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Woile

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Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

I like to read about history, geopolitics and sci-fi

I also enjoy reading technicals books as a Software Engineer

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Mara Bos: Rust Atomics and Locks (2022, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated) 5 stars

The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many …

Review of 'Rust Atomics and Locks' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Really good book that helped me bring concurrency down to earth. Well explained and full of examples. The only thing I would add is a bit more about intuition, for example, a way to identify how many threads are needed for a solution and under which scenarios threads make sense (notice my lack of experience with threads).

reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com) 4 stars

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

Review of 'All Systems Red' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I really enjoyed this book. I like the idea that the Android is just lazy, because what do you want when you are a free agent? No one knows, so murderbot can choose to do good or bad

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (Hardcover, 2021, Ballantine Books) 4 stars

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity …

Review of 'Project Hail Mary' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Wow! What an excellent book. It's so engaging! I feel excited the whole journey. I like the hard-sci-fi shown in this book. It's all about the science, engineering and experimenting in order to move forward. Amazing!

Iain M. Banks: Look to windward (2002, Pocket Books) 4 stars

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.

It led to …

Review of 'Look to windward' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Super nice book, showing a bit more about the culture and their ways. Spite of that, I didn't like it much as the others, the Minds are presented too godly, making them very hard to imagine becoming reality. With perfect beings is very easy to have a perfect system, there's no space to dream for an earther of this time

Iain M. Banks: The Player of Games (1997, HarperPrism) 4 stars

The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, …

Review of 'The Player of Games' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Excellent book that explores the values of the culture when dealing with a patriarchal society. This society casually it's quite similar to our society. It's really well told, how a more advanced society would perceive us and all the horrors we still have.