I love redheads and I didn’t really understand the “ginger” hate in the US – just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like “gingers are disgusting” “hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are” … I’m like wtf is going on here, I don’t understand it?

Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it’d be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.

Remember this every time they tell you to sacrifice your freedoms for protection.

Thanks I’ll make sure to avoid them in the future!

Reminds me of defenders of Israel. Screaming anti-Semitism while these guys are committing atrocities.

I can live with a system that causes mass killings but I draw the line at killing people that enable it.

he’d let claude do everything and he didn’t actually care how it worked.

😱

I hired someone that recently put up PRs and when I asked what they were for, he had no idea … he hasn’t ran or tested a single one … just vibing everything.

When I saw his Terraform PRs … I was like, “show me how you run this”. I shortly found out he never had Terraform installed and didn’t know how to switch AWS profile at all. He let’s AI do everything. Also, he kept sending me AI convos and I was like, “if you send me another one without reading it first and summarizing it for me, I’m going to lose my shit”. He said, “I wanted to send you the proof” … I said, “you sent me half a page of nonsense where you didn’t respect my time enough to read yourself first”

I much prefer conversational style interviews. I also like having them tell me about shit and then getting into the weeds of what they’ve been through.

I’ve been through so many stupid quizzing type interviews. I remember one where they wanted to ask about covariance and contravariance and I roughly stated I learned about it when writing my own compiler and it’s about types and how one can follow the typing direction of typing, for let’s say parameter/return values and the other can go the other way but I forget which is which typically. The guy was like, “guess which one is which?” I said, “why? it’d just be a guess, I thought I demonstrated that I’m at least familiar with the concepts”, he said, “I can’t mark down you got this question is right unless you get the right answer” … I said, “let’s skip it then”.

Another one was where he asked me if I knew “WPF” which is a Microsoft framework to write desktop apps. I said, “it’s not on my CV, and I’ve only used it at home a few times but you can ask me questions if you’d like”, he then said with a smirk on his face, “if you want to answer the WPF portion, and you get it wrong then you look bad, but if you get it right then you look good, so what do you want to do?”, I said, “I think this is up to you as an interviewer – I’ve told you where I stand”

There was a lot of that … like based on THEIR questions – I don’t know shit … but they’re not quizzing my experience at all.

doesn’t really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string

yeah that’s basically it, I know you’re leaning into your existing knowledge (of likely C-based stuff) but your line of thinking is about right about how you’re inferring things … naming and stuff gets a bit “different” or less serious when you go into JS land sometimes.

What’s funny is if this were a real job interview question and you answered in the way that you did … the way you answered it told me more about yourself and your qualifications than just getting it exactly right

When imposter syndrome meets an actual imposter!

I refuse to believe you couldn’t infer what this is, you’re way too smart and you could definitely just guess.

I’m a former vegan that tries to eat mostly veg. It was so much easier when I lived on my own but when you live with your Asian parents, as an adult, things are tougher :/

Veganism is a morally correct choice despite it not being perfect but many online vegans are insufferable

Most people here don’t know shit about China

America deserves Donald Trump

I see Free Range, Free Run and Organic and I don’t know what’s best so I assume it’s Free Range …

As an extroverted person? Play some online games with the mic on and talk to your team. They’ll tell you to shut up constantly, :D

Seriously though, if you get your energy from meeting people like I do. It’s important to be self-reflective more and do hobbies that are calming. I can draw for hours and it’s amazing or even calligraphy! I’ve been doing crochet as well now. I just lose hours and it’s a nice mindfulness exercise.

If you’re concerned about talking too much then I would say just practice listening more. I wouldn’t say I interrupt someone when they’re talking but I do interrupt the flow sometimes because I can carry silence a lot. Which is kinda why people like having me around (convos don’t get boring) … however, I used to definitely go too far with it. So, it’s good to sit back and let conversations and quietness play out and you can see how others would have carried the convo without you. I remember reading about Sir Patrick Stewart about it:

Patrick Stewart has said that playing Jean-Luc Picard changed him as a person. “…I suppose [he] even had some influence on me. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean-Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.”

I knew I was killing conversations when I hung out with ANOTHER outgoing person and they kept doing what I was doing to a higher degree and I was like, “it’s kinda nice having someone carry conversations like this … at the same time, it’s kinda draining because I can’t get a word in”.

“saves the restaurant”

I mean yes, but also no … 🙁

A man of class I see 🧐

“In the Heart of Transylvania! In the vampire hall of fame-ya! 🎵”

Oh man, I totally forgot about that! Classic movie!

Could be used for stop him from reproducing.

I used to just have him on the background talking to the camera when he was fixing a laptop. Then would listen to his random takes on stuff and then his political activism.

As much as I agree with him, I am just raged out. I can’t do John Oliver, I can’t do so many left-leaning ones because they clip right-wingers and I don’t want to hear about how everything’s getting worse …

Let me tell you something about LOTR and Vigga Mortensen and the kicking of a helmet …

They had to trim a lot of Kramer’s entrances in Seinfeld because the crowd cheers too much too.

For those that don’t know, Scrubs going without canned laughter was considered a risk which is why they added those silly noises in the first season.