Dmitry Mazin
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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 posts about file systems.
Also, here are some posts about AI.
- Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?
- A disk is a bunch of bits
- How does Linux really handle writes?
Also, here are some posts about AI.
- Reddit is OpenAI's Moat
- On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
- In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
- Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
And here are all my other posts.
- Hello, new subscribers.
- Lab Notes: Confirming That Writes Get Buffered
- Lab Notes: Confusing myself with data
- Lab Notes: A Whole Lot About Disks and File Systems
- Programming Note: No Lab Today
- Lab Notes: Something weird is happening with sysbench
- Lab Notes: Throughput vs Duration
- Lab Notes: Installing Docker Engine using Ansible
- Lab Notes: Provisioning Ubuntu on an old Intel Macbook Pro
- Lab Notes: Running a basic sysbench MySQL benchmark
- A crash course in black-box monitoring
- Let’s play: I've lost my website!