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Hi
I hope you're well - wanted input from any longtime TS 10/12 owners. I got a TS 10 and I'm blown away - might be my favorite synth ever. Perfect blend of hi-fi and 90s cheese. Flexible, layered, gorgeous FX - I think it's perfect for me. Crazy how it stacks up against modern synths even without a resonant filter.
I wanted to reach out with a couple questions about expanding its palette, as I'm very curious about the extent of its capabilities with Transwaves/Hyperwaves/Sample playback etc.
My main two goals are to 1) load it with a ton of extra samples and waveforms/wavesets if possible and 2) facilitate file transfer ( presets, waveforms, samples) between the TS 10 and my computer so I can freely store my patches without worrying about overwriting.
Questions:
- Regarding 1 - how feasible is this? Is the synth compatible only with specific EPS formats or is there any chance I could bring my own waveforms/samples into it? Can the waveforms even be expanded beyond the core ~200 or am I tripping? Are there repositories online for the TS that are similar to the Cult of D-50, with a comprehensive set of waveforms and samples?
- Regarding 2 - have you had any luck doing this efficiently? I'm not sure what the best way to go about this is in 2023, either 1) replacing the disk drive with a USB adapter 2) using a USB-floppy adapter and transferring that way 3) a third option I don't know of? I'm assuming only presets can be transferred via SYSEX but maybe I'm wrong.
Hope this makes sense, i know it's a lot - let me know your thoughts, anything helps.
Thank you
Brian

Hello all.
I am a 27 year old male with bad sleep apnea. Have been dealing with this since October 2021 and still grinding. I want to take this opportunity to just tell my story and vent so some of you can hopefully relate and know that there’s people out there dealing with the same thing.
So! During the pandemic I spent my entire time lifting weights and eating food. ALOT OF FOOD. I was blindsided by the fact that I had become this big strong individual that was benching 400lbs, and squatting 600 like it was a piece of paper. Eventually, when I got up to around 290 lbs, that’s when things took a turn for the worst.
I Remeber just one night not being able to go to sleep. Kinda weird. So I brushed it off as maybe I was stressed or stayed up late watching TV. whatever right? Anyways, that continued and continued for a few months until I finally got a sleep study and it was confirmed that I had sleep apnea. I was prescribed a CPAP machine, however, due to the CPAP recall of 2022 I would have to wait MONTHS to get my machine and there was nothing I could do but wait. Literally.
By the blessing of god, my boss had told me to get a mandibular advancement device to move my lower jaw forward to create more airspace and guess what, IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM! I still Remeber the first morning waking up with it on just feeling like I had slept and stretched into the day. So, I started using that device routinely while I lost weight.
Eventually, I got to 250LBS and was sleeping like a normal person. No mouthguard needed, would just get home and crash. I almost forgot that I was waiting for my CPAP machine but then things took a turn for the worst.
October of 2022 I started having sleeping issues again! Horrible sleep apnea, waking up every hour, massive migraines, just brutal, still is. Around this time is when I finally got my CPAP machine and I thought “yes, finally a good nights rest.” Used it, and nothing. Woke up like if I didn’t have a mask on. Kept trying and trying and still, no relief. Eventually I went to go see an ENT and they suggested I have a septoplasty due to a deviated septum and that could be why my CPAP therapy wasn’t effective.
Had the surgery, still , no relief, no sleep. I’m at my whits end.
My own sleep doctor keeps sending me on my merry way when I’ve been telling him for months that CPAP isn’t helping and that I may need surgeical intervention and after months of pointless appointments I fu ally have an appoint with a maxillofacial surgeon to see if that will fix my issue but I’m a bit concerned it won’t.
If this MMA surgery doesn’t work, im screwed. I can feel my body breaking down at an alarming rate. Heart palpitations, chest pain, massive migraines, hair loss due to stress, NO SLEEP, it been horrible.
I’ve had to drop out of school, can barely show up to work, I rarely exercise anymore, and only eat around 1500 calories a day because I’m scared shitless of gaining any unwanted weight that would make my sleep apnea worse.
I used to be so ALIVE and HAPPY. Now im in bed 15 hours a day, depressed, inactive, smoke tons of weed to escape my reality, it’s just been a big mess and I don’t understand “why me?”
It feels like my life has been robbed and I’m stuck with no ability to grow as a person, let alone enjoy life.
Whenever my Heart hurts im now hoping it’s a heart attack just to end my miserable life so I can answer to god
I am at peace knowing that I’ve been a good person to other people and have always tried my best to help others. That’s all I can do.
If y’all are reading this, thanks for listening. I’m just a depressed 27 year old with sleep apnea with no end in sight. Hang in there friends

