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Linus once quipped "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

One thing I'm not clear on when watching his videos is whether what he's describing is an established scientific interpretation, or his own thoughts as someone who has extensive knowledge on optical engineering (vs theory).

Very enjoyable and thought provoking stuff though!

Edit: spelling

If you want to avoid this kind of cheating, you need to approach the test as if it were proctored. Communicate the expectations up front: you'll be required to screenshare, have mic and camera on at all times, what resources they're allowed to access and which they aren't.

There are still dozens of ways to cheat even under the above conditions, but it should eliminate egregious copy/pasting from a LLM or in-person help.

Were it me, I'd have made the expectation clear that we were interested more in the line-of-thoughts and explanation than the code. The lack of communication would probably be enough to not take the application further.

The same reason int(-1.999) is -1; The operation is different to integer division. I think of it as taking the "integer" part of the float.

Another vote for my Casio FX82. Ease and speed of use are why I prefer it to any calc apps.

Though I'll admit that I have a bias towards physical, single purpose devices. I use a physical (digital) timer in the kitchen, and a physical mechanical metronome when playing music.

I like that idea of having it probe the reasoning as much as the content, I'll definitely add that to the mix next time I try this.

The sky crane solves a very particular set of problems with landing a (relatively) small, functional rover on Mars. It's not really a general solution to returning a large payload intact to Earth.

I imagine they're actually alluding to a Bannerman, the standard bearer in an army.

Neat tip: You can just do:

    meta = r.json()

and avoid the json import.

It's a manual process, so can take a while.