Do not get gentle into your CS major
I used to believe I was the one on earth who loved this field the most. Now I suspect I care the least. I cannot see the future, sprinting toward a horizon that keeps receding into darkness. Part of this text was written one year ago, originally meant to be the script for a video. I found it too clumsy and in constant need of revision, so I reformed it into an essay.
Before I begin, let me summarize a remark of one brilliant peer. Variance is enormous in the field. Joining the frontier requires a résumé that is outlandishly perfect. It is never too much to repeat this. However, since anyone actually aiming for that perfection is unlikely to read a post like this, I only deal with the question how large the the gap/residual will be if you fall short.
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(16 Aug 2025) in Shanxi and Beijing
슈홋(守候) 2038넌(年)
This post is written in Dan’a’yo, a zonal auxiliary language. In case you are really bizarre, you can enable vertical writing for East Asian Scripts in the menu of right bottom corner.
2018年初, 出入 애니메컨벤션之 学生群 発表 楽曲 ‘2038’, 質問 20年後於 其人之音楽夢 幾可 毀滅, 想像 其人与 観衆 賃金労働者如 1節之 地下鉄於 川流.
秒時計之 終結, 2038年, 有名 UNIX之 漫流故障由. 歌詞之 作者, 慣習 捉刀事之 黄하비선, 視覚様 不慣習 콤퓨터, 不似 引證 此事 歌詞于. 整数漫流故障 作 治乱興亡之 比喩 亦困難様. 黄氏 設慮 折節(放棄 音楽)事, 真実之後続 非 反現実 然, 黄氏之思想 反現実 一定様. 黄氏 自信様 想像 者, 地下鉄於 混雑事 非, (維音楽界於) 極盛 終了事 是.
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(17 Jun 2025) 北京於
Buku-name de Mini kon Sina-litera
Mini a linga de-i make de S.C. Gruget en ano 2020. Note-metodo de Mini kon Sina-litera e de-i make de Onerio an amigo en junta de Mini, i kan ade a man ke savi a Sina-litera go-i etudi a Mini. Onerio i de pubili a video de di ota note-metodo. Di note i efeto sama mi note de Kokanu.
Leje e mui (88 name) ⋙(8 Jun 2025) en Pekin
‘My Path’ after twenty years
Goliath was pelted with ten million stones every June. It must be painful.
— Me, commenting elsewhere
After the faith fades, the ritual remains.
We still carry stones — not for victory,
but to remember our past goals.
— ChatGPT, mimicking a contemporary
Twenty-two years ago, a college fresher penned an essay titled My Path. She began with a modest line: ‘I don’t consider myself a winner. I am just an ordinary person who keeps growing and thinking.’
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(31 May 2025) in Beijing, AI-assisted ╱ society ⌗ gaokao
My linguistic history
Before the FSF40 gathering, William Goodspeed checked my blog when receiving my inquiry email. When I opened the same website in person, he asked: ‘Are you into linguistics?’ I wasn’t sure what expectations an English major might have by ‘into linguistics’, so I awkwardly avoided answering.
The other day, I read a reflection on their linguistic journey from a linguistics guru. This guru’s encounter with language began with academic competitions and has since woven a marvelous double helix of career and language, an achievement I can hardly imagine. Their article, however, debunked my ‘single-origin hypothesis of the linguistics community’, as I had assumed the entire language circle stemmed from discussions on a BBS forum in the early 2000s. This prompted me to reflect on the role language and linguistics have played in my life.
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(26 May 2025) in Beijing ╱ retrospection
A slice of Bash programmable completion
During the process of migrating a Conda environment and mitigating confliction, I noticed Bash programmable completion was experiencing an issue when the environment was not yet incomplete. I seemingly showed no curiousity, proceeding to enter the command despite STDERR for the rest of migration. This post was created after that since there are no Marginalia search engine-style sources on Bash programmable completion.
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(2 May 2025) from Beijing
Enhypen Alphabet
Enhypen Alphabet is a language-neutral spelling system for Chinese characters, specifically for Chinese-derived proper names. It bears less prejudice from Mandarin, as compared to Yuen Ren Chao’s General Chinese and Professor Gu Qian’s Common Sound Systems of Chinese Dialects, where the bias is more or less dedicated.
It serves as a startpoint to ‘Sinicize’ respective for tacit perceptions of characters, which is barely possible for natural languages, stubborn for previous works, and Shidinn leads to the other extreme.
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(31 Mar 2025) from Pȣkkeq
GNU 四十年
2023 年 9 月 23 日，工程师及作家 Ploum 在网站发布了 « 40 ans de GNU »，本文是翻译，譍作者要求以 CC BY-SA 授权（而非本站默认的 CC BY-ND）。我很喜欢 Ploum 至少在此展现的文风。您可在 Gemini 协议阅读原文与本文。
Richard Stallman 不想改变世界。他不想和风车战斗。他不想再造轮子。Richard Stallman 只想寻回他的朋友，他的社群。
这个蓄须的胖乎乎的年轻人，社交关系一直不简单。他总是沈浸在书里，爱解逻辑谜题，总是找不到自己的位置。他喜欢与人交往、长谈和跳舞，可他对数学的兴趣似乎总有些格格不入，尤其是他的幽默常被误解，使人惊愕或害怕。
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(8 Mar 2025) 译自 Ploum
‘If need be, I will leave w/o looking back…’
You may have perceived the title as another clickbait, and the post as a mere ‘2024 review’. The title is the exact word I repeatedly told myself, however, ever since the outcome of my incorrigible decisions this year. I will remember the train returning to Lanzhou, where I stared at the dim wooden bulkhead, sitting huddled and feeling as if fevered. Following the should-have-been-memorable graduation, I viewed no exhibition, applied for no internship, and pushed further no personal projects that is even less viable in the new circumstances.
This should not hinder that the title line is an excuse. I have been giving up giving up all the time. I am conned to believe that I am not facing a choice. Dare call it no choice; that escape to Zion is the only choice.
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(31 Dec 2024) civitate terrena
omekapo, Lánzhōu
tenpo pini lili la, mi tawa weka tan tomo sona lon ma tomo Lánzhōu.
mi pana e lipu mi la, tenpo suno luka luka tu tu li tawa. tenpo pini ni la, mi awen wile pona e lipu. taso, mi pilin ike tawa nasin mi la, mi ken ala toki. tenpo pi kama sona li pini lon tenpo lili. taso, mi jaki lukin li jaki pilin.
lipu ni (nimi 522) ⋙(2 Jun 2024) lon ma Kansu ╱ retrospection ⌗ toki-pona