I'm not sure what you want me to respond with. Do you want me to tell you that you can walk in and demand a compensation at the start of your interview or something? Most individuals don't have the bargaining power to do that. If you are desirable enough that the company wants to pay you whatever you ask for, then sure. Go in and talk about money right away.
For most of us, we are competing with thousands of others for one of maybe a few positions. The onus is on us to prove that we are desirable and will provide value, and asking about compensation first does not usually give that impression.
Can't speak for everywhere, but in the US, if your first questions are about salary, they're going to be left wondering if you're even qualified for the job and if money is all you care about. Even if it is (which is fine most of the time), that's not really the impression you should give if your goal is to be hired.
Asking about salary later on is usually a much better idea. You know whether you actually are interested in working there, the interviewer knows if they are interested in you, and wanting money it isn't the first impression you give.
As for Python - leetcode style interviews are common, but almost always worthless. The only real value the company gets from something like that is to check that you actually can write code. They're pointless beyond that, and a company doing leetcode interviews should be a red flag.
The last thing I want to do with complete strangers is give them my phone number lol. Aside from obvious privacy concerns and call quality concerns, Discord is internet-based, so I don't need cell service or international calling to talk to people.
Screen sharing during voice calls is super helpful as well. It's a pretty major feature of Discord, Teams, and I believe Skype (RIP), but Teams is not really any better than Discord and a lot more bloated.
Discord comes with other issues, but I would be fine with services offering an ad-supported free tier and an ad-free paid tier. That's been a thing for a while. If Nitro gets rid of these ads, then that seems like a possibly sustainable approach to me.
Of course, this is ignoring Discord's other issues, like their handling of user data. I'd love a service like Discord that was fully e2ee, even if it had an ad-supported free tier (without tracking) and a paid ad-free tier. Existing alternatives often lack some Discord features, like screen sharing and voice chats.
Monsters, Inc. The animation was excellent for the time. The story, humor, and emotions were all excellent. I highly recommend it.
As for the isekai aspect, it was very creative. Allowing people to travel between the two worlds with doors in a children's movie setting really makes it stand apart from prior works with similar ideas, like Stargate (which allows travel with gates). I liked the idea that these were the monsters hiding in the closet growing up.
Someone close to me gave up on the hotlines in the US and now just uses ChatGPT. It's no therapist, but at least it'll hold a conversation. If only the hotlines here weren't so absurdly understaffed.
I'll be honest. The nutritional value of the french fries at a Steak 'n Shake don't matter to me at all when I'm downing a 4000 calorie shake with it and a 1500 calorie burger. If it makes the fries tastier, I think that's all anyone there will care about.
Kinda strange that Tesla advertises them as electric vehicles when they burn so much gasoline. In my opinion, they should be fined for false advertising.
For personal projects, I don't really care what you do. If someone who doesn't know how to write a line of code asks an LLM to generate a simple program for them to use on their own, that doesn't really bother me. Just don't ask me to look at the code, and definitely don't ask me to use the tool.
I have a 16 with a discrete GPU. Couldn't recommend it more. It does sound like a rocket ship sometimes, but performs like a midrange tower, which is exactly what I wanted.
You can manage Python packages? When I try to pip install -r requirements.txt, it fails because I'm on Python 3.12 instead of 3.11, except it doesn't tell me that's why so I spend the next hour debugging that only to later find out that I also installed the packages globally instead of in a venv and now I need to uninstall them to unfuck my other environments.
Although I think it's a symptom of a larger problem. At the very least, consider Rider (or for non-C# code, VS Code/Codium/your terminal editor of choice).
At work, we have to use VS for C# development though, due to us having VS licenses and not Rider licenses. I guess we could use VS Code for C# dev, but I could also use Morse code to type, and neither of those sound like a good time when you take our work tooling into account.
This administration's contradictions are so wild to me. They want a smaller government and hate socialists, so... they want USPS to be government controlled? They want to start doing UBI (DOGE stimulus checks)?
Without context, there's no reason to compare the performance of these. The compiler is complex enough that what you do in the loop and after the loop matters with regards to optimizations.
Do you have more context? What's actually happening in the code?
Same-sex marriage does have protections in the law Biden signed though. That doesn't stop congress from repealing those protections, but it's another wall at least.
I'm not sure what you want me to respond with. Do you want me to tell you that you can walk in and demand a compensation at the start of your interview or something? Most individuals don't have the bargaining power to do that. If you are desirable enough that the company wants to pay you whatever you ask for, then sure. Go in and talk about money right away.
For most of us, we are competing with thousands of others for one of maybe a few positions. The onus is on us to prove that we are desirable and will provide value, and asking about compensation first does not usually give that impression.