Oh god I’ve had an open ended one like that only once, and you’re right it’s terrible. Those questions would be great things to tackle as a team of peers where you’re all working together without the pressure, but dude you hold our careers in your hands. Pull it together

To kick us off, mine from this week that I wrote down in another thread. In 60 minutes take an adjacency matrix as an input, good old int[][], and return all of the disjointed groups, and their group sizes in descending order.

Lol if this was a programming assignment, then I can 100% say that you are setting yourself up for failure, but hey you do you. I’m 15 years out of college right now, and I’m currently interviewing for software gigs. Programs like those homework assignments are your interviews, hate to tell you, but you’ll be expected to recall those algorithms, from memory, without assistance, live, and put it on paper/whiteboard within 60 minutes - and then defend that you got it right. (And no, ChatGPT isn’t allowed. Oh sure you can use it at work, I do it all the time, but not in your interviews)

But hey, you got it all figured out, so I’m sure not learning the material now won’t hurt you later and interviewers won’t catch on. I mean, I’ve said no to people who I caught cheating in my interviews, but I’m sure it won’t happen to you.

For reference, literally just this week one of my questions was to first build an adjacency matrix and then come up with a solution for finding all of the disjointed groups within that matrix and then returning those in a sorted list from largest to smallest. I had 60 minutes to do it and I was graded on how much I completed, if it compiled, edge cases, run time, and space required. (again, you do not get ChatGPT, most of the time you don’t get a full IDE - if you’re lucky you get Intellisense or syntax highlighting. Sometimes it may be you alone writing on a whiteboard)

Of course that’s just one interview, that’s just the tech screen. Most companies will then move you onto a loop (or what everyone lovingly calls ‘the Guantlet’) which is 4 1 hour interviews in a single day, all exactly like that.

And just so you know, I was a C student, I was terrible in academia - but literally no one checks after school. They don’t need to, you’ll be proving it in your interviews. But hey, what do I know, I’m just some guy on the internet. Have fun with your As.

(If other devs are here, I just created a new post here: https://lemmy.world/post/21307394. I’d love to hear your horror stories too, as in sure our student here would love to read them)

Eh, putting more than minimal effort into cheating seems to defeat the point to me. Even if it takes 10x less time, you wasted 1x or that to get one passing grade, for one assignment that you’ll probably need for a test later anyway. Just spend the time and so the assignment.

Yeah knocking out 99% of cheaters honestly is a pretty good strategy.

And for students, if you’re reading through the prompt that carefully to see if it was poisoned, why not just put that same effort into actually doing the assignment?

I can say that the best thing to do a gaming community is to push it yourself. !satisfactory@lemmy.world was pretty empty when I got there, I just took screenshots for 8 months and talked it up whenever I could. Now it’s actually thriving, and people knew to go there for the 1.0 release.

Hell I even have a decent sized Taylor Swift community on a very nerdy platform. Pick something that either doesn’t exist or that doesn’t have much traction and post to it constantly. It feels weird getting no, or few upvotes, but it will pick up. As it starts showing on all people will start subscribing

I think the same thing about all soldiers. I think about it given if their American, Russian, Chinese, or any country’s soldiers. I think governments use the people at the bottom’s desperation to fight in wars that most don’t have a major stake in. Downvote me all you want, I see that desperation firsthand. I will never blame the people at the bottom. Most of them had the option of poverty or being a soldier, I don’t envy that decision. I blame the people giving the orders.

I don’t support what our government does, but blaming people who are notoriously desperate and were fed lies about joining seems like a pretty hard take. I have several friends who joined, and none of them because they felt a duty to serve. Whether they had I’ll family, needed student loans paid off, or were treading water in life and had a recruiter offer them an alternative to homelessness, they are hardly the people to be mad at.

Shame on her. Judge our politicians who send my friends off to war as much as you like. Blaming troops is just blaming more victims of a failing system.

Oh god so so so many. I’m going to stick with music though for today.

You like ${artist}? That’s gay.

Even more fun, “You like ${Track} from artist? That’s the gayest track.”

Guys are real quick to make sure everyone else knows how much manlier they are by what music they listen to.

We’re gonna get a lot of the more standard “Perfect movies” so I’m going to stick with some of the ones that may not be “perfect movies” but I found personally always enjoy

• Ex Machina - Fucks with your mind through the entire movie, and leaves you bewildered at the end

• Ocean’s 11, the Clooney version personally, I watch this regularly and is my favorite heist movie

• Seeking a friend for the end of the world - Tears, but it’s a movie that’s worth a watch - but I can never rewatch it.

• The Whale - just last year, another amazing movie that has to be watched, but you will probably never be able to rewatch it.

