deadcore

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Comment · 7 months ago
Did anyone else notice the decline of graphics on the GPU's coolers! I missed that classic box artwork too!
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Good idea - sort of remind me of YikYak. That was really fun & actually a great way to get local tips if you were new into an area with a good community. Towns it was dead, but if I was in a city that I'd never been to before, put a question out and you would get some real good insights.

It faced a fair few controversies & got taken offline and not sure what became of it...

Always wanted something with that... casual fence... to think of a better word again

Comment · 11 months ago
*shrugs* the internet being the internet I suppose.

There was "See the video that accompanies this post." but NGL was just posting encase anyone didn’t have time to read or missed it.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Damn brother - thanks for this!
Comment · 11 months ago
Out of interest... apart from the em dash, how else can you tell it's an LLM response? What are the telltales signs?
Comment · 3 years ago
Number 2 really did make chuckle!
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I've just installed solar & batteries (not 2 weeks ago we turned them on!). Be interesting to see how things will unfold and I love reading stories on how people have got on with theirs. It was roughly ~£12,900 installed (in the UK) and we pay 32.596p/kWh & 42.290p/day standing charge...

Will either pay off well or be an expensive lesson

Comment · 4 years ago
I'll give this a go as it took me far too long to work this out - and some might disagree with me.

Taking every single ounce of advice people give to you.

I've found that everyone has a pathway in life, a way they are able to unlock and achieve their full potential. I found that what works for one person, may not always work for another. When I was starting out I would listen without question to anyones advice, peers, managers, business owners and attempt to shape myself to accommodate that advice & guidance - to only find that it would stifle me. Everyone has an opinion on how to do things best, but sometimes you just need to believe in yourself and your own capabilities.

Now I'm not saying don't ever listen to anyone, just be selective on who you listen to.

Comment · 4 years ago
The thing which always irks me about the "I have nothing to hide" comment is would you behave the same if you were being observed. The conversations we all have in the pub, in the car and even in the privacy of our home - would they be the same knowing there is a camera or audio device listening.

May just be my tin foil hat speaking, but I believe a lot of things would change knowing you're always being listened to even when you think it's just two people in the room

Comment · 4 years ago
As a Brit who's never really "followed" the Royals - I gotta say this makes me sad. The Queen stood for so much, in such a dignified way. May she rest in peace
Comment · 4 years ago
I really hate to be naive - any chance someone would be able to ELI5 RTOS please? How they may differ from say MS Windows, why use one, their applications. Always struggled to bend my head around them
Comment · 4 years ago
Don't get me wrong I hate LeetCode-style interviews as much as the next guy. In fact I really, really, really suck at them! Not sure if that says more about my ability then anything but c'est la vie

In the defence of LeetCode-style questions, I do think they work, and very well may I add - with the caveat you have the throughput of candidate to make it work well? Their ability to filter out 'those who can't code' in an efficient manor while sacrificing a small amount where it filters out 'those who can code' greatly out weighs the alternatives. The alternatives needing to fit into a 1 hour timebox, be objective while also favouring the positive cases (I think I got that the right way round).

My two cents would be more around the way in which they are conducted; in my experience I've found conflict with the interviewer more then the process itself - with interviewers in my past lacking.... empathy (may not be the right word) for the person on the other end of the screen/table feeling flustered, nervous or down right stupid that they're struggling to solve a simple fizz-buzz/reverse string problem, leads to a snowball effect and pilling onto that can effect the candidate in quite a spectacular way. Best interviewer I've had asked if I was alright and got me a glass of water, props to that guy!

I dunno - I've just come to terms with having to learn how to play the game, even if I find that part of the game really hard and to some parts unfair. Such is life

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