Largely agree, with a couple exceptions: Undiscovered Country and First Contact are good; Into Darkness is bad.

I wonder if they are preparing to stop using it. That could be a benign reason for the change in wording.

the AI that wrote the article

The linked article is by Dan Goodin from Ars Technica. He’s not immune to mistakes, but he’s been writing good articles about security for years.

Can we please not accuse everybody of being AI just because they made a mistake?

So this whole post is an advertisement, then.

tl;dr: The right people, the right exercises, the right atmosphere.

I started by sitting down to a pair programming session with a member of the team that was hiring. We did some minor work directly in their code base, and he showed me some of the interesting things in their stack. It was great.

Then we had a panel interview with other team members and the CTO (not a giant company, but there’s over 1500 employees, so I was impressed.) We discussed some of my previous work, the designs involved, tradeoffs, etc. There were a couple white-boarding conversations. We talked about leadership and various people topics.

Then most of the panel and my referrer took me out to lunch, and we had a good informal chat.

Finally, we went back and I did another pair programming session with a different member of the team where we did code kata problems for a while. We discussed pros and cons of pair programming and mob programming.

Why did I like this so much?

1. The two programming sections were with senior developers on the team they were hiring for. Also, pair programming is great because you see how somebody collaborates as well as how they can solve problems.
2. The panel mostly consisted of people I would be working directly with. The questions in the panel were very relevant and you could tell they were looking for my strengths.
3. The atmosphere in general was great.
4. What I saw of their codebase looked really good.

I was very impressed with this company. They made a competitive offer. I ended up declining, mostly for external reasons like a long commute, but I still wonder to this day if I should have given it a shot.

Ah, excellent, thanks. That’s one of the things I use most in Mint.

It could be that I misunderstood, but I mean something like Mint’s feature where you can have it do something like this: “Always rename ‘YRBNK PMT’ as ‘Your Bank Payment’ and categorize as Credit Card Payment”.

I’ve been checking YNAB out. I really like that it has an API subscribers can use.

One of my complaints is that it doesn’t seem to have rule-based categorization, but I may just write a script (or find someone else’s) that interacts with the API.

• Audiobookshelf - Self-hosted Audible. I cannot believe how smooth this is. I set up the docker container, tweaked the ID3 tags on my audiobooks (to group series), and that was it. The Android app is listed as alpha, but it has been nearly flawless for me. I am astonished.
• Tailscale - A slick low-config VPN solution. Probably everybody knew about this except for me, but I recently tried it and it’s great. I had to tweak several things to fit my exact setup, but once I figured it out, it has been exactly what I hoped for. No more messing with dynamic DNS or opening ports. I just start the client and I’m home. I’m hoping I’ll have some extra time soon, and if so I’ll try to go full FOSS and attempt to use Headscale on a VPS.

Unfortunately, no, you just need training data on children in general and training data with legal porn, and these tools can combine it.

It’s already being done, which is disgusting but not surprising.

People have worried about this for a long time. I remember a subplot of a sci-fi series that got into this. (I think it was The Lost Fleet, 15 years ago).