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Which chapters have you found the most enlightening or useful?

(off-topic: here's my own "recommend everywhere" book, "Attacking Faulty Reasoning" by T. Edward Damer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacking_Faulty_Reasoning).


What do you know, wishes sometimes come true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351060.

I could never see the need to rebind Ctrl to Caps Lock (and I do use Emacs). Whenever it's time to press Ctrl, I curl my pinky and press that key with my pinky's distal joint. I did, however, swap Fn and the Global key on my Mac.

I think that's reason enough to rebind Ctrl to Caps Lock. I used to do the same, but why go to the trouble when I can remap Caps Lock once and be done with it?

You can't mention Hyperbole and not say how you use it. I did not get past the "include the occasional action button in org-mode" phase.


actually the rules say that no one can ever explain what Hyperbole is for


I once won a power bank in an anonymous raffle at a marketing event of a company that could be imagined as our distant competitor. I voluntarily gave it away to another attendee, because God forbid there's a suspicion of a conflict of interest. But I am clearly a bear of very little brain.


You and me brother. We've lost so many opportunities for having integrity.


Make us three. My lack of ethic flexibility skills really held me back


Just an occasional visiting scholar.


Location: Zürich, Switzerland, Europe/EU

Remote: Nice to see. Worldwide okay, depending on arrangement.

Willing to relocate: Poland/Switzerland, optionally China, but depends on the offer.

Technologies: Strong with distributed systems, networking (SD-WAN, VPN, ZTNA), authorization systems, web/network security and more. Backend: Rust, Typescript, Python, C#, Go and a variety of other interpreted and compiled languages. Frontend: React, Angular, Tailwind and so on. Relational and document databases. Data analytics. AWS and Azure. China specialist and interpreter, can speak German.

Résumé/CV: https://sowinski.blue/files/cv.pdf

Email: igor at sowinski.blue

I have 9+ years of experience as a software engineer and technology-oriented China specialist. Based in Switzerland. I have designed and implemented a large part of internal production systems at a well-known international printing company, and currently develop zero-trust solutions at a Swiss networking company.

I've been engaged with China since 2015. In 2020, I've started a degree in Chinese Studies at the University of Zürich. In 2024, I have finished a scholarship at the BFSU, the best language university in China. I have interpreted between Polish, English and Mandarin Chinese for the Polish Trade & Investment Agency at the Polish-Chinese Economic Forum in Shanghai (see pics on LinkedIn). I also keep tabs on technology and Chinese cybersecurity laws through Chinese sources and keep in touch with open source enthusiasts based in Mainland China and in Taiwan.


>fcntl(fd, F_GETLK, &lock), fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &lock), and fcntl(fd, F_SETLKW, &lock)

There's also `flock`, the CLI utility in util-linux, that allows using flocks in shell scripts.


What are flocks in this context? Surely not a number of sheep...



File locks.


In UNIX/POSIX file locks are advisory, not enforced, it only works if all processes play ball.


Sure, but the discussion is around whether they’re atomic, not whether they’re advisory.


Aren’t flock and POSIX locks backed by totally different systems?


Too late to edit, but it appears that they are per this comment on a different article and the documentation it references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607265


Location: Zürich, Switzerland, Europe/EU

Remote: Nice to see. Worldwide okay, depending on arrangement.

Willing to relocate: Poland/Switzerland, optionally China, but depends on the offer.

Technologies: Strong with distributed systems, networking (SD-WAN, VPN, ZTNA), authorization systems, web/network security and more. Backend: Rust, Typescript, Python, C#, Go and a variety of other interpreted and compiled languages. Frontend: React, Angular, Tailwind and so on. Relational and document databases. Data analytics. AWS and Azure. China specialist and interpreter, can speak German.

Résumé/CV: https://sowinski.blue/files/cv.pdf

Email: igor at sowinski.blue

Hi, I'm Igor. I have 9+ years of experience as a software engineer and technology-oriented China specialist. Based in Switzerland. I have designed and implemented a large part of internal production systems at a well-known international printing company, and currently develop innovative at a Swiss networking company.

I've been engaged with China since 2015. In 2020, I've started a degree in Chinese Studies at the University of Zürich. In 2024, I have finished a scholarship at the BFSU, the best language university in China. I have interpreted between Polish, English and Mandarin Chinese for the Polish Trade & Investment Agency at the Polish-Chinese Economic Forum in Shanghai (see pics on LinkedIn). I also keep tabs on technology and Chinese cybersecurity laws through Chinese sources and keep in touch with open source enthusiasts based in Mainland China and in Taiwan.


Can you expand upon the Roman architecture books?


sure, we went to Rome and I was surprised to find that much of the architecture didn't present as I was expecting. I took a bunch of photos. When I came home I checked out "The Romans: builders of an empire" and then the wife bought me "Roman architecture in 50 monuments" which was really cool. I've subsequently read up on the aqueducts... which are really really cool


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