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...and harnesses, routers &c

What substance? That they consume a newer model from the same vendor?

> This is one awesome above a level. > What does this even mean? > What do you mean what does this mean? ...

What does this even mean?

Mars doesn't have zoning laws yet. /jk

Only if they are being honest. Offer this as a 12 month temp contract with possibility of continuation. Offering a role as permanent but with unvoiced intent to let go, that's dish…

The Arthur C Clark story Nine Billion Names of God is cute on this theme :D

> There was discussion about how they thought candidates asking about compensation to be something of a negative signal It's not an unusual way of thinking, but every time I see it…

'Let them eat cake.'

Common pattern where a bright spark asks, 'why you all so complicated?' Proceeds to assume we're dealing with a finite graph / set. All the complication is needed to handle the fac…

It does apply to people? When you read a copy of a book, you can't be sued for making a copy of the book in the synapses of your brain. Now, if you have eidetic memory and write ou…

Here's a great life hack for you. Set a 15s delay whenever you type in an editor. That way you'll think more before writing code.

Not from what I've seen. The compiler is slow af which plays badly with how fussy the thing is. It's easy to have no defects in functionality you never got around to writing becaus…

Ah, the good ole Rube Goldberg machine.

It's not so hard. One of the interview stages I did somewhere well known used this. Here's the neural net model your colleague sent you. They say it's meant to do ABC, but they fou…

> Ironically, vegetarianism really only started to become popular in the Western world once people lost their connection to farms As did dental care and cars. Correlation is not ca…

It's a bad question. What is actually being tested here is whether the candidate can reel off an 'acceptable' motivation. Whether it is their motivation or not. This is asking ques…

I used to work for a historical records org. As of 10 years back, OCR was getting humans to transcribe such work. So whatever the limitations of genai, my prior is against there be…

Hi Le Bot, say potato?

science ftw

It's not quite like that. Maths content is the ne plus ultra of conceptual. It's totally possible to slog through a chapter of a maths text and feel like we got it. But it turns ou…

If you click on your profile name (shown top right) you can check your 'karma' score.

Genuine question: how would we tell/know if it was more than once? Doesn't other life-2 floating around in the primordial soup look like food to life-1? Or wouldn't it be co-opted …

Nah, I think optics can matter at startups too.

>But what about when you've spent months just blindly accepting" what the AI tells you? Pour one out to the machine spirit and get your laptop a purity seal.