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Because for some areas, it's the table stakes for finding a job much less applying.

In some tech-adjacent sectors, the way you apply is through a thin wrapper around the linkedin API. Sure you can try manually entering the data but the API provides them Just Enough pre-sorted and classified data that it gets sold as "convenience"

No they need to find a way to glue a chat service onto it.

no, they're asking questions that your average US citizen is going to ask.

The fact that it's answering "I don't know" to what you so correctly identified as campaign promises is actually it doing (more or less) its job.

Ah, that sounds like it's The Met, who have a bespoke electronic libretto system.

You're right, it is a bunch of LCDs on a bus (iirc rs485).

There are methods of doing so that identify multiple, harder to falsify things.

One that I have seen is HMAC(serial||SKU) as a datamatrix/QR, laser-etched onto the top silkscreen and burned into a PROM.

"THIS FLY CAN BEAT YOU AT STAR CRAFT: HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR????"

There's a lot of hardware out there that does 95% of what OP's does, though you'll pay a pretty penny for it (e.g. https://www.peplink.com/products/cellular-modems-adapters/po... ) though ther's been a flood of them from noname sellers on Aliexpress and eBay under the banner of "LTE Landline Converters"

As someone who is firmly in Portal's "target audience"

I would have enjoyed the game immensely with such an adaptive feature. Just like I appreciate the amount of work that Valve has put into closed captioning for their games.

What's your favorite "What the FUCK were they smoking when they designed this?" moment?

How's the guts look? There's a lot of flash and pizzaz about aesthetics, but I work with files in the 400-800GB range on a regular basis, so I tend to prefer dumping gigantic SSDs into my work machines (I recently liquidated fortune 5 stock to get an 8tb disk[1]).

There's some words about "oh yeah you can upgrade this" but not many details. The only thing I've seen so far has been a single shot from the Pentagram splash where it looks like a fairly standard off-the-shelf mini PC that's been gutted and put on life support like a Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck.

[1] https://sabrent.com/products/sb-rkt4p-8tb

4-conductor audio, generally.

Later on there was a generation of two-conductor cables that used SPDIF/PCM Audio instead of analog audio for better fidelity.

I've always taken it to be that the color is unique to the situation/viewer -- a sort of pearlescent void-color that can't be described in any known language, but which just Is. More a physical phenomenon than an actual color, but distinctly hued somehow.

When many of the core datasets were being produced, a lot of these companies mangled the text to be "friendlier" to try and avoid certain issues.

The changes they made often resulted in this kind of weird nonsense: Swapping the word "Failure" for "Disappointment" in a vain attempt to keep it from saying "you're a failure", but also just stripping out words such as slurs and insults, resulting in at one point the hilarious situation in which Gemini for quite a while would INSIST that the lyrics for the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" contained "That little has his own jet airplane/that little is a millionaire" -- which in certain contexts changes the meaning of the song incredibly.

These hack-and-slash text manglings have resulted in some of these clbuttic sort of writing styles being used during LLM-assisted writing. A more famous version of this was caused by one paper: https://world.edu/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-pape...

> Designing a good 64-bit ISA [...] is easy [...] could design such an ISA in a couple of weeks

Let me know when you've got it all worked out and published. Should be easy, right?

It's a real blast, though.

(In all seriousness, I hope we never, ever in this lifetime cause humans to suffer like we did on that day)

I wrote a tool a short bit ago to handle massive parallel hashing. Originally, it was a testbed for a project I built to make multiprocessing easier in Go.

https://github.com/indrora/hyperhash

In it, I learned that there's some interesting quirks about the way the traditional shaXsum tools work, specifically that they focus on a set of inputs from the shell command line, which means that you can exhaust the shell command line length fairly easily (try hashing every file in the Linux source tree, for instance; zsh, bash, and fish will all eventually tell you "Fuck off, there's too many characters in argv")

I also discovered that Go's handling of file handles varies drastically based on OS. Windows, for instance, has no problem with you taking a file handle to every single file on a disk. Linux will get upset but eventually capitulate, macos will stomp its feet and inform you that you are a bad child and kill you off.

