Hehehe never apply to Canonical. I sat 6 interviews, 2 psychometric evals including an IQ-adjacent evaluation, submitted a take home assessment and was asked about my high school math grades just to be offered a job with a more advanced title paying 20k less than what I was currently making. I only sat it through because I wanted to post the offer on glassdoor/levels so others didn’t have to waste their time either. (And because I wanted to see if I could pass their famously grueling application process)

So yes I’ve seen companies (big ones) do this sort of thing.

I’m told the sun is shining. Maybe make some hay?

ITT: a bunch of people who didn’t read anything other than “AI” and got mad.

He thinks Rust is one of the few realistic ways to slash the class of bugs that come from C’s traditional error-handling and resource-management pitfalls.

Idk why everyone’s upset about this. It’s not wrong. The headline sucks, but the statement “Rust makes it harder to introduce bugs that an LLM will later find” seems pretty objectively true.