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Doom on the 52840 is impressive!

I don't know if this is something I'd want to build, but I spent 5 years at an outfit that designed/built a variety of fitness devices like this, including some of the consoles on gym equipment you may have used.

You mentioned 'figuring out Bluetooth (BLE, please)" in another post. What are you having trouble with? The sample code in the Nordic SDK is pretty good in most cases.
College is slowly become a worse conscientiousness/agreeableness filter since it is now the default.
> but crap like Fentanyl and NBOMe should be illegal. They have zero potential to help and are almost certain to harm.

Fentanyl, a commonly prescribed pain-killer, has zero potential to help?

Just because misuse often overdoses the powerful drug, doesn't make it useless.
> but maybe thats how we'll finally get rid of c++.

I feel like you didn't read your own comment here. What you've described is a world that is littered with so many c++ variants, it will be impossible to eradicate them.
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unfortunately too late. I missed my time window for the edit.
Funny enough the last job I applied for was in 2006
Source code pro for Powerline.
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Interesting, I was surprised to be able to read medium or low quality brands from 99 well into 2010s. And I took no precious care.
> To add more: a single person (HM) might have biases for or against certain candidates.

That would be true for all organisations. You could do 6x more interviews if they were all a single round.

> Also these roles are usually high stakes and the cost of a bad hire is too high.

Hiring a brain surgeon is high stakes. I don’t know a lot of software positions where it is true.
People who complain about software interviews being a high barrier to entry have never dealt with any other high-skilled high-paying profession.

Want to become a doctor? Study for 12-15 years. Lawyers, accountants, pilots, actuaries all have similar multi-year licensing requirements. Places like investment banks and consulting firms will put candidates through a multi-week interview process involving stuff like case studies which make a 1 hour technical interview seem like a joke. And on top of it all you still have to "make an impression" which involves networking and ass kissing the right people in the chain.

Being able to walk into any company with just a 4-5 hour mostly objective interview is one of the best parts of the software industry.
People have jobs and lives. The only people this gets are unemployed and self employed people who have nothing to lose or the time to spare. This strategy poaches nobody of worth with an ounce of self respect.
If you have a 20$ bill and decent friends, bootleg therapy is available pretty much anywhere and anytime you want it.
Its a good idea but the thing about big orgs is you aren’t paying the big bucks for 99% of the labor, you’re paying because the one day the developer has to make a decision that does impact something at scale or in the hot path they don’t fuck up.

The differentiation between good and great doesn’t come into play on the average workday.
I've worked and interviewed at dozens of companies and literally never experienced a company that had more than 2 interviews plus a discussion with a hiring manager or HR.

I make half-ish of a FAANG salary, but it's enough to comfortably support a family and I'm generally pretty happy and get to work on cool stuff. The only challenge I never get at work are problems that have huge scale components.
A single one. But completely mapped.
For me it's not necessarily the tech themselves, but the lack of any framework to guide development for the next guy.

All the PHP+MySQL I've worked with has been horribly bespoke and brittle.

Want to significantly change a URL? Need to refactor every path in the .PHP file, because it's importing something from ../.. Or get in the spaghetti business with path aliasing on the webserver.

Want to refactor the database schema? Difficulty: Impossible, because raw SQL strings are scattered everywhere, including on other systems.

Want to add/modify a new internal CRUD form? Gonna be several hours of work to RE what the last guy did to keep things consistent, while tiptoeing into the SQL to not break anything. With a proper framework, this is a 5 minute task and a few LOC into the "admin interface".

It works, and you can do a lot with just a few php files and a basic Linux system, but there are downsides.
Perhaps. But even with the current 6+ hours everyone medium size or larger still makes a fair number of bad hires. Between driving the false positive rate down and driving the time to decision down the value maximizing next move seems to be spending even more effort on the false positive rate.
What I'm wondering is whether people are including phone screens and introductions as interview rounds. I'm going through the process now and with those I'll probably have 7 if I get an offer, but without it's more like 4 (online assessment, in person whiteboard, system design, behavioral). I haven't interviewed in 7 years prior to this, so I'm out of the loop with what's standard.
> I think the requirement for demonstrating Morse by hand in order to obtain a HF license will be dropped if it isn’t already

The Morse requirement was dropped by the FCC for all license classes back in 2006.

But even with SDR making radio experimentation easier and more rewarding than ever ham radio seems to be continuing its slow decline and the average age of operations continues to rise... and we continue to lose spectrum (e.g. we just lost the 9cm band).
Linux Mint is the one i always recommend for linux beginners
the article doesn't contradict what you're saying:

> While Russia does not have a political system where Putin faces any accountability, the Kremlin does obsess over public opinion polls and keeps zealous control over the media to make sure the public’s opinions are not formed spontaneously.

