conjectures

> When did we land in the middle of a Black Mirror episode?

I'd convergence was about 10 years back. Whenever the David Cameron pig story broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

...and harnesses, routers &c

What substance? That they consume a newer model from the same vendor?

> This is one awesome above a level.

> What does this even mean?

> What do you mean what does this mean?

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What does this even mean?

Mars doesn't have zoning laws yet. /jk

Only if they are being honest. Offer this as a 12 month temp contract with possibility of continuation. Offering a role as permanent but with unvoiced intent to let go, that's dishonest. Being honest is always a responsibility.

The Arthur C Clark story Nine Billion Names of God is cute on this theme :D

> There was discussion about how they thought candidates asking about compensation to be something of a negative signal

It's not an unusual way of thinking, but every time I see it, it seems bizarre to me. If the candidate was to propose any project once hired, I'm sure these folks would want them to think about costs and benefits.

This policy selects either for people unable to reflect on their life with the same wit they apply to work; or people who will front about their motivations. Both seem like poor outcomes.

'Let them eat cake.'

Common pattern where a bright spark asks, 'why you all so complicated?' Proceeds to assume we're dealing with a finite graph / set.

All the complication is needed to handle the fact that the state can be a random vector of real numbers in a possibly varying dimensional space. It's not jerking off on jargon for its own sake.

Sure, there are simple cases - doesn't make the general case 'bullshit'.

It does apply to people? When you read a copy of a book, you can't be sued for making a copy of the book in the synapses of your brain.

Now, if you have eidetic memory and write out large chunks of the book from memory and publish them, that's what you could be sued for.

Here's a great life hack for you. Set a 15s delay whenever you type in an editor. That way you'll think more before writing code.

Not from what I've seen. The compiler is slow af which plays badly with how fussy the thing is.

It's easy to have no defects in functionality you never got around to writing because you ran out of time.