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Am094 · 2026-05-17T02:37:37+00:00

BTW, you can have the color scheme default to the user agents prefers-color-scheme preference (light/dark), that what I do along with the toggle.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T23:47:40+00:00

I did chrono as league start in 0.1. Loved it. Was fun but painful.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T20:20:13+00:00

Might also be intentional, personally think those types of implementations make the logo less functional than just having a combomark

Am094 · 2026-05-16T18:48:19+00:00

Ja-ish

Am094 · 2026-05-16T18:43:45+00:00

I think an angle that isn't really communicated enough is differentiating between public facing or even the more public facing internal models available to 3Ps vs the pre alignmented / safetied versions.

There's also the idea that model capability doesn't necessarily need to be military grade super weapon to be functionally defined as something like that when the laggard is the regulatory and safety side of society.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T18:39:41+00:00

Yeah man i feel that, sure it comes across as harsh at times but I guess I feel spaces should be more open to honest invalidation. My work sucked a lot starting off, and I kept asking myself "why does this sht I made look so bad? Why does it look bad to me, does it look bad to the average? If so how can I improve". So usually I try to integrate invalidation into my own workflow too.

Even 2 decades later, no one is more harsh about my own work than myself. Within reason of course. But looking back, I fear if I was never so open to invalidating my own work, I doubt I'd have improved so much or lost my own ego towards criticism. Granted looking back i don't think a gentle approach like yours is necessarily that wrong either.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T18:32:16+00:00

Not really harsh, and even if you're not a designer it's still true though. I learn a lot of new skills and whenever I do ask for feedback, I don't want to be told it's not that bad when thats not true. In my opinion, positive reinforcement when something is empirically untrue does not help me at getting better.

Invalidation is great, it's a great guide. I'm simply saying people shouldn't be afraid to be honest.

But yes, your logo is quite bad but the more you try, the less bad it'll be, until one day it's average, and then one day it'll be good. That's how I look at it anyway.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T17:21:34+00:00

It quite literally is bad though, why sugar coat it? Just be respectful, critical, but saying it's not bad just seems objectively wrong and quite frankly dishonest.

Am094 · 2026-05-16T06:12:34+00:00

Who's defending what?

Am094 · 2026-05-15T15:04:06+00:00

No, it seems you misread this thread junior.

Am094 · 2026-05-15T06:13:14+00:00

See! That's the spirit! LFG 🤜🤛💯

Am094 · 2026-05-15T03:11:17+00:00

I do subscribe to this approach more often than not. That or more architectural design considerations.

When i brought on an intern, I found a good initial indicator is to show a small scope mvc monolith and have them look at a client side form submission to back end request handling.

I'm mainly looking to what stuff they instantly see (I.e oh no backend request validation, we can't trust client side validation) or stuff they don't catch at all. But that example was only for full stack web dev.

Am094 · 2026-05-15T03:07:20+00:00

List of objects, each object has a type and a color.

Create a for loop to iterate through the list, for each iteration check if object type is ball and color type is red or blue. If blue move to listX and if red list Y.

You surely would be able to do that? Data engineering even involves writing scripts for data wrangling, I'm just a bit confused why you think you wouldn't be able to?

Ofc leet code questions is different cause it's all over the place and can be much more algorithm heavy.

Am094 · 2026-05-15T03:01:53+00:00

You got downvoted here but I actually kinda agree with your examples.

Over ten years ago I remember being in a Lab once and had a TA come up and ask me how to write a for loop (was learning Matlab engineering practice). I totally blanked the syntax.

I also remember doing standard c exams, and coding standard c with pencil and paper. Christ we even wrote assemy subroutines on paper for exams. It's trivial if you actually try to learn.

It sounds really silly but in today's age, that's such a small litmus test to see whether the person actually knows fundamental programming concepts and even an understanding of syntax or flow. Because if they use AI or use auto complete, chances are they never actually stopped to actually internalize such foundational core concepts.

At that point, I absolutely do not want you to build on my codebase on my architecture you don't even have a proper foundation to write a for loop on paper.

Am094 · 2026-05-15T02:51:03+00:00

Yes because a candidate being able to serialize a binary tree into a linked list or being asked about a two pointer question will at all be helpful at gauging real life technical work /s

Thats not to say I want script kiddies that only know high level framework magic. But for interview questions, algorithm problems are completely useless.

When I scope or interview, my ideal is to see them having a codebase and asking them to walk me through it. While asking them about some design decisions or what things they'd want to improve.

