For second hand, user-to-user sales via EBay and Vinted are the cheapest, but it takes more effort and you could get scammed.

I’ve bought a few devices second hand at a second hand electronics shop. In the UK, this could be CeX, for example. With many of these you’ll get a limited warranty, and you can walk into a shop and ask to look at the phone and ask questions. You can ask if it is locked and return it if you can’t use it.

Why not buy the phone from the manufacturer directly so as to not give money to Big Bezos, if you’re going to buy new?

Or was this talking about used Amazon listings?

That’s a fair point. I think some of our interviewers have said that they don’t mind the candidate using a LLM, as long as they are up-front that they are doing so.

I’d say the kind of use is important. If they are using it as a form of advanced auto-complete, that’s fine. If they are using it uncritically, or to avoid thinking about the problem, I doubt I’d hire them.

We need engineers who can solve problems, not a salaried middle-man to an LLM.

Many of our candidates are from abroad, and we pay their VISAs and help them move here if they are hired.

You can offer in-person as an option, but I’m not sure most of our applicants would want to travel hours for an interview. Especially if there is more than one stage with deliberation needed in between.

Most of our applicants seem to be people currently in employment but who don’t like their job. They are likely doing interviews on the sly during work hours and likely don’t want to take a full day off or signal to their employer they are looking for a job.

All this to say I doubt forcing employees to do in-person interviews is a good option for most people, but I do agree it should be an option the interviewee can ask for.

Playing devil’s advocate: The reason companies feel the need to put these systems in place is most likely because many candidates cheat using chatbots.

In my company, until very recently, engineers were running the first and second stages of interviews (right after CV vetting) and I’ve heard many times in the last couple of years that my colleagues suspected candidates of using LLMs. There would be unnatural pauses, typing after every asked question etc.

Granted, I don’t think any have slipped through to being hired, as it’s still pretty obvious, but I can understand why companies may want to put safeguards in place.

Are they going too far here? Absolutely.

For us, we actually sit with the candidate in a pair-programming kind of setup to gauge their vibes, way of thinking and confidence as they solve coding problems that closely match what they would do on the job. That usually eliminates “seniors” that haven’t coded for 5 years or that got there by nepotism or sheer passage of time.

I went through the exact same thing with Dyson back in ~2018 worst interview process I’ve ever experienced.

Who is this supposed to be? Charlie Kirk’s wife? If so that’s hilarious in a this-timeline-is-a-disgusting-joke kind of way.

In that case, is there any change? Companies could already do that if they wanted. Many of them already did.

It’s kind of unclear what “voluntary” means. Is it voluntary for countries to enforce? Is it voluntary for companies to scan chats?

Just watched Grapes of Wrath and that’s basically the vibe of the movie.

Given this, do we actually know that the French government is targeting GrapheneOS in a significant way, or is this just another dramatisation?

As much as I don’t like a lot of things done by America (or most countries for that matter), this is kind of cringe?

… Ah, ok. Then jobs must pay that and then some, right?

Right?

No, it’s fine if the state has access to that data, it’s not a privacy concern. It’s only if citizens can see it that it becomes a problem. /s

I’ve been using https://kitsu.app/ for over 11 years.

That said, it’s a bit janky. There are some minor bugs that will likely never get fixed because it’s on a shoestring budget.

You can always import/export your library as XML though, so you can go back and forth between Kitsu and MAL.

Reading your source, it sure sounds like genocide.

That said, it seems like a summary rather than a detailed report and I can’t find the source in the page.

The other people responding to you are saying “did you read the statement by the perpetrators of the genocide denying it?” Sounds like a rather silly statement.

Can’t really weigh in on this but on the face of it it does feel like tankie behaviour.

EDIT: I’ve now skimmed the UN Human Rights report and it’s definitely genocide. The only possible claim against this is that all of their information is false, which seems unlikely.

I’ll also add that the first response above linking to the UN source I’ve seen copy pasted elsewhere. That doesn’t necessarily mean much but, yeah.

I may not like many of what I know of China’s policies (genocide, suppression of free speech etc.), but this is one of the things they have done well.

Persona!

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.