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I have also been telling Gemini to "fuck off" in my gmail, but that doesn't seem to make it go away

What in the world is a poetry lockfile

This is essentially the conclusion the author comes to at the end of the piece

> So as long as Songtrader keeps paying artists

Fair enough, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

If I were holding savings in USDC I would be nervous right now.

Thank you for the recommendation, never would have found this and am loving it!

Uber hasn't denied any allegations, all of which have an paper trail (otherwise known as "direct evidence")

They seem to be doing just fine without the consent of the governed, given voter turnout in the US.

I prefer to look through the lens of expected value. How can you vote in a way that maximizes the chance that your preferred policy outcomes will go through? "Don't vote for anyone who has supported it in any way" is nice in theory, but there are plenty of times when a vote any other way has lower expected value.

"Criminal Aliens Sexually Assault 70,000 American Women". You're saying you don't see ANY problem with this headline? The inference is that this is a giant problem that we should be addressing right now, that it's eclipsing all other issues, when in fact it isn't in the slightest. You're being wilfully obtuse if you don't see the subtext: "Be very afraid of criminal aliens, they're coming to hurt you and rape you."

Let's not dismiss what inaccuracy here can lead to: bigotry on false pretenses, violence against innocent immigrants, and blindly supporting wars against "the wrong kind of people."

> "I'm curious about this project this little repo of yours. Is there some particular reason you chose to use to use / not-use X"

This kind of question is exactly what I had in mind when I said "pushing to see how you react." I think we agree :)

[edit: Both the reactions you listed seem fine, depending on what you're looking for. But I wouldn't do this myself, anyway.]

I don't know the correct reaction, and don't do this when I'm interviewing. My point was that I could easily see a different side of this story, from the interviewer's perspective. Maybe the interviewer understood the OP's solution, and wanted them to explore a different angle.

We're lacking so much context here - what did the interviewer actually say? Was their tone gentle or aggressive? Were they flat-out ignoring the OP's answer, or acknowledging it while taking it through different use cases? We can't know, we weren't there.

I understand there are many places with poor interview practices, but I've seen enough devs come out of these types of interviews with wildly incorrect self-assessments that I no longer blindly trust these anecdotes. Unless they told you the exact reason you failed, you're speculating. And if you're an engineer that repeatedly gets turned down after these interviews at many different shops, you may not know what you don't know. Complaining about the interview process isn't a productive way to improve in those situations.

[note that my critique goes both ways: I have no way of knowing OP's skill, and their story could be completely accurate. however, I see this attitude a lot from overconfident junior devs, and that's to whom this rant applies.]

Are you sure this is what happened?

I ask because we interview lots of candidates who always jump straight to their favorite data structure. Given any algorithmic question, they'll immediately create an instance of their pet data structure (usually it's a HashMap), without specifying the types of keys or values. They can't explain why they're choosing this, and continually try to shoehorn the problem into it even when it makes no sense.

This interview doesn't sound nearly that bad to me. It sounds like you were discussing the advantages / tradeoffs for your choices, given various performance considerations. How do you know they considered you "wrong"? Maybe they were seeing how you reacted to being pushed.

the parts people are taking issue with are the ridiculous generalizations that young women aren't interested in serious relationships, etc. the parent comment's perspective comes off as judgemental and paternalistic, especially "I don't like one night stands and whatnot, and don't go to bars or clubs" okay? i have a hard time believing that no women in brazil want a stable relationship and a family.

it's also possible to go out to clubs, have one night stands, and want a stable relationship and family too!! imagine that.