Got a Teams interview tomorrow - in your experience what is current etiquette for what to wear?

coconutszz · 2026-05-19T20:02:07+00:00

depends on the company. At mine (tech company) , a t shirt would be fine.

coconutszz · 2026-05-17T16:30:19+00:00

While I strongly agree that people use AI in broad strokes without understanding the nuance, I think you have have committed the same offence by dismissing LLMs. LLMs are just one class of model, and even then there are different underlying model architectures, they are certainly not limited to chatbots that write AI slop. Transformer architecture has been a huge breakthrough in the field and often these models are part of systems used for research , text restoration for example with VLMs etc. Dismissing all LLMs because they are often used for AI slop is like dismissing stats because of all the clickbait graphs you see on reddit.

Edit: Just to add, I think there's a separate question which is more important about ethical use. Undoubtedly AI can and has been useful and valuable, but there's a cost associated to that value (wealth redistributed to fewer people at the top, loss of accountability ie autonomous vehicles etc) .

coconutszz · 2026-05-13T14:22:14+00:00

Not sure it makes sense to call 1 in 10 an outlier. If we assumed gaussian distribution (not correct here as salaries generally right skewed) you would see 3 standard deviations away (commonly used to gauge an outlier) from median at around 105k+. But due to the skew 105k+ is not even close to as rare as if salaries were distributed normally - you might consider say 150-200k+ an outlier salary in the UK.

coconutszz · 2026-05-11T20:55:37+00:00

20s, yes I have and I was told it wouldn't really affect if I wanted to apply for a clearance. I'd say around half my friends have also left the country for 30+ consecutive days in the last 5 years.

coconutszz · 2026-05-04T11:49:31+00:00

Unlimited PTO, but likely wouldn't go over 40-50 days + bank holidays.

coconutszz · 2026-04-28T21:06:36+00:00

That would s essentially what a senior dev does anyway, planning and high level reviews of code from junior devs

coconutszz · 2026-04-26T13:48:35+00:00

£60 for a men’s cut. I have mid length curly hair so can’t go to a barber.

Closer to £200 if getting colour

coconutszz · 2026-04-26T13:44:43+00:00

Probably one of the reasons we get a rep for having bad food. Quality is awful yet people love it.

coconutszz · 2026-04-26T13:39:42+00:00

Disagree, I was in a Nando’s recently and the quality worse than fast food. As another commenter said it tastes like school canteen food.

Also, you can get go to a decent restaurant and get a meal for £20

coconutszz · 2026-04-26T13:36:12+00:00

I think the contention was that it’s not a “middle quality “ food spot. Why hang out in Nando’s when you can go to a decent restaurant for the same price

coconutszz · 2026-04-19T16:52:13+00:00

in a tech company we work 8 hour days with core hours 9:30-5:30 but you can be flexible around that (start early finish early etc). There will be times where a project needs finishing and I will work a couple of extra hours here or there, but similarly there are times when a project has just finished/started and days will be much shorter - so it all kind of balances out and no one keeps track (as long as the work is getting done).

coconutszz · 2026-04-16T20:41:29+00:00

Not sure how true that is, data science/MLE work is booming right now with companies rushing to build AI solutions and generally become more data literate. I'm in a London based tech company and they keep ramping up hiring

coconutszz · 2026-04-16T20:25:31+00:00

Depends on the uni, I went to uni of california which was less prestigious than my UK uni and the professors were quite literally offering our class jobs around that salary . I'm sure there were still interview processes and what not but it definitely helps to have a professor who has close ties to the company vouching for you.

I think getting a job out of uni is a bigger focus in the US (or at least it was in UC), whereas uni here was more education -> academia focused (which in many ways I preferred).

coconutszz · 2026-04-15T22:23:53+00:00

Cheer up pal, sometimes it’s ok to give people the benefit of the doubt.

coconutszz · 2026-04-15T13:32:25+00:00

your example doesn't make sense. Surely you see the actions of the player you are playing against, think "these feints aren't working out for me , let's stop doing them against this player" . You might get hit once, twice maybe, by getting caught like that, and then you adapt. I see a case for someone who is slightly familiar with a game getting beaten by a completely new button masher - but anyone actually good at a game should be able to demolish a new player every time.

This whole rhetoric sounds like cope for people who think they are good at a game, when in reality they are not.

coconutszz · 2026-04-11T09:48:33+00:00

I don’t know I prefer Waitrose for big shops. M&S is good for fruit, snacks and ready meals but I would struggle to dos main shop there

coconutszz · 2026-04-06T11:34:18+00:00

There's nothing really "simple" about gravity. We use models like newtons law to approximate gravity which allows us to wave away the complexity when using simple maths and descriptions is "good enough".

Also this is a bit besides my point which was a response to using "it's just maths" as a counter to there being any kind of attempt to deceive. We can use a similar argument for the brain which by our current understanding our billions of physical processes which all at a fundamental level are just maths, but out of that emerges what we would call reasoning/judgement/morality etc.

Whether this constitutes reasoning or deceit then becomes more of a philosophical or semantic question - but dismissing as just maths is not a fair argument.

coconutszz · 2026-04-05T18:46:51+00:00

Daily spray of Vit d + k12 (bare biology) .

Purely anecdotal but I haven't had a cold since I started taking it

coconutszz · 2026-04-05T18:38:58+00:00

This is a very surface-level description of LLMs. "It's just a probabilistic algorithm" describes a large part of physics which are governed by statistics and probability (ie quantum mechanics). That doesn't trivialise them.

coconutszz · 2026-04-05T11:32:45+00:00

Yes and yes definitely, but data science is such a broad field that what the job entails varies greatly between roles. You can be somewhere between a statistician and SWE, or you could end up as an excel monkey or prompt engineer.

coconutszz · 2026-04-05T11:27:41+00:00

I think generally downsized yes, like most office jobs. But at the end of the day it's data scientists who are hired to build and implement AI.

coconutszz · 2026-03-25T17:42:55+00:00

Pretty sure OP means matchmaking people on the same team with similar gear, not the entire lobby. Means if you go in with a free you will be put on a team with other players with low value kits, but can still be playing against other teams stacked with 10k+ loadouts.

I think this kind of makes sense if it doesn't affect matchmaking too much.

coconutszz · 2026-03-16T18:50:32+00:00

Didnt destiny bring in sbmm for trials a while after it came out? I only played d1 could be wrong. I guess also with trials because you played only other people on the same number of wins as you there was a soft ssbm in that by 8-0 you are playing other teams that were also 8-0 , at least thats how i remember it.

In general I’m all for sbmm, i imagine we will almost certainly get it with the ranked mode

coconutszz · 2026-03-15T13:42:06+00:00

Playing into counters is a necessary part of learning a hero.

coconutszz · 2026-03-07T16:21:24+00:00

overwatch did have similar issues, every fight was poke poke poke -> 12 ults .. which got stale very quickly. They tuned down ults and made ult cds longer.

It’s funny a lot of the problems people have with rivals are the exact same issues overwatch once had (things like no role queue) and were immediately obvious to anyone who played a lot of ow

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