• The Theory of Everything - Personally this movie is what started me out from “Movies are cool action things I go with friends to see” to “Maybe movies can evoke emotions that I didn’t know I could fully appreciate”, and for those here who have seen me comment on movies before, this is where Felicity Jones became my favorite actress. You forget your watching a movie, and she became Jane Hawking in it, and it’s the first movie I legit cried to. It hurt me deep. Eddie Redmayne did a wonderful job, fully embodying Steven as well, to the point that again you forget you are watching a movie.

And one more because what the hell

• Imitation Game - Bendlydoodle Cuddlefish and Kiera Knightley tell the story of Alan Turing. I say it should be mandatory watching for any computer/IT/programmer nerd out there, and I won’t say why it’s 100% worth a watch, but it’s there.

None of these would I nominate as best movie of all time, I just went through my list of most watched movies and these stuck out

I hope someday you realize how wrong that statement is, and wish you luck.

yeah the only thing I could possibly compare it to is how Windows 10/11 did not include the HEVC codec in Windows and instead you had to pay $3 or something for a copy of the license on their store to play HEVC on Windows. To me, that made sense. <5% of users would ever use HEVC directly on their machine - why include a mandatory license across all versions of windows out of the box? Atmos too is like that I believe.

This is just some weird gimmick. Measuring my head? For what? Makes no sense.

There is no one right or wrong way to have a relationship. My SO and I have a relationship where we can do all the fun things we did alone, but together in the same room. I can put on headphones and play video games for 8 hours straight, she doesn’t care. Relationships aren’t all a box that have to fit a standard.

What I will say OP is that the attitude you have is probably doing more harm to you getting in a relationship then anything else. Your resentment and assumptions that you’ll die alone will push away more people than it will pull in, and it quickly becomes a vicious cycle. Trust me, I know, I was down that path quite deep. It wasn’t until a very good friend put in a lot of time and patience to help show me that it was me who was doing the most harm to myself, not society. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Start working on yourself, OP, we’re all rooting for you. I won’t lie, it’s not a fun path, but it’s a very rewarding one.

after being here for well over a year now, I’ve learned that people who call places like lemmy.world “politically charged” are usually jerks. The most politics I see there are “Hey I think we should you know, let people live their lives normally, even if they’re trans”. If hot takes like that make me a radical, then gee whiz I guess I am. Sorry I… want people to have health care and want people to live their lives as long as they aren’t hurting anyone.

Nope, even then, think of how much QA would go into something like this. They probably have 6-8 months of features that were built on this kernel. Upgrading the kernel before would mean needing to redo everything - all of the QA, UAT, months of prep work. Companies who hold up these big releases for us aren’t like us just clicking perform upgrade, it’s a massive process that needs signoffs and confirmations. That’s why I say they probably just drew a line in the sand and said “We can’t risk destabilizing it just to perform an upgrade” - or for all we know they did do the upgrade, realized it broke something critical, and decided against it.

We all know if they rolled out a broken release everyone would be on every forum with pitchforks calling Valve the devil. They weren’t just being idiots by not upgrading.

Agree with everything you said, they’re here, how we deal with them is the question going forward. Huge +1000 to how did he get the gun? Why was that the go-to approach there. If you have a teen who you know is going through a mental health crisis, first step is to remove weapons from the house.

The question isn’t what can’t be easily done, but what I prefer. I can compile dotnet code into it’s dlls via the cli, I can set up debugging in vscode, but it’s a pain. Rider is pre-setup with all of the shortcuts I like, the colors and syntax highlighting I like, and it’s been my preferred IDE for years. I like hitting ctrl+shift+b to compile, all of the debug tools it gives, the rundowns, the experience is just clean for me.

As an audiophile myself, I would not buy this. What the hell does head shape or ears have to do with it? I have my perfect home audio setup set up the exact way I like it. Everyone else can polish a game with good audio, I’m not paying extra for one game to have what everyone else does out of the box. If I’m spending more on audio quality, I’m buying hardware, not some weird dlc

If this was like a Dolby codec thing where it was like “hey we have to pay for the license but not everyone needs it” then fine that makes sense, the license costs money but 99% of players won’t care. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what’s is happening

At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we’re updating to for this release, we’ll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don’t care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.

Man, what a complex problem with no easy answers. No sarcasm, it’s a hard thing. On one hand these guys made a chat platform where you could have fun chatting with your dream characters, and honestly I think that’s fun - but I also know llms pretty well now and can start seeing the tears pretty quickly. It’s fun, but not addictive for me.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t for others though. Here we have a young impressionable lonely teen who was reaching out and used the system for something it was not meant to do. Not blaming, but honestly it just wasn’t meant to be a full time replacement for human contact. The LLM follows your conversation, if someone is having dark thoughts the conversation will pick up on those notes and dive into them, that’s just how llms behave.

They say their adding guard rails, but it’s really not that easy with llms to just “not have dark thoughts”. It was trained on reddit, it’s going to behave negativity.

I don’t know the answer. It’s complicated. I don’t think they planned on this happening, but it has and it will continue.