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yobid20··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
so if a scoring system automatically ranks candidates lower for lacking a public GitHub or open-source contributions, that might indirectly disadvantage certain groups. ie ppl in defense, security, or other restricted industries who cannot legally share work publicly, people under strict employer IP/confidentiality rules, some demographics or nationalities with different access to open-source engagement (something like non-citizens not allowed to use xyz ie mythos), this can be construed as disparate impact which is protected under the equal employment opportunities commission (EEOC) and employers can be held liable for this as it can be seen as a biased discriminatory practice.
yobid20··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
chevron 6 is locked in place
yobid20··on Fox to buy Roku
bye bye roku tvs. hello google.
yobid20··on Claude Fable 5
is it smart enough to know not to walk to the car wash?
yobid20··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
needs a tldr; im not reading all that. maybe claude can summarize it for me.
yobid20··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
of course. do it now while they have the users. in a year when everyone has laptops with 128gb+ running models locally, anthropic stands zero chance. same with openai. i dont even use openai anymore. this will be one of the biggest crashes in history.
yobid20··on Nvidia RTX Spark
how will this compare to having an rtx pro 6000 for inference? (not training)
yobid20··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
omg my family we all went to see this today and we were all raging at the end. this is one of the dumbest movies any of us have ever seen. no plot. no point. complete waste of my life that i will never get back.
yobid20··on I’ve joined Anthropic
its destroyed my codebases with ai slop , errors, and code maintenance nightmares going forward. i feel bad for anyone having to work on ai generated code.
yobid20··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
terribly written article that failed to make any point. anyone whise read ai generated code from the best models and who understand how llms work, knows this statement is complete bs.
yobid20··on Zed 1.0
wouldn't touch this editor with a 10 foot pole. no i am not giving them the rights to use my code for their product. hell no. thanks for highlighting this. people need to making a bigger deal about it. maybe they will rethink their tos.
yobid20··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
i thought it was always 5 minutes? ive been telling people 5 minutes for months so i dont think this is anything new?
yobid20··on E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
because they want to read your messages for training ai and for advertising
yobid20··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
Bubble go pop
yobid20··on Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
Guess that means they dont need that $1 donation anymore
yobid20··on QUIC and the end of TCP sockets
^^^^ this. I work for a big company (15k engineers). Trying to use anything that is not TCP or UDP simply doesnt work here. For years, even UDP was blocked and the answer we got was always "why are you using UDP, use TCP instead". Yep you read that right. Most of these folks are very short sighted or narrow minded. We tried to use SCTP for one project, major blunder. Zero support from network teams. Sctp is blocked everywhere. All their custom software and scripts for network deployments only work with tcp and udp. And they will not change that. And that comes from higher ups the ppl in charge. They are set in there ways and will not budge. As for as QUIC support? Never gonna happen here.
yobid20··on Vibe engineering
These people havent deployed anything to a production environment that requires reliability and support. For that, you need a real software engineer to take apart the mess of vibe coded kludge and create real software that can actually be given to people to use. I wouldnt worry about this. Vibe coding trend is already on its way out as people discover this.
yobid20··on Testing Bitchat at the music festival
You'd have better luck using smoke signals than trying to do anything using bluetooth.
yobid20··on Claude Code weekly rate limits
Someone should do a study then file a class action if their marketing material is false.
yobid20··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
Honestly im ok with this one, despite disagreeing with most of the other ludicrous bs from the current asinine administration.
yobid20··on Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
Every time it was suggested to adopt matrix into our platform, we took one look at the protocol docs and said NOPE.
yobid20··on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
Can't you just use a sphere with a small single flat side made out of heavier material? That would only ever come to rest the same way every single time.
yobid20··on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
Doesnt the video start out with laying on a different side then after it flips? Doesnt that by definition mean that its landing on different sides?
yobid20··on Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica
Keep on the lookout for any cloaked ships and most definitely dont enter any ancient looking circular chambers
yobid20··on The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)
Can't speak for obs and raspbian, but jitsi definitely is more of a hobby project than a stable reliable product. I have dealt with it firsthand for years and its a complete mess and unstable with poor quality and reliability and zero support. It tries to do one thing, and does it horribly. Users HATED it. Ending up costing our company millions in wasted dev time and hosting fees. Probably the biggest project failure ive personally witnessed. This is not something you want to use to offer some service to users. There are better and cheaper products out there.(it costs more to host crappy jitsi than it does to just pay for zoom licences).
yobid20··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
So far, i am VERY unimpressed by this. It gets everything completely wrong and tells me lies and completely false information about my code. Cursor is 100000000x better.
yobid20··on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
So I was a heavy user. Every weekend, up to 5 pills a night, for years through college and into early 20s. This was back in the late 90s early 2000s. Now I am in my 40s. Top rated software engineer by my peers, sharp as hell, getting even sharper every year as my knowledge still grows, described as a true 10x expert engineer because of how much I do and code circles around everyone else. I am not saying this to brag. My point is simply that if there were some sort of permanant damaged cognitive effects, it never affected me like that. I never had any negative side effects ever. Or perhaps there was and I could have been the next Einstein but damaged myself to be where I am now. Guess I'll never know. I havent done again since I was around 22 or 23. It just stopped being enjoyable to me and everyone else I knew had already moved on past the party phase of their lives.

Also, a weird coindidence, during the heaviest usage phases, those were also my highest grades during college.

Do I regret using it so much? Not really. That was probably the happiest I've ever been in my entire life. I have very good memories , some of the best I've ever experienced. Often I think back I wish I could go back and do it again. Being an adult and getting old simply just sucks.

yobid20··on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
I think the more pressing issue is how to learn in the age of ai. As the older generation retires and the young ones rely on these tools, there will be a massive skill gap and most new software will be so bloated and bug ridden that the entire software industry is going to go upside down bc nobody will know how to fix anything.
yobid20··on Hacking the call records of millions of Americans
No exceptions for FAANG. There is technical incompetence all over in there too.
yobid20··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
This is not specific to Apple. Its the modern "agile" culture of hacking shit script kiddies pushing early, regardless of known bugs and broken features, under direction of management. Then management forcing you to move onto the next hack without allowing you to go back and clean up your previous work. Its probkem is now endemic to the modern era of software development. Agile is the worst fucking thing ever created for our industry.
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