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Comment I think I would too (Score 3, Insightful) 65

If I could "google" all the answers while I was in the interview and pick the most likely one. "The fastest sort for this kind of data? Give me a second ... and, it's bubble sort, for sure." Let me have access to all the resources ChatGPT has, or even just ChatGPT during an interview, and I'd ace the thing. By this same token, companies should just hire Stack Overflow.

Comment Re:Seen it, not convinced (Score 1) 32

Yeah, this doesn't say anything about "play", only that the bees exhibited a previously unobserved behavior. There are beetles that roll dung balls, and perhaps this is something that an insect will do for (currently) unknown reasons. They need to try this with cubes and other objects, balls that don't roll, etc., to see how they react. Even then, it will say little about if they "play".

"We set up a room with a TV playing "Dragnet" reruns, and another playing Netflix's "Sandman", and the bees preferred the room with Sandman playing. Thus, bees like fantasy shows rather than cop shows."

Comment Re:Horse hockey (Score 2) 226

Wait, so SELECT was the correct answer? I thought it was FETCH. Fetch goes and gets something (like a dog). Select just points to something. SQL is messed up. And like the OP, I had no clue about #5 Javascript since I don't program in that, ever. No clue what the colon operator was supposed to accomplish, nor the difference between brackets and braces. They could have just asked me if I knew SQL or Javascript, I'd say no, and they could say, well thanks anyway.

Comment Don't read the article - oh wait, nevermind (Score 4, Interesting) 169

I was going to suggest not reading the article, because some of the videos described are pretty horrific. But perusing the comments here it's clear nobody actually did read the article. Like for instance, one person died of a heart attack (he was 42) and his fellow employees only find out when his father shows up to clean out his desk (no difibulator on site and ambulance was delayed because they couldn't find the place). Like sexual harassment that was reported but went unpunished. Like the bathrooms that were never cleaned. Like being promised bonuses and raises for switching jobs, but were never given. Like the woman who was sick at her desk, so the manager brought over a waste basket for her to barf into, rather than, you know, suggest she go home. Like the absolutely horrific shit people will post videos about on fucking FACEBOOK. People suffering from PTSD from having to watch all that shit.

But no, complain that the economy is so great that no one would have to do a job like that. Finding a job is so fucking easy, they're falling out of the goddamned trees.

Comment Misleading headline (Score 5, Informative) 186

They, in fact, did not "steer a Tesla into oncoming traffic", but instead made the software "think" there was a lane line where there was none. The car did go the wrong way (or would have if they'd let it), but there was no traffic. They even said, if there had been cars there, the Tesla likely would have noticed them and not blithely crashed head on.

Comment Re:Amen to that. Mod parent up (Score 2) 55

Replying to you and the person above, I think there are ways to listen to music that streaming just doesn't satisfy for some folks. I buy cds, burn them, and transfer it all to my phone (used to be an MP3 player). Most often, when listening, I just press shuffle over the entire collection. In fact I don't really like the shuffle algorithm on the player app I have, it doesn't "mix things up" enough. And I don't want repeats. Sometimes I run through all my songs in alphabetical order by title, and that is actually pretty random.

I listen in my car, and maybe a little at work, and this way of listening can last me months without repeating a song. If I'm at home, we listen to the radio or pick a specific album for a particular reason.

None of these methods fits well with streaming, really.

And I'm old enough to actually want to own the music on a physical medium, so it doesn't disappear from my account when the service shuts down.

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