...

> According to several Russian polls (which are inevitably hard to trust, as I’ve previously noted), Putin has become more popular since he started this war, not less.

...
A free and innovative translation API for developers
The API is based on the deep-translator python package (https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator).

It is one tool that supports multiple translators and therefore, very easy and convenient to use.

If you want to check the code, here is the link to the repo: https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator-api
Definitely longer than 7-8 years. The current process has been in place at least 20 years, and maybe longer (but my memory only goes that far).
Protected groups in the US extend beyond just sex and race. There's age, religion, national origin, sexual preference, and disability status just off my head.
If we’re talking analog, those cables usually have capacitors to limit DC and a stereo-mixing resistor because of the headphone impedance (KOhms) and microphone impedance (20-200 Ohms).
Is there really any good reason that this service is subscription-based? A payment model that is per-export would be far easier to swallow. I'm sure that the founders expect most people to drop the subscription after the first month, but come on.
My employer requires approval for any outside work. Every prior company except for a few early stage startups did as well.

I would not be able to moonlight to interview contract. I wouldn’t quit my current job for this.

This is great for unemployed people who don’t have offers from companies that hire without this process. It’s fantastic for people who suck and can’t find work and would love to futz around in these paid interviews for a few thousand.
As one who has worked on ancient servers:

Yes, installing updated third-party tools is very unlikely to happen.

Installing updates to your own tools is likely a regular occurrence.

So, your development style evolves to fit those constraints.
What exactly does ReactOS provide that Wine or some emulation environment on Linux can't?
If you are interested in transmitting data over sound between airgapped devices, make sure to also checkout ggwave [0]. I've been working on this library on and off during the past year in my free time. I focused on making a FSK protocol that is robust in noisy environments at the cost of low bandwidth. Found some fun applications in various hobby projects.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave
Point out the absurdity, and then escalate it another step when you realize it's just as relevant of a statement when you switch 'liberal' and 'conservative'.
Hey, what a nice memory! I recall playing this for a while waaaayyy back.
After reading your comment a few times, I think now I understand the misunderstanding. There are two interpretations:

A) The main method that use a ADC to work is heating a resistance and then measuring the temperature or the time to cool down or something like that. [1]

B) As a side effect of the internal working, the ADC produce heat. The heat is not important for the operation, but it's an inevitable side effect.

My opinion: A) No, B) Yes

Can you both please answer A) and B) with "Yes" or "No"?

[1] Note that something similar is used to measure pressure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirani_gauge .
As long as they fit well you're probably doing perfectly fine.
Not in my opinion no, and I don't mind people asking me simple questions either. There are quite a few people who simply don't understand basic concepts and cannot actually write code. Higher qualifications are usually weakly positively correlated with competence, but there are plenty of outliers and exceptions.

I do generally agree with the cargo cult sentiment, but not in this case.

The main thing I dislike about the 7+ interviews is that I dislike interviews and there are 7 of them to get through. I once did four in one day, back to back, and I was extremely tired afterwards. So my big fear as a candidate is that either 7 interviews will happen over 1-2 days and I'll be absolutely fried after the first 2, or they'll be so hard to schedule it'll take 6 months just to have them all. I'm also a bit afraid they'll cargo cult some of the interview questions and I get a bit sick of "please recite 1st year CS algorithm" questions (I never ask these personally) but otherwise 7 interviews is fine, if they accept I am a human candidate and I'm not really comfortable in the process anyway.
I just run Windows in a VM if I need to do things with Office that I can't do with the Office for the web products, which isn't very often.
One reason is its easier to apply for jobs. Previously applying for a job took a lot of time and effort, screening rounds were done on phone so not a good signal. Now you can apply for dozens of jobs quite easily and do interviews while you're "working from home". Which means more applicants for each role.
I could never get Dragon's Lair to work with MAME. Going to give that another shot.
The "in hindsight" part is wrong, as that's been an incredibly common criticism from the very beginning.
I’ve seen way too many “experienced devs” who are terrible coders.
Its always a Jayden.
lovely project, excellent name. I have a major soft spot for tiny tech projects with personality, thanks!
Are you going to pay me $250/hr for that time? If not, why would I spend 30 hours of my life vying for a chance for a full time job with your company? And what about my current job?
No it’s not, and I’d actively encourage not buying a Tesla
> The first thing to note is that there is no dynamic dispatch to the Less method. Each loop iteration invokes cmpstring directly.

