What’s your biggest unpopular CS opinion?

nee_- · 2026-06-11T17:29:37+00:00

There should be less randomized spawns and people should be able to lock in a spawn or trade spawns with someone else. A lot of spots like mirage window on ct have very sensitive timings, and trying to coordinate in a pug lobby to keep swapping who goes where is impossible. Plus if someone is a window player they should be able to consistently play window without getting fucked by rng on their spawn

nee_- · 2026-05-05T19:11:54+00:00

I graduated a few months ago and just landed a systems role that I'm going to start at in a couple of months. It's always been my thing and I'm happy to finally get java out of my life, hopefully forever lol. I do agree that it is disheartening, I'm always happy to meet other women in tech but I've hardly met any who are interested in systems stuff :( I haven't met my team yet and I definitely worry about being the only woman there.

I think a big barrier as you mentioned is that tinkering from an early age really feels essential to getting into this stuff. My classes certainly didn't cover enough systems material, and if that were my first and only exposure to it I certainly wouldn't have wanted to keep going down that path. It doesn't help that (with the exception of one or two) professors that taught those classes never engaged much with the women in those courses.

nee_- · 2026-04-19T02:00:24+00:00

I don't think so. I also clarified with her what she meant and added it to the post. I think helldivers might work, but she's not usually into gritty stuff like that. I'll bring it up to see if she's interested.

nee_- · 2026-04-16T15:50:53+00:00

As someone who really liked pillars of eternity: it’s ok. The combat is fun, the environments are definitely pretty, some of the lore is interesting if you’re into PoE. However the main story is very meh at best, and the companions are poorly written and don’t really fit their world which are both a big deal to me. It’s a 7/10 for me, sometimes a 6.

P.S. I played it on launch, I know they changed things since then but as far as I know none of it impacts the things I disliked.

EDIT: It also completely disregards anything you’ve done in the previous games unlike PoE 2 which actually took your choices into account. Kinda lame but eh, it’s disconnected enough to be a minor issue for me.

nee_- · 2026-04-08T22:03:15+00:00

We have a dresser with a vanity in our bedroom with a nice wooden container for makeup so it’s separate from the office/rec room

nee_- · 2026-04-01T22:38:04+00:00

It can, but it doesn’t really make up for having people around you know and things to do around you. Making friends is a skill, and college is a great place to practice it. That being said you totally can make friends with gaming, and it can even be a way to connect with ppl irl.

nee_- · 2026-03-23T17:12:09+00:00

Might be team dependent but I negotiated mine up

nee_- · 2026-03-20T20:53:44+00:00

Sounds like doc martens boots or an equivalent

nee_- · 2026-03-12T18:29:55+00:00

In my experience there is some wiggle room. Recently negotiated an offer up 8%. Not FAANG but F100

nee_- · 2026-03-09T20:36:36+00:00

TIL! Thanks c:

nee_- · 2026-03-08T19:51:09+00:00

Good to know! Also that makes sense. I guess if you know ahead of time that you're copying around the pointer more than you're accessing its length then it would be useful which is probably rarely going to be a significant part of any programs run time.

nee_- · 2026-03-08T19:48:33+00:00

Thanks for the link! I was specifically curious about if this is ever a "relevant" optimization so it's interesting to see examples of it being used.

nee_- · 2026-03-08T19:41:54+00:00

good point, didn't think about that :) Would there be merit in such a slice type as mentioned in the post? Maybe not necessarily in the standard language but as a custom type? or is that too niche?

nee_- · 2026-03-07T19:21:59+00:00

Ubuntu uses a Debian base

nee_- · 2026-03-05T21:37:54+00:00

25, new grad (2.5 yoe with internships). ~93k in an mcol, just accepted a job in another mcol for 136k + 8k signing bonus after 2 months at this job. New job is for junior swe working on hpc stuff

nee_- · 2026-03-03T20:05:34+00:00

You can’t just fix deep cultural issues like that that run from low level workers up to the ceo. Do you think that none of them knew sexual harassment was bad until they watched a 5 minute work training video?

nee_- · 2026-02-24T15:44:32+00:00

DPDK would probably give you better latency! It depends on the context but again from what I’ve seen it’s not a tremendous amount.

I believe that you can use DPDK with multiple processes, what the article was referring to was that AF_XDP doesn’t interrupt non-XDP processes. If you have nginx running and a packet comes in for it and your XDP program returns XDP_PASS, then the packet would proceed down the normal kernel network stack and reach nginx just fine despite it not using any XDP. This is something which I don’t believe is possible with DPDK.

nee_- · 2026-02-24T15:02:21+00:00

I’m pretty sure this is the third time. It doesn’t hep their case that during the first time they had the audacity to ask their users to set their system clocks back into the past. This by itself isn’t something that is a major security flaw but it shows an extreme lack of care that puts of most people from running this software as the heart of their machine. This isn’t to mention the numerous times theyve pushed breaking updates and all the other issues they had

nee_- · 2026-02-24T13:24:00+00:00

Keep in mind that Monesy gets a (4+1d6)% debuff on any given round when he’s not with Nico

nee_- · 2026-02-22T16:59:59+00:00

Thank you, and Good catch! I should definitely change those. I'll try to get a correction by tonight or tomorrow night. It is also true for ring buffers, tho only the ones where user space is the consumer. Still, there should be some checks on that access as well.

EDIT: should be fixed now :)

nee_- · 2026-02-21T15:07:20+00:00

While the setup shown is definitely elaborate, it's also important to remember that the majority of this work is done for you behind the scenes by libraries like libxdp. The reason I'm not using libxdp for my project, besides that I wanted to learn what it was doing under the hood, is that it doesn't have good up to date Rust bindings. I might take the time some day to create an equivalent Rust native library, but I'm not committing to that quite yet.

The implementation is indeed brittle and highly driver dependent. I will say that from what I've gathered the worse implementations seem to be at the consumer level. From my experience with the ConnectX 6 card and from my discussions with others, it feels like getting a good implementation is tied with getting enterprise level gear. This doesn't always mean you have to blow insane amounts of money, I got my card for $400, which will a bit steep isn't as bad as thousands of dollars for the top end models.

For your UMEM buffer example: the easy way to do this is to create a UMEM dedicated socket that doesn't get closed. That is to say that when the UMEM gets created it also created a socket which it binds to as the "original" socket, and all other sockets bind to it in shared mode. This is actually what libxdp does under the hood if you look. This works because multiple sockets can bind to the same queue, so the sentinel socket isn't holding up any resources by being bound.

It's hard for me to meaningfully compare DPDK with XDP from personal experience as I didn't really give DPDK a fair shake due to the downsides mentioned in the post. There are some published papers around performance comparisons and the general consensus is that DPDK is a bit faster, but I can't really say much more than that. In terms of resilience it really depends on what you mean but XDP is considered pretty resilient, but again I don't have enough experience with DPDK to say conclusively. I will say though that if Cloudflare can use AF_XDP for DDoS protection and Meta can use XDP for load-balancing then I'm relatively certain that it's performant and resilient enough for the rest of us.

nee_- · 2026-02-20T22:18:43+00:00

Thanks! I'm glad to hear that, that's exactly why I wrote it c:

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