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@marklucovsky

tibls, Ex-{Google, Facebook, Mombo, VMware, Google, Microsoft, DEC, Vitesse, Culler, Data General, Victor, Cal Poly SLO}

Kirkland, WA Katılım Mayıs 2008
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mark lucovsky
mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Do you know what wagon that is? We had a 1968, Fire Engine Red, Ford Country Sedan. It had dual facing rear seats and the magic window… I usually ended up in the way back — usually configured with the seats down, so no seats, bare metal decking, and no belts… In retrospect, it was probably very dangerous. At least the car had lap belts for most real seats…
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Dave W Plummer
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
@navyhato Still achievable, unless you need two cars, four cell phones, three iPads, a microwave, a desktop PC, and all the toys you're forgetting they didn't have.
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Felix Rex
Felix Rex@navyhato·
Previous generations could have this with ease. Why is this so much to ask?
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mark lucovsky
mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Before you do this: Claude — write everything down. I want to get back to work on this issue, but have to reboot. Let me know when you have written everything down so that after the reboot we can get right back into this session as if nothing happened. Cogitating…………… — now pick up your sync/reboot shit —
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Yes, the M1 path into more senior leadership was an attractive model. At a high growth place like Facebook that M1 could potentially become a D1 in 2-3 years. Where an L6 IC (m1 equivalent) would almost never hit L8 in that timeframe. So I suppose a good IC focused on career progression at all costs could be excited by this path. Most of the solid ICs in my orbit were no focused on their career progressions/titles. They were focused on the challenge and project. The best always ended up having an outsized contribution and they were well rewarded with high comp, lucrative stock grants, and the ability to drive their own future. Now, in the age of AI — the M1 role overseeing line ICs that are human is useless skill. That same M1 skill set is now focused on coordinating the activities of 5-10 AI based ICs. This is 10x harder than guiding humans since the AIs work so much faster.
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John P Alioto
John P Alioto@jpalioto·
I’d love to know your experience, but in mine, very good ICs push for M1 because they think it’s the only way for advancement and not because they truly want to develop the craft of getting the most out of a team. Few I have met spend any time at all to learn how to be a good manager and just wing it.
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@CatNyanpital @jpalioto That’s probably very true. Those folks will fail — but who knows. AI in their hands might be interesting. I think the m1s that were more coerced into leadership have a better shot
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@VicVijayakumar Nice chart on comp… Life as an L9 must be sweet — (other than all the corporate BS)
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Vic 🌮
Vic 🌮@VicVijayakumar·
I remember the day my salary crossed $100k - I was overjoyed. Software dev making six figures. Teacher wife making $40k. I went to the rich people grocery store and bought us a tub of the fanciest olives. I didn’t even like olives. We were about to have a baby. Life was good.
ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism

This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.

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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@VicVijayakumar At FB, L4 must get promoted to L5 withing ~3 years-ish or its game over. But L5 can remain there. Honestly, in this day an age, a technically strong L5 who has TL capabilities, but would rather lead AI agents than people, is probably the one worth the $1M/yr :)
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@SamCole You know I’ve heard that line before right 😎 Seriously, at Facebook/oculus folks would say the same thing but would concede that when they traveled there would be no room for their VR gear in their carryon
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Sam Cole | FitXR@SamCole·
VR isn't going to be a general computing device. It's going to win as a specialist Movies on a plane. Games at home. Fitness. Monitor replacement. Each one is a real category The "VR is dead" takes always measure it against the wrong success criterion
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@antirez In my days we wrote our own dependencies, owned and built it all by hand… There are no alternatives when boot strapping an operating system platform like Windows…
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antirez@antirez·
This is accurate, and you can make it more extreme in most cases today as: *build* your narrow-scope-dependencies, unless it is really a complicated stuff. In the second case, internalize it and specialize it.
Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh

Fork your dependencies, trim them to only your use case, never update unless it breaks for your users. I’ve been vocal about this for 10+ years. I’ve always said that updating is way riskier than latent bugs (which can be tracked and CVEs monitored). If you are updating a dependency, it’s on you to analyze every single commit in the full transitive set of dependencies. If you dont see anything compelling, dont update! I remember at HashiCorp once in awhile an engineer would try to update a dep or replace a DIY lib with an external one and id always ask “show me the commit we need.” Dont update for the sake of it. Feeling pretty swell about this mentality with all the supply chain attacks happening.

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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Vista was a stinking pile of shit because of bill’s infatuation with structured storage… But it was most likely rushed to market so that Microsoft could deliver a new OS within the time window covered by the enterprise licensing agreements. These gave the customer rights to everything delivered within a multi-year time window. If these customers didn’t get multiple new products in that time window there was a fear that they would step away from these agreements and revert to piecemeal purchases…
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
No it was not. ASTs - or an AST-like mechanism was already part of the IO completion mechanism, along with explicit waits. None of these had the efficient handoff mechanism that we built into Kernel Queues — the foundation for IO Completion ports. With the queue primitive we had a scalable mechanism that would allow the receiving thread to take over the remaining quantum directly from the depositor. This coupled with Fibers allowed the SQL engine to schedule it’s IO properly
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trish
trish@TrisH0x2A·
C10K problem in 1999 a software engineer named Dan Kegel wrote an article that changed how web servers are built the question was simple how do you handle 10,000 concurrent connections on one machine at the time Apache used one thread per connection, each thread needed memory for its stack around 8MB and 10,000 connections meant around 80GB of RAM just for stacks the system spent more time switching threads than doing real work servers crashed long before reaching 10k connections this became known as the C10K problem
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?
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mark lucovsky
mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Coding tools have changed a lot in my lifetime. I started with front-panel switches toggling in octal, then paper tape, punch cards, teletypes, amber 80x25 terminals, and VT100s. Today I spend most of my time in a Ghostty shell running Claude alongside Xcode reviewing, building, testing, and refining code Claude writes. What’s surprising isn’t just the code generation — it’s the feedback loop. For the first time, my dev tools actively evaluate how I work as an engineer: where I’m under-specifying goals, over-focusing on details, drifting scope, or communicating poorly. Makes me wonder what resumes and interview loops look like in a few years. As a hiring manager, I’d absolutely want to see this kind of tooling insight for candidates. Feels like systems like Claude /insights could become a meaningful supplement — or partial replacement — for parts of today’s SWE interview loop.
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
Sometimes your models are too smart for their own good and become a bit uncontrollable. For those of us using models at runtime correctness, consistency, stable performance are the most important considerations. For me, gpt-4o mini is ideal for my current app. Using gpt-5 was a hard fail.
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman@sama·
i get some anxiety not using the smartest-available model/settings. but sometimes i dont mind if it's really slow. i wonder if we should focus more on a price/speed tradeoff relative to a price/intelligence tradeoff.
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mark lucovsky@marklucovsky·
@ShaneLo32712676 @WhitakerTA_ Clearly a moron who has never hosted a 50 person open bar party… The food, servers, venue, etc. was probably priced at $125/head with provisions to add more liquor/wine/beer as needed. This is not the kind of event where people are doing fireball shooters
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Shane Locke
Shane Locke@ShaneLo32712676·
$7,128 bar tab / 50 attendees at party Sen. Van Hollen threw in Venezuela in honor of and attendance by Kilmar Ábrego García = $142.56 per person. Average cost of cocktail in Venezuelan Downtown/Club: ~$13 USD. Assume 20% tip ... that's about 9 drinks for each person ... some only 4, others 14. Assume one ounce liquor per drink, would take the human body 12 to 24 hours to clear it out of the blood stream. And this clown has the unmitigated gall to ask Kash (without receipts) if HE has a drinking problem? I bet Sen. Chris' house doesn't have any mirrors ... Proverbs 16:18 (ESV) ... Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. @ChrisVanHollen @FBIDirectorKash
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🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker
🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker@WhitakerTA_·
Nobody is telling you what actually happened in that hearing room. Everyone is covering the bar tab joke. Nobody is explaining what Van Hollen walked in there to do. Van Hollen's opening move was to ask the FBI Director if he had a drinking problem — on the record, in a budget hearing, in front of cameras. That's not oversight. That's a political assassination attempt. Here's the part everyone is missing: Patel came prepared. → He had Van Hollen's FEC filing pulled up before the question was even finished → The filing showed a $7,128 bar tab at the Lobby Bar — December 2025 — 50 attendees → Patel turned around mid-hearing and offered to post it in real time → Van Hollen's defense was "it wasn't public money" → Which confirmed the bar tab existed The senator who showed up to question someone else's drinking habits ended the exchange confirming his own $7,128 bar tab on the record. They're showing you the clip as a funny moment. They're NOT showing you that Van Hollen handed Patel the ammunition by asking the question in the first place. You don't bring a drinking accusation to a hearing against someone who already has your FEC receipts. The questioner became the subject. In real time. everyone who follows me has the same story.. "i wish i found this account sooner.
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