mostly been left alone.

But I haven't been a Weibo user for the past >5 years so my impression could be way off.
EastToWest
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> I found the greatest offenders of media that portrays China in a poor light are CCTV, xinhua, people’s daily, etc... if you consume those media, you get the impression that China is a backwards authoritarian state with lots of flaws, but of course the truth is more nuanced.

You're not their target audience, period.

Also you're molded by Western culture, of course you interpret things differently with your own bias (in a neutral sense).

On the flip side, a lot of Chinese find Western media chaotic, unruly and full of lies, which portray Western society in a poor light. And of course, the truth is more nuanced like you said.