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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Copy paste of one one of the 2 comments that reflects my feelings.

    This kind of thing frustrates me so much. Hiring and interviewing for software engineers is just so broken and detached from reality.

    In theory, this should be the easiest discussion to pass while interviewing if you’ve done some kind of related work or qualified. Instead it’s just turning into another insane cargo culted game where you need to do things according to some weird rules and hit certain buzzwords.

    Engineering the hiring process is the perfect example of how tech solutioning can be the problem.


  • The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.

    It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.

    But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.