Except about 95% of the arrays I sort aren't comparable with just <. It's less clear how the unmentioned sort.Slice() will improve.
It is still made.
X-files is a good exemple: Mulder is the architype of the odd uncle of the familly. Turns out he is right, but still, the entire world think he is bonker.

We always knew about some spying, but if you have said something resembling to xkeyscore, it would have looked like science fiction.

Even the patriot act: people believed it was temporary. In fact, they were happy it was voted. Somebody was doing something about 9/11. The voices against it were a minority.

Worst, people talking about the mass spying were associated with 9/11 denyiers to remove credibility from them.

One has to remember it was still a boomer world, meaning the perception from the public of what computer systems could do was still somewhat limited. Snowden revelations were in 2013. In 2010 my mother was still missing icons when trying to click on them and the last phone books arrived in her mailbox. I remember gently mocking her about it, but for her, it was easier to use.
is there a mame distro you can install on some mini pc? i have used mame on desktops but would really like to have a small dedicated retro gaming setup that you just switch on and works. at the same time i don’t want to spend 2k on some ready to go cabinet.
Being in Ukraine, I appreciate such a cencire and public view on this war from a Russian citizen.

I have two major objections, though.

1) Solzhenitsyn & Brodskiy are very anti-soviet and famous guys, but they only go thus far. The first one was still an imperialist (at least in his later years) to a large degree and the second one had example(s) of a very anti-Ukrainian position in his poetry. Not the best characters to mention in the current context. And probably they illustrate a broader problem: it is so deep in the culture (history), that can not be treated as an accident.

2) The Man on top was not born out of a vacuum. Many generations before and during his "rise" share at least some of the responsibility. I don't want to blame the nation or "all the citizens", but too many individuals encouraged that. There was a point, when it was safe to protest, now it is not... but it is still much safer than to be in Mariupol.
Anecdotal but the majority of developers I run into have no true understanding of a majority of software licenses, if any at all. In my younger years I sat down with a developer who did know and got a summary about literally every license I could think of, and its still stuck in my head since. I feel like colleges should really cover them in some capacity with examples of lawsuits related to licensing disputes.
Thanks for the tip about the Disable Tooltips extension. I'm using Visual Studio for a couple of projects and you've just removed one minor annoyance from my life and I appreciate it very much.

We use MyEclipse for a lot of our Java development and I found something in their latest release that gave me chills: selecting multiple lines of text in an editor will bring up a control to start a "CodeTogether" session. That can be disabled, but I really have to wonder about why selecting some code in my editor means that I need to "phone a friend."

The Azure Portal is absolutely spiteful. I've been using that as an object example of poor UI design for my junior developers. All of that work they've put in to make it responsive and I still have to hit F5 to see if my VM really started...
I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but MK-Ultra? Or the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Those are the kind of things that you would never believe really happened but did.

Robert Anton Wilson points out that over half of the regime changes in the 21st century happened as the result of some kind of coup. By that measure conspiracy is the norm.
There is a difference between being able to record your phone on demand, and PRISM.
There's no better stress test than Show HN, and unsurprisingly, that's revealed that Solar Witch has a buffer overrun bug somewhere which I'm investigating! If Solar Witch is currently offline, here's a screenshot of what it might look like: https://ttm.sh/ix3.png
it became normal when people stopped saying no and instead of banding together decided this was a good thing to let them prove they are smarter than the next guy. meanwhile nobody wins.
There's too much Flash content on the web we'll never deprecate it
It makes me curious though - I'm doing fine now, but could it help me do something truly great? Are most people doing truly great things on adderall? It'd be interesting to know.
I never said i don't like zelda games, quite the opposite Ocarina of Time holds a special place in my soul

> Grow up.

Please be respectful

Here, my original reply that got flagged, minus the parts that offend people

Hopefully you'll better understand the point i was trying to make

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> Just like how you're introduced to the world is literally how BoTW introduces you to it's own world (could it be a homage?)

#### you either haven't played Elden Ring, or you #### think breath of the wild is the only open world RPG to ever exist ####

Elden Ring succeeds not because they ignore bad open world design

They succeed because:

- they built a reputation over the years

- they stay true to their vision

- they have taste

- they build a solid gameplay and foundation

- they make a great epic-trailer

Nobody experience the open world before buying it and spend few hours into the game, the game already sold a shit ton by the time people spread the words

So the game having all i listed is what made it successful

What made it receive great positive ratings? the choice to make an open world, that's it, there is no GPS, it's not an open-world-through-ui-information, it's an open world in the veins of Morrowind/Oblivion, you talk to NPCs to know where to go

Nothing about Breath of the wild and its poor GPS/minimap/item-durability and other non-sense features ####
If you post a job and get 600 applicants, are you going to offer all 600 of them this gig? If not, how do you filter that down to a more reasonable number (say 3-5)? Whatever you do, that is your interview process.
The sound effect that always gets me is the dragon cry from Warcraft 2. I feel like I've heard it in perhaps a dozen movies over the years.
Maybe something like Lakka[1]? It emulates many game consoles and I believe MAME is part of it.

