Lots of psychopaths and narcissists in C suites all over. They mask pretty well though.

I don't think he means that - but you being in the class of people that has to fix real bugs, and deliver working software puts you at a disadvantage compared to people who just blow hot air and talk in circles, even if you are a charming social butterfly outside of word.

That .. is not what is meant here. Neurodivergent people surely can also be narcisstic psychopaths, but it is not really related as far as I know.

Neurodivergent is not just one thing.

Are there people on the autism spectrum at leadership level? - Steve Jobs was considered to be one even though he was not formally diagnosed as one.

Are there people on ADD/ADHD spectrum at leadership levels - yes, I know of a few..

Are there people with sociopathic tendencies at leadership level - You can answer this one :)

Because then they’d have to recognise their failures. It’s like an alcoholic that keeps drinking in order to keep pushing back the reckoning of reality.

But it’s precisely the automation around LLMs that make the end result itself impressive.

_How_ can you be a good hire for a _software engineering_ position, if you can’t get that one correct though?

It depends why they didn't get it "correct" (asked ChatGPT bad, used Python REPL not so bad, used screen reader very not bad) and what "correct" even means for this problem.

There's a bizarro version of this guy who rejects people who do it in their head because they weren't told to not use an interpreter and he values them using the tools available to solve a problem. In his mind, the = is definitely part of the code, you should have double checked.

Oh. I was reading this on a phone, and didn’t realise there’s hidden equal sign (though it’s mentioned).

That does change it. In that I can see how false negatives may arise. Though, when hiring you generally care a lot more about false positives than negatives.

I have a pretty old Roborock, and I can just not attach the mop and have it in vacuum only mode.

It’s not just that, there are other things in the article pointing to the person being a non-native English speaker. Which is fine, I’m one too.

It’s somehow ironic though that his written output could’ve been improved by running it through an AI tool.

I'd much rather read someone's actual errored, nonnative writing than whatever an LLM would produce from it. Not only because it's annoying reading the same fake style over and over, but also because the less fluent they are the less able they are to tell when the LLM output is changing things in ways that don't reflect what they're thinking.

And if the main complaint is just a few odd words or structures, it's really not that big of a deal to me.

> his written output could’ve been improved by running it through an AI tool.

I mean, it could've been homogonized by running it through an AI tool. I don't think there's a guarantee that it would've been an improvement. Yes, it probably could've helped refine away phrases that give away a non-native English speaker, but it also would've sanded down and ground away other aspects of the personality of the author. Is that an improvement? I'm not so sure.

Kids being banned from social media is just one side of the coin. _Everyone_ else being forced to KYC with random websites is the other. I can’t help but wonder, which of the two outcomes is the actual goal here.

It's wet dream of politicians that think the key to reducing crime is invigilation. So, that goal

I don't think there is all that many politicians gullible enough to think that kind of massive breach of privacy is a worthy tradeoff

So far I haven't been KYCd by anything.

Aside from YouTube I don't particularly engage with any of these often, but my Google, Facebook, Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, (current) Reddit, Slack, Telegram accounts all seem to be BAU without new requirements.

If the 80% of us currently holding unambiguously-over-16 accounts are exempt, and it only affects future over-16 users as they're onboarded, then it is a very blunt and very slow form of data harvesting which won't yield useful results until years/decades after all of the relevant decision-makers have moved on, retired and/or died. So this seems unlikely?

You're right, but Social Media was one of the last places one could be critical of the Government whilst also being anonymous or pesudo-anonymous.

Have you done any ML-lineage languages before (ocaml, Haskell)? If yes, did you like it? If yes, the answer to your question is probably Rust. The thing about Rust is that it’s kind of this Frankenstein language with a lot of foundational influence coming from ML lineage languages (algebraic data types, traits, combinator heavy programming, etc) but with curly braces and memory management part unique (lifetimes) part modern C++ (smart pointers).

I see Zig as being a lot more in C tradition and lineage with nicer and safer memory management techniques. Also comptime (Lisp-ish there?)

My two cents

PHEV means a lot of things. Toyota PHEVs with e-CVT are simpler than a normal ICE. VW PHEVs where there’s an electric motor tucked into their DSG gearbox - not so much.

And then the kicker. VW doesn’t allow the dsg with electric motor to be repaired by dealers. If something is wrong it needs to be replaced completely. At the cost of €15k (NL, 2021). The only serviceable thing is the clutch and the mechatronic.

IMHO this is something that should be regulated away as consumer unfriendly and environment unfriendly. (Not to say hostile.)

In the end I got a DSG specialist fix the problem in two hours by replacing two simple components physically. The car then spend an hour retraining the dsg.

It’s not about champagne. It’s about us not making anything like the Patriot air defense system. Or us not having the capabilities to command our disparate militaries cohesively without US involvement in NATO. The whole Western order has been built on the premise of US being the corner stone that ties everything together.

Thank God the French have always been suspicious about it since the Suez crisis, hence we _do_ have at least some independent capabilities.

For those who don't know, the French (and British) instigated the Suez crisis. It was a highly illegal attempt at regime change in Egypt and the US along with the USSR and United Nations rightfully pressured the French to stop. Bizarre example to illustrate the need for military independence.

Unfortunately your assessment is based on the faulty premise that anyone in international politics does anything to be nice.

The US doesn't give one rats ass about Egypt. The US won and got their way in Suez and the international seas in general. Europe lost.

There is no right in geo politics - only might. It's completely machiavellian. This is because you don't get to elect your neighbors leaders, and so they aren't beholden to you. International politics fundamentally doesn't work like national politics because of this. You can't stop Putin, Trump, or Xi, from taking what is yours unless you have the steel and oil to stop them. You can't sue them or vote them out like in national politics.

The problem with your perspective is that citizens can still tell right from wrong. And the public is much less Machiavellian than those in charge. The people can change how their leaders act, but won't when they believe any attempt to steer towards pro-social geopolitics is pointless.

I should also point out that some countries are much more bellicose than others, in direct contradiction with your nihilist view.

I absolutely do not encourage anything bellicose. I'm saying you are not good for not defending yourself. Everyone needs to defend their access through the Suez.

This is entirely true, but it's still good that as a result of this, the French prioritised independent defence policies for the last 60+ years.

It’s not an example, it’s a timeline.

SAMP/T is quite good.