How do you not bring up the infidelity in every argument? 90% of R has been going smoothly, and I’m starting to have less intrusive thoughts about the affair. We’re both in IC. He had no issues stopping contact, we’ve been communicating really well. But like every relationship, real life can cause some tension and bickering. Even in the stupid fights not related to the affair, I somehow always bring it up and I know it upsets him. I have a hard time filtering myself when I’m upset. Any ideas on how I can curb this?

How can I move a rail instantly?
The only way to move blocks instantly that I know about are 0-tick smart pistons and piston-based instant repeaters. However, the activation of the piston itself has to be the same event that depowers the piston. That causes it to drop its block at the destination in the same tick.
I don't know how to make a piston move a rail and also depower itself at the same time. Only the block directly in front of a sticky piston gets moved instantly.
Is there another way to move blocks instantly?
Whether during retraction or extension.

Has anyone else been paying attention to the drama surrounding the proposed merger of two REITS:
DHC - Diversified Healthcare Trust
and
OPI - Office Properties Income Trust
For those who don't know, DHC is primarily a SHOP (Senior Housing Operated Portfolio) REIT that also holds some medical offices and facilities and has been allegedly horribly mismanaged for years by an allegedly greedy self-interested outside management firm small shareholders seem to despise with its share price falling as low as $0.65. On paper it may have a net asset "book value" of $10 or $11/share - it owns some valuable real estate. However, DHC has some bad loan debt and its SHOP portfolio had not been very profitable, at least not in the wake of COVID, though that seems to be turning around with the demand for senior living housing from an aging population projected to increase.
OPI is a commercial office REIT that had seemed to be healthy in the past, paying a $2.20/share yearly dividend. It's also managed by the same allegedly greedy self-interested outside management firm. That outside firm, RMR, has been accused of crashing the share prices of all or almost all of the REITS it manages via horribly incompetent mismanagement (see the histories of some of the REITS it manages).
Imagine a marriage of the two...a merger of DHC with OPI. OPI could use its good credit to help prop up DHC while paying a dividend to DHC shareholders and DHC's improving SHOP outlook could help with OPI's crashing commercial real estate portfolio. Problem is that DHC shareholders only get 0.147 shares of OPI while OPI gets all of the real estate value held by DHC while DHC investors end up being exposed to the crashing commercial real estate market just as SHOP performance is anticipated to improve and become more profitable.
Many DHC shareholders feel they are being ripped off. In the meantime it would also mean that OPI would need to lower its dividend, and with the commercial real estate market crashing, it did down to $1.00/year from $2.20/year causing its share price to crash. DHC's price crashed some, too, after the proposed merger announcement.
More recently a large DHC investor, Flat Footed LLC, published a screed arguing convincingly against voting for the merger. So a campaign may be gearing up to convince voters and most importantly large institutional investors to oppose the merger. (Many OPI shareholders don't seem real enthusiastic about it either, having suffered the dividend decrease and share price crash.)
In other news, supposedly the owner of RMR started buying up millions of DHC shares this week, possibly in an attempt to have more votes for the merger, causing its price to spike up to as high as $1.70/share. Sadly DHC is heavily tied to RMR by a long term management contract that would be expensive to break. Some DHC shareholders are hoping for a white knight investor to come along with a tender offer and buy them out of this mess ala Travelcenter.
Has anyone else been paying attention to this? Any DHC or OPI shareholders out there besides me?
Personally, I have 1600 shares of DHC with an average basis of $1.05 though I did recently receive a $16 dividend ($0.01 per share). (So, I guess I'm really at $1.04/share.) I started with 500 at around $0.66 as a gamble as a noob investor, then later bought 500 more for around $0.92, then later made the mistake of buying some more around $1.50 and $1.30 to get up to 1600. I thought it would keep increasing. Then I woke up one day to see that the share price had dropped down into the $0.80's / $0.90's and read about the merger announcement.
Now that it's back up to $1.70, I'm not sure if I should start selling some or wait and see if that supposed $10-11 "book value" ever gets realized. If I sell 800 shares at $1.70 I'd recover $1360 of my $1680 total investment leaving me with $320 invested or $0.40/share on the remaining 800 which seems low risk. Selling 1000 shares at $1.70 would bring in a $1700 for a $20 total profit with 600 shares remaining at a basis of $0/share as "house money". On the other hand if the merger attempt failed, the share price could shoot up even higher.
One thing is for certain; I don't trust this RMR management team and its Board of Director puppets to look out for the best interests of DHC shareholders.

