Yeah, gamified air quality on my wife accidentally on installing this. She really wanted to see green on the LEDs. Also drove home the fact that using a gas stove hits the air quality in the house for an hour or two, that's now on the replacement list.
The fact that I can keep using this even if the vendor goes out of business was a major selling point, but also home assistant integration.
I highly recommend these(I have an indoor and outdoor units)
I understand your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but we certainly have an interest in cross-language interoperability! You can check out our work here:
- https://try.gambitscheme.org is Gambit compiled to JavaScript with the universal backend. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to see the JS<->Scheme Syntactic FFI in action.
- https://codeboot.org is our own Python interpreter running in the browser. It has a Python<->JS FFI. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to test it out. You can even import JS libraries using the standard Python syntax by replacing the identifier with a string: import "https://mycdn.com/mylibrary.js".
- https://github.com/gambit/python is a Gambit module that integrates Gambit with CPython, using the same syntactic FFI. You can import PyPI modules from Gambit.
References to conferences/papers describing these features can be found on my GH profile (https://github.com/belmarca). AMA if you wish!
It was more "ha ha only serious" than purely tongue-in-cheek. I'm familiar with Gambit's multi-backend targeting and have experimented with its JS backend. I consider it one of the quickest, and most comprehensive, ways to get "Scheme in the browser".
Local LLMs and other AI models. Even on my 4090 I run into a lot of limitations, to the point that I've been debating whether I buy a second one or wait on the 5090 to release and move my 4090 to secondary. I've even considered going with moire then 2 cards just to get some larger models running(still cheaper then the high memory server/workstation cards).
This comment is assuming the 5090 will come with more VRAM right? I haven't heard if that will be the case for consumer cards, it would be obviously nice if nvidia did, but it doesn't seem like it is in their best interest to do so versus just offering it on their high VRAM on their datacenter/workstation cards, unless e.g. Intel or AMD starts putting pressure on them at this front.
A 4090 runs a lot of these ML models more than fast enough, the problem is just VRAM right now. I think a lot of local LLM people think even a 3090 is plenty fast enough.
Years ago, I worked for a small outsourced IT company. Basically running networks and systems for small mom and pop size businesses. The owner was the only successful salesman, and nearly our entire client base consisted of his MBA program classmates.
They all say his super pushy sales job and thought it was perfect. Almost everyone else would agree in person and cancel a day or two later over the phone. He was too pushy and no one wanted to deal with him long term.
Went to work for his competition, still only the owner was good at sales, but at least could sell to anyone who needed services.
So my theory right now is that the people who need to push back against him have little leverage externally to use.
At spaceX, if an idea is stupid the engineers can say that the Government won't allow that, or something similar(ie laws of physics). It creates an external "No", so it's not the engineers fault and they get to continue working on what will work.
Similarly at Tesla, it's sometimes simple to say that it's against the law to make that change, but there are less regulations so more stupid stuff gets put in(for me it's the ues of the screen for so much, if it were legal he would have the turn signal controls on that screen).
At twitter/X there are basically no regulations, you cannot say that something stupid is not allowed, because there are no rules. He does not allow people to say "No" in his circle.
He found success in Tesla and SpaceX because people are empowered at some level to say No. At twitter/X, they are not.
What I do get are a lot of misdirected messages for people at a school district(one letter, that sounds the same, off from mine) and a defunct tech school in India.
The amount of personal information that companies will send to an unverified email address is terrifying. Devs, please make sure you send a confirmation email before believing an address is good. If I was malicious I could really mess with a lot of travel plans for people, among many other things.
Got a Q4 eTron. Reasons not to get a tesla included: Musk's behaviour lately, quality of the Tesla product, in cabin controls, availability.
We've all seen the erratic behavior, so no need to go too far on what, but my wife really soured on him around the time of the kids trapped in a cave situation. That was the start for me too, but it's just gotten worse, and I don't want to be associated with that.
Had a friend get in my Audi for a test drive and was wowed by the build quality compared to his parent's Tesla, just night and day difference. Admittedly the software needs work, I notice issues the most on the user management side of things.
There are real buttons in my car, yes there is a touchscreen for plenty of options, but turning on my seat warmer is one button.
