Reading Time: < 1 minute What doesn’t kill us can only made us stronger — German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — his original words are: “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” Five years ago today, 01-23-2019, Wednesday, I was laid off from the company I worked for about 3 and half years. I saved the
Reading Time: < 1 minute Secrecy preceded the shutdown of the consumer protection agency’s Washington headquarters | AP News (TechCrunch) The biggest breach of US government data is under way (KTSM) 5 questions about DOGE’s access to federal payment systems DOGE or not, personally, I am curious how they restore the health website – Judge orders restoration of federal health
Reading Time: 3 minutes Travel Mishaps One of the most memorable moments in 2024, for me at least, we already checked out the hotel in HK and got on the taxi to the airport, then our 14-year-old said, “I left my hoodie in the closet”. We already checked out thus cannot go back to the room directly. Had to
Reading Time: < 1 minute Below moment is likely not isolated to summer. Sometime between March and July this year (year 2024). One day I took MacBook on sofa, and sit about 6 ft from my 14 year old. We were at the two ends of the sofa (couch). Her response: dad, you are not going to sitting here for
Reading Time: 3 minutes Removed from S&P 500 E.g., $FBIN – Fortune Brands Innovations Inc? Below is from Google Search Labs | AI Overview Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (FBIN) was not removed from the S&P 500, but it did separate from its parent company and change its name:Fortune Brands Home and SecurityOn October 3, 2011, FBIN separated from Fortune
Reading Time: < 1 minute 今天一大早，我家大娃第一次出城比赛，不是钢琴🎹或其它乐器，不是数学，sci-only, 是 XC( cross country #越野跑）😂. 兵分两路，老爸（yours truly) 将跑第八个’Due Run. 大概算了下，God’s Willing, 等小娃高中毕业🎓，还有八个’Due Run. 结果：两个人大概都跑了34分钟多一点😂 PS: 拉肚学区啥都卷，小朋友们卷小朋友的东西，家长们卷’Due Run. 我记得有一回黄大神带了胜跑群的一路神仙们席卷了不少奖牌🏅😂 Btw, I signed up this year’s Olivette Turkey Trot. I probably ran my 1st Olivette Turkey Trot 5K in year 2018. I signed up in year 2017 but I chickened out at the last minute. I
Reading Time: < 1 minute Q: Can we say routers are simple and doesn’t have a lot of technologies? A (by yours truly): 也不能这样说，路由器和相关技术，比如说load balancer (F5 等），firewall 等等还是有技术和市场的。思科当时的做法是支持所有去创业的员工，给投资，一般做得还行的后来都买回来。她家最主要还是dot com 那时候股价炒太高。 思科现在成长性比不过hyper scalers. 她近年买了app dynamics, splunk 等performance (production) monitoring 的软件公司。很久以前买过webex I gave it more thought: I think the main difference between Cisco and say other hyper scalers such as Amazon and
Reading Time: < 1 minute 再说说software rewrite：我在上班的地方，参加过两次rewrite （重写）的项目，现在的项目是其中一个，大概做了两年多了：中间换了不知道多少contractors，现在好像还没有看到the light at the end of the tunnels。每次此类项目，management 一开始都有非常optimistic 的expectations：但实际工作中不是这样。 Why rewrite is hard? Or the hardest? I can think of a few reasons. 1) Management usually has very realistic (overly optimistic) expectations. I don’t know what kool aid the management drinks, but somehow there is current “sort of working system”, somehow lead
Reading Time: 2 minutes Storytelling is a very important skill to have, especially in a country like the USA, and at the this say of age. I think it’s important to have this skill over the history too. For example, in this article, we can see storytelling helped human beings survive, and I quote below: Since our ancestors evolved
Reading Time: < 1 minute I received a new HP EliteBook 645 G10 for work recently. Note I wrote about Desktops, Laptops And Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI For Work 我在美国上班20多年用过的那些电脑 recently too. I recall with my 1st new work laptop, an IBM ThinkPad, as I was working from home in 2008, I would be somewhat concerned if the laptop fans
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