Post B2WrGch8N3mPcVRZei by scuti@stereophonic.space
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(DIR) Post #B2TyzYh8CqS4Ryw8YK by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T00:56:38.786404Z
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have job interview tomorrow.I'm probably going to be asked "what is a pointer?"and I'll probably answer in an airheaded way like"it's like a hexadecimal number that points to somewhere in memory, can be null, or cause segfault if I fuck up"in a heavier than intended california (=surfer/pothead) accent.
(DIR) Post #B2TyzaCMcD1r78YasC by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T17:07:04.133431Z
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@scuti ok fun fact. Pointers aren't numbers.
(DIR) Post #B2Tyzh5B1KRISsFS8u by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T01:14:12.113402Z
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"Whats the difference between a class and struct?""oh like dude a class defines an object and has methods like a constructor, but a struct is like a bundle of data and everything is public. and classes are c++ only."
(DIR) Post #B2TyzpbjKBESu9XYzg by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T01:27:00.747274Z
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"its like the operating system telling the program there's more memory than the actual hardware has.""uh bro? a meme song from the 1990s?""its like treating hardware devices like a normal block of memory.""a process has its own resources like a stack and heap but a thread is inside a process""MAC is like a hardware identifier but the other one you get from dhcp.""it has like bytes, man."I'm gonna fuck this up in my own special way.
(DIR) Post #B2Tyzy69kwK9EppyWu by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T01:41:08.711003Z
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I'm probably going to misprepare too because the job listing asked for c++, python, and javascript.
(DIR) Post #B2V49yPQ9Kdq1iOkG8 by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T23:34:13.910668Z
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@newt like. man. did I fail the interview at newtsoft?
(DIR) Post #B2V49zx8PTCgoZBBRo by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-01-21T05:39:48.806459Z
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@scuti haha not really. It's just a common misconception.
(DIR) Post #B2Wr24SOrw2dNbc4Se by matt_the_tall@podcastindex.social
2026-01-21T23:38:58Z
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@scutiDraw it. I'm serious. Literally drawing what's happening helped a ton with getting my head wrapped around it when I first learned about pointers
(DIR) Post #B2Wr25fuLCRN9mwN9c by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-22T02:20:16.885388Z
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@matt_the_tall the job interview I went to was way easier than I thought it would be but also awkward.that day I learned Firefox is not a mainstream browser anymore...
(DIR) Post #B2WrA4vd048T9t6Pse by bojidar_bg@mastodon.social
2026-01-20T07:32:37Z
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@scuti Sound like a V8 extension built with scons instead of node-gyp! 😋But, in more seriousness, best of luck with your interview! (:As the Hitchhiker's Guide says: Don't panic! 😁
(DIR) Post #B2WrA5vfHPl8GI7xZo by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T07:57:16.571530Z
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@bojidar_bg its some company that sells robots.it could be embedded, front end, or ML (computer vision) or some combination of all 3.
(DIR) Post #B2WrAEoYFEPtopruEq by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-20T23:36:04.092793Z
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I need to chill out and hope I'm not going to get quizzed on all 3 of topics.
(DIR) Post #B2WrGch8N3mPcVRZei by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-21T09:46:40.618588Z
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I can't sleep.
(DIR) Post #B2WrJMjUAqfiz1qqvI by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2026-01-22T02:25:10.361394Z
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@scuti @matt_the_tall oops, all chrome
(DIR) Post #B2XA7dJ4cnHs2acHGC by matt_the_tall@podcastindex.social
2026-01-22T05:55:42Z
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@Zergling_manYeah, been that way for a while unfortunately. Even Microsoft succumbed to Chrome @scuti
(DIR) Post #B2XA8UTWwe8wwMusPw by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2026-01-22T05:56:10.668545Z
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@matt_the_tall @scuti >install lynx>ignore normie software>acquire functional web browsing
(DIR) Post #B2XB0Xid6MKKdakkgi by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-22T06:05:44.604273Z
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@Zergling_man @matt_the_tall I got off my usual browser for what I thought was a normie browser (firefox) for that interview.lynx would've worked even less for that normie use case.
(DIR) Post #B2XB55EaQxr3k4rk0m by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2026-01-22T06:06:41.272364Z
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@scuti @matt_the_tall >not autismmaxing during interviews?
(DIR) Post #B2XBwVRthOR0OSZ8a0 by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-22T06:15:57.494913Z
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@Zergling_man @matt_the_tall I had an autism bonus multiplier for doing VOIP over WiFi (=> normal sentences come out as stutters if packets drop).could go for more by "not making eye contact" (looking at the portion of the screen where the interviewer is instead of the webcam).
(DIR) Post #B2kRpSD9BDxnxlLn2O by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-23T14:27:11.130981Z
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this job interview is still on my mind and I need closure.
(DIR) Post #B2kRpTNop25tb9LpJI by scuti@stereophonic.space
2026-01-28T15:44:37.588721Z
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been one week and no response.
(DIR) Post #B2kRpWNZgOgItGGAqW by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2026-01-28T15:45:28.555517Z
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@scuti Many such cases