Windows: Let me show you an Ad, endeuntured beta tester.
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My I7 7700k is a good processor. It serves my needs from office work, to software dev, to gaming, to video production. I'll eventually retire this machine, but that's at least a year off, and even then, it'll be repurposed since it's an extremely capable machine.
I shouldn't have to upgrade because MS made an arbitrary decision to not support capable hardware after telling me Win10 was the last Windows OS. Nah, I'm switching everything over to Linux and using the hardware I have now instead of creating e-waste.
Something tells me this is a 1st ammendment violation that won't matter.
A buddy of mine I play some x-play games with only has a PS4/5. He had some money issues a few months back and couldn't pay for Playstation online renewal for a month (I believe he pays yearly?). I was shocked to learn they're still charging access to play online. I keep urging him to pick up a Steam Deck with a dock, but he's been hesitant.
I couldn't imagine having to pay for access to online play for Steam/GOG/Ect. It's one of the reasons I stopped buying PS and Xbox consoles.
The way Python is implemented, almost all objects in the language are dicts and can be accessed with the __dict__
dunder. Which has some useful applications when transforming data.
But in the case, the interviewer was likely looking for knowledge that one is structured and maintained by indicies vs defined keys. And that searching through a dictionary is O[1] vs list that is O[N] but are inverted for deletion. So if you are doing a lot of inserts and seaeching, use a dict, but if you have something that has tons of deletions, use a list. However, there's tricks to improve the deletion speed downside that can be used with a slight memory tradeoff.
There's a phrase among EA employees, "Never hired, only acquired.".
I've had the "pleasure" of going through this and have peers that have had it happen 3 times. I'm also sure that there's a few people that have had the "luck" of being acquired more than that but haven't worked directly with them.
"AI" text prediction runs locally. Microphone is for voice to text functionality.
As for the keyboard itself. Ehhhhh. It's lacking UX features to make it actually usable. I dailied it for a month and had far more typos, text prediction broke whenever a number or symbol was fat fingered into the string. Finding symbols you need was worse than gboard & SwiftKey.
I really want there to be a great open-source keyboard, but none actually deliver on UX atm.
The entire state smells like balls too.
Iamragesparkle's barkeep story about Nazi's was right.
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
Guess I won't play Diablo 5 either. POE is better anyways.