The quantum computers are not quite large enough to search at an `n` such that O(n)` is not viable but `O(sqrt(n))` is, that's where there's money to be made, especially if viability is defined by small time horizons. So it's a footnote for the future.

And "Readability" doesn't mean you are good at a language, it means you are good at it in the way Google uses it. C++ readability is the poster child of this. Borgcron, not so much.

However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(

I use a variant, "What's the most memorable bug you've fixed?" - and I use it as an indicator of maturity to distinguish L3 SwE from a L5+ SwE (google levels).

First, there is the time-in-field aspect. Simply being in the field for a long time increases the amount of time you have to encounter a sleep-depriving bug.

It can show tenacity. How did they find it? What did they have to do to reproduce it? Was it in prod, test, or dev? etc.

It can show maturity. Why did it pass test? What tests were introduced to detect it? Was it a new class of bug that required new testing? Were you able to add lint rules to detect it? Did you ensure it was pushed properly to prod and do proper follow up.

It can show autonomy. Did you update the testing procedures or just post a bug and hope the QA team fixed it? Did you meet with devops and share info on how to detect and mitigate it? Did you update the playbook at least?

So many possible places to dig in to get the "hire" when the default answer is "no hire". And if you cannot find any, then that's confirmation of the default answer.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

File this under "early Google's infrastructure was a low grade cosmic ray detector."

House deeds won't be simple NFTs, there will have to be other parties that can move the deed to handle things like foreclosures and eminent domain. So if your hardware wallet burns down in the neighborhood wildfire you just get the county clerk to move it for you, much like if the physical deed burned in the same fire.

And title fraud is already a thing without DLTs, just listen to all the identity theft surveillance pitches.

* It has a chilling effect: less disputes are filed

* employees prevail less often

* when employees do win the employee portion of the award is less than standard litigation

https://facesofforcedarbitration.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

If you want to talk about actively making the world worse look at most web2 "algorithms" and how the push to the extremes is tolerated by "but numbers go up."