All electric cars were hard to get when we bought, we just happened to have a line on the Audi Q4 eTron that would get it in reasonable time. Had to be 4 wheel drive and able to tow a small trailer, and while the Tesla options offered that, so did the Audi and others. (Seems that 2022 model year was when all non-Tesla electric crossover sized vehicles started to offer towing.)
Recently changed jobs in tech, high demand skillset.
I sent out exactly one copy of my resume to a company that I thought might be interesting to work for. Otherwise I just responded to LinkedIn recruiter requests.
In the time it took that one company to get back to me at all, I had landed a job and was on week 2 of 3 weeks notice.
At my last job I applied via Work at a Startup and.... Never heard back. I went to work for another company and when I was done there the CEO posted on bookface for me. A high up employee at the startup I applied to saw the post and forwarded me to the recruiter. I got a blind call (the person doing recruiting was so out of touch with how devs like contact) and he was amazed I knew a bunch about the company. I then explained I applied a year ago!
My resume at the time wasn't as impressive but I was obviously more than qualified for the role and they were unable to fill the role for a year.
It’s all referral or brand name (Stanford, mit, FAANG). If you didn’t go to a famous school make friends with someone who works where you want to be and get a referral through them.
I, or somebody else on our team, look at every single CV/resume that comes in, regardless of whether or not the HR team have looked at them.
We also aim to respond to every single applicant (i.e., beyond the initial automated acknowledgement), even if it's a straight no thanks. Every now and again somebody will slip through the net, but that's a mistake rather than the norm.
Lots of companies don't do either of those things. In their defense they probably get a lot more applicants for their roles, which makes it harder to keep on top of. Still, with half-decent modern ATSs it's generally pretty easy to quickly review and either reject or progress applicants, so it is infuriating if you apply for a job and just hear... nothing.
Another thing we do that a lot of companies don't is give feedback for applicants we've interviewed who haven't been successful. You know, sometimes it's the case that someone was decent and there wasn't anything specifically wrong, it's just that we spoke to someone else with more experience, or more relevant experience, so they didn't get the job, but we do try to give (hopefully) helpful feedback to rejected applicants as often as we can.
Occasionally that bites us in the ass because somebody will argue with the feedback, but not often enough that I'd want to stop doing it. The point I always try to remind people of is that they're never interviewing in a vacuum: we always have a cohort of applicants to consider so, whilst you might disagree with us that X is where you fell down in the interview, we're seeing that in the context of talking to half a dozen others about X, and how they performed, as well.
Thing is many companies post job ads that aren't actually available. It's a way to promote their supposed growth to clients, wanna be buyers. Quite often it is just regulatory as promoting internally requires them to open up the role to external candidates. Correct a good portion of CVs are never looked at.
During my last job search, I applied to about 15 jobs, heard back from 5, interviewed with 3, took the job from 1.
One of the other employers who
interviewed me had not contacted me for a couple months. Then, out of the blue, they contacted me again asking if I'd like to continue the interview process.
Unsurprisingly, I turned them down. I was already a few weeks into my new job. The long delay gave me a bad impression too.
I had a lot of this last time I was looking for a new job! I applied to about 15 as well, heard back from a few quick no's but had only one interview which led to an offer.
Literally months later I then received about 6 interview requests! It blew my mind how so many companies were months behind.
Remember too that reminding companies that they’re in a competitive environment can be effective. Telling them when you’re in an offer stage with another company often makes them hit the gas.
This happens to me all the time. In addition. Interviewing for multiple roles at once. I’ll get an offer, but am also awaiting a response from another company. Maybe I’ll get it, maybe I’ll get ghosted. In theory, the internet tells me I can use it for leverage, but more often the offer responses will almost never line up and I’ll have to take what I get first, or reject the offer m, betting on something else that may be coming.
Incentives matter. Recruiters get paid when someone accepts an offer and referrals often get a bonus at the same time. Many other people in the process get paid for every hour they spend in interviews, or going through resumes, or attending job fairs..
I wonder what is different between your online fingerprint and mine, in generalities.
I have not seen a captcha in months if not longer, I don't remember doing one anytime recently.
I have browser and network level ad and malware blockers in place and sometimes come upon sites I cannot access at all, but never unusable ones due to no captcha.
But, I also have a Google account linked to chrome that stays logged in, and I wonder if that allows me to avoid them.
