I agree.

For sure. Any social media company that says they’re pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.

Yes. I don’t have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.

I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.

I used to land there a lot on my searches, but ChatGPT gives higher quality results, unbelievably. Kagi+AI goes far.

I can’t, unfortunately. I still have an old Smart TV that isn’t too offensive and doesn’t show me ads. If it starts showing me ads sometime, then it’s gone. But I’m not really a videophile and I’ll watch shows on anything so I haven’t really looked at what’s better, only at what’s cheapest. I do hear it can be tricky because the commercial displays are meant to be brighter than TVs and maybe it can be hard to get them dialed in the way you want.

Last I looked, we could still buy commercial displays. They’re dumb TVs. They cost more, of course.

If the President controls the Press, and arguably Trump does, the US is in big trouble. It’s grim.

And yes, we can do all that stuff to fix it, but let’s be honest: we (as a country) are not going to.

The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there’s no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn’t mean it can’t be there, of course, but at least there’s no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on “algorithmic” social media. And that’s how I like it. :)

Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it’s x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don’t think we’re currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

“Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability.”

I always left it open-ended and that seemed to work. Part of the interview was seeing what they’d come up with. I’m pretty sure people always brought things they’d already written.

It never happened–since they knew in advance, they had time to whip up something cool if there wasn’t anything else. It didn’t have to be massive. I just wanted to see some clean non-trivial code and a clear understanding of how it worked. Fizzbuzz wouldn’t have impressed. :)

One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.

But how do you handle candidates who say something like “look, there’s heaps of code that I’m proud of and would love to walk you through, but it’s all work I’ve done for past companies and don’t have access (or the legal right) to show you?”

It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.

I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