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hedin_hiervardon Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions

How do you deal with Steam Guard code?

hedin_hiervardon When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition

I was once asked a very similar problem during a job interview for a position of a software engineer. I was offered to solve it on a piece of paper or orally. We ran out of time and they offered me to take it home. I did and I spent a few hours thinking about it. Google and ChatGPT were not able to produce better results than the intuitive answer, so I built a test program that confirmed the weird behaviour. After meditating for a few hours I was able to find the correct answer and I was indeed fascinated by this. Do you also think it's too much for a usual interview?

hedin_hiervardon The resting places of giants (2014)

What I find especially exciting here is the fact that the Geeeks were okay with the idea that Ahilles, Ajax and other guys from Trojan war stories were actually 4m high. You could never imagine that reading The Iliad.