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I used to believe this but after my most recent position I no longer do. A lot of the developers there didn't code outside of work hours, or if they did it was just using the same technologies as the day to day.

When asked what tools we could use to filter for higher quality candidates in open roles I responded:

> Ask them to show you a personal project they're proud of, that will tell if they have any passion for the job.

Maybe it was just the company not being very attractive to talented coders, but after some time of candidates having nothing to show the company gave up and outsourced. There are simply a lot of uninspired developers who are just in it for the money now.

Maybe some kind of confirmation bias / no true scotsman argument, but if I got that question during an interview my response would be something like

> Which one would you like to hear about first?

Not saying this is in fact the case, but with trillions of dollars of QE and the Cantillon effect it seems entirely possible that in some industries they could.

- Napkin / serviette

- Lavatory or loo / toilet

- Graveyard / cemetery

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

The recruiter needs a PDF? Have a version linked to at the top of the document, or let them know that they can just press CTRL+P and your beautiful hand crafted css media queries will lay out an equivalent copy ready to be printed.

Like a lot of the other comments here, a LaTeX resume signals to me that the applicant probably spends more time code-golfing than implementing practical solutions.

old argument i know, but if a human gets that wrong and plows a pedestrian they wear the consequences, will an auto manufacturer do the same?

my guess is no, and the result of that is that even if we can get a majority of cars to be self driving they are probably not going to be pushing the limits of road capacity any time soon like GP suggests, more likely they will continue to drive super conservatively and fail fast like the videos in the linked article.

do you:

- send the car home

no, it would only get halfway home before the end of your appointment

- send it on a rideshare journey

let's say (conservatively, and according to some minimum regulations from the rideshare service) it gets assigned a job after 5 minutes to drive somebody 10 minutes away. it finishes its job at the same time as your appointment ends. you have to wait 10 minutes for it to return to you. again no.

- send it to a parking lot

assuming the parking lot is 5 minutes away and you can tell it to return 5m before your appointment ends this seems reasonable

- drive circles around your appointment

all the benefits of sending it to the parking lot but requires even less effort as you no longer have to remember to tell it your appointment is finishing.

now apply this logic to the general public. what is the most likely outcome?

> Further analysis of these 15 reports indicated that a two-hour exposure to blue light (460 nm) in the evening suppresses melatonin, the maximum melatonin-suppressing effect being achieved at the shortest wavelengths (424 nm, violet)

> The melatonin concentration recovered rather rapidly, within 15 min from cessation of the exposure, suggesting a short-term or simultaneous impact of light exposure on the melatonin secretion.

A cursory reading of the list of signatories shows mostly academics, so your summary of their motivations appears to be incorrect.

> not like that, not by democratizing it, but under OUR CONTROL

I also don't know how you came to that conclusion, from TFA:

> Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders

> Could there be a mistake here?

in place of simply correcting and then getting back on track with actually solving a presumably difficult problem. <<The Zone>> is a fleeting thing, especially with two programmers. Such nebulous, passive language seems like a guaranteed way to disrupt any kind of flow state.

- select 3+ pairs of matching points in each cloud (tops of trees, edges of a building etc)

- calculate the vector to the centroid of each cloud

- use SVD to calculate the rotation that gives a minimum distance when applied from the source to the target

- translate and rotate the source cloud to the target

I did this using the rust nalgebra^1 crate after reading a very helpful paper^2 detailing the process. I had planned to build the rust lib into WASM so the process could be run alongside the browser based point cloud visualiser we were using, but had limited time and instead used Neon^3 to build a native binding for our nodejs server to use.

^1 https://docs.rs/nalgebra/latest/nalgebra/linalg/struct.SVD.h...

^2 https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/ARAP/svd_rot.pdf

^3 https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

jokes aside, redshift is based on pg^1, you can try an older version to get some semblance of it running locally.

1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-an...

Here in AU we call that "wages".

Having to do quick maths while under social pressure and the threat of having your service quality degraded to make up for an employer or state being unwilling to pay workers enough to live might be called "coercion", but certainly it is externalising costs onto the customer.

Poker is played competitively both online and in the casinos of every country all over the world 24/7. There are a phenomenal number of players compared to Ivy league students.

Unlike the lottery, it is also largely considered to be a game of skill based on a combination of statistics and social manipulation.

GP is generally implying that because the ratio of players to successful players is so small for a game so widespread that is is very difficult and requires a huge amount of skill to make a significant amount of money playing poker.

I knew I was different, but I didn't think I was that different...

> at last, we can make websites

"First principles" in this context is not just reaching for the nearest/newest AWS service that seems to do what you want. ie. if you want a webserver, don't just run magic lambdas that abstract everything away from you, go and provision a vps and install your dependencies on it so you fully understand and control how the stack works.

None of the 12 engineers at my current company had written a test that actually wrote rows to a database when I arrived, they didn't know how. In fact none of them knew anything about how to run our databases on their own dev machines at all, they all shared one RDS PG instance.

Again, "first principles" here is: running a process, connecting to a service, asserting the whole thing did what you expected. To do that effectively you have to actually control the whole system, and to do that you have to know how the whole system works together. A lot of developers now just delegate the provisioning and maintenance of everything to a provider, even in development setups.

> Don't fuckin' come here and ignore the rules

Rust to the rescue, as it always is for safety. (I don't know if this directly translates for tensors, I used it for manipulating point clouds and iirc it allows for arbitrary dimension containers)

* manipulating lists with functional programming * manipulating lists with OOP * manipulating lists with a non memory managed language * manipulating lists with a hard type safe language

and will start being interested in * guiding people to manipulate lists as simply as possible to MAKE SOME MONEY

> The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

> The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949

AI alignment concerns are definitely overblown...

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#baseUrl

- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, 1954

ahh good, so which interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct?