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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Smart also used to advertised one of their early cars (maybe fortwo in the early 2000s?) emphasising how easy it was to swap the plastic panels. I just realised, I've not seen any adverts like that for many years, googled and found an
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
> ..., DNS-over-HTTPS are blocked Not trying to be facetious, but how do you know you are blocking them all? I thought one of the reasons for using DNS-over-HTTPS was to be able to avoid detection.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
> I wonder what a hobby OS would have looked like it if it assumed nothing There's lots of stuff that was around in the 1960s that became dead-ends because everybody piled in on another way of doing something, and then things got op
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Modern GPUs usually have multiple command queues, at least one for application use (often separate queues for rendering and compute) and one for OS use. There's a good chance that this wasn't implemented on a chip intended for a p
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I can think of 2 reasons. First, the 100 books in a year was entirely possible in the pulp fiction genre even 20 years ago. If you're mass producing crap that people binge read on their daily train commute, you can write it quickly as
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
But again, you can only make that determination when you know that Oman is a country. LLM's don't know this as a fact, even if they're able to regurgitate a sentence that states this.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I'd argue that that's not an easy task in and of itself, but even if someone adds a special exception, there's still the issue that there are many other types of inverse relationship that we understand, but a machine that&#x2
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Not only is the inverse not generally true (as others have pointed out), their examples requires several mental leaps. "Who is Tom Cruise's mother? [A: Mary Lee Pfeiffer]" and the reverse "Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Yeah, I didn't like the mistake feature because it flags it as soon as you make the error. In my case, it was actually a miss-click, so whilst I was confident with the answer I wanted to put, knowing that it had effectively just confir
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
If you're doing anything complicated enough to need so much data that it'd be better to send the data in a body, it's probably not a DELETE and so POST would be more appropriate anyway. DELETE is intended to delete one spec
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I have done programming assessments, but I've probably only done 3 in the last 20 years, and those I strictly limited to 1 hour and told the recruiters that I wouldn't spend any longer than that. I've also flat out refused to
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Haha, I get what you're saying but I've worked on several projects for many years where nobody knew what several key acronyms meant. We could guess what they might mean, but nobody actively working on the project knew what the
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I guess I misunderstood what you were saying. The post I replied to sounded like you told most of the candidates no, but kept the other 5-6 waiting until your chosen hire had accepted. But this clarification makes it sound like you do actua
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Even if they also put in the effort, doesn't mean it's worth it. When interviewing for a FAANG, I had 13 hours of video call interviews with different people ranging from HR to managers of different teams. I was then invited to fl
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I hope of those 5-6, 4-5 are at least told something like "we are intending to proceed with another candidate, but we were impressed by your interview and may contact you again in the future". That at least gives them an understan
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The main difference, of course, is that in the employment market people are generally taken out of the market when they get a job (although fully remote has driven a huge rise in moonlighting). In the dating market, women are inundated with
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
That seems like a self-inflicted HR problem. In the UK, employment law is strongly on the side of the employee, and so I'd understand HR departments trying to do everything they can to protect the employer. But having a (typically 3-mo
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Looking at that page, it cites the rating string "RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA" with no indication what those numbers mean or why the RTA is repeated. Googling that string, it just seems to be some random fixed token. Why have we g
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
> some CLI interfaces haven't change in my lifetime But many others have, `ps -ef` vs `ps -aux` is one example. Nowadays, most systems support both, but not so long ago you'd need to remember which one to use depending what sys
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
How often are you driving into ditches at night? Typically this is something that only happens somewhere between never and once to most drivers in their lifetime, and the ones that do end up in a ditch are usually drunk. Aside from anything
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I don't know, I read each option for the first 20 or 30 in case there were any trick questions. There were a couple later where 1 option was very close to the meaning and 1 was much better. I actually got one wrong (can't remember
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Being taught something has little correlation with learning it, and even less with remembering it years later. Perhaps just because it suits my learning style, I find learning is actually easier if I attempt to work something out or guess i
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Of the words people are commenting on here, I only remembered one of that (maybe that's just because I got it wrong), zenzizenzizenzic. I guess if I'd realised zenzi was relating to squaring, I might have guessed it. I think some
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Yeah. Yesterday I had to go in for a meeting with my client. I went "off peak" which meant not getting there before 10am. The alternative is "super off peak" which is only for trains arriving after 1pm. That "off pe
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
As a resident of the UK, and reasonably well off, I can definitely attest that the price definitely changes my usage. I will always get the slow 2 hour train into London rather than the faster 1.25 hour train because it's 1/2 to 1
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Meal deal prices are higher in certain places, like motorway service stations. If there's a captive market, they'll sneak the price up just like every other company. If there's competition they'll use lower pricing.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
No, that was my point. In a GET request, a caching proxy cannot assume the URL is URL encoded parameters, because the URL can contain data encoded in any form. So, you could only cache a GET on an exact URL. But for a QUERY that explicitly
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
An RFC would never mandate caching. But the table in the article says "cacheable: yes" for GET and QUERY. There is no "my implementation" because this is a proposal that has only just been proposed and there is currently
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Maybe my knowledge is out of date in terms of how people generally use POST nowadays, but AFAIK multipart/form-data is still the most common encoding for data and occasionally application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Both of these, the
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The RFC does say "It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements." One can infer from the RFC that you can reasonably expect many implementations to f

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