They are terrible at it, compared to my mailman or UPS.
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I have to do many interviews.
I don’t care if the applicant uses AI, or any other tool available to them. I just care about whether they can explain, debug, and modify/extend code (which they wrote, or at least composed somehow and are presenting as their work).
I’ve definitely been suspicious of AI use, and also had some applicants admit to it. And I don’t count that against them any more than using a web resource.
But, there is a very high correlation between using AI and failing at the explain/debug/modify part.
I feel like this could be a Columbo episode
Name and shame the brand!
I was going to say vacuum leak too. Get some brake kleen or other flammable liquid and spray judiciously near different parts of the intake while the engine is running and listen for a change in idle to help locate it.
Note: spray flammable liquids at your own risk. If you don’t know the risks and what to avoid have a mechanic do it.
This is super cool
I don’t think we’ve yet witnessed the full benefits of the distributed nature/federation.
So I’m sure it’s not your issue, but
Few weeks back I was able to solve the persistent clunk/scrape sound I had when pulling to a stop and when pulling away. I had assumed it was driveline but turned out the upper trans cooler mount had rusted away so it was flopping back and forth when stopping/starting. Zip tied it for now. When it’s warmer out I’ll bend up a new bracket from some scrap.
This should be a Venn diagram with zero overlap, lol
Death is an escape. IMO if you’re guilty of a heinous crime, you should live a long life in solitary where you can reflect on what you did.
Maplibre (https://maplibre.org/) offers a beautiful open source solution. There are affordable open source solutions for OSM base maps too (https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps), where you can host the whole thing as a single static file.
No one should be paying Google per API key :)
Be thankful you have a button and don’t need to navigate through 3 levels of touchscreen menus to get to the option.
In my current role, I mostly hire “senior” roles. So the applicants (which are pre screened before I see them) typically have 5+ years experience. I ask about the code they’ve written, and then I ask some questions about how they would extend the code (to meet some new requirements). What I’m looking for is not so much a specific answer, but more so “can we think through this problem together.”
That said, I’ve been the interviewer for “junior” roles…and there isn’t as much correlation between ability and experience as you might think. So no reason to feel imposter syndrome. I’ve worked with extremely smart/talented developers without any formal training.
I think all the stuff you’re doing sets a really good foundation for a career in software, if that’s where you want to go. One thing I might suggest is making a few contributions to open source or team projects. It can be useful to learn about how to read code, and present code to others (or to fit your idea into an existing code base).