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  • I saw a PR to a project I follow that involves a specific piece if hardware. There are about 10 “solutions” in pr now of scammers trying to claim the bounty. None of them have even bothered to get the piece of hardware necessary to actually test their fixes. It’s disgusting.

    I’m very happy for Claude starting to mark their code, and hope it becomes easier to detect. I’m actually all for ai being used to solve these issues, but I think it should make you ineligible to collect a bounty on it if you use AI.













  • Ha, I’ve been following this whole thing and it’s just so funny to me. It’s such a younger generation thing, maybe I’m older and so I’ve just “played the game” a lot. The whole thing is should you be able to take your drink of choice? Of course! However, would I do that? Hell freaking no I wouldn’t.

    Going into an interview from the first glance they’re judging you to see if you’re a good fit. Granted you’re also judging them but let’s be honest, it’s pretty lopsided. If I go in I want them to see my best foot forward, it means I’m putting on a show for the next hour (or more nowadays) so that you want to hire me. I’m not bringing in anything that alters that view of me. Iced coffee, hot coffee, nothing. Maybe a neat folder of a couple spare resumes and a notebook I can take notes in. I plan ahead, I’ll usually be at a coffee shop before the interview anyway (it helps make sure I’m there on time, get there 30-60 mins ahead of time and chill at a coffee shop), and then walk over for the interview.

    Bringing a drink or anything extra is just something that now they’re thinking about, and you don’t want them thinking about you in that way. It’s something else that you put on the table, you’re taking sips of, for cold drinks it’s condensing and leaving a ring, and then you have to ask for a trash. All benign things but again, you’re in their house and why would you want to bring any negative attention at all to them? I’ve had interviewers who were obviously just having bad days say no to me for arbitrary bullshit already, why add to that? It all seems like an unnecessary gamble for no reason at all.

    Now if they offer coffee or a drink when you get there (hopefully they do) I’m all for it. They offered, it’s free game. Go wild. Just don’t get picky.

    I know this is a wall of text but I’ll also say that as an interviewer I don’t care at all if they do, as long as they’re professional and it doesn’t get in the way. If it’s distracting, you’re shaking the ice, or slurping out the last bits, or whatever, yeah it’s going to distract me. I’m not going to be annoyed because you brought coffee, but I will be annoyed if you aren’t appearing to take an interview seriously.

    And now unfortunately bringing it after this whole social media thing is basically wearing a target on your… front? face? that says “I’m making a statement” and will absolutely label you a troublemaker to any HR person (because you know every HR person has seen this). It’s also probably tainted it for 5-10 years as they’ll keep remembering this.


  • This has gone in a full circle now, because this one was your first comment or something. I’m not arguing in circles. I’ve addressed everything you brought up and now you’re just back to your first “argument”.

    Your worries are over a future that you are predicting from… feelings it seems like. Taking all the worst conjured possibilities and rolling them up, like “there won’t be any gas stations” but somehow charging infrastructure and speed also hasn’t improved? What is your mind just imagining the lone gas station in the dusty town, closed forever, with a tumbleweed because of shakes fists EVs?

    Like I said earlier, I’m dealing in facts right now, I’m not arguing with emotions or a future that you’ve made up for yourself with no backing.

    The mental load of constantly needing to plan stops around fueling

    Freaking, man I don’t even know. If planning ahead is a cognitive load on you, we don’t have much else to talk about.



  • I fully agree with you, but you should check out the rest off this thread. I have someone who literally said:

    I’m not willing to compromise on my road trip plans.

    I’m unwilling to plan out two 20 minute stops in my day long road trip that happens maybe once or twice a year in order to have the lowest maintenance lowest fuel cost vehicle I have ever owned. Not to mention the other two options if you seriously cannot do it. People are so carbrained/gas brained I just can’t even. I will never go back to owning an ICE vehicle, literally why would you?