Lending and banking in general is a highly regulated market so they do have to underwrite and do anything in their power to avoid lending money or start contractual obligations with people that are bad creditors. Source: worked for them for 2 years.
Thanks for sharing. Just one note: as someone who doesn't know who Mario Bekes is, this whole piece reads a lot like an Ai supported (borderline generated) piece. I literally gave up on the third paragraph.
Either this is written by AI or someone with a similar level of empathy.
This said, there's little to be known about the methods they use to assess people, but if it follows the trend, it definitely isn't close to being fair, honest, transparent or even human-like. Even more so when it comes to helping managers by using an AI conversation tool to simulate scenarios. It is another corpo BS that is polished to look like they care about people (with respect to the local laws).
But otherwise I'm pretty sure this won't help make MS some sort of high performing company.
Someone did look into exactly that. There is no supporting document regarding the actual height. And it does look like it is exaggerated for impact purposes. So they did have towers, they were clearly higher than the rest of the other buildings... Might have been this tall? Maybe. Or maybe not.
I have reached a point in my crusade to kill Technical Debt. As many have stumbled upon this, I share my experience to set a milestone in the achievement of this goal.
I pre-ordered my 13" with an i7 in late 2021. As a long-time Linux user, the experience has been very plug-and-play with the installation, and everything has been working as expected.
During these years, I ended up opening the laptop multiple times:
- upgraded the monitor hinges: this was a major annoyance when travelling.
- went through support to get the mobo repaired/swapped as one of the ports broke for whatever reason
- ended up moving to AMD mobo, while increasing RAM and SSD simultaneously.
- I bought the Coolermaster case for the i7.
Overall, all of the above happened as advertised. I enjoyed putting my hands on it, and to be honest, the engineering quality that went into it still impresses me.
There are a number of issues that I still find below grade but don't really bother me:
- the speakers are definitely not great, I saw there is an upgrade available for them, will look into it, still not my primary use.
- the original monitor was glossy, so ended up with an anti-glare screen cover. I now see that you can also have a matte version and one with bigger resolution, never been an issue, but interesting to see.
- the fingerprint scanner is a bit jiffy, but I figure this is mostly a linux issue.
- the battery was a major downside at the beginning under the i7, but right now I don't see it being an issue, at least under AMD: I get a good amount of hours and playing a movie on battery is something I can do without issues, draining just a few percent off it. (I'm currently running tuned and tuned-ppd if you want to know).
I'm very happy with it mostly, if not exclusively due to its upgradability and linux support. I only wish there was more competition in this sector.
I might be nitpicking but, the transpiled version of React is the one that uses those standards. If you are thinking of trying to get a 5+ years old project working in a development environment you might effectively be out of luck.
To reduce the argument to a simpler one, this is effectively the difference between using vanilla js to build anything Vs using any abstraction over it that has a number of dependencies you don't control that are effectively a working solution of a dependency hell in a specific moment of time.
Similar experience. I tried to move to KDE and it was utterly disappointing with the external monitor. I've been using gnome with no issues whatsoever, if that's even something you're willing to try out
I wish the article gave a bit more context on how he was caught. This seems like a major hit and I remember someone talking about AI generated music on Spotify by the few "authors".
While with this case the "fake artist" might have generated enough noise to be caught, I wonder how many are scheming and lurking in shadow.
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