Laughable for chess, but essentially how Steve Mould played tic tac toe using synthesized DNA.

Me (interviewing recently): Could I see an example design doc or some code before we discuss your offer? Hiring manager: We don’t do designs, just launch and iterate. And here’s some code, it’s all fully self documenting. Me: Nope nope nope.

Good call, time to block & move on.

I’m just getting:

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So true. I recently learned there’s a Python package for natural sorting, similar in other languages.

If you haven’t played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.

I do do interviews too. It’s a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.

Cheating leetcode interviews with AI doesn’t seem that innovative to me, just adding dishonesty to a broken practice. Destruction is always easier than creation.

Also, as someone who frequently designs and runs SW interviews, it’s totally possible to run interviews that test actually important SW skills like OO design, error handling, and using APIs, which AIs still fail handily.

If you want to do something cool, make an AI to refactor your codebase for maintainability and security.

Hmm, it’s been a while, maybe I’m misremembering. There were definitely some categories of Plex content not from my library that kept reappearing on the home page of my server, despite trying to get rid of them a few times. Maybe they weren’t actually paid, I just assumed they’d only be pushing something if it was going to bring them more revenue.

The other thing that made me want to jump ship extremely fast was when they started sharing your recently watched items with other users, without asking.

Even with Plex pass they were really pushing their paid content. Much happier with Jellyfin, and it was very easy to switch.

No no they’re not “wrong,” they’re slouched in defeat because someone stole their keyboard, mouse, and desktop, leaving them with only a 1280x760 DVI monitor.

Steganography may be interesting in that vein. Hiding data within larger images / sound files etc.

Thanks!

Rat King

Ah, that’s what that blue bull with yellow hair is.

P.S. Syntax for spoiler markdown.

Fun, even works on Linux (Ubuntu) after turning on Proton for all games. I like the level-based design.

Yeah that one’s a mystery to me. Sometimes disappears, sometimes gives you gold. I was wondering if it’s related to the blue bull in some way.

Having learned more about the patterns, I can see that I should have

So with the board state as it was I couldn’t necessarily have done better, but better strategy could have let me survive on the same initial board.

Still nowhere near the times some people are posting though.

Didn’t expect the snake to turn the box. Excellent loop.

I have ESP8266 WiFi modules running Tasmota firmware for a few parts of this. Some report temperature (and humidity just for fun), I like DS18B20 sensors better than SHT30s which seem to have a bit more self heating. Then I also have Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps for which there’s a Tasmota control library. MQTT for communication + HomeAssistant for UI + AppDaemon for automation scripts in Python.

Examples of the UI in HA:

Me debugging SQL syntax errors in complied dbt models.

I really enjoyed working with SQLDelight when I was briefly writing a Kotlin backend, sadly it wasn’t complete enough. (It “generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from your SQL statements.”)