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Yes, you really can fire a gun in a vacuum. Unbelievably, when I was an undergrad at MIT, there were a number of students who didn't understand this. Older firearms that use black powder have their own oxidizer built into the gun powder. Modern firearms shoot ammunition that uses nitrocellulose (aka gun cotton), which does not combust – it detonates.
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The oldest and most influential sci-fi TTRPG of all time meets the world’s most popular roleplaying game, with a complete 5e conversion by W
Holy crap! When did this happen?
Training AI scams
So about a month ago, as I was surfing Indeed, I found an interesting potential job. Handshake.ai opens up projects periodically and pays people to do piecework at some hourly rate; I was specifically looking at Project Helix, which offered $65/hour basically analyzing AI-generated code and coming up with improvements, etc.
So I signed up and took the CodeSignal test that they prescribed. I made sure to pick my time and place so there wouldn't be any interruptions, and I took a few practice tests to make sure I understood the system.
And I got no response for weeks. After a while, I saw that there was a status change on the Handshake dashboard, so it seems that the first test I took wasn't recognized or accepted. Weird. I gave up and moved on.
Within the last 2 days, I was contacted by Handshake.ai, telling me that Project Helix was "finally open" (you mean it wasn't before?) and they would dearly like me to take the CodeSignal assessment. They said I looked like a strong candidate, maybe from parsing my résumé.
So this time, I said "screw it" and took the damn test. Again. Some of the questions were the same, but the final coding question was different. And because I didn't pace myself this time, I didn't have a whole lot of time to refine my final answer. I was failing some of the hidden test cases, but I was passing the ones I could see.
Also of note, that final test question was the only actual coding problem on the entire test; just about everything else was some kind of free-form essay. This is an important detail.
Within about 5 minutes of submission, I got an e-mail with a rejection. Said I didn't pass the assessment and would not move forward.
So someone please explain to me how they were able to grade me so fast the second time around? I doubt that a human being looked at it. Either that last question counted for more than I realized, or they had a machine looking at my essay answers and "grading" them. I'm pretty sure my responses didn't completely suck.
The other thing is, the final question was a Java programming exercise, and in the instructions they tell you to take some value and compute the modulus with a large-ish value (10^9 + 7) and return that result. Well, everyone knows in Java that you compute the integer modulus using the % operator. Except that the version of modulus that the test writers expected isn't that, because the modulus operation they expected doesn't handle negative values the same as % does. This caused me a lot of grief. The specification (instructions) didn't say which kind of modulus to take, so I had to reverse engineer it from the test cases that I was actually able to see.
My suspicion is that whoever wrote this test was writing it from the standpoint of another programming language (probably Python), and just expected me to know that mathematical function instead of the way modulus is implemented in just about every C-like language out there. Yes, there's a formula for computing the mathematical modulus for negative values in languages like Java that return a negative modulus result: ((a % b) + b) % b
I certainly couldn't remember the precise formula (had to look it up just now and do the obligatory face palm – couldn't do that during the test). My point is, this is pretty misleading for a Java-language problem.
I didn't run into this problem with the last CodeSignal test, and even HackerRank doesn't pull this level of "gotcha" crap.
Normally, I don't go in for piecework – it's kind of skeezy. But it sure would have been nice to have some money coming in while looking for a real job.

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AI-Generated Code Is Creating a New Kind of Technical Debt
Worth watching for all developers using AI tools for software development.
Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare dies at 92 • The Register
Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare dies at 92 • The Register https://share.google/TL0LVw3PU0WcW1z6V
Obit: Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time
Didn't realize he was still around, and now he's gone. Sad.
AZ Republican targeting some protesters with proposed laws
AZ Republican targeting some protesters with proposed laws https://share.google/xKrGGSdbo66NgDOOV
Republican lawmakers in Arizona who believe protesters nationwide have gone too far are seeking to rein in demonstrations with new crime law
"How dare they exercise their constitutional rights?"
Rust Ruined My Career (I Can't Go Back)
Hilarious take on Rust.
Former students blast Grand Canyon University over 'worthless degrees'
Former students blast Grand Canyon University over 'worthless degrees' https://share.google/cdhMkvwyQe3owgNbk
Grand Canyon University defended itself in a class action claiming it deceives students into enrolling in useless degree programs that don’t
More shenanigans from for-profit schools.

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Independent Measurements Are Triggering Shutdowns and Sales Losses Across Legacy Audio Brands | Headphonesty
Independent Measurements Are Triggering Shutdowns and Sales Losses Across Legacy Audio Brands | Headphonesty https://share.google/V9H6LW5XmbFcEXpac
Some brands found out the hard way that measurements don’t just stay in reviews anymore.
Dishonest specs from premium audio brands are finally dying out.
Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
Of Flynn Effect fame...
3D Printing is a Crime?! WA House Bills 2320 and 2321 may make that a reality https://search.app/8o47A
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I was waiting to see what the 3D printing community had to say about this...
This release contains several small fixes, JavaDoc updates, and one new method. New convenience method for ContinuedFraction to concatenate
Just doing a little clean-up and maintenance.
Also, you can now concatenate a List<Long> to a ContinuedFraction.
My code renders matrices very nicely in kitty!
Wait, what? "This file is in the public domain, but it is not in the public domain." Uhhhh...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PNG_Test.png is where this comes from...

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A new study investigated the source of a leak in a ‘miracle measurement’ from 2010 – and engineers found a potential solution.
Chemistry and dielectrics!
Why Nobody Wants To Hire You Anymore — 'It's Not Just Gen-Z Or Older Workers' | YourTango
Why Nobody Wants To Hire You Anymore — 'It's Not Just Gen-Z Or Older Workers' | YourTango https://share.google/R4lfIhLxZhv6kOgV1
Jason Weiland explains why the entire job market has turned hostile, and how most of us are on the wrong side of it.
Very well researched article by a developer who is just like me.