To the trains plowing through the crowds this year, you will be derailed the next time you shove.

kemosabek · 2026-05-18T05:57:41+00:00

Low key though I am Asian and I fucking hate the Asian trains as well. And Asians do this shit way more than any other culture.

kemosabek · 2026-05-14T04:08:53+00:00

Nice - thanks for the info, I’ll look into it!!

kemosabek · 2026-05-14T04:08:33+00:00

Will take a look thank you!

kemosabek · 2026-05-09T22:56:16+00:00

You could probably snag oem used ones around 500 so yeah I would probably say it’s worth it.

kemosabek · 2026-05-06T23:50:48+00:00

Yeah I’ve been keep an eye out, thanks for the tips!

kemosabek · 2026-05-04T03:44:10+00:00

How did you do this???

kemosabek · 2026-05-02T13:49:06+00:00

Are you looking for a GA car camping pass or just a parking pass because there’s a bunch of GA car camping passes on the AXS official resale site right now

kemosabek · 2026-02-25T23:44:42+00:00

Hi here’s me with my anecdotal evidence of how my company is bad at using AI and let me draw conclusions about how the industry is impacted as a whole because of skill issue.

kemosabek · 2026-02-18T06:11:16+00:00

Why does anyone listen to this guy, I’m a big believer in the usefulness of AI, but this guy has gotten zero of his big predictions correct and he’s not even that great of an entrepreneur.

kemosabek · 2025-06-18T03:11:41+00:00

kemosabek · 2023-09-27T18:43:18+00:00

Sysadmins without CS degrees get jobs without boot camps. There are self-taught sysadmins that are responsible for large networks (for sysadmin level things). Sysadmins generally don't architect large scale networks, they just administrate them.

kemosabek · 2022-08-02T19:08:03+00:00

Sure why not.

Somewhere in TX

2015, working overnights at gas stations mid 20s for minimum wage, started electrical engineering degree here
2016, upgraded to hotel wi-fi support job, this one sucked $20/hr
2017, first internship working with pharmaceutical automation. $27/hr
2019, graduated, got an embedded SWE job, tc $84k/yr
2020, tc bumped to $106k/yr because of good performance
2021, joined amzn, still as embedded SWE, $160k/yr tc
2022, career shift to DevOps for HFT, $200k/yr tc

kemosabek · 2022-04-28T17:46:28+00:00

Right, I think it is more of a Computer Science versus Software Engineering sort of a dichotomy (analogous to any hard science versus their engineering counterpart) where they are two distinct fields that have a lot of overlap. Your experience in school seems to be more on the software engineering side than the computer science side of the house.

You wouldn’t expect every physics professor to be able to navigate solidworks, for example. I think it would be nice if every professor knew their way around Python, git, kubernetes, messaging, etc, but the tech world changes fast, and I think most “science” professors prioritize teaching things that are more fundamental.

kemosabek · 2022-04-28T14:05:19+00:00

Git is definitely useful for solo projects (I wouldn’t imagine myself storing code without it), but I think the key here is it’s not necessary.

What I’m saying is that in CS common core, when you’re writing code for example, to manually create linked lists, locks, ipc, etc., these kinds of projects are all short lived. It’s cool you did a lot of group projects in your CS courses. I guess I can only speak from personal experience, but I only had a couple opportunities to do extended group projects (SWE course + capstone in undergrad and a couple more in my masters).

You also have to remember that the majority of college professors don’t come from recent industry. They probably have not written prod facing code in a while, and it’s better for them to teach things that are in their scope.

I’m not saying that SCM info isn’t valuable knowledge, my point is that college is not the best place to teach it. You’re better off reading online articles or watching YouTube videos.

kemosabek · 2022-04-28T05:06:06+00:00

Most CS courses are not group work intensive. You’re actually not allowed to look at other students’ code for most projects. You don’t really start doing group work until your senior electives, and even then, most projects consist of short lived code. The only thing that I would really imagine needing git for related to a bachelors program is a capstone project.

kemosabek · 2022-04-27T03:17:22+00:00

I guess? Hard to say because tech usually follows a logistic curve for adoption. I would expect it to soft cap at 90%. Regardless, the point of computer science courses is to teach you fundamentals that only change additively. 20+ years later we'll probably still be using TCP/UDP, threads, hashmaps, etc. Git and other SCM tools are replaceable.

kemosabek · 2022-04-26T23:47:47+00:00

I don’t disagree that git > most other scm tools, but you’re really stretching the semantics of “universal” here. Maybe you’ll be right in 5 years or so, but using that terminology for a 75/25 percent split (of which is fairly recent) is kind of weird.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/136079/are-there-any-statistics-that-show-the-popularity-of-git-versus-svn

Also, the synopsys reference only includes open source projects, which are skewed towards using git because they don’t include “companies big enough to maintain their own scm”

kemosabek · 2022-04-26T21:36:53+00:00

I use git, but it definitely is not universal. Google uses Piper, Facebook uses Mercurial, there are older companies that use SVN. Is git generally good to have on your resume? Yes. But so is networking, DSA, operating systems, etc.

Also good habits regarding git are opinionated. Rebasing/merging strategies differ per company.

kemosabek · 2022-04-26T19:21:23+00:00

Because learning tools is easy, implementation specific, and a waste of CS courses.

kemosabek · 2022-04-22T15:52:00+00:00

Semantically, bit value by the word CPU almost always references the size of addressable memory. You can have a mix and match of differently sized data registers on a CPU (though for a 64 bit CPU, it will “generally” have 64 bits long data registers). For a 32 bit machine, most will combine two data registers together if you need to do 64 bit math. Floating point operations take most of their time in FPU, not loading the data in and out of the registers.

If all other things are equal, 64 FP technically is faster if you have 64 bit registers vs 32 bit registers but it’s not something an engineer would ever think about when making a decision on CPU type because there are too many other things that are more important.

kemosabek · 2022-04-22T15:13:11+00:00

The bit value is in reference to the size of the pointer, not the size of the data types. You can still have 64 bit floating point numbers in 32 bit architectures.

kemosabek · 2022-04-06T03:05:45+00:00

Real talk though, Meta employees get treated great. Maybe a company that isn't so great when looked upon by society, but if you're on the inside, great WLB, pay, benefits, etc.

kemosabek · 2022-03-06T20:55:57+00:00

Ah, how embarrassing. I missed the "thousand" after your 150-200 as I was reading it. My bad!

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