I have a leaderboard of some of the longest turn-around times from initial contact to rejection. Thus far the winners (if you can call them that) have been:

Docusign (4 YEARS); Nintendo (34 months); Google (30 months); Starbucks (22 months); Netflix (18 months); Astral (13 months); Snowflake (8 months)

But I also have a short list of shortest turn-around times. I say this because some of them are truly insane:

GitHub (3 hours); Valve (4 hours, but it was a real human with actual comments); Lockheed martin (2 hours); UserTesting (1 hour); Mozilla (30 minutes); Cloudflare (-2 minutes); Matterport (0 minutes)

The -2 minutes you see there is one of the most insane things I've ever experienced: As I'm filling in the application, I get an email simultaneously thanking me for going throug the recruitment process but saying they "reviewed my application" (that hadn't even been fully submitted yet) and that I wasn't a good fit for the role.

Matterport wins the award for "well at least they're not bullshitting" -- as soon as I had submitted the application, I didn't even get an email saying thank you, just a straight up dialog box saying "You won't be considered for this position."

My worst experience was with Microsoft. Somewhere, their system is designed such that if you ever fall out of the standard process, you're "rejected" -- I have more rejection emails for a position I ended up getting (which got canned within the year, ironically enough) than any other kind of email, including daily emails with the recruiter and hiring manager. I got an email telling me "sorry no thanks" *after* I had already signed the paperwork.

The most useful thing I did when I started working with powershell as my daily shell was to _remove half the default aliases_

once I broke my muscle-memory by trying to treat it as a historic shell, it became far more usable. Yes, get-childitem is a little weird to remember, but once you realize what it's doing isn't what `ls` does, you get a far better grasp on the environment.

Write some cmdlets. You'll discover how useful having a sane, object-oriented shell is.

I'm not sure what you expected.

It would be nice to see how "long" -- e.g. how many self-turns/tool calls/etc the prompt takes to resolve as well.

I know that models like Gemma4-e4b will take longer self-turns but IBM's Granite models will take shorter self-turns in exchange for more tool calls.

Unfortunately, WiX is still a pain in the ass to use and there's a lot of simple tooling that makes NSIS/InnoSetup/etc shockingly easy to use while the same MSI experience is garbage.

msix is just a different beast entirely too.

This is super neat for polyglots (of which I'm not one, yet) but one little thing: My partner immediately flagged that your demo (EN->HB) flips the cursor to be in the LTR position in the run rather than the RTL one.

The most minor of things, but I now can't unsee it.

A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering.

I have many close friends who are Russian by nationality. Russian by crime of accident of birth. So many of my friends in this situation abhor the actions of their government.

The Mentor stated it best. Phrack 7, 1986:

"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."

Diogenes would disagree.

But I also think Diogenes would look at this whole situation and start flinging his own shit at people only to say "What, I'm participating in the same way you are" when called on it.

The author isn't talking about you.

The author is talking about the people who will inevitably email with explanations about how she's doing something wrong or things are not as bad as they seem or any number of other options.

I have asthma in a particular form, and when people hear that I get triggered by extensive exercise and hill climbs and that I have to take things slow (it's gotten progressively worse in the last two years after COVID) I will inevitably be told "well you need to exercise more."

Exercise can't fix scar tissue, bob.

Because that's what I'm fighting. I don't have a full pair of adult lungs. I have two lungs that got the shit beaten out of them when I was 3. Could I use some more exercise? Certainly. Will it magically fix my asthma? no.

This is one reason why I see companies like Gowin winning the game in the long run.

Kinda-Sorta.

If you read Proudfoot's docs [ https://www.mralligator.com/rcx/ ] you'll find that what Lego did was half VM half native half "well, it depends".

There's a BIOS/stdlib, which in turn boots a userspace OS held in RAM ("firmware") that then executes the assembled mini-VM. However, there was nothing keeping people from rewriting the in-ram OS with something else, which led to BrickOS, jeJOS, pbForth, ROBOLAB, etc.

I spent many, MANY hours of my youth hacking on the RCX and am damn sad that there isn't currently a good replacement for it.

FYI you should read Zed's FAQ on data retention.

It's very "Trust Me Bro". My workplace has already banned Zed after legal review purely on the lack of any controls over the collaboration feature that gets turned on the instant that you log into Github with it.

To be honest, I didn't see the follow up. It just incensed me enough that they would do that to begin with.

Right up there with Zed being pretty open that they siphon your code through their API surface and have a "Just Trust Us Bro" data retention policy, along with no way to turn the collaboration features off.

- OP

My uncle has lost 4 Google accounts. Two to password loss, one to a fire, one to being banned for crimes against currency (having the audacity to live in several countries with different currencies)

The issue isn't the phone, it's that a __government__ is depending on an unregulated private enterprise.