Unhinged approach to interviewing
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I also like to try to read research papers every now and then. On weekends I'll print one out and sit with a french press and pen and read through it, and it's a nice time. (Today I'm reading "Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all cause mortality" by Aune et. al 2017)
Well I think you answered it:
To become a developer, I disciplined my mind to do impressive and useful things. The resulting feelings were pride and speciality and therefore sometimes joy.
And those feelings are gone now that software engineering has become a low-discipline, low-barrier to entry activity.
Am I immoral or vain for having derived joy from that -- I think is another matter, and one which doesn't resurrect the joy no matter how it's answered
Someone said:
> No one is stopping you from doing what you enjoy.
But that's wrong. LLMs are creating an environment in which some things are no longer enjoyable.
For example there is less joy to be had in learning a programming language in 2026 than there was in 2016, because there is less utility in it now.
I disagree with this. The argument _only works_ if prediction is hard.
^ That's your problem right there.
Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but that's no reason to think it's correct.
The blog post contains no justification for that model (besides well it's a "function that hits infinity"). I can model the growth of my bank account the same way but that doesn't make it so. Unfortunately.
In other words, I can't think of a use case in industry or academia or daily life or whatever, where someone needs to prove that a file existed at a specific time
Oh come on, it's easy:
Does the project have a setup.py? if so, first run several other commands before you can run it. python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .
else does it have a requirements.txt? if so python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
else does it have a pyproject.toml? if so poetry install and then prefix all commands with poetry run ...
else does it have a pipfile? pipenv install and then prefix all commands with pipenv run ...
else does it have an environment.yml? if so conda env create -f environment.yml and then look inside the file and conda activate <environment_name>
else does it have a uv.ock? then uv sync (or uv pip install -e .) and then prefix commands with uv run.
Titling it "The World Happiness Report Is a Sham" and calling it "beset with methodological problems", I would expect some more serious scientific malpractices, like data fabrication, calculation errors, sampling problems, p-hacking, etc., not "I think there are some problems with this variable".
I get it if you feel like that question falls short of representing your own personal concept of happiness, but that question is the standard in positive psychology research for measuring self reported subjective well being, and hardly enough to say the report is "beset with methodological problems".
- a pnpm maintainer 1 year ago
- the purpose will change
Your "silicon-valley-bank-integrator" tool will eventually need to be updated to do something else.
Or your "login-page-config-service" tool may eventually do more than just logins.
Using gibberish or mythological names gives a nice memorable name that doesn't lead (or mislead) you to believe it does a particular thing which may or may not be correct anymore.
Oh and yeah, I guess I do think lots of script / AI kiddies would be discouraged by, or fail to see an opportunity when presented with, something that does not look like the numbers they saw in school.
Are monotonic/sequential ULIDs as easily enumerated as integers? It's the ease of enumerability that keeps a lot of folks away from using sequential integers as IDs
Kudos to you for owning up to it.
As others have said, it's the kind of thing that could happen to anyone, unfortunately.
It's "terrible" because the author can describe exactly one phishing vector?..
Have you ever tried resetting a password before? Passwords have a similar phishing vector, plus many other problems that magic links and one-time login codes don't have.
If six-digit login codes are less secure than passwords, the reasons why are certainly not found in this article.
Exactly my complaint. You still have to go into some web portal and install your public key, I guess.
> What prevents someone else from trying to register or push my JWKS to the API owner?
Well for one thing they wouldn't have access to your public key since you won't be hosting them publicly somewhere. But for another thing it will be useless to them unless they have access to your private key
Hmm I wonder if you are thinking that the JSON webkeys of the user need to be hosted publicly. I don't think they technically do. It's a common convention to do so (especially at some well-known URL).
But the user actually could instead send their public key on each and every JWT-bearing request they send, and as long as that public key is both (1) pre-registered with the API owner and tied to some identity the API recognizes as some authorized user and (2) can successfully be used to validate the signature, it should work just fine.