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It is. I do not use credit cards for about 8 years except for having just one credit card for renting cars a few times per year when I travel. I have zero problems paying for Uber,…

One of my favorite fun facts to share on icebreakers and such is that even though Russia switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, the Christmas day in Russia is still 1/7, becau…

The work vs gym distinction is a nice way to put it. After I started doing my coding work with Claude and Codex, I also started solving daily LeetCode problems; it's my gym, just s…

Debit card works just fine with Waymo, just like with Lyft and Uber.

Using ChatGPT or other services to convert the data between various formats indeed saves a lot of time and removes the need to write throwaway code to do that conversion. One shoul…

Do you work for Microsoft by any chance? :) I mean, come on. The vast majority of services that have apps running on TV implemented QR code based login workflow ages ago, and it ju…

It probably does, but it's turned off the majority of time. It's still plugged in, so I wouldn't mind if it updated itself silently, but no, it does not do it when it's turned off.…

I have a 10 years old Xbox One, and every fucking time my family and I want to play a game, maybe once in a few months or so, it's always a struggle. Oh, let me download a few gigs…

Sure, I was just nitpicking on the phrase of the original comment that apparently put some extra weight on the fact that it was a quarter of life.

I've been doing "daily leetcode" for fun, just to remember how to write code manually without agents, and a few days ago they gave a brain teaser kind of task [1], for which the so…

The interviewer probably learned the trick with two pointers and wanted to see you implement it, for no real reason. This question, just like it's well-known sibling question "chec…

> Everyone said "Google doesn't ask brainteasers or leetcode-challenges any more" Google, just like all other FAANG companies, uses a lot of Leetcode-style questions and there's no…

That might just be my world in which the acronym DFS has a single well defined meaning; but of course the interview question never says "implement DFS", it will be a kind-of-real-l…

> Once upon a time, I wanted to resize about forty screenshots. The first few search results either wanted an account before they would touch a file, or did three of them and then …

2015 was one year after Satya Nadella became a CEO, and Microsoft looked pretty OK to me back then. Much better than a few years before that.

Just don't ask brain teasers when you conduct an interview; I believe they give no valid signal at all, and I also believe Microsoft does not ask them anymore. The coding questions…

It's not allowed where I work; the commits are signed by a human.

I write a lot of code just for myself, with no one else ever using it. An expense tracker. An analytics system for my mobile game. A Telegram bot that helps automate some things. A…

> The M1 Air is still, years later, a genuinely workable machine for K-12. I’ve seen districts get five, six, seven years out of those things, and they’re still fast enough for the…

Even in pre-AI world, there were no testers around me for the past many years, and those people who actually tested the final product before the release (their titles were probably…

In my forty something years of life so far, a quarter is a little more than 10 years. I lived the first quarter + ε in one place during my childhood, then moved to a different city…

If only I could come to them and give them some sort of thing just once in exchange for this specific article, then sure. But when I need to give them some sort of thing and subscr…

Fun fact: I cannot easily override the NYT paywall for this article; archive.ph did not work for me this time. Maybe NYT did something to it, they apparently require JavaScript to …

Just nitpicking on the "quarter of my life" point: being in my forties, I spent 3 of the 4 quarters of my life (so far) in 3 very different places in the world. The 4th quarter is …

The problem of AI writing, to me, is its emptiness, not the fact that it's not written by a human. Seeing standard slop words or phrases triggers the "do not read this" reaction, b…