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By the time an interview ends, a candidate usually has a good sense of whether it went well or not. I've interviewed hundreds of candidates and I would never jump into this feedback mode OP describes. There's not much point in giving positive feedback if they're already feeling good about the interview. If you give someone negative feedback (no matter how constructive) they're going to get defensive and want to plead their case; but it's the end of the interview and there's no time for that. OP says people express gratitude for the feedback, but what does he expect them to do? Anyone who doesn't appreciate it still doesn't want to tank the interview by appearing ungrateful. Never play psychological games in interviews.

These look like cool technology but coming from Meta is an absolute deal-breaker for me.

What are best competing products? My use cases would be productivity and watching movies; gaming, not so much.

Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It did a fantastic job of summarizing the photos I threw at it.

I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.

> The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power.

Right. And norms might be a bulwark for six months or two years, and then they'll crumple against relentless assault. It's the same progression we've already seen play out in many areas of government with Trump's first term.

It sounds like a debutante ball for the newly-minted ultra wealthy

Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.

Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads... now there's a band from the days when the bin man was hard

If you flip it from "Explore" to "Research", the UI becomes a lot more practical.

It's a shame, the Ameristan near-future dystopia parts of Fall were quite good, but the virtual world plot became increasingly silly. My mood would pick up whenever I landed on a chapter that got back to the "real world" plot.

I call it "trust arbitrage"

Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.

No. Most companies have employees sign paperwork that prohibits them from doing exactly this.

Excel is an ancient and complex beast. I get the appeal of building this project---it sounds fun---but trying to duplicate the Excel engine to the level of producing identical outputs is, frankly, bonkers. The author caught the one discrepancy they noticed, circular reference handling, but how many did they miss? How do they know different inputs won't cause it to deviate from Excel? I didn't get the sense from the blog post that this had extensive test coverage. Putting it into use for a business-critical financial calculation is a massive risk, but I guess that's how Uber rolls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It would have been less fun but way, way less risky to wire a headless Excel up to a javascript front-end.

Same. I had a terrible experience with Google CS and the original Pixel, which I ended up throwing in the garbage after less than a year because it was defective and they wouldn't do anything about it. Will never make that mistake again.