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And have less rounds. I don't really understand why companies have multiple interview rounds. One of my friends recently gave three 1 hour rounds all technical. If you're afraid of…

A very feasible option for the casual user as most software has moved to the web. Few years ago a casual user would have major concerns about office suites but now with office365 a…

They really need to drive down the amount of computation needed. The dependence on Microsoft is because of the monstrous computation requirements that will require many paid users …

Exactly. The biggest question is why you would trust the single authority controlling the AI to be responsible. If there are enough random variables the good and the bad sort of ca…

Draconian IT laws mean that in many countries you could be persecuted for threatening national security as a blanket rule with indefinitely the long harassment called investigation…

The math olympiad coaching style education. Write solution explain to tutor is probably the best.

Design, tooling, relevance != implementation. And not saying don't think just pointing out that careful handcrafted logic takes almost the same time to implement anyway. Most probl…

I'd argue it's even more valuable to learn to code without paper. Many of us formed habits of thinking with paper in school and freeze up a bit in front of the screen. I think it's…

Agreed. The faster you implement and correct the better it becomes. It's quite improbable that you'll catch a logical error in writing and not catch it while coding it up. It's als…

I have read a lot of papers that are vague with the details of implementation. Some release code that isn't portable at all and probably works only on their machine with 0 document…

I updated from High Sierra to Catalina and it broke a lot of things. Ultimately sold it in the used goods market and switched it for a new laptop. Installed Linux on it and haven't…

I've had almost 0 problems being a power user with a KDE Plasma Arch Linux. There is internal consistency in distro lineups. Linux is not one OS. You can have the telemetry ridden …

I'll give tech people credit, but non-tech people I'm not so sure. A good example is the cookie permissions or app permissions. A great number of non-tech people don't even know or…

You listen to Joe Rogan with the idea that this is a normal dude talking not an expert beyond martial arts and comedy. A person who uses ChatGPT must have the understanding that it…

Just the simple practice of regularly inquiring where your focus is has helped me a lot. Helps to detect when you're too tired from work and when you're not really relaxing in your…

That's why Dijkstra was against the idea of explaining CS concepts by anthromorphic analogies ig.

Access to pirated music in the EU fell by 81% between 2017 and 2020. Eighty one per cent! Meanwhile, with a slightly different metric: “In 2020, the average internet user in the EU…

Music piracy is almost non-existent post spotify. Streaming service fragmentation and geolocking has resulted in more video piracy but it still is less compared to what it was.