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Good idea - sort of remind me of YikYak. That was really fun & actually a great way to get local tips if you were new into an area with a good community. Towns it was dead, but if I was in a city that I'd never been to before, put a question out and you would get some real good insights.

It faced a fair few controversies & got taken offline and not sure what became of it...

Always wanted something with that... casual fence... to think of a better word again

Why xor eax, eax? 8 months ago

*shrugs* the internet being the internet I suppose.

There was "See the video that accompanies this post." but NGL was just posting encase anyone didn’t have time to read or missed it.

I've just installed solar & batteries (not 2 weeks ago we turned them on!). Be interesting to see how things will unfold and I love reading stories on how people have got on with theirs. It was roughly ~£12,900 installed (in the UK) and we pay 32.596p/kWh & 42.290p/day standing charge...

Will either pay off well or be an expensive lesson

I'll give this a go as it took me far too long to work this out - and some might disagree with me.

Taking every single ounce of advice people give to you.

I've found that everyone has a pathway in life, a way they are able to unlock and achieve their full potential. I found that what works for one person, may not always work for another. When I was starting out I would listen without question to anyones advice, peers, managers, business owners and attempt to shape myself to accommodate that advice & guidance - to only find that it would stifle me. Everyone has an opinion on how to do things best, but sometimes you just need to believe in yourself and your own capabilities.

Now I'm not saying don't ever listen to anyone, just be selective on who you listen to.

The thing which always irks me about the "I have nothing to hide" comment is would you behave the same if you were being observed. The conversations we all have in the pub, in the car and even in the privacy of our home - would they be the same knowing there is a camera or audio device listening.

May just be my tin foil hat speaking, but I believe a lot of things would change knowing you're always being listened to even when you think it's just two people in the room

As a Brit who's never really "followed" the Royals - I gotta say this makes me sad. The Queen stood for so much, in such a dignified way. May she rest in peace

I really hate to be naive - any chance someone would be able to ELI5 RTOS please? How they may differ from say MS Windows, why use one, their applications. Always struggled to bend my head around them

Don't get me wrong I hate LeetCode-style interviews as much as the next guy. In fact I really, really, really suck at them! Not sure if that says more about my ability then anything but c'est la vie

In the defence of LeetCode-style questions, I do think they work, and very well may I add - with the caveat you have the throughput of candidate to make it work well? Their ability to filter out 'those who can't code' in an efficient manor while sacrificing a small amount where it filters out 'those who can code' greatly out weighs the alternatives. The alternatives needing to fit into a 1 hour timebox, be objective while also favouring the positive cases (I think I got that the right way round).

My two cents would be more around the way in which they are conducted; in my experience I've found conflict with the interviewer more then the process itself - with interviewers in my past lacking.... empathy (may not be the right word) for the person on the other end of the screen/table feeling flustered, nervous or down right stupid that they're struggling to solve a simple fizz-buzz/reverse string problem, leads to a snowball effect and pilling onto that can effect the candidate in quite a spectacular way. Best interviewer I've had asked if I was alright and got me a glass of water, props to that guy!

I dunno - I've just come to terms with having to learn how to play the game, even if I find that part of the game really hard and to some parts unfair. Such is life

May be the wrong place to ask this - but would be interested to know what peoples experiences are and the advantages of using Windows in a commercial environment over say your distro flavour of choice or Mac?

Be interested in hearing both sides of the coin, from laptop to server. Everyone seems to love bashing on Windows (including me) but someone must like it...

(except for the obvious DirectX & games reason)

The UK spec adds a few fields which I can not remember all off the top of my head. One addition is the 'presentation' calling line identifier, which is screened like the 'calling party number'. The generic calling line identifier is not screened, hence the addition

ref what the screening bits are: https://www.dialogic.com/webhelp/csp1010/8.4.1_ipn3/exsapi_q...

As for if the UK & spoofing, it's a very real thing with very real business cases and abuses.

The how - depending on the protocol.

Signalling System No. 7 - ISDN User Part spec (found here: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Q.763-199912-I/en) allows you to specify both a calling party number (3.10) and generic number (3.26) (the UK spec adds an additional presentation number so you have 3). This will typically require the help of an operator which is 'connected' to the network on the PSTN. A real business case can be made; like a generic, non geo support numbers appearing on the persons phone instead of the geographical number of the office which called. Either a bit of social engineering or findings a less scrupulous operator is all you really need to do

SIP has FROM and P-Asserted-Identity headers which follow the same process

If you have existing resources written in C++, external libs, maybe you've created a 'plugin' which is loaded by an application but the plugin is written in Rust and the app is written in C++ and it needs to invoke back into the main applications code. Just examples of stuff where I've had to interop Rust with other things outside of my control :)

Yes, I had this exact feeling & here is my story.

I would go to work every day I feel unexcited about anything and everything. I would sit in meetings and be unengaging, I would be feel unmotivated to complete the work I was doing. New features, bug fixing, planning, cloud migration, interviews you name it and I was just feeling dead inside - and let's be clear this work was cutting edge stuff. The 'buzz' had just packed up it's bags gone.

So I quit work, out the rip I handed my notice in and left. I didn't work for 3 months; I sat and played games, went on walks, looked after peoples dogs, painted the house, read and after about a month I started working on my own projects again.

All of a sudden I found that 'spark' which used to get me up in the morning. Like when I first started programming. So I started working on my projects all day & every day - they're now on hold and I found myself a new company to work for and have never felt more engaged, excited and happy than ever before

Seriously, you may just need some leave everything behind and take some serious time off - sorted me right out