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New comment by constantly in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

constantly — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:48:59 +0000

I used to provide feedback but often got candidates who were argumentative about it rather that accepting that the decision was final. This turned me off on the whole concept.

New comment by constantly in "Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it"

constantly — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:03:51 +0000

> I can't think of a scenario in which you would not unlink it.

Perhaps if there is some sort of crash.

New comment by constantly in "What the interns have wrought, 2025"

constantly — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:55:16 +0000

One of my favorite experiences was that as an intern I shipped what I thought was a useful tool. When I came back full time a year later it had spread and was pretty popular among a subset of the company!

New comment by constantly in "4B If Statements"

constantly — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:24:26 +0000

Using selenium and chrome webdriver under the hood to do so, as well.

New comment by constantly in "4B If Statements"

constantly — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:21:51 +0000

Easy enough to check with even the indecent compilers!

https://godbolt.org/

New comment by constantly in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

constantly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:34:57 +0000

I’m curious too! I’m not making the argument, just distilling a little of what I’m sensing from others.

New comment by constantly in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

constantly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:34:03 +0000

That’s super interesting. I try to emphasize with other belief systems. Can you explain more?

New comment by constantly in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

constantly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:23:04 +0000

> Perhaps a more reasonable goal would be to hire proportionally within US at rates roughly aligning to CS degrees by demographic.

This doesn’t quite do it because of the systemic reasons that CS grads are not representative of the US population at large. So, the goal should really be to hire proportionally within US roughly aligning to the overall demographics of the US population.

New comment by constantly in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

constantly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:19:36 +0000

She can just be a bad person, but my sense from scanning the comments is that a bad person artificially propped up by a social framework is worse because in theory it made it easier for the bad person to achieve a position of power where otherwise it’s less likely they would have achieved such a position. At least that’s my take on what people are arguing without diving in too deeply.

New comment by constantly in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

constantly — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:16:54 +0000

Curious about examples the other way from seven years ago and about similar examples fourteen years ago. Sounds like an interesting hypothesis.

New comment by constantly in "Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward"

constantly — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:21:42 +0000

I checked into those links, very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by constantly in "Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward"

constantly — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:50:19 +0000

Your link is from Vermont, not Colorado. I don’t think anyone is advocating for the release of wolves into Vermont.

I did a search of regenerative agriculture in Colorado and can only find a single farm that has tried it. Given that it seems tenuous to suggest that wolves will destroy regenerative agriculture in Colorado?

Regenerative Ag seems to be focused on agriculture, as the name implies. The people upset about wolves are ranchers who stand to have their livestock attacked by wolves. I am not seeing the connection between wolves and the destruction of regenerative agriculture.

New comment by constantly in "Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward"

constantly — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:26:07 +0000

It’s hard, not impossible. We need enforcement like we enforce endangered rhinos in Kenya from poachers.

New comment by constantly in "Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward"

constantly — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:22:14 +0000

Given the consequences of the reintroduction of wolves to the ecosystem, I think literally everyone will be living with the consequences to some extent. Unless by “the consequences” you’re specifically referring to wolves attacking the livestock of billionaire (in many cases) “ranchers,” then maybe not because I’m assuming those billionaires ranching on public land aren’t voting against their pecuniary interests (as billionaires do not seem to do) and thus are not in the 50.4%.

New comment by constantly in "T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for "Code of Conduct" violations"

constantly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 12:15:42 +0000

T-Mobile isn’t technically a legal system so this is referring to them fining for illegal content of their own accord as part of the contractual arrangement. It’s not as if they impanel a jury :)

New comment by constantly in "Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)"

constantly — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 20:23:17 +0000

Yeah, true. I was being subtle. This narcissist is framing things as "even better" in comparison to someone who is likely, literally, the most intelligent person currently alive.

New comment by constantly in "I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions"

constantly — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 19:57:29 +0000

1,000? Almost certainly. 100? Maybe not. 20? Probably not.

New comment by constantly in "Resetting the timer in my toothbrush"

constantly — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:18:02 +0000

“You might have noticed the color of the brush head changing throughout of this post. This is because I had to run out and buy a new one after getting locked out of the first one.”

The concept of getting locked out of one’s toothbrush head is so absurd it might as well be dystopian.

New comment by constantly in "Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)"

constantly — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:06:37 +0000

This is awesome. Glad we can improve on the “thought leadership” of theoretical people like Terrance Tao with some real titans’ advice like yours (I see you were a software engineer at Google!!!). Thanks for sharing.

New comment by constantly in "Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)"

constantly — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:41:22 +0000

I'm curious too. Nothing on Google, except this thread haha.