Hello everyone,
I have bought an Lg 49wq95c-w, it’s connected to an Nvidia gpu 1080ti (evga ftw3).
I noticed that on full resolution and refresh rate it doesn’t display rgb color format ,only ycbcr422.
If I drop the refresh rate at 100hz and below then rgb color format is again available.
Can someone with the same resolution 5120x1440 and 144 refresh rate and also 10xx series Nvidia gpu take a look on his config and report back please?
Thanks in advance for any info!

Let me preface this with: I have streamed, I have bought multiple versions of the same album, and I have nothing in particular against fandoms that do this. This post is not to witch-hunt or villainize but just have a frank conversation (because all fandoms are guilty lol). Also, sorry for how long it is lol.
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The Origin
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I wanted to have a conversation on the implications of streaming and buying in large quantities. I'd consider ARMY the real pioneers of these tactics, experts in getting BTS's name out there. I've always admired their dedication. They read the rules of engagement and bypassed them entirely to the point where charts, music shows, and other organizations had to take notice. They've reformed and updated their rules. That's impact.
The Impact
Subjectively, it's incredibly clever. ARMY were able to take an up-and-coming group and put them in competition with bigger groups. They, along with other fandoms were able to make the ever prickly and xenophobic Western market by storm. They managed to make sure the BTS name was a topic of discussion when they otherwise wouldn't. They managed to weaponize fandom engagement into something that noticeably benefited the group they stanned. Nowadays BTS doesn't need these methods as much because they've established themselves as worldwide names, but it would be a lie to say their initial growth wasn't bolstered by all this.
The Adaption
And now we're at the peak of adoption so to say, other groups and fandoms have taken notice and adopted the same methodology. All of them. There's still methods being developed like playlisting, but ultimately the peak goals have been established. Get groups noticed and paid. This hasn't just affected fandoms and groups, but also companies. Companies adapted to mass-buying and implemented benefits for buying even more albums, having random collectible cards or knickknacks that encouraged even more copies. Companies adapted to mass-streaming by promising fans things like, letting certain idols/groups debut or having their idols perform in special outfits (and you best bet I fell for this one to see aespa performing in suits).
The Money
So now each year, groups reach new album sales peaks and the charts have to combat streaming to even the playing ground. But when is too much, too much? It used to be that most albums had 1 or 2 versions, now it's common for groups to have 5+. It used to be that groups would have a couple preorder benefits, but now you can buy 20 whole albums for the complete set of cards for only one shop. It's super easy to buy hundreds of albums to complete your collections. Companies have added photocards to merch, seeing albums pop off just by adding collectibles. Now fans can spend thousands on groups and the "price" of hardcore stanning only goes up. And even hardcore stans have a limit for how much they're willing to pay for what's essentially a hobby. Even hardcore stans have so much appetite for what's essentially gambling, with the random photocards and album versions. FOMO has a limit, because these hardcore stans eventually drop out of the race unless they go into debt or are incredibly rich.
The Burnout
It used to be that fans could play the same songs in a playlist but now they can buy streaming passes, pay for other people to stream, etc. And now fans even stream variety videos and fancams. I like kpop songs but dedicating hours of my life to one activity leads to burnout. I get tired of the same song after hearing it 10 times in a row. I love kpop groups but single-minded focus makes me increasingly aware of their flaws, at some point I self-reflect a bit. A boon of kpop stanning is escapism but is it truly escapism if the fandom experience becomes a job or "bills" to pay for the experience of having your favorite groups succeed? Add in the guilt-tripping for not being a "true fan" and what can be a fairly healthy hobby, becomes toxic feedback into giving your all for a couple extra endorphins.
The Downsides
There are exceptions to the rule like Fifty-Fifty managing to amass incredible streams "organically". But these methods have removed an element of surprise. Remove all the streaming, who actually charted? Remove all the mass buying, who actually has more fans buying albums? What even is real anymore? And all the stupid fandom wars because fake is essentially calling each other fake. It used to be that groups could "Specialize", Sistar could top the charts and barely sell albums. Top groups like SNSD could sell out concerts, get some CFs, and sell albums and chart mid-way. Ultimately, the main thing that mattered was a group could turn a profit and continue their work. But now everything is a comparison. Anything less than the best is a statement of how weak a fandom is, how a group is flopping for being unable to get both public interest and a fandom willing to sacrifice and play the game. Something is going to give and it's probably fans.
TLDR
Mass streaming and buying ultimately harms fans and their enjoyment in high doses.

