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by lucb1e 2y ago
Maybe easier is to just ask that they show their hands while you ask a short question until they gave the answer. Could even be up front about it and say you suspect they're looking up the answers, since it's not like you care muc
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> fizzbuzz in the allowed interview time Which would be how long? I haven't practiced it specifically so it would be a good test I guess
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Since there is no timestamps, it being in order is a requirement because otherwise it's unanswerable. Since chronologicalness is indeed virtually universal for any sort of log file, it's also a fairly safe assumption, but sure, if
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Okay I tried it. I got interrupted twice for like ~12 minutes total, making the time I spent coding *checks terminal history* also 12 minutes. I made the assumption (would have asked if live) that if a user visits "A-B-C-D-E-F", t
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by lucb1e 2y ago
An interview question I got (for a security role): "You type www.$company.com into the address bar and press enter. What happens?" After jokingly clarifying they were not interested in the membrane keyboard interactions, they were
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Netherlands also, although it depends a bit on which master's they did. If you want people able to do stuff off the bat, hire those who did MBO or HBO (in DE, HBO=Fachhochschule, but DE doesn't have an MBO equivalent I think: that
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by lucb1e 2y ago
FYI I wouldn't know how to do fibonacci sequence because I don't know its definition. I could make a guess because it came up as a toy problem before, but because I never actually needed it for anything I'm not super famili
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Why is OTR not user friendly? I remember setting it up on Pidgin+MSN as a teenager so it can't have been very hard
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> BTW: I got 97 Looked up your name plus the word 'w3'. I am not surprised to find involvement in an HTML spec discussion :D The top result on duckduckgo was < https://github.com/validator/validator/
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I would have said !-- is the tag name of that, though with the closing part requiring a double dash as well, it's rather unique and maybe not a proper tag... could have included it in a bonus list though, not counting it towards the to
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> All it does is to postpone the inevitable I don't want to repeat all of what I wrote below an older comment dismissing it for a similar reason, but a shorter version of < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> The cooling would only be temporary anyway. But the world changes in the meantime. People need time to adapt to things. We often stereotype old people as being stuck in their ways and, while they can change, they typically appear muc
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Reduce incoming light via sulfates works, but could cause crop failures due to said light reduction. The temperature change and extreme weather events will also do that. Can it be localized to have its main effect over the ocean and de
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Actual topic is "Pixel fonts are a much richer, much more approachable, and an ever-relevant canvas for creativity. I want you to fall in love with pixel fonts the way I keep falling in love with them, over and over again."
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Took me a while to understand what's ambiguous about that. For anyone else, what they're saying is that this often (typically, I guess) refers to 2000-2099 and not the other 900 years.
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Just to make sure I understood this, that would be used as "17th settecento" to mean 1700s right? (This Xth century business always bothered and genuinely confused me to no end and everyone always dismissed my objections that it&#
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Check the new workflow diagram. If I read it correctly, they still edit the database as a spreadsheet and convert that into sql. The diagram is near this text: > we reduced the process down to a 1- click solution. We built a dashboard in
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by lucb1e 2y ago
It is only purchasable if you install their software, can't just buy such a stamp on the website if I'm reading the page correctly? I seem to remember Deutsche Post also had a thing you could just write on the letter, or maybe it
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> lets say we have a cap and I want to generate a human image wearing that same cap Do you have an image of the cap in the right orientation, as it would also appear as it is sitting on someone's head? If not, any algorithm is neces
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> why can’t we just run it on their machine and propagate any game state changes (if the script adds an inserter, for example,) Because that's an unbounded amount of traffic. You can reliably write data into RAM at many gigabits per
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I guess it goes to show how many people are innately good or benign (not sure what word to use in English). The newsmedia would have you believe otherwise, and the average comments on such news perpetuate the belief, but if this were all tr
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by lucb1e 2y ago
The headline says that's all that were charged. If I write "all four coal plants in germany blown up", nobody reads that and thinks germany had anything more or fewer than four coal plants. You don't need to know the tot
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by lucb1e 2y ago
DHCP
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Maybe, I don't know enough about magnetic fields to say much. In my head they're directional so you'd know how it's aligned and can measure how strong it is, and that might function similar to a gravity map, especially i
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Especially with the word "compass" in the title, I figured they made an accurate map of the earth's magnetic field and would use that to avoid needing any satellites. Then I opened the comment thread... Come to think of it, t
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> but critically not yet Google). My takeaway from the recent Google search engine ranking documentation leak was that they very heavily uprank big brand names. A page on reddit with various short comments (many of them useful I'm s
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Sure, until someone (anyone, since it's a wiki) notices the vandalism and reverts it and reports your account to probably get banned
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Yay for the Minecraft wiki migration! I was so annoyed by having to use Wikia while creating a minecraft scavenger hunt for my partner when wanting to do things with redstone or light level spawnproofing. Opening the wiki now on the domain
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> your ISP will just hijack the recursive queries it makes This level of deep packet inspection and injection is not what ISPs commonly do in my experience. At this point, it is much easier to just block the service's IP addresses
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Generalizing this (doing half a step away from GPT-specifics), would it be true to say the following? "If you train your logic machine on a bunch of medical textbooks and prompt it to tell you a cure for Alzheimer's, it won&#x27

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