I've always loved this project, I've used it a lot for making my scripts into internal tools for everyone in the team, even non-technical staff

> people using them feel more productive but take longer than using GUIs

I hope that this isn't the case for me poking around in vim, using ctags etc. But sadly it may be true.

That's really surprising that they could survive with such a small range! How are they counted during their migration?

There are traditional methods like electrofishing and tagging. But there are also non-invasive methods such as environmental DNA where you can detect organism prevalence from DNA shed into the ecosystem. Our platform was built specifically to help share that type of science for restoration and remediation projects: https://www.ednaexplorer.org

That's amazing thanks for sharing it

There's an organization of volunteers who walk the streambed during spawning season and mark nests with colored tape on nearby branches. I assume while they're doing that, they also count the fish somehow? They also put a trap near the end of the stream at certain times of the year and count the fish in the trap - the fish are obviously released from the trap afterwards.

That's really interesting, I didn't think you'd be able to spot nests from the shore like that

Well in an interview I guess something like "Of course we shouldn't allow C-strings in general outside of syscalls and argv, but for the purpose of the exercise...." And now you've shown that you know what you're talking about and that you won't be difficult to work with.

I don't think it was clear in 1994 that not passing the size of a string was a sin

Oh 100%, I was responding to the parent who's response was 'No'. Even if you have 100% ban on strcpy and z-strings you're forced to use them in certain cases (like argv), and I was pointing out that sometimes we engage with certain conceits in a job interview, and by refusing to engage with it you're giving out a signal that you'll be difficult to work with

Interestingly, sqlite has had many AI-generated bug reports, so Dr Hipp has created a forum only for those reports. As one of the most-tested codebases out there, I'm surprised to find something like 50 reports, and most of them look reasonable, or at least they have fixes provided.

Some are trivial (formatting errors in the cli not the lib), others seem more serious.

I find it very quiet and calm compared to when I'm near scuba divers - I can often hear them from 50+m away. I've never tried scuba myself though, so I can't directly compare them

A fun read until the got banned!

Do you know why they did this? I wonder if they worked out that the advertising space was more valuable than retiring the service, or some other reason

This was a really fun read. I loved the retelling of the explosion of new discoveries -

"A consistent pattern in the new era of discovery has been that some bizarre microbe is discovered living in a preposterous environment like a hydrothermal vent, and then a couple of years later we find out it also makes up 40% of our intestinal flora"

On the competence question I find my own experience frustrating. I can be very competent in certain areas, and barely functional in others.

I've also thought about taking on technical recruiting because it's done so poorly (at least in Sydney, the author is in Melbourne). I think one of the limitations is that it's an industry issue rather than specifically a recruiter issue. I remember patio11 had a summary of his StockFighter (StarFighter?) platform in an old podcast and the issue he ran against was that he'd present pre-vetted, high quality candidates, who would then be put on the normal HR-driven hiring track.

Edit: Best summary I could find was from his co-founder here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37988758

I've managed to recruit in Perth, which is probably as cursed as it gets. The two things are:

1. I don't bother recruiting on the public market. They're genuinely too incompetent, and you'd have the issue you raised over and over. We sent exactly one candidate to a "normal" company and it was a total waste of time

2. For the remaining companies, I basically consult for free to help them smooth out their process. Places that are already very good but candidate-starved don't need this, but most of them could use a small hand. This is maybe non-trivial to replicate but I have a reasonable psychology background and that has given me some aptitude for feeling out cultural fits. Recruiters have set their rates so absurdly high for no service that I can do this, AND run two hour tech interviews personally with candidates AND undercut competitors and still hit that $1K per hour rate. It's just nuts

Interesting! I suppose my thought is that once you scale up to running a team of recruiters you end up incentivising behaviours like 'build a list of CVs', 'pattern-match on keywords' and other pointless nonsense. I have run in to a couple of decent recruiters and their behaviour was much closer to 'have a coffee and chat'. I hope you'll talk about your experience because I'm keen to hear about it.