It seems like the online processors for tax payment are dropping more and more VGCs/MCGCs as a payment method.

• Which VGCs or MCGSs have you recently found success in paying with for (estimated) taxes? I’m afraid to buy several only to find out that they’re not accepted.
  
• Also, I heard Amex is a big no for purchasing VGCs, especially during the MSR period. Is this still true? What are some VGC-friendly CCs like Chase Ink Cash/CIC?
  
• With CIC, can I use most of my MSR amount on VGCs (purchased at office supply stores), or will Chase not like that?
  

Thank you for all you guys’ contribution in this community, and I look forward to learning more from you!
*Cross-posted.

i started reading the manhwa My Life as an Internet Novel because ii heard so many good things abut this manhwa but even after trying 3 to 4 time i was not able to like this story...i didn't like the fl lead in it and most importantly when a story have too many boys around a fl i naturally dislike it.. then It Was a Mistake, Grand Duke! one of my friend suggested this series but i disliked fl and When the Villainess is in Love which is a very famous manhwa but again dropped this because of harem.....

So to give some brief informations, I am 1.73cm tall and 82kg. The last time I was on shape was in 2019 when I was working for almost a whole year until I got a face infection and quarantined just couple months before Covid started. By thAt time I was on 70kg. Around 2021 due to stress and eating habits I went up to 82kg but joined a kickbox team and lost 6kg in a month. Then I started an office job which my night shift made it inpossible to go at kickbox classes as they were in the afternoon only. So since 2021 when I was around 76kg when I started the new job, i've gained weight again and I am on 82kg now.
Started gym 2nd of May. First week was moslty doing full body exercises with light weights to warm up my muscles, then on second week I've split my exercises. I am doing M: Chest, T: Back, W: Rest, Th: Shoulders, F: Bic/Tric, S: Legs and Sunday Rest. Just finished legs today and finished my 3rd week on this split. I am eating around 1600-1800kcal. Most of it comes from protein. I eat pretty much same meals everyday. Breakfast : 3 whole eggs 2days per week I might add 2 slices of whole bread. Drink 2scoops of isolate protein shake after my workout, and for dinner chicken breast 200-300gr. Snacks are low on kcals either eating grain snacks or peanuts, and sometimes eating dark chocolate 70% small pieces. Its been a month on this routine and havent dropped a single poound. Not sure if I am doing body composition or its too early to see any progress. But kinda losing my motivation. My workouts are pretty intensive , i rest only about 20-30 seconds in between sets, do supersets and dropsets as well. I sweat like hell after I finish. And 3-4 times per week I do HIIT CARDIO 10-20 minutes.
Any advice would be appreciated

