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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • i would assume an actual competent person would be able to answer them immediately and confidently,

    People aren’t always able to regurgitate encyclopedic knowledge in interviews. Sure some can, but many have anxiety about interviews in general, or stuff going on in their lives which can make them not the sharpest when hit with a rando question like this. There are some absolutely brilliant people I’ve hired that would fail miserably if this was how they were measured.

    Some people work better with scenario based questions instead of bulleted memorized answers. Honestly, I’d much rather have a candidate that knows the concept being discussed even if they can’t remember the exact name of a term or the name of a flag they’d need to include when issuing a command. Those last things can be googled in the moment. Conceptual knowledge and understanding is much more important to me than wrote memorization.

    someone reading an LLM prompt is probably sounds like they’re reading from a script even if the answers arent wrong

    Well, thats what I experienced from my original post, but I’m not sure it will always be that. Someone more clever could take the answer from the LLM and paraphrase it, or put it in their own words and sound competent.


  • Sign up for a Pilates membership. Go regularly. Seek to make friends. Work on improving yourself in that class. The group will likely be mostly women. Now, your goal is NOT to find a mate in that class. Don’t be a creep. Embrace your inner warmth and genuinely and build friendships. Don’t fake this. Those women know other women that are looking for a mate, and would recommend you if you can be a genuine human being.



  • From the other side, hiring competent people has gotten much harder with AI in the hands of people. Its making them dumb.

    A coworker and I were interviewing someone for a technical role over a video meeting that we did NOT get through our network. His answers were strangely generic. We’d ask him a direct question about a technology or a software tool and the answer would come back like a sales brochure. I message my co-worker on the side about this strangeness, and he said “We’re not hiring this guy. Watch his eyes. Ever time you ask a question, he’s reading off the bottom of his screen.” My coworker was right. I saw it immediately after he pointed it out. We were only 4 minutes into the interview and we already knew we weren’t hiring this guy. I learned later about LLMs that you can run while being interviewed that will answer questions your in real time.

    Another one happened within 48 hours of that interview. Someone that had been hired was on a team with me. An error came up in a software tool that we are all supposed to be experts on. I had a pretty good idea what the issue was from the error message text. This other team member posted into our chat what ChatGPT had thought of the error. In the first sentence of the ChatGPT message I immediately could tell that it was the wrong path. It referenced different methods our tool doesn’t even use.

    To translate it with an analogy, assume we’re baking a cake and it came out too sour. The ChatGPT message said essentially “this happens when you put too much lemon juice in. Bake the cake and use less lemon juice next time” Sure, that would be a reasonably decent answer…except our cake had no lemon juice in it. So obviously any suggestions to fix our situation with altering the amount of lemon juice is completely wrong. This team member, presented this message and said “I think we should follow this instruction”. I was completely confused because he’s supposed to be an expert on our tool like I am, and he didn’t even pause to consider what ChatGPT said before he accepted it as fact. It would be one thing to plug the error message into ChatGPT to see what it said, but to then take that output and recommend following it without any critical thinking was insane to me.

    AI can be a useful tool, but it can’t be a complete substitute for thinking on your own as people are using it as today. AI is making people stupid.

    This is why I generally hire from inside my network or from referrals of those I know. Its so hard to find a qualified worker among all the other unqualified workers all applying at the same time. I know there are great workers not in my network, I just have no way to find them with the time and resources I have available to me.





  • Hmm, by removing Piet and thus hiding the traditional racist representation of black people, or by whitewashing him?

    “because he has to climb through Chimneys to deliver gifts for Sinterklaas”. “Has to”?! Is Piet a slave to Sinterklaas? /s /ragebait

    Ending the conflict would end the attention.

    I recently learned that Mikey Mouse’s classic look was derived from racist Vaudeville blackface dress:

    Disney successfully evolved/hid/whitewashed Mickey away from his racist image roots, and few today would say Mickey is a reference to the racist past.






  • I think there’s a core difference in “support” that they just started to touch on right at the end of the discussion. Support can take two forms:

    • words
    • actions

    The thesis here seems almost entirely focused on “words”. As in, “Men do not reach out for words of support as often as women”. I would agree. However, when the support needed is “actions” I know myself and men are quick to ask and quick to respond to others asking.

    • Can you come over and help me move this piece of furniture?
    • My wife has been out of work taking care of our new child, just found out I lost my job. Can you put me in touch with that company that needed a worker for that thing?
    • I don’t have a post hole digger, do you have one I can borrow?
    • Can you show me how to fill out the tax form for that deduction?

    Also frequently while these acts of support are happening words of support are also exchanged. Only at the end of the article did they talk about a fitness group that turned into a community service organization. The actions of support are present here. So I’d argue that men in western society have a high ratio of actions but lower ratio of words of support.

    For women reading, how does this compare with relationships you have with other women in friendships? How much is words vs actions?




  • You gotta find a better way to present this other than making it sound like Torvalds is a baby taking a shit. “The one who makes” I’m dead.

    Its capitalized “Makes” which I took to mean a proper name instead of the verb. So this is referring to the GNU compiler Make. Since this is posted in /c/linuxmemes, I think its a safe post for the audience to know the difference.


  • Going to a movie theater can be a pretty bad experience these days.

    • High prices for tickets even during matinees
    • Numbered seats requiring buying tickets online hours in advance (which I don’t have a problem with), but then being forced to pay 25%-40% more for “convenience fees” on top of the ticket price
    • Other patrons unable to put their phones down so there’s bright white lights every 10 to 15 minutes during the show.
    • People talking loudly during the movie
    • Way WAY too many Commercials!!! I saw a movie in an AMC theater for the first time in probably a year. I arrived early to meet someone. We took our seats 15 minutes before showtime and they are playing endless commercials at full blast volume so had to yell at each other to be heard (the two of us where the only ones in the theater). The “start time” of the movie arrived. The lights dim and…MORE COMMERCIALS! Another ten minutes straight of JUST commercials back to back. Finally, the add for the theater itself, the cultural indicator that the previews are about to begin. NOPE! MORE COMMERCIALS! 7 more minutes of them. THEN FINALLY a movie preview, okay. Preview fades out, 3 more commercials! Repeat this cycle of one preview with 2 to 3 commercials until finally the AMC Nicole Kidman theater promo comes up, so now the move? Nope! One more commercial for coca cola! Then the movie begins.

    The good movie theater experience is dead for me, but I’ve learned that AMC is the worst.