Light some incense and recite 3 hymns to the machine gods and your network will be fine

I've my paper copy of Andrew Tanenbaum's Distributed Systems just in case. Of course it's only a drop in the bucket and by many metrics decades out of date but it's something.

I mean I can't blame her for being cool

Damn. When I was in school I was messing with the very early stages of nltk and machine learning frameworks to try and categorize poetry as a side project. Most classes were still in java and submission was literally printing it off and handing it over to the professor who would mark it up with pen lol.

I wasn't in a big school, but it was a Red Hat feeder. Some of the kids who came up after my have been popping up as applicants in my current workplace and it's pretty bleak.

I do the coding interviews and make sure they're in person and I let them choose what they want to do. Only rule is no AI, only me (I make it clear they can ask any questions and I'll help them if they get stuck). So far, out of 10 or so interviewees I've only had one that could write a fizz buzz in Python...

This is hilarious because I've spent 2 weeks jerry rigging a proctoring solution for an engineering professor, because my university is too poor to afford proctor software.

No big deal on the letter of recommendation, I think? They'd surely understand an overworked professor who uses a template, regardless of whether it's AI.

Jesus fucking christ. We don't need climate change to make us extinct; we'll just stupify our way to it first.

Yeah, going to Lan parties with friends back in the day was always an exercise in frustration.

Nah there's probably some arpanet guy enjoying his tech-free retirement in the woods who keeps having nightmares about oscilloscopes and vacuum tubes

I'm not saying everybody over 40 knows, but some people over 40 know