Heyward really needs to step up. Especially for the girls. They say a father is a daughters first love. The love and care you show your daughters definitely affects them later in life on picking a boyfriends and a husband. Heyward and Nika are teaching these girls to accept the bare minimum. They will possibly be looking for love in all the wrong places. They both gonna die old and lonely because these children are not gonna care about them. Even if Heyward not stepping up then Nika should be doing double to show them. But even she ain't shit. And not them robotic I love yous she make them say. My dad was never in my life. And my mama tried her hardest but you know what I didn't miss out because she gave me everything I needed and more. I even tried as I got older and my father told me I don't know how to love you. And that's when I stopped trying. He could drop dead tomorrow and I wouldn't even care. Next time I see him will gevin a casket and I'm okay with that because I tried. Nika and Heyward need to get it together because they have 8 kids who didn't ask to be born into this. Take parenting classes. Just Do better for your children. Not because CPS makes you because you want them to be better than you to break the generational Curse.

So this is the second dream I’ve had where there was a mascot (the people in the cute suits the ones at theme parks) and the first one wasn’t good either but on to the dream we were at a convention a really big one and these 2 mascots come up to us (one was a frog i don’t remember what the other one was) and asked the kid I was looking after for a photo this creeped me out so I asked my mom if it was ok first, she said it was ok and this is probably where I started to panic, so I handed her (the kid) to the frog mascot that somehow turned red? And took out my phone to take a photo and on the camera the mascot was yelling at me and the mascot in front of me (the same one on the camera just they were doing different things) was also yelling at me but not as in my face. I threw my phone and dropped to my knees and covered my ears while I closed my eyes and had a panic attack this woke me up and I had experienced the endings of a panic attack once I woke up. I’m curious what this might mean

It is like every second match is directly txting me "lets meet in the next 30 minutes and go play minigolf, make a road trip or go pet cows at the petting zoo." And usually that is all of the discussion, new matches with no history. And if I don't drop my things and go, it is an immediate red flag for them. Sir, I am 35 years old, I have things to do. Like what is this forced spontaneity?

Idk why the guidelines wont let me put her name in full (wtf lol can someone explain that😭) but after this latest episode? Where she cut that servants tongue out over a mistake she made? I’m dropping out of the “she’s doing this for survival” thing this is an absolute all new low that nobody can recover from

I browse the CS and SE subreddits a lot and I comment on a lot of the threads which talk about hiring, interviews, and recruiting. Since I end up repeating similar information across these threads, I figured I should compile all that information into one post.
Some background about me: I've been building software professionally for around 8+ years, and am currently a Senior Software Engineer at a company that has absolutely nothing to do with delivering food to people who don't want to cook. I have done a lot of interviews, been the interviewer for many candidates, and been HM a few times.
I have only worked within the "big tech" scene, so I have no idea how things work at startups, local, small/medium sized, or non-tech companies, so the information in this post is relevant just for tech companies. I will also mostly focus on the entry-level interviews in this post.

What are the goals of the technical interview?

These are some of the high-level goals for the interview:

1. Be cost effective
2. Do not use too much engineer time
3. Do not make a bad hire
4. Be able to recruit from the largest pool of candidates available
5. Do not make a bad hire
6. Evaluate culture fit (mostly through communication skills)
7. Make a good hire

When you are getting thousands of applicants and conducting hundreds of interviews, you need to be very efficient throughout the hiring pipeline. The interview process has to scale with load.

Why do they always ask for a Bachelors degree when you can learn programming from online for free?

