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Koshy John’s recent article, “A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It,” made the Hacker News front page and resonated with a lot of engineers. The core thesis is right: AI is splitting the profession into people who use it to think better and people who use it to avoid thinking. I agree with the analogies and the warnings about simulated competence. But John writes from…
Have you ever wondered why some processes have brackets around their names? PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? Ss 0:03 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system 2 ? S 0:00 [ kthreadd ] 4 ? I< 0:00 [ kworker/0:0H ] 6 ? I< 0:00 [ mm_percpu_wq ] ... The COMMAND column shows the command that was used to start that process and all its arguments in a string. By reading the ps(1) man page, you will…
Hi there! I’m a Site Reliability Engineer focused on performance and diagnostics , which means I spend my days on the machinery underneath the systems people actually use: storage, networking, the reliability plumbing nobody notices until it fails. I’ve been doing this long enough to trust that understanding why something works outlasts knowing how to operate it, and that the problems…