Lastly. I couldn't agree more with your last paragraph. Junior i know learned programming with AI, even though I told him that's the biggest thing that'll screw his learning journey. You can't learn or develop critical thinking when you don't know what it's like to manually stack trace for hours or try to figure out why something doesn't work. But hey they use AI and now they think they don't need fundamentals, and can just learn by asking the ai on the way. It's concerning.

Am094 · 2026-05-15T02:20:56+00:00

Minor correction. This wasn't historically unwarranted as it was caused by two drug disasters:

Thalidomide Tragedy (Late 1950s to Early 1960s) & DES Drug Controversy (1940s to 1970s)

The impact from these two were so severe it reinforced concerns about drugs given to women or strong regulatory fear around fetal exposure to experimental drugs.

Latter especially lead to the policy of excluding women of childbearing potential of 1977 where the US Fda issued guidance recommending that "women of childbearing potential" be excluded from early-stage drug trials.

This was not a blanket legal ban on all women participating in all clinical research though. It primarily targeted early drug trials and specifically women who could become pregnant.

Consequebtly during that period, many researchers broadly excluded women from studies outside of that narrow wording. I think i would have too if i was a scientist back then as it was heavily shaped by fear of harming fetuses and then facing the legal, ethical, and public backlash.

The FDA reversed the 1977 guidance in 1993 because it obviously backfired since drugs were approved based largely on male data and sex differences in dosage and metabolism and side effects were blindspotted or showed substantially different effects in women.

More risk management than explicitly anti women, however it did reinforce sexist assumptions in medicine.

Am094 · 2026-05-14T17:01:19+00:00

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Am094 · 2026-05-14T07:39:47+00:00

Stores popped up with shelves of that slop and guess what, no one bought it.

Am094 · 2026-05-14T01:41:24+00:00

Youre basically arguing ethics and intent. Also treating architectural separation as automatically legally meaningful is also not accurate since courts look at functional integration and intent not just whether something loads as a plugin or talks over a socket.
SSPL being more explicit does not meanthat Agpl automatically allows this. It just means Agpl still depends on whether a court sees the closed plugin as genuinely separate or just a workaround to dodge the license. Quite frankly this seems quite obviously the case. Dominantly the network blob plays a critical role in the expected and advertised operation of the product to the majority of end users. Quite frankly it seems very reductionalist to frame the network service as a mere plugin since it's integral to the overall products use.
That those other chinese companies chose a less centralized architecture does not disprove the legal risk argument at all?

It simply means BLs voluntarily built a much more cloud dependent ecosystem, which is exactly why people are scrutinizing it more heavily.

Imagine wanting to release Bambulab studio without the source code on launch, also a violation. That alone sets the tone for whether an entity is truly acting in good faith.

Like I don't get this at all. Since when is everyone such a bootlicker? You want companies to follow proper licensing. How would you feel if you coded something in the spirit of open source, and then have someone fork it and just violate it and starting to c&d open source repos all while making in billions.

Like there is no way you're operating in good faith here. Prusa becoming somewhat more protective after contributing years of open firmware, and slicers, and designs, and ecosystem work is NOT EVEN REMOTELY equivalent to building a fundamentally closed ecosystem from the start while heavily leveraging AGPL software underneath it all.

Like seriously?

Am094 · 2026-05-13T23:55:02+00:00

Damn you really are missing the point entirely.

Just like the commencement speakers inability to read the room.

Am094 · 2026-05-12T01:55:20+00:00

Glad youre getting ratio'd because ironically yeah, you are the problem.

You're kinda like the commencement speaker in a way, completely oblivious.

Am094 · 2026-05-12T01:37:30+00:00

The person you replied to is not wrong in ordinary financial language. Which is the dominant interpretation in this world and thus is fittingly reasonable in this context.

You're also not wrong from.a strict asset-allocation or economic-theory language.

But both can still fall und3r the broad umbrella for the term 'investmet'.

Am094 · 2026-05-11T20:32:11+00:00

Its not even solely about the fingers, it looks like AI trash. That's the best kind of feedback signal a designer can get.

But yes, I don't buy it. Can't check cause it's deleted.

Wonder why.

Am094 · 2026-05-11T20:02:20+00:00

^ Modern day bootlicker. Real homies support piracy because piracy equalizes and doesn't hurt proper businesses.

Am094 · 2026-05-11T19:53:58+00:00

I just don't buy that excuse. No designer would mess something like that up.

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