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wuxb··on Introduction to Memory Management (2018)
I wish my professors talked more about their opinions on these textbook techniques, especially like you said that some are not that great so it belongs to a history lesson rather than something that you should get your hands on.
wuxb··on What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]
I write user-level C/C++ programs and think that this book is 100% relevant. Yes the details about the transistors can be skipped for first-time readers. But eventually these explain what programmers should expect from the machine, and why.
wuxb··on [dead]
The correct steps to get the vaccination (on archlinux): (1) install exit-vim following the instructions. (2) sudo pacman -Rcsu emacs nano libreoffice-fresh # add any other contagious text editors here. (3) sudo rm /usr/bin/pacman
wuxb··on IBM sorry after jobs page asks hopefuls: Are you white, black or yellow?
In ten years you will be encouraged to upload your DNA sequences in an application and it's still "optional".
wuxb··on A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]
Many of my friend read the Chinese/original version of it more than a decade ago. It's a dictionary-style book. Unfortunately I never had the patient to read it.
wuxb··on Which Face Is Real?
I keep getting it right after the first failure. And my brain learned it very quick: (1) The background is distorted. (2) Their eyes are open but their irises are not round enough.
wuxb··on Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
Used this on Archlinux. Pretty nice!
wuxb··on PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
It's a perfect scenario to hear some rants from Linus. While, the "code" has changed and he really has to calm down for this :)
wuxb··on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
So an obvious solution would be allowing H1B holders to freely change jobs, even with gaps. Accordingly, the employers won't be able to lock the visa holders. Then there will be fair competition that makes sense. But anyway the big companies don't want to lose the "lock" so it would be hard to change.
wuxb··on T-Mobile First to Launch Caller Verification
I kept my number from a city I lived but has almost zero connections right now. It makes things simple as every time I received a call with the same area code, I can be sure it's a scammer.
wuxb··on School Contractor in Texas Denied Work Over Pro-Israel Loyalty Oath
Isn't that obvious that the oath is against the 1st amendment? Can't believe this.
wuxb··on C-Sky: A $6 Linux dev board with HDMI and USB
China is an imaginary country that never existed. The Chinese people you see in the U.S. territory are all droids. I'd rather do business with the North Koreans.
wuxb··on Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
The CEO wants to match the evil of Mark Z.
wuxb··on Turn Prisons into Colleges
Education could be too late for some people. Big countries have spent some money and many years on negotiating with a single person--the leader of North Korea. I'm afraid that's the largest investment in this world to teach some one for something good. The resource (time, money, love) for people who are making mistakes are so limited compared with what is actually needed to make effective changes to them. The reality is so cruel. I believe the effort on school education is still be most effective one. Better be home-schooling if one is really capable. Kids are the hope.
wuxb··on Apple Pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store
OKay. Make China North Korea. #MCNK
wuxb··on Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died
Sure it always happen. "Let me eat a Chicken" has the same pronunciation of "Let me eat a dk". Same thing as some one named focker...
wuxb··on Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died
I'm a native mandarin speaker. In my experience Pinyin was like a jump-starter of my self-assisted language learning--you can easily lookup words in dictionary with Pinyin and fill you mind with Chinese words. Also some entry-level books comes with Pinyin on top of the Chinese letters so you can learn how to pronounce by your self. After 1-2 years one can read Chinese and Pinyin will be put away.

One great thing is you can precisely pronounce name of a street or a medicine with less effort. Great for communication in daily life.

wuxb··on LLVM's New Versioning Scheme
So stupid. The old scheme is easy to read if you just remove the dot in your mind: 3.8 -> 38, 3.9 -> 39. Now They make it complex by 38.0 -> 38, 39.0 -> 39. Removing a dot and a zero. Not helpful and So stupid.
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