theoldgreybeard

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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
"Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point." Can I just say that everyone sucks here and I hope they both lose somehow?
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I’m not on the beck and call of Google’s robot. Maybe if it was an actual engineer from Google doing this they would have gotten a better response. Don’t expect people to treat AIs the same way we treat people. But if you send me an automa
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The topic is leetcode. I've written code during interviews and in reasonable takehomes before. If your choice of candidate is boiling down to fizzbuzz I'm not interested.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Just send the meteor already.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The choice of license is also a a partial descriptor of the social contract. If I wanted to work on it for “customers” I would sell it. I don’t owe you anything otherwise. The social contract is “here is something I’ve worked on for free,
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
You don’t. I have never grinded leet code and never will. I have personally ended interviews where they tried to get me to do these. Not worth my time. Any company that wants me to regurgitate toy problems that don’t have any relevance t
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
> Software owes it to its users to be secure. There is no such obligation. There is no warranty and software is provided AS-IS explicitly by the license.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
You couldn’t quadruple my salary to get me to program on Windows. It’s either Mac, Linux native, or I walk.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The vulnerability in question is a Use After Free. Google used AI to find this bug, it would've taken them 3 seconds to fix it. Burning cash to generate spam bug reports to burden volunteer projects when you have the extra cash to bur
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Well, for one, if you develop games for said gaming OS you’re probably doing it on the gaming OS in question and would like the tools to be nice to use. Also it’s not just a “gaming OS”.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The last time I was on a bus travelling out east, there was a Mennonite man who was talking about vaccines with the bus driver. I was surprised to overhear that he was pro vaccine, and that there isn't anything in his belief system th
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I’ve used LLMs to solve captchas for shits and giggles, just taking a screenshot and pasting it into ChatGPT and having it tell me what squares to click and I think it solves them better than I do. Can we just get rid of them now, they are
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The federalist wing of the drafters of the US Constitution didn't think a Bill of Rights was necessary because they believed that a government of only enumerated powers was enough. So they didn't even think things like the First a