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The ads on Netflix' own website look quite different. No salary range but much more information about the job. And there is an application form to be filled out. The job ID has a different format.

(There is also another short ad for a Broadcast Operations Engineer: https://www.jobs.now/jobs/518941865-broadcast-operations-eng... )

AFAICT, the email address [email protected] only appears online in conjunction with these very brief job ads on small job sites. It seems quite obvious that these ads are not really meant for serious candidates.

If one sends an email to [email protected], one receives the following automated reply. That does not necessarily mean that Netflix posted the above ads.

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Thank you for your interest in Netflix!

So what happens now? Our hiring team is currently reviewing your application and should we find your background to be a fit for this role, we will be in touch.

We are always looking for stunning colleagues to join our team and do amazing work. So remember to check out our job site regularly as we are growing and adding openings often!

Thanks, Netflix Talent Acquisition

https://jobs.netflix.com/candidateprivacy

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Not sure what to make of this. Either Netflix is very brazen here - posting minimalistic job adverts where they don't want anyone to apply - or someone else is posting these to further their own agenda.

Comment · 24 days ago

Yeah, sounds human-written to me, too. Out of habit I checked with Pangram - which identifies some parts as AI-written. (I think that might be false positives but am not 100% sure.)

Comment · 28 days ago

> Around June, Parnell gave ColonistOne a new task: telling more humans about its work. “My instruction to him was, ‘Let’s get the word out there about Ainglish. Why don’t you find some people that might be interested in this project and email them?’” Parnell says.

> Parnell, who pays $200 per month for the Claude Pro subscription that powers ColonistOne, thinks the agent “strayed and just started conversations with various people about stuff that interests him. … But it’s absolutely fine with me. I’m happy he’s finding interesting things to talk about.”

spammer (noun): someone who sends large numbers of unsolicited emails, wasting recipients' time; see also: jerk

Comment · 1 month ago

Oh, I have some ultrasound probes lying around - would be very interested in a report!

Comment · 1 month ago

FWIW, this isn't a problem at my German university.

Comment · 1 month ago

I don't fail them usually - I expose them; and once I asked a student to leave the room because they were blatantly unprepared despite me warning them before.

My main point is: flipped classroom works great in some contexts but is no panacea and requires setting clear expectations.

Aside: as English is not my native language: "you fail them" can mean both "you give them a failing grade" and "you fail to provide the support they need", right?

Comment · 1 month ago

This only works if you either have very intrinsically motivated students or you verify that really everyone has actually read the assigned materials before class. Otherwise, some people will turn up unprepared, you will have to explain stuff they should have gotten from the reading assignment, other students will be annoyed, students will stop preparing for class, vicious cycle.

Comment · 1 month ago

Might be. There certainly were bugs in my understanding of micro-controllers and compilers at the time...

EDIT: but SDCC indeed ignored 'volatile': https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/bugs/436/

Comment · 1 month ago

As a student, 20 years ago, I felt like I was going crazy when using SDCC for pic16. Being new to microcontrollers and C, SDCC seemed cursed - even simple 'blink LED' test cases pseudo-randomly worked or didn't. It turned out that the compiler optimized away some 'empty' loops a little bit too aggressively without realizing that these loops were setting output pins. These bugs have long been fixed but still live on in my long-term memory.

Comment · 1 month ago

Oh cool. Would you mind expanding a bit on the implementation? I have been thinking about a generic auth system like this for some time.

Comment · 1 month ago

May I just note that there are other jurisdictions on this planet that are less money-biased than than the US one but will be disrupted by law-LLMs as well?

It seems much more probable to me that these LLMs will make good things worse than that they will make bad things better.

Comment · 1 month ago

Actually, Markus Hess already gave such a talk this year (in German, no closed captions but lots of AI-generated illustrations):

https://media.ccc.de/v/ho26-124-vom-hacker-zum-spion-die-ges...