[1]: https://lakka.tv/
A determined senior engineer could destroy a company in a day. At large companies they could cost the company millions.

While we like to pretend there are technical controls to prevent this, actually effective measures would come at a high cost to productivity.

And at huge FAANG companies replace "department or team" for company above. A bad hire can destroy a team or product or the team's reputation in the company.

Brain surgeons are not high stakes hires because they're not operating on their employer's brain and there are inherent barriers to entry in that field. The "brain surgeon" license actually means a lot.
> What exactly does ReactOS provide that Wine or some emulation environment on Linux can't?

Support for NT kernel interfaces. This allows drivers written for Windows to work under ReactOS. Most of the userspace should work just fine on Wine and Linux.
Retroarch is probably what you’re looking for. It supports pretty much any emulator, and gives a nice front end you can navigate with controllers. It takes a bit to get comfortable with the interface though.
If compensation was offered for an interview process, then it's worth the time spent going through the interviews.

Otherwise, it feels like a gamble of a huge time sink that could have gone towards something actually beneficial/profitable.

Having had too much of my time and energy drained in the past with the run around, I said fuck it the last time when facing the option to interview or go my own way, started my own thing and haven't looked back since.

Even when you do get an offer, it's a gamble on whether or not you're dealing with toxic management or not. Which only reinforces the idea of compensation for interviewing in case someone needs to jump that ship and start interviewing again.
Is this doc talking about the same feature that this post is about? It sounds like the doc is talking about a different, less-precise analysis that the post cites as prior art.
Investment banks might not have been the greatest example here, many of them hire whoever under the auspices that while during incodtrination they work a play portfolio for free and those in the cohort who profit above a certain deviation and who can justify the strategy behind it get hired, the rest don't.
Windows driver support
Yes but RDRAND is easy to hide. No test can tell the difference between a good and a backdoored RNG, you don't know what to look for, the whole point of randomness is that you don't know what it will do, so you can only trust reasoning based on understanding where the numbers come from.

I'm pretty sure rdrand is fine, and would not bat an eye if Linux trusted it, but I'm not sure I would bet some nuclear launch codes on it. Linux is trying to be as safe as practically possible, not just "Probably safe".
Do you ever need props built? I was contacted to build something for a film but their deadline was essentially "tomorrow" and would have been impossible to meet. I've done a bunch of similar stuff since then -- embedded controllers for advertising displays and games like you'd find in Chuck-E-Cheese, etc.

Always something I wanted to do more of.
> it's referring to base pair variations

No.

> The title is on the sensationalistic side when you consider how most lay people will interpret it.

The title refers to a large scientific collaboration that has succeeded in utilizing single-molecule sequencing technology that only matured in the last 3-5 years to sequence regions of the human genome that were previously unmapped, bringing the completeness of the mapping to 100%. That doesn't seem sensationalistic.
I use arch for my mame cab. It’s nice because it constantly updates mame to the latest (you should with your Roms as well) and only runs mame on boot. Very easy to setup and maintain.

I run it on some old quad core amd HP thin PC. Plays all non-3d games perfect.

Also look into a Mister. Not a mame cab but tons of arcade games and consoles. That’s my “ass in seat” gaming rig.
I had a startup give me 2 interviews and a paid coding exercise before making an offer, but the compensation was below market with some long shot equity comp. I had a large consulting company give me one recruiter screen and a series of 3 20 minute interviews, one tech one manager and one in between before making an offer at market rate. Sounds like generally interview time scales with total compensation, which seems fine to me. I’m a data scientist and I’ve never had a live coding interview but I also have no desire to apply to a top tier tech co.
I still recall playing Hexan at the office in the 90s. I kept one of my co-worker as a chicken for 2 hours! Was driving him crazy. But as soon as he would return from chicken transform, I would shoot an egg at him and turn him back into a chicken! He would not give up...
You'll still have a dynamic Less() equivalent - unless the sorting function gets inlined, which sounds unlikely. But sort.Slice() relies on reflection to do the swapping, which performs even worse than a call to a virtual Swap(). That would now be an ordinary index swap within the sort function. So you'll probably still see major speedups with bubbleSortFunc or some equivalent.