Dmitry Mazin
"cyberdemon.org is a cool domain"
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Read this blog if computers interest you.
I live in London. These days I am a Linux engineer at a trading company.
Remembering my father Yevgeniy Mazin, 1964-2023
Here are some of my favorite technical posts.
Also, here are some posts about AI.
- Mar 2024 Demystifying git submodules
- Aug 2023 Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?
- Jul 2023 A disk is a bunch of bits
- Jun 2023 How does Linux really handle writes?
Also, here are some posts about AI.
- Jun 2023 Reddit is OpenAI's Moat
- Apr 2023 On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
- Mar 2023 In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
- Dec 2017 Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
And here are all my other posts.
- Jun 2024 Grief
- Jun 2023 Hello, new subscribers.
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Confirming That Writes Get Buffered
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Confusing myself with data
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: A Whole Lot About Disks and File Systems
- Mar 2023 Programming Note: No Lab Today
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Something weird is happening with sysbench
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Throughput vs Duration
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Installing Docker Engine using Ansible
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Provisioning Ubuntu on an old Intel Macbook Pro
- Mar 2023 Lab Notes: Running a basic sysbench MySQL benchmark
- Feb 2023 A crash course in black-box monitoring
- May 2021 Let’s play: I've lost my website!