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Shang-chi

Shang-chi

Yesterday, we (my wife, daughter, and I) went to the movie theater to watch " Shang-chi and the Legend of Ten Rings [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Chi_and_the_Legend_of_the_Ten_Rings]." I didn't take so long to realize that how much I did

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe

My last summer vacation was at Lake Tahoe. It was my first visit to Tahoe. I heard a lot about Tahoe from many friends (mainly about the Wintertime for skiing) and articles (not only tour guides but do you know the TCP Tahoe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_

The Move

The Move

I was busy this month, both personally and professionally, due to the move. Although I cannot tell all details, my recent tasks have been mainly a migration: transfer data to a new structure. It is no sophisticated works. But any discrepancy can introduce catastrophic side-effects, so it has kept me

Anki

Anki

I'm reading Lab Girl (Hope Jahren) [https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Girl-Hope-Jahren/dp/1101873728/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lab+girl&qid=1612737909&sr=8-1] these days and have struggled with my lack of vocabulary. I have been used to engineering and some political/economics jargon, but

GameStop Frenzy

GameStop Frenzy

I have been a GameStop [https://www.gamestop.com] member since 2009. I love to visit their retail store (though I couldn't visit during this pandemic) and their print-version magazine (very rare these days) Game Informer [https://www.gameinformer.com/]. But GameStop was a center of a global

What You Do is Who You Are

What You Do is Who You Are

When I read Ben Horowitz's last book (The Hard things about Hard things [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+hard+thing+about+hard+things&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0rSABhDlARIsAJtjfCc_PIxPZpB1-LF_S46TIr2T5mSQihrX2S2G5wc1nTik7kKMsEcg_-oaAkKrEALw_wcB&hvadid=241639809987&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031971&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&

Pipelining with Go

A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a question about the Go concurrency control. The question was, "Can we assure that doSomething(0) always runs before doSomething(2)?" The answer would be, "No." We cannot determine the order in which goroutine can run at