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While I love the "edgy-ness" of this, I remember doing something like this around 2013 in Manhattan and kind of enjoyed it. They had me go into a room, and gave me a paper with an open ended question: it was something along the lines of, write as much detail as I could about what happens when a user visits a URL in a web browser. E.g. explain as much as I know about TCP, HTTP requests, web servers, etc. I think I touched on how Cookies worked as well.

No AI, no leet code, just old fashioned gauging someone's experience and communication skills.

This year I finally decided to start using my non-google voice number to take advantage of the much better SMS/MMS/RCS options. Google Voice has just obviously stagnated over the years with almost zero new features. The new automatic spam call answering screener I believe is also not supported on Google Voice which is very ironic, you would think Google Voice would be the perfect place to implement this!

Just another case of extend and extinguish by Google -- they acquired Grand Central many years ago to create Google Voice but then never really took it anywhere.

No, definitely didn't touch any of it. Once I found out that all you got was actually a URL to a CDN that is not guaranteed to be serving that data forever, I knew it was a house of cards, a complete facade. If the "digital asset" you were "purchasing" had all of its bits and bytes living in the global public ledger, I might give it a bit more attention or support. But definitely not the way it was set up.

I need to do some more research on this. Because I've always been told that AI, more specifically LLMs, are "glorified autocompletes". Yes they have huge data sets but ultimately they can only provide answers based on data that they were trained on.

So how can they possibly solve problems that humans have worked for decades or centuries on without being able to solve? How did they find something new? Is it that they were able to deduce the solution by examining all current data sets? Or simply brute force it until the produced solution passed all necessary tests?

Yes, my mind went directly here

You need to add achievements/trophies! Definitely need to achieve a trophy for clicking on the very first square, finding the first mine, your first flag, etc.

Who hurt you?

Policy officers are mis-using this powerful, hugely invasive massive surveillance tool? I am utterly shocked!

I would NOT get tattooed for a job interview. I WOULD get tattooed for a JOB. Yes I'm that desperate. YES This is highly unethical.

Interesting -- I thought OnePlus batteries were supposed to wear down LESS than other phones specifically because of their "High amp" charging technique versus "High voltage". After some quick research it seems this is mostly due to the heat generated during charging happens in the charger brick instead of the phone, keeping the heat away from the battery. But I suppose in real world situations it may not have a huge effect.

YES!!! I fucking hate all these stupid web-pages-as-Apps

That's why I said I'd suggest things. And of course I'd go along with strategic plans. Every company is different -- you'd be surprised at how many shitty [small] companies are out there that are actually profitable and want to keep things the same, refusing to do anything differently.

I would say quantum computing. It's one area you can't just tell an LLM to solve for you (yet, until the material and solutions are out there of course).

This is why I always work at a new company at least 6-12 months before making any major changes. I use that time to get into the flow of how things are being done (even if I think they are not efficient). I may make some suggestions but that's it.

Of course, I'll probably never get hired again anywhere so it doesn't matter anymore.

Much respect -- at first glance when I saw the animated gif I thought this was just a project making assets from scratch for an existing game engine (e.g. Doom or Wolf 3D) but then I realize it's creating all the game code from scratch too! (But using similar techniques from the old days). Amazing work.

I count 5 based on that link. And only 2 are in USA, so my apologies, should have said "PHP + allowed to work in USA (remote/hybrid/onsite)". two is greater than zero, so hurray I guess...

I don't have any proof but it sounds plausible; they also have an interactive button (does not require any login), so it could be that they rank the interactive event higher, but still count plain views as something. I'd say it's a fair indicator at least on a basic level.

that sounds awesome. sad that something like that probably would not work well in USA. don't have the culture for it. too many pieces would get lost.

This is a very good intro to systemd timers -- I think you convinced me to finally start using them. Love the "list-timers" thing as well. With cron, it never seemed easy to me to get a picture of all the cron jobs running on a box. I'd need to check crontab for all users, as well as /etc/cron.d/, as well as the daily/hourly/monthly directories.

And in fact I do have a use-case for needing to run something ~5 minutes after the system boots and then every ~12 hours onward from there. It's great that systemd timers has me covered!

that's impressive -- nice work.

that's nuts, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem like those products are that mind blowingly complex... wow. Makes we want to try building my own for the hell of it.

Downdetector in fact just seems to be a website catalog with essentially a guestbook and hit counter...

I got "approve" wrong for `ls -la ~/Documents` but I don't consider simply listing the documents folder a security problem, it's just file names. If it was reading the CONTENTS of them, maybe...

Just like real life! deny it from doing anything and you're safe :)

I have not seen "PHP" listed as a language used in any Hacker News job posting in a very long time. Everything is Javascript/Typescript now, with the occasional Rust, C/C++, Golang, Python, Ruby. I never see PHP ever.

From "This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely." and what seems to amount to some experimental curiosity -- to merging the whole thing in 10 days!? This seems really crazy.

yes absolutely -- although I did use Nvidia GTX 1070 for a bunch of years without much of an issue, and I still believe Nvidia gets you more "bang for your buck", I would only buy AMD cards now due to the more integral support with Linux gaming.

Modding will continue to be a challenge, but doable, thing, until more mod devs get onboarded to Linux themselves. If the mod devs enjoy using Linux, they'll probably start building mods with UIs native to Linux.

I would say custom modding and online multiplayer anti-cheat systems are the last real hold outs, and even then it doesn't affect every game.

That is honestly amazing and impressive. Probably a bit too much tweaking for the common gamer though, but glad it is possible!

I love it! I just wish I could enlarge the photos! EDIT: ah, it works to right-click open image in new tab.

I grew up on the small 6 inch 1 bit Mac SE display so the art style has a special place in my heart. Sadly I'm too "dumb" to fully enjoy the game as it requires a lot of attention to detail -- amazing if you enjoy detective style puzzles! I still highly respect it.