dvas

There are many ways of thinking and reasoning about the profession and what it means to each and every one of us.

Some of the buckets:

* The builders, don't care how they get the result.

* The crafters, those who care how they get to the results (vim vs emacs), and folks who enjoy looking at tiny tiny details deep in the stack.

* The get-it-done people, using standard IDE tools, stick with them, and it's a strict 9-5.

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And many with types, and subtypes of each ^^.

In my opinion, many people have a passion for making computers to do cool things. Along the way, some of us have fallen into the mentality of using a particular tool or way of doing things and get stuck in our ways.

I think it's another tool that you must know how to utilize and utilize in a way that does not atrophy your skills in the long run. I personally use it for learning and allowing me to get an in on a knowledge topic which I can then pull on and verify that the information is correct.

Might not be for everyone, but using git to index markdown notes + linking it against cloud storage like dropbox/icloud to have it available on phones/tables have served me well over the last 5 years.

I think the best approach to take with personal knowledge bases or any knowledge data, is to have the ability to bring your data in and out as one pleases.

In my flow, I use a hybrid Zettelkasten-based approach to linking notes. vscode, zettlr, logseq, obsidian all render correctly. I am happy to see more tools which exhibit more of this "bring your own data" mantra.

Thanks for sharing Shane, and nice to see companies engaged with the community on a technical level!

For personal use:

What works is a good plain old rss.

Delivered to my client of choice, via gui or cli. Skipping ads and clickbait articles to save me time.

With a wave of generated content flooding some automated systems, the best curation will be done by yourself by finding reliable sources to subscribe to.

I think it is so important to be able to disconnect from whatever it is that we are doing, even for a very short period of time. Go for a walk, brew a coffee or simply close your eyes and breathe.

Many times, stress is created artificially. It hurts our performance and deteriorates our ability to think.

Encountered numerous situations where work was "urgent" and would likely land a contract or sales for the company, and everyone would be a superstar if they delivered this "crunch".

After 2 months of pulling all-nighters and sleeping for 3/4 hours, we deliver the project ahead of time. Apathy begins to set in after management/decision makers keep on giving these gifts we call "crunches".

To help the company and go the extra mile is something most of us have done in the past and will possibly do in the future. However, it's like the story of the boy who cried wolf, if everything is urgent and every task is to be done NOW, then there are bigger issues at play.

Like everything in life, there is usually a limit/budget of money, time and effort. By abusing these limits and tolerances, people will lose respect for the people crying wolf and will put less effort into their work.

Awesome reply, and thank you for the well put together answer linking to resources and for sharing your experience.

For Cortex-A8 from [4] and the others you have linked, It makes sense to me now regarding the instruction passing data between registers, filling out the pipeline and then stalling.

Will have a peek at ARMv8/ARMv9 arch's and see what they did there regarding SVE/SVE2.