I hear your struggle. I have been on both sides of this fence, recently. Obnoxious interview hoops to jump through and otherwise promising candidates reading verbatim from chatgpt mid interview :/

I would also feel really belittled by tracking software like that (but also probably try a VM, which I assume would get around their trackers anyway, lol).

I do agree with others, a company will get a small amount of hours from me for take home and no more. Be worth my time, earn my respect

Oh! I had wanted to make something like this, awesome!

Depending on where you live, arrest or court records might be public - do consider though, an arrest doesn’t mean someone did it. Frequently people are arrested incorrectly or the evidence is not found sufficient in court and society says they aren’t guilty. If they are found guilty and are arrested, theoretically they have done their time to repay the moral or ethical debt.

I can’t tell who like ten of the people are

Generally, blockchain is really only helpful in very specific scenarios

• where there is no trust amongst actors (there is trust in dns, I trust you to tell me the details for your DNS records)
• immutability is important (dns records are regularly mutated, only the current state is important)
• and performance is unimportant (performance is critically important for dns)

DNS uses distributes hash tables, which is decentralized. Though, yes, there is centralization in terms of trusted entities able to issue domain names and top level domains, you can already host your own distributed and decentralized name servers

What specs? Remember your thermal paste 🤓

Wow! Is that a career? What’s the coolest place or thing you’ve performed?

https://www.unihertz.com/

I wired my first outlet! (with advice from an electrician)

VLC runs great on Mac and Android as well

You know, “hatch”. But it’s funnier saying door. Could a ship just dock with it, equalise pressure, and open the hatch? Or is there some sort of security? I tend to think ‘no’ because of a macabre situation where the crew are dead and the station is being recovered. But it’s amusing to think in space they don’t need to keep the doors locked.

“Lockpicking lawyer here, and this one is a doozy”

Behavioral mirroring is often a sign of trust or comfort, and applies to levels of eye contact as well. If someone is subconsciously doing the same things you are doing (e.g. longer and more direct eye contact if you initiate, more or slower blinking, more smiling, more relaxed postures to mirror yours), those are good signs of interest.

The converse is also true. If you are doing a lot of direct eye contact, and it seems like the other person is often looking away or closing up their body (crossed arms or rotating their torso away), that’s a sign to reduce some of those behavioral signals to match.

I’d say there isn’t a “This exact amount” to most things, as people are all different in their preferences, and it’s more about adjusting up and down with someone, in response to their small non-verbal or body language signals. They will likely be doing the same with you. Also, as others have mentioned - you can be more direct with words. If this is something you’re unfamiliar with and there’s someone you trust, you can say directly that you’re uncertain and ask something like “I’m not great at knowing how much eye contact feels correct, could you let me know if you notice too much or too little?”. If they are friendly with you, they’ll also likely be comfortable with the small request.

Also, just to say it - eye contact can mean the general eye area - it doesn’t mean your exact pupil to their exact pupil. I find that if I focus on the literal eye/pupil, then I get strained trying and keep attention on that specific small area. If I focus on the general eye area (nose/forehead/eyebrow/general eye) - they both can’t tell that it’s indirect eye contact and it’s easier to let my body auto pilot focus

Hardware stores might have cheap gel knee pads ($10 -> $40 for fancier ones)

There’s also these kneeling mats / pads

and there’s so many DIFFERENT purples! Lavender, fuchsia!

https://streamable.com/4qdjv2

I’ve been trying to practice more natural looks, this looks great!

TypeError is also a correct response, though, and I think many folks would say makes more sense. Is an unnecessary footgun

I’m upset that you made me see this with my own eyes.

You’ve never used charcoal for a grill?