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Comment Re:have interviews ever tested the right thing? (Score 2) 37

Data structures and algorithms are used in interviews, not because you'll be expected to implement sorts and linked lists, but because they demonstrate that the candidate can implement and troubleshoot software from specs, using cases they should be familiar with if they have a CS / coding background. Testing for skills rather than knowledge. By the same token, it makes sense to test candidates on the use of AI assistants, if they'll be using those in their work. Though rather than let them produce textbook algorithms with prompts, I'd give them a prompt that produces known faulty output, then ask them to test the result, figure out what is wrong with it, and fix the code and/or the prompt.

Comment Re: Honestly this is small potatoes (Score 1) 106

The amusing thing to me is that you're blaming Trump for this, and who you really need to be blaming is Obama and Biden

I have frequently and repeatedly blamed Obama and Biden for many things, and as citation I give you Slashdot. You may crawl and/or search it at your leisure. Unfortunately there's no really convenient way to view a user's posting history any more; once upon a time when this was a better place, you could buy a subscription to bypass the last ad that you couldn't turn off due to good karma, and be able to search? or at least page back into the past of your own posting history.

Trump is a symptom of a disease, not a cause of it.

At very best, he is an instrument of destruction of the country I live in, and so at very best I find him impossibly inconvenient. And he is not the best in any way.

Comment Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score 1) 106

I think Humpty Trumpty is of approximately average intelligence, and his superpower is being unburdened by approximately zero morals from any source which don't involve self-promotion. One can only imagine he received that mindset directly from his father, who was famously much the same person that he is, but unempowered by television due to some quite infamously memed shortcomings in the charisma department.

But I do not agree that his destructive actions are in any way coincidental or accidental, and I also do not believe that he is stupid or insane enough to not realize that he's doing nothing but damage. I think that's giving him too much of an out. Is he demented, yes. Is he being manipulated, yes. Is he complicit, yes. He always did terrible things. He doesn't need to be demented, syphilitic, or manipulated to be terrible, even though he may be all of those things.

Comment Re:Biden's Cyber Policies? (Score 1) 106

Did all citizens benefit from this "stable political status quo" or only "some" citizens?

All citizens benefited, as did many noncitizens, but some benefited a lot more than others.

The paperwork that founded this absolutely amazing country specified that ALL citizens

Whoa there.

That paperwork was selective about who was actually a citizen, and any definition of citizen which doesn't include the right to vote in an alleged democracy including republics is absolute repugnant horseshit. Let us not pretend there was some golden age when America kept all of its promises.

Your stable status quo was completely unacceptable.

I agree with you.

It is better that everything be torn down than try to continue the charade.

I don't agree with this on two levels, both directly and indirectly. Directly, no, something better could come out of the status quo with less suffering than this not just has caused, but would continue to cause even if it were stopped from doing deliberate harm today. Indirectly, no, I don't think we can reasonably expect to get something better than we had out of what is happening now.

To wit, this regime's actions are harming not only our present, but also our future. We could have had a revolution that didn't threaten our actual existence by turning our last allies against us for allowing this to happen.

I agree with every other part of your comment, but celebrating tearing it all down because you think that's the best way in which we could have proceeded is some selfish asshole shit.

Comment Re: A human (Score 1) 79

"Right, but they're suing over copyright infringement, not trademark infringement. They're using only using the trademark infringement to prove that the copyrighted works were encoded/copied into the training data."

If your description is accurate then in fact they do need to show the trademark infringement because it is part of their argument.

Comment Re:That's worrying (Score 1) 128

The answers are continually getting worse, too. If you ask it about anything technical it will hallucinate functionality that doesn't exist! Go to this settings page, click this thing... it's not there! It also refuses to answer any questions which are actually interesting, and it absolutely refuses to provide useful numbers or percentages. What a festering worthless pile of shit Google has created there.

Comment Re: Wi-Fi (Score 0) 20

IÃ(TM)m missing some context here because this just makes FreeBSD sound completely out dated.

Nope, you just proved you're not missing any important context there, because you got it.

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