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by biztos 4y ago
We already have the problem of people who are good at grinding LeetCode and passing FAANG interviews, but terrible at actual software engineering. And the inverse. Why would this not just transfer to the certification process?
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by biztos 4y ago
There is Zündholz for “match” but lo[0], apparently there is/was Zündzeug: https://www.dwds.de/wb/dwb/zündzeug [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo
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by biztos 4y ago
A related one I like is “vonundzu” which I guess you’d have to spell as “fanencú?” I’ve never seen it spelled, but it’s dismissive slang for aristocrats both real and self-appointed.
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by biztos 4y ago
Synonymwörterbuch, apparently: https://shop.duden.de/collections/worterbucher-und-sprache/p...
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by biztos 4y ago
I disagree about the Zeug, I think it’s great to have the flexibility — “Zeug” is also just “thing” sometimes — but I find Fahrzeug and Flugzeug just as intuitive as Werkzeug and Feuerzeug. Now relating them to the various meanings of “zeu
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by biztos 4y ago
> less likely to be pre-judged I wonder how much that has to do with the hiring managers also being women. (For the places where that’s the case.)
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by biztos 4y ago
Do you look at codebase quality? As in, have someone good at Language X go through the target's repos and deliver a verdict on how good the actual code is, and how well it's organized etc?
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe Twitter Blue was a cash grab, but for me as a light user (and not a Blue) it’s way more transparent and sensible now. “Paid account with extra features” is just far easier to parse than “someone at Twitter thinks this person/comp
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by biztos 4y ago
At least in the Dahl case, they're explicitly trying to change the tone of the works, and not just the "content" -- whatever that word is supposed to mean in the context of literature. Everybody's family is different,
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by biztos 4y ago
There are tons of books that actually are a product of the current time. Why not read those, and support living writers, instead of changing the meaning of older works? Seems like your problem here is easier to solve without messing with t
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by biztos 4y ago
Yes, if you give sub-five-star reviews it seriously messes with the hosts’ bookings, from what I’ve heard. And it’s pretty common for one person to manage a bunch of properties for the owners, so a bad review is messing directly with that
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by biztos 4y ago
> and moved to another property Because of this. I spend a lot of time picking the property and often, where I go, there aren’t that many good ones, nor much time left before I arrive. “Another property” might not be in the same town. B
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by biztos 4y ago
My favorite AirBnB trick, which I've encountered in both Germany and Spain, is the "extra fee due in cash on arrival." You only hear about this after your booking has been accepted -- in the case of instant booking, you have
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by biztos 4y ago
Probably not if it burst! > It was not an easy choice. Rogozov knew his appendix could burst and if that happened, it would almost certainly kill him - and while he considered his options, his symptoms got worse. (From your link.)
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by biztos 4y ago
Apparently it’s still a thing: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/chatgpt-...
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by biztos 4y ago
Now imagine the LLM is trained not on words but on syllables. Same language, just dealing with it at the syllable level. Doesn’t the problem then go from “can it invent” (yes, it can) to “are the inventions good?” For some definitions of “
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by biztos 4y ago
It suggests they could have, if they were competent to do so. But for all their genius at product-market fit, I don’t think any of these companies have conquered the beast of self-serving bureaucracy. > I think having an identifiable ra
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by biztos 4y ago
Is anybody tracking the growth of the staffs of these companies? When I hear “NetCo lays off 10K” I wonder, does that mean they will have fewer employees than a year ago? Or is this just a blip on an overall trend of hiring? This graph[0
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by biztos 4y ago
If you're on a Mac, you can just use QuickTime Player. File -> New Screen Recording I think it does pretty well with movement on the screen. Just remember that "stop" is Cmd-Ctrl-Esc!
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by biztos 4y ago
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by biztos 4y ago
Go’s only over some people’s heads, depends on what you’re doing. I find it a great language for the working man.
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by biztos 4y ago
At least in Thailand, Western foreigners call this a "bum gun."
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by biztos 4y ago
Good point. I admit that when I’m writing with pen and paper, it’s usually for things where brevity is desirable. More than a couple full pages at a time and it’s less fun.
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by biztos 4y ago
That's a beautiful machine. What language is it designed for? And how fast can you type on it? You might need to hurry on doomsday but this looks more suited to poetry than urgent communiqués in the AI Wars.
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by biztos 4y ago
Writing with pen (or pencil) on paper gives you "paged" real-time random access, plus the ability to illustrate at any resolution. The satisfying scratch of the roller ball on the paper tooth is also available in some hardware co
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by biztos 4y ago
TIL... for someone like me who's never been to Australia and doesn't know much about its geography, that's a pretty crazy story! And it turns out Connie Sue is still out there, running desert tours except not now because of l
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by biztos 4y ago
I was laid off in the EU (not from Google, and not in this wave) — and yeah, productivity completely tanked for months while we waited for the relevant information to seep through HR’s stonewalling. I think it’s better to have some warnin
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by biztos 4y ago
In the Canary Islands it took us down a utility road that was literally being used as a mountain mike trail. We were in an Opel Corso. Fortunately a beater, and my friend’s superior driving skill got us out, but just barely. We were resi
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by biztos 4y ago
In Germany (and probably much of the EU) that incentive is built into the law, as it should be. I think it’s boilerplate in big company contracts there, but extremely rarely enforced, because IIRC the amount you have to pay is the comp for
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by biztos 4y ago
Fair criticism and downvote, I apologize for my grumpy tone and unhelpful comment.

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