TehPers

For your goals, I would stick with Python unless you want to learn another language. There’s not much value to switch away when all the tools you need are primarily designed for Python.

As far as functional programming goes, with AI stuff, my experience is that you generally are more interested in orchestrating services than FP. For example, run input through model #1, then based on the output, run one of these other 3 models (or multiple of them in parallel), then eventually pass it all back into another service/function to aggregate and format the outputs. You can think of each of these as being “functions”, but they’re much higher level than what you’d traditionally consider functions in FP and more along the lines of microservices.

Have you considered doing it in Rust instead? You can even do the frontend in Rust for extra internet points.

Unexpected Keyboard lets you adjust the vibration when pressing keys, but I don’t see any settings for the sound. Otherwise, I got nothing.

Some of these key findings seem a bit overblown. The number of domains persistently connected to shouldn’t really matter - one is enough. Update checks are standard for software. Unique IDs/device fingerprinting are so common that browsers build in ways to try to prevent it at scale. JWTs are standard authentication tools - who’s the security concern for? ByteDance? Or are you saying the JWTs are from the local machine? And MessagePack isn’t exactly a secret format either.

The TL;DR of this seems to be that ByteDance’s AI IDE collects a crazy amount of data and offers free AI services in exchange. I’m not really sure why you’d want those services, especially at the cost of all your code potentially being stolen or other data being collected, but it should be obvious that nothing in this world is truly free.

I would say run Doom, but I’m not confident in that. At the very least, Skyrim hasn’t been rereleased on it yet.

An alternative could be to use something like postgres with the pgvector extension to do semantic searches instead of just text-based searches. You can generate embeddings for the text content of the story, then do the same for “sci-fi” or something, and see if searching that way gets you most of the way there.

Generating embeddings locally might take some time though if you don’t have hardware suitable for it.

SQL is designed for querying (it’s a query language lol). If the stories are huge, you can save them to individual files and store the filepath in the database, but otherwise it can hold columns with a fair amount of data if needed.

You can probably get away with using sqlite. A more traditional database would be postgres, but it sounds like you just need the database available locally.

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.

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.

No.

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.

Ironically, many languages that violate these rules are spoken in the US natively. People in the US just like to forget that there are other natively spoken languages (spoken since before English was introduced to the continent even).

English. I can go to the store and buy a sandwich for $8.99 all in one sentence, but splitting it on periods gives you two sentences.

Another couple missing:

• every language uses gendered nouns/verbs/adjectives/pronouns/etc
• no language uses gendered nouns/verbs/adjectives/pronouns/etc
• pronouns referring to people are always gendered
• pronouns are always singular (1) or plural (2+)

A fun language to learn regarding these is Hawaiian, where the language uses a-class and o-class rather than masculine and feminine, and which you use is largely based on how much control you have over it.

It was mentioned in the notes for 1.84.0 that they began migrating to it. They might be doing it without an edition change if it’s backwards compatible (or if the incompatibilities are considered bugs).

Usually the serialization/deserialization code, I keep with the model. The part where a file or whatever comes in, I leave that to the caller to decide on. In other words, the model knows how to serialize and deserialize itself, but not where it’s being serialized to or deserialized from.

Then again, in C#, it’s usually just a couple attributes on my model, and in Rust, it’s usually just a couple derives. It’s rare I actually write much, if any, serialization logic by hand.

If you’re fine with breaking changes now and then, then yes absolutely. I use it everywhere, and it’s been a huge boost in productivity for me.

Not only this, but C# has diverged enough from Java that anything but the absolute basics isn’t going to help much with C#.

There is a book bundle on Humble Bundle right now that goes into security and hacking, if that’s what you’re interested in.

You’re unlikely to receive any support, at least publicly, for how to do anything potentially illegal. I would recommend just not doing anything illegal or unethical anyway. If you’re interested from a security perspective, find a cybersec community, and you may get more support there.