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English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer ‘a’ for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn’t phonemic in English).

Edit: you probably also could have said “hard a” or something since it probably literally thinks ‘long a’ means ‘hold the a sound for a longer duration’ (which makes sense to me)

Raych?

Solidarity from Japan. The price of some simple chocolate bars has basically tripled in recent years. Japan was always averse to price increases and they would literally make the news. Corona + Russia (which impacted fuel costs) opened the floodgates and prices that remained stable for ages went nuts. Still at least once a month there’s a new list of stuff increasing in price, now with extra weak yen goodness™.

I’m old enough to have been through this in IT (that and leapseconds) and it’s what my mind first jumped to (well, other than enshitification).

I despise that idiot and his republican enablers and supporters. I want the Epstein files released.

That said, people say this shit at least about Hawaii all the time. I don’t know if the same is true for Alaska. Is it dumb? Yep. Is it especially stupid being a president? Absolutely. Do I think that means “he’s already given it away” or something? No way.

That or really bad tape was what I was thinking.

I have tortoise git on a windows machine and GitHub desktop on a Mac. I do some things from the command line when I’m not feeling lazy.

I’m not from the UK, but I have fond memories of talking to people from the UK (and many other places) on newsgroups and IRC from my small, rural Ohio, USA town. It really helped give me different perspective on the world aside from my very sheltered one at the time as a teenager in the '90s.

I switched companies. I started go when replacing php at a previous company. I wanted to do rust at the time, but my options from the CTO were go or newer php (we were 5.x IIRC). I chose go.

My current company decided on go before I started. There’s some python ml stuff and some other things in functional languages, but we’re primarily go. I don’t know why specifically it was chosen. The old codebase was a bit of go and the original legacy in Ruby. I’m definitely glad they decided to move away from Ruby slowly (and compleltely in the new codebase).

I’m mostly making sure they didn’t completely lie about being able to work in the language and can explain what and they would do, why, and how they respond to feedback. I expect people to be varying levels of nervous and that’s fine. I work with people to get them focused and take the edge off as much as possible.

What I ask for usually is related to what we need to implement, but a more basic chunk of it to, for example, show that the candidate understands concurrency and can use basics in the language to do something with that (which we do frequently).

For many positions, we do not have homework and this is the only coding we get (kinda depends on role and project).

As a newer company and still technically a start-up, the boss paying the bills can decide we need to chase something else and he isn’t being talked out of it. This can lead to very fast collaborative design and coding of PoCs which can be more intense than the interview. I don’t like it but it is what it is. Not everything we do is nice, stable, and long-term.

I can relate to needing that job; I’ve been homeless, so I definitely kno the hat that pressure feels like and why nerves alone are never a deciding factor for me.

I give live coding tests generally based on the level they claim to be at in the language. It doesn’t have to be perfect as I’m more concerned with why they’re doing a thing. I usually pick something fairly basic with some edge cases just to see if they mention it.

As opposed to homework, it also proves that you can at least basically work in the language in question (I’ve had a couple of people who got to my round but seemed to know almost nothing about a language they claimed a lot of experience in (like declaring variables and struct members wrong… seriously). We also caught someone that didn’t seem to have done the homework themselves.

If the candidate makes mistakes or gives an imperfect solution, I try to gently guide them to where we need to be. I ask them to explain why they made decisions they did, any edge cases, and how to improve performance or scale it. I expect them to ask questions when something is vague (and usually something in my problem can be interpreted one or two ways for this reason) because these are things they will encounter working with stakeholders and other engineers. If they can’t do that live and on-the-fly, they’re probably not for us. I fully expect nerves to be a factor and account for that; we’re all nervous in interviews.

I used to work in Java and now work in Go writing backend services. I think I enjoy writing Go more than I did Java most of the time.

Pure speculation: ;possibly to identify sexual nudity and “inappropriate” content as some kind of legitimate usecase. What was actually done, I have no idea.

I was thinking the gym + meditation/isolation. Expensive and time-consuming? Yes. Does my perceived reasoning for it make sense (gym + mental space)? Also yes.

If I kept chickens, I would have a net over (we have hawks and other aerial predators as well) to avoid the situation, but if something somehow snuck in, this would be a good thing in my opinion.

I didn’t take it to mean that the AI was exclusively trained on their own images, but good on them if they are.

The AI used was likely trained on sets of data without the consent nor compensation of the people whose works were used.

Could the monarch technically (I know they aren’t typically involved in politics in recent generations) force a change? Is there any way to petition them to do so? I don’t really know the UK system or if this would actually be a good idea.

Souslikes, yes. For metroidvania, I would disagree. You did not mention soulslike in your post, unless I’m blind, or else I would have said nothing.

New metroidvania

Hey, hi everyone. We here at IronRaven decided to make a metroidvania, in the style of Dieselpunk and the 20s, art deco, art nouveau and so on. Tell me, what is the most important thing for you in metroidvanias, besides their appearance?

Aside from the obvious things mentioned about flow, maps, immersion, etc., and to address some of the other things I’ve seen in the comments: configurability. Realize that not everyone will have the same physical abilities, skill, and/or time to play. Give options to people who want to tweak things to be more difficult and likewise for those who want it easier and more accessible.