raydev

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by raydev 2y ago
> if it puts you out of work and automates away all other alternatives, then you’ll be witnessing the greatest economic shift in human history This is my view but with a less positive spin: you are not going to be the only person whose l
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> The government has no incentive to provide better housing or disability benefits to the working class when they can instead withhold those things and watch legions of poor & desperate people die. What was Canada's excuse for p
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Finding relevant text quickly. On the web. The web is where you go to find more information.
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There's an enormous gap between knowing when to use those tools and creating a solution with those tools when you already have the job, vs banging out a perfect solution in 20-40 minutes with someone looking over your shoulder, who is
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Sure, the FAANGs and other companies aren't exclusively hiring based on time-constrained leetcode performance, but they are extremely biased towards it. The coding sessions are pass/fail, you need to get to some type of solution t
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I actually think we should keep the system design interviews because they are closer to what I've actually experienced and researched in service of my work. The leetcodes feel completely unrelated.
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They passed over all the people who didn't study hard enough on random word problems, and then practice those types of problems sufficiently such they could hammer out a solution in under 20 minutes. Multiple aspects of the "leetc
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> They said that the hardest part was studying for the system design portion because they did not have experience with system design Your friend is not alone, and I don't understand what separates us. Even when I was early career, s
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> All the time If you didn't solve your problem in 45 minutes with zero assistance from tools or Google or colleagues, were you immediately fired?
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Normalizing remote work requires lowering standards for getting interviews and roles?
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> I think you might be at the point where you have to do some basic reading first You are making the claim, you should be able to back the claim up. You're actually writing very many words to avoid a direct explanation, which is ev
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> to shape opinion, promote discord, polarisation etc etc in the next generation of youth is a bad thing I remain unconvinced that people aren't shaping their own opinions by continuing to pursue similar content to what they typical
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You haven't made a point that I can see! I'm actually being genuine here, I don't know where this went off the rails for you exactly, but I would like my questions to be answered. I'll just copypaste what I said in anoth
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by raydev 2y ago
Yeah, that's kinda how all social media algos work. You get bucketed in with the content you engage with and watch the most ie the stuff you likely (but not necessarily!) agree with the most already. It's almost as if TikTok'
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I've been here for years, I just constantly see a lot of talk of harms but no details of what the harms are and it's tiring.
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> you should give me your bank account credentials, since we're all the same. How is this comparable to the media you're consuming?
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Since it's a hot button conspiracy theorist topic, I need to preface that I don't actually care about the Hunter Biden laptop drama nor the contents of the laptop, but Twitter and Meta actually were told to suppress sharing and di
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No, from yours/commenters' perspectives. What about US-governed control is functionally better for consumers?
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I'm very serious. > US Government likes US Government control because it's themselves. I know. That doesn't tell me why China controlling a social media algorithm is inherently any worse from yours or my perspective. >
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> it's better to limit what enemies are able to broadcast directly to our phones Unrelated question: How many enemy-manufactured products do you use daily? How many enemy products are in your home?
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> Like imagine if China owned CNN and the New York Times and decided what stories they could publish Okay. Now imagine CNN and NYTimes and Fox News being coerced into publishing or not publishing info because a US gov agency demands it.
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You didn't cover the global supply chain.
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> the space of "games that would run well on the Switch" is still fairly unexplored That's not true at all, many games don't bother with the Switch at all because of dev costs, and Fortnite, one of the most popular ga
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by raydev 2y ago
Our new house came with a new Samsung dishwasher that had touch controls along the top lip of the door, and the door popped open at the end of every wash to let steam out. Imagine heated clouds of water passing over the panel every time. Th
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> weird how people feel so differently when they get fired It's weird that the average person working these jobs has bills to pay, and perhaps additional family members to care for?
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My now late-teens had complete access back when TikTok was called musical.ly. The youngest was 12 when we handed them iPhones. All we ever enforced with them was strict Screen Time lock at 9pm, and then a couple years ago we turned that off
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No, I think the key is that the kids haven't been banned from using them but are still fine.
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> This won't be popular opinion but I think the tech industry is out of control with targeting kids Seems like the majority opinion every time the subject comes up on HN, and X, and on Facebook, and in discussions with people in rea
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Do you think children of all ages need constant and undivided attention such that the parent is incapable of performing their paid job?
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> it seems to suggest some of these people weren't really working full time Only if you think it's impossible for people to work while their children are home.

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