WebLog

Introspection, musings, ideas, rant, moments of fun and more.

[k4rtik]

Not a painting, just filter overuse. #goldengatebridge #sanfrancisco (at Golden Gate Bridge)

[k4rtik]

10 Types of Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of - Wait But Why

When you're young, you make friends kind of by accident. Then they stick. That's why you're now part of these 10 odd friendships.

So, I needed to get educated about my friendships. This relaxed me a bit.

[llimllib]

Given the hurricane, where is the butterfly?

Leventhal’s Conundrum (via llimllib) Original source: http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/systems.pdf

[k4rtik]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1b1H2EWU4)

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[k4rtik]

Couple of weird things happened today

1. Early in the morning, I failed to recall the name of a girl I asked out on Valentine’s day just 3 years ago. 2. Emailed Andy and got a thoughtful response back. 3. Not the same with someone else I emailed. 4. Felt so lonely at night that I decided to go out for a walk. Asked two people to join, one rejected, another didn’t see the text until I was back. The best part was meeting 3 explorers on the way and joining them for an adventure without second thought.

Life is surprises.

[k4rtik]

The mind behind Linux

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

[k4rtik]

Social Media

[k4rtik]

If you’re a C++ programmer about to be interviewed, and if you’re lurking in this FAQ hoping to know the questions they’ll ask you ahead of time so you can avoid having to really learn C++, shame on you: spend your time becoming technically competent and you won’t have to try to “cheat” your way through life!

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/big-picture#interview-questions

[k4rtik]

250 Years of Hack@Brown

[k4rtik]

Just learnt about and started using Tor Browser.

[k4rtik]

Beginning of April

… has been kinda unproductive. Turned the tables of productive vs distracting time on April 1 (that is the joke was on me). They say “the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Indeed, I enjoyed the time after 7:45pm, when I went to a Pub Trivia Night for the first time, with people like me (read nerds). But I cannot account for the rest of the day which is the whole day!

I am going to serialize my tasks now, avoiding the urge to multitask with another until the first task is over. Let’s see how this goes.

[k4rtik]

[sci-universe]

Scientists as fighting game characters

Science Combat is a series of GIFs that transforms legendary scientists into fighting game characters, with special moves inspired by their discoveries and inventions. It was designed by the Brazilian illustrator Diego Sanches for Superinteressante magazine. Here are my favourites:

Nikola Tesla and teleforce

Pythagoras and tetractys

Isaac Newton and Opticks

Charles Darwin and evolution

Marie Curie and polonium 

Albert Einstein and relativity

Stephen Hawking and wormholes  

See all of them here

[sci-universe]

YOU CAN NOW PLAY THE GAME ON YOUR WEB BROWSER!

[k4rtik]

These are just brilliant. :D

[k4rtik]

Don't finalize the logo before you come up with a business plan that works. Don't spend a lot of time thinking about your vacation policy before you have a product that people actually want to buy. There are endless small...

Hiding takes many forms. Inappropriate attention to detail is a big one, because it feels like a responsible thing to do.

[k4rtik]

First commit of the day (later than yesterday)!

[k4rtik]

Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust

Abstract

This paper describes the experience, problems and successes found in implementing a unix-like operating system kernel in rust. Using the basic design and much of the lowest-level support code from the Weenix operating system written for CS167/9 I was able to create a basic kernel supporting multiple kernel processes scheduled cooperatively, drivers for the basic devices and the beginnings of a virtual file system. I made note of where the rust programming language, and its safety and type systems, helped and hindered my work and made some, tentative, performance comparisons between the rust and C implementations of this kernel. I also include a short introduction to the rust programming language and the weenix project.

Apparently an undergrad implemented Weenix in Rust last year. Redox OS folks might be interested in this.