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ArbitraryValue

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  • What questions do interviewers need to stop asking during a job interview?

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  • This one is for screening before the interview rather than the interview itself but it really bugs me: multiple-choice "How knowledgeable are you about X?" Do I have expert knowledge of C++? No, because I have just 20 years of experience. Bjarne Stroustrup has expert knowledge of C++. I'm not sure what these questions are intended to do. Are they just an HR hoop to jump through and I need to say that I am an expert? Or is everyone deliberately trying to be deceptive always claiming to be an expert in everything, so I am supposed to say that I'm not?

  • Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off

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  • I think that people aren't "distancing through differencing" themselves from PocketOS because they believe they're more careful with AI (which is often an unknown unknown) but because they believe they're more careful with backups (for which mature best practices have already been developed over decades).

  • Bartender

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  • Well, it is getting ended...

  • What is your favorite smell?

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  • Almond-scented stuff (not almonds themselves - they have no noticeable smell to me).

    Pine forests, the sort with lots of dry pine needles on the ground.

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • I find AI to be a better conversation partner than humans in most circumstances. It's not perfect but it's knowledgeable about pretty much every topic and it's always fully engaged and attentive. Most people, by contrast, aren't very interesting and most interesting people are busy. Of course I would prefer to talk to someone who was also subjectively experiencing and enjoying the conversation, but I can get a lot out of a conversation even without that.

  • Tools

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  • Device drivers don't write themselves.

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  • Generally when I choose to do something, I have the hope that it will turn out well. Although I'm aware that it might not and I'm prepared to deal with that possibility, if I knew with certainty from the start that what I was considering doing would not turn out well then I would not choose to do it.

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  • According to gay people I've talked to who tried to adopt but ended up paying a surrogate, adopting a healthy baby is very difficult. Children available for adoption are generally older and/or have serious health problems.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • What exactly would a person use 25 Gbit internet for?

  • Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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  • There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy espionage tools.

    It's not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.

  • Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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  • Are we? I'm looking to buy a car and I think gas cars make the most sense even now, because the change in the price of gas seems like a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. A one dollar increase in the cost of a gallon of gas works out to about $300 a year in extra costs for me. That's not enough to tip the balance towards an electric car.

    For reference, I'm comparing a Hyundai Elantra N to a Tesla Model 3 - the Hyundai costs as much as the base Tesla at about $36.5k, but to get similar performance you'd need the $42.5k premium Tesla, and that price difference pays for enough gas to go 40,000 miles.

  • Trump allies plan Senate floor takeover to pass SAVE America Act

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  • I didn't expect someone explicitly opposed to majority rule to call me an enemy of democracy...

    As a matter of fact, I agree with you that there's a difference between maximal democracy and good government. Sometimes it's good to have a barrier between people's whims and power, whether that barrier is anti-majoritarian procedure in Congress which is preventing Republicans from passing this law or a rule that prevents someone who didn't go through the process of getting valid ID from voting.

  • Trump Stuns With Bombshell Admission About His Iran War

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  • There's a difference between reinterpreting and simply considering a quote in context. "There" is the Strait of Hormuz and "it" is oil shipped through the strait.

  • Trump Stuns With Bombshell Admission About His Iran War

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  • He clearly meant defending the Strait of Hormuz specifically, not attacking Iran generally. Still a bad idea, but not what people are taking the quote to mean out of context.

  • Trump allies plan Senate floor takeover to pass SAVE America Act

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  • It's not enough to have fair elections - a democracy needs elections generally perceived as fair. It would have been better if the Republicans hadn't created the widespread, false perception that voter fraud is common, but the fact of the matter is that they did and merely trying to convince the public that there is really no problem hasn't worked so far. If 71% of the voters want to have to show proof of citizenship, and if most of the ones prevented from voting because of that are low-information voters likely to vote for Republicans anyway, I say let the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot.

  • Trump allies plan Senate floor takeover to pass SAVE America Act

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  • I feel like Democrats shouldn't have been fighting the Republicans on this. The law is popular, not entirely unreasonable, and potentially going to hurt Republicans rather than Democrats at the polls.

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  • Yeah, although I admit that I thought biotech was the most interesting and important thing I wanted to do back when I chose it over 20 years ago, but knowing what I do now, I wish I had gone into machine learning instead.

  • I see PC purist complain about their cooling so much.

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  • But people actually do do this, if for some reason a PC is overheating or the built-in fans are making too much noise. A big fan running slowly moves more air more quietly than a bunch of little fans. I even wired an external DC fan into the PC's power supply once so that I wouldn't have to plug them in separately.

  • Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

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  • An interesting point of view. I find myself in the opposite situation, having been issued a Mac laptop after not having used Macs since playing Oregon Trail in middle school over 25 years ago. So far I find the Mac so counterintuitive and frustrating that it has slowed down my work significantly. Window management is absolutely terrible (I'm told that it's better with gestures on the touch pad, but that would require using the touch pad) and I had to install third party software to get a mouse with more than two buttons working.