i don’t have a strong view either way, but as a data point: I've heard the word “muggle” used in casual conversation and i don’t run in circles where harry potter is considered required reading.

Did you give them a way to check the networking rules?

If not, the model is just shooting in the dark and guessing.

i give feedback by copy-pasting output. hence the round and round. maybe if i had a sandbox that the model could run on autonomously it might ho better/faster.

i’ve interviewed with aws and received offers twice over the years. the first time they made me pay for my own lunch. the second time no lunch break was afforded. i didn’t accept the offers though i know several truly excellent people who work there.

When I interviewed at a Google outpost, a good-cop employee they mistakenly thought had a connection to me took me to lunch (message: forget about the bad-cop interviewer you were just with, you're among friends, loosen your tongue so our spy can report back) in their cafeteria (message: look at the free food perks you'd enjoy), and initiated a conversation with an visiting economist there who then spoke of something oddly relevant to my research interest at the time (message: look at the interesting people and collaborations you will bump into every day).

Your interview lunch experience sounds like message: this is what it's going to be like, and we don't care if you join us.

I've been on the other side of that (not google), taking people to lunch who are interviewing. Usually you're picked because they're from the same country as you or something like that. At least where I work it's not like those messages. Instead it's lunch because food is good to have, and if you were lunching with them you weren't involved in the interview process at all, and it gave them a person to ask questions of and get an unbiased-as-reasonable response. If there were real red flags I'd probably raise it, but otherwise I had no contact with anyone in the hiring process regarding that person at all.

I don't know what percentage of companies use the lunch in an on-site interview for evaluation, but definitely some do. Either with express feedback into the process, or because it's the hiring manager taking the person to lunch, and this is shaping their opinion.

I suppose some could also use it as a refresher break, from their battery of antagonistic one-way LeetCode hazings, or a chance to give the person a more comfortable feeling about the company (not otherwise permitted by their hazing process).

yes, i definitely walked away with that impression. maybe they reserve the better experience for mire desirable candidates :)

That’s weird, both times that I interviewed for Amazon (admittedly pre-pandemic) they paid for flights, hotels, and all meals, including lunch. The lunch was basically either before or after your interview (depending on whether you had an afternoon or morning interview schedule) and you just grabbed whatever you want on your own. But it was expected to be expensed just like all other interview expenses.

i want to capture 3d video of loved ones before they’re gone

I thought you can take spacial photos/videos on iPhone and view it on the Vision Pro later?

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/spatial-photos-record...

I don't have either so I don't know how well iPhone vs. natively taken photos/videos compare.

you can but apparently the avp can capture higher fidelity imagery than iphone .

If Apple sold an Ouija board you could capture it after they're gone too.

if the avp is too expensive imagine apple ouija! the connection fees alone would be like making an international phone call in the eighties :)

You want to wear goggles on your face during those moments?

i imagine it would be like the family photo moment when there us some level of staging for posterity.

i’m afraid i’ll look back and regret that i didn’t capture 3d memories of parents and grandparents when it was technically feasible because of a few dollars…

Well, there are stereo cameras… The digital ones came and went with 3D TVs though so you have to go to eBay. I am enjoying the stereo cameras I have accumulated though.

This is nice if pricey

https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-ego

It eats batteries but you can get a charger and more batteries the way you would have a few mirrorless generations ago.

My trouble is not really having a system to show these to people, red/green anglyohs sometimes work fret but aren’t consistent, there doesn’t seem to be an ‘instagram’ for sharing stereo photos, it ought to be easy to make a WebXR application to show stereograms but I haven’t seen a fully realized one and found texture memory limits are a bitch in the MQ3 so my first attempt to make one got stuck.

I've taken to (tediously) printing stereogram cards for the better 3D photos.

I wrote this to take the .MPO files (a common file format on the earlier commercial digital stereo cameras) and convert them to print-ready stereograms: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer

Canon's got two 3d fish-eye lenses for their RF and RF-s mount cameras. Their software can even produce Apple spatial images. https://global.canon/en/news/2025/20250610.html

how so they supposedly do it?

SSL certificates have a centralized hierarchy. Many browsers trust a long list of root certificate authorities from multiple countries.

https://cyberscoop.com/russia-tls-security-certificate-autho...

https://jpgamboa.com/china-ssl-authority-revoked-by-browsers...

Do some countries force the browser companies to add their root cert, despite abuse?

I imagine so. I understand that Opera GX, for example, provides a specialized version to Russian IPs that locks down the search engines that can be used.

There are always rumours. And some countries simply openly require computers sold in their country to have their root cert.

Including the US right? And I don't mean in a conspiratorial sense. Just in the sense that they wouldn't deny it because it's their home country (Say Windows certs or Google certs), and at the very least they can issue warrants, gag orders, or triple letter agency bypasses.

Now it only sounds weird when a country exherts their national sovereignity because the US doesn't need to perform any additional steps to install any of their Certs, they have hundreds of them by design.

> Including the US right? And I don't mean in a conspiratorial sense. Just in the sense that they wouldn't deny it because it's their home country (Say Windows certs or Google certs), and at the very least they can issue warrants, gag orders, or triple letter agency bypasses.

Yeah. I don't think the US explicitly requires it but they don't have to, there are more than enough US-based entities with root certificates who they could send a National Security Letter to if they ever wanted one. (Also the US FKPI root certificate is at least shipped by some vendors, although it seems to be disabled by default)

is there oss that will scour and identify iffy certs on a box?

One attempt I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a... There might be others.

except for the example of math from which after about a thousand years of number theory you get cryptography and computers.

I suppose that’s a counter argument? Maybe in a thousand years something will come of this stuff.

unless you travel to the 25% of the world they antagonize politically.

or unless you don’t comply quickly enough when they say “jump” and they unilaterally take away “your” gvoice number.

having crossed one of these superlative Guizhou bridges i can attest to their ability to inspire a sense of wonder like other large-scale human accomplishments.

not a bad idea if your average file size is a terabyte and there’s never a sure way to get a clean binary.