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I interview at FAANG and we do take this into account by holding pretty much anyone over ~2 years of experience to the same standard with respect to leetcode questions.

A fresh grad is expect to be able to solve ~medium problems.

Someone with ~2 years of experience is expected to be able to solve ~hard problems.

Someone with 10 or 20 years of experience is still only expected to be able to solve ~hard problems.

The standards for a more experienced candidate are of course higher for other attributes: Leadership skills, communication skills, etc.


Would you suggest someone with 10-20 years of experience to practice and learn how to solve leetcode problems? Or just expect them to be able to solve them without any prior exposure?

And if you would suggest they learn them what would that person be gaining that they lacked before?


I use it on iOS because its an easy solution for ad-blocking. Is there a good ad-blocker for Safari on iOS?


adguard - free and open source content blocker. you need to pay premium to add custom lists, but their built-in lists are good enough that I don't need it. manually entered filters are also supported.

if you use apps, it might also make sense to get a VPN based adblocker.


AdGuard Pro adds DNS-based blocking via VPN, in addition to browser content blocking. It also logs tracker requests. The DNS-based blocking works on all apps, afaik.


I use 1Blocker on iOS and MacOS safari, which is great but costs 5$ a year. There is no full port of uBlock to safari at this time.


I'm a huge fan of 1Blocker and I'm glad they charge $5 a year and it's someone's full time lifestyle company.

I've had a few content blocking apps on iOS and they've all been abandoned (or worse sold to ad companies).

1Blocker so far has stuck around and stayed high quality.


I used to use 1blocker, but switched to Wipr after 1blocker started charging yearly or whatever. Also, firefox focus is a free ad blocker on iOS.


There are many, Safari actually has extensions on iOS, there are no shortage of adblockers in all shapes and sizes.

Even Firefox has one.

Personally I use 1Blocker across iOS and macOS.


There's no uBlock (assumedly Origin) port to iOS, because browser extensions are not permitted on iOS, and they don't allow other browser engines so every alternative browser is a Safari skin. You can't just install Firefox to get around that restriction.

IOS does have native content-blocking, which is reasonably effective but nowhere near uBlock Origin. It's similar to the manifest v3 stuff where Google is castrating Chrome. And yeah there are tons of them available for free, which makes sense because they're all just using pretty much just using Easylist[1].

[1] https://easylist.to/


Firefox Focus is a good ad blocker for Safari, you just have to turn on ad blocking integration.


I use 1blocker but its a paid one - there are a bunch of free ones as well but I got bored working out which ones were scammy and 1blocker (at the point in time I started using it) seemed not to be scammy.


A really robust option that will work on all of your devices is to setup a remote Pi-Hole and access it via VPN. (This last point is very important and I learned the hard way after my publicly available Pi-Hole instance was discovered and used for DNS amplification attacks.)

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/


I recently went on a journey of setting up a pi hole. I eventually gave up and set up NextDNS instead. I didn't want to have to use a VPN for everything.

I was previously using Adaway on mobile. I think NextDNS produces the same result.


I’ve become a fan of NextDNS.


Same here. I really like NextDNS because you can adjust it such that it also blocks network traffic inside apps.


I use Ad Guard and it works!



In my view, if platforms like YouTube/Twitter/Facebook are going to exercise editorial control over the content they host, they should be held fully responsible for all of the content that isn't taken down.

If these organizations don't want to be responsible for the content on their platforms, then they shouldn't censor content unless ordered to by a judge.

They want it both ways - full editorial control, but no responsibility.


People said the same thing when photo-editing software was new. How is this any different?


The sense of security that comes with keeping a gassed (or charged) vehicle in my driveway doesn't seem like it will go away any time soon. If a family member needs to go to the emergency room, or a natural disaster strikes, Uber isn't going to cut it.


If a material disaster strikes, my local highways will be locked up harder than a diamond.


Nevermind a natural disaster, rush hour traffic seems to be enough...


That car doesn't need to be replaced every 3 years though, especially if new features aren't being added.


A lot of people live a "payment" lifestyle. They'll just keep buying/leasing new cars every few years. If something's gonna break it's gonna be the CPO market.


Sure, but if you only use your own vehicle for those kinds of situations it could last your entire adult life (and your partner wouldn't need a separate one).


If natural disasters strike, is it possible for you to bug out without getting stuck with thousands or hundreds of thousands other car users as well? Just asking, because a backup secondary route either on foot or smaller off-road vehicles (motorbikes or just regular bikes) might be prudent for planning.

But yeah, many time-sensitive events are able to be easily solved with our own cars. There's a flexibility that is absent when relying on public transit and ride-sharing. Does it worth the trade-off of maintaining your own vehicle and it's attendant issues? In my opinion, it is. For some others, it isn't. It would be better if cars can become a non-essential for everyone in the world though, or at least the urbanites. Less traffic jams for the rest of us.


https://imgur.com/fLNs3k0

Have you ever considered how

trains

are our best implementation

of the abstract idea

of efficient, terrestrial mass transit?


However, you can obtain that security without one and a half cars per adult in the family.

If you can figure out how to bike, walk, or bus most of the time and your significant other can too, you get nearly all of that security with one vehicle per family and a lot of money to put towards other things.


You call an ambulance if there’s a medical emergency.


You could purchase a used car outright for the cost of 1 ambulance ride in the United States.


You could well be right, but the article is about a global trend, car sales in the US by contrast seem to be stable in the last few years, perhaps for these kind of reasons. There are a lot of places in the developed world that have a different context from the US in terms of car culture or healthcare costs.

I’m not sure what’s actually creating the 3% drop, though, the evidence in the article for a lifestyle shift seems to be relatively weak outside of the charts they give for the EU.


"There are problems in our society that we circumvent by things that cause even more problems because we can't coordinate to solve the original problems."


That is interesting, in Australia it is the same by default, but many people (especially those with families or sick relatives living with them) have Ambulance Cover which is a fairly nominal fee covering your whole family, in which case the cost of an ambulance is vastly reduced.


Don't know why you got downvoted; this is absolutely true.


i've used aim almost daily for almost the whole 20 years.

it is one of the first apps i set up when i get a new computer. when i get home for the day, one of the first things i do is to sign on and chat with my buddy list.

aim is a special piece of software to me and i am disappointed to see it go.


If you’re like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back.

Why should I take browser advice from someone who doesn't pay attention? Especially someone who lauds the "simplicity" of Chrome...

I do love how fast Firefox 57 is though.


I think "never looked back" is more a turn of phrase than anything here. Obviously the author has looked back, otherwise he wouldn't be writing this article.


For me, reading and writing works, but I have major performance issues on /mnt/. `git status` for example is unreasonably slow on any directory under /mnt/.

I tried to adapt to this by instead of writing to the Windows file system from Linux; to instead write to the Linux file system from Windows. After corrupting my profile 3x and having to reinstall WSL each time, I went back to vagrant[1].

[1] vagrant is also really slow on Windows.


When was the last time you tried? There are some file I/o improve EMTs over the past few months that drastically improved the kind of performance problem you are describing.


seconded. please share.


I think the problem with a total ban is just the sheer number of people with diagnoses. For example, I read recently that something like 6% of adults have ADHD (I don't have a source, correct me if that is way off). I personally wouldn't be surprised if the incidence was higher among young geeky types. And Adderall isn't even the only drug that these types of competitions should be worried about.

You can only ban so many people from competing without really starting to affect the potential number of players, which isn't something that private gaming-tournament organizations are going to want to do.


I agree. I even more hate the situation where knowing the right doctors or even living in a country with more prescription-happy ones gives you advantage though.


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