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Re:On Leaving Facebook by renewiltord on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:15AM (#30033850)
I once aspired to be a kernel dev. As an aside, I once spoke to an engineer at a previous gig and told him that we don't get as low-level as what he was used to (wrote kernel code) and he was affronted. Had to calm him down and tell him that I meant "close to the metal" not "inferior software".

Didn't work out for other reasons but I was embarrassed.

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Re:On Leaving Facebook by throwawaylinux on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:44AM (#30034004)
Sounds like he needed some thicker skin or awareness of the terms of art in his own field! I don't think you had anything to be embarrassed about, that's what my pun was related to.

Although as another aside, I know some kernel devs who do very low level work for HFT. You're not in Chicago or NYC so maybe you're not in that game. Or at least you're happy to keep a healthy distance from the coalface.

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