mitjak

this needs to be one of the highest rated comments squarely due to how much luck (or gruelling prep) is involved in effectively memorizing answers, i.e. the issue with technical interviews to begin with.

why did you get downvoted? it seems a plausible theory that's at least worth discussing / is a reasonable contribution to this thread.

Affinity Photo has already been my go to for performance reasons (how is it so usable and snappy on an old iPad???). exciting to see it get faster yet.

inappropriate feature request: "divide" layer blending mode.

nothing conclusive. we should lock down harder, could be one of the conclusions.

i think "evolution" is not some purely natural process that plays out separately from how we think. e.g. forming societies where we support and elevate each other instead of competing is also a potential evolutionary future. societies where whatever means are necessary _results_ in an evolutionary advantage will "win", not those who necessarily work harder. capitalism-driven competition is just gamification of exploitation and doesn't inherently lead to an evolutionary advantage. it's just one of many ways to get there.

right, i'm not making a new claim. i'm saying, that's one of the few conclusions we can draw from this data. it doesn't say anything about e.g. catching covid at the hospital, whether existing data on health consequences and mortality is less relevant, or that "covid is mild / just a flu" as some people seem to be concluding.

this seems to suggest there's a lot more undiagnosed cases walking around in the wild than we know about.

> sitting in the back seat, with nothing to do but continually recalculating if / how long your nest egg will last

this problem doesn't exist if you correctly math out your existence to guarantee survival. having the ability to choose how to spend your time is the definition of agency.

why should we compete? what does "victory" amount to? i'd gladly give up winning in favour of some form of survival guarantee and freedom to choose work rather than require it for survival.

Criterion is available in Canada...

agreed. shortage of comedies like Hangover and Borat is to me progress on a societal level.

i'd argue the danger is even greater with tests bc the entire point of tests is to provide certainty. wrong tests are a false sense of safety that's unquantifiable without understanding every single line.

the main argument against Copilot for me. it takes longer to grok existing code than just write it from ground up.

or did he take drugs bc his life was shit? why did you decide to establish this direction of causality?

ignorant q: does Messenger still hold much of market share? over the last few years almost all of my contacts transitioned to WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. Messenger is just way too bloated.