Companies want to be cost effective and avoid making bad hires. Bad hires are expensive.
A Bachelors degree in Computer Science means that various third parties (professors) have already validated a candidate's skills (through tests, projects, exams, etc.) over a 4 year period. This is work the company does not have to do, money saved!
It also standardizes all the applicants. Everyone with a Bachelors degree in CS (or CE, SE) has had the opportunity to learn the same concepts, so we can use a similar interview process to evaluate every candidate.
If I have two self-taught candidates, I have no idea what they have in common. One might have only done React tutorials on YouTube and not know about DSA, and the other might have done the MIT open courseware courses and know about DSA: so they can't get the same questions. Companies don't want to come up with bespoke questions for each candidate, it's too expensive!
A "Bachelors degree in computer science or similar discipline" has been required for all the job postings at all the places I have worked. 3-4 years of work experience as a SE can often offset this requirement.

How many applicants do big tech companies even get?

At most of the places I have worked, most entry level job postings get around 2000+ applications for the duration they are up. This gets cut down by the ATS and the recruiter, but even afterwards we are left with hundreds of applicants. The goal of the interview process is to cut this down aggressively until we get to the 1 person we want to hire.
At Senior+ levels, the number of applicants go down drastically.

Why do they always use DSA/Leetcode questions?

1. It is fairly easy, quick, and cheap to come up with new questions. Algorithms is a very wide topic, with many possible problems.
2. When problems are inevitably leaked, we can quickly deprecate and replace them.
3. They can be asked to every applicant because due to their shared background as BS in CS graduates.
4. It is language and tech-stack agnostic. We can use the same interview questions for someone who knows Ruby, Java, C, Rust, etc. We don't have to come up with unique bespoke problems for each language or tech stack.
5. Since DSA is very general, interviewers don't need to be an expert in the interviewee's language choice, since the concepts are agnostic.

Why do you want to recruit from the largest pool of candidates? Why don't you focus on one language and stack?

Big tech companies always want strong generalist engineers because we use a lot of different technologies. My team could be using Go for our services today, but we could transition to Rust or C if need be. We also want candidates to be able to fit into any team if required, and not every team uses the same language or stack.

But Leetcode is not what software engineers do day to day, why don't you interview them on REAL SKILLS?

It is not feasible to interview each candidate on "real skills" because of the volume of candidates we interview. Lets consider some other interview options:
Take home projects:

1. These questions take a long time to come up with, which means an engineer has to take a lot more of their time away from actually doing engineering work to come up with questions.
2. When the question gets leaked, it takes a lot of time to replace them because of (1). Leaving leaked questions up for too long can lead to bad hires.
3. We need to make a version of the question per language per stack for us to be able to recruit from the largest pool of candidates. This is very time consuming.

Building an application/API during the interview:

1. These questions take a long time to come up with... same as above.
2. When the question gets leaked... same as above.
3. We need to match the stack that the interviewee chose, with an engineer who also knows that stack. This is not always feasible due to scheduling.
4. We do use these kinds of interviews for Senior+ interviews, which are much lower volume.

Debugging a snippet of code:

1. These questions take a long time to come up with... same as above.
2. When the question gets leaked... same as above.
3. We might need to match what the interviewer's stack to the interviewee's stack depending on the complexity.

So that's why we don't use these kinds of other kinds of interviews for entry level interviews.

Can't people just memorize answers and pass the DSA/Leetcode interviews?

Memorizing only gets you so far, and interviewers can usually detect it. It's not like a school exam where you write the correct answer and that's it.
We ask lots of questions about the thought process behind the candidates solution. Someone who simply memorized answers will not be able to able to answer all the deep dive questions. Why did you use a Min Heap and not a Max Heap? Why did you use BFS and not DFS? Can you solve this without sorting?
There's also multiple layers of difficulty to the same problem. If someone solved the problem in 5 mins, I can bump them up to the next level.

Can you even solve the questions you are asking yourself?

It is customary to solve the question you are going to be asking before the interview. So yes, I absolutely can solve all levels of the problem I will be asking. SEs who regularly conduct interviews are generally not too rusty when it comes to solving DSA problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb0p1-TGjmc is great watch, which touches on this a bit.

How do you decide which questions to ask?

We have an internal interview problem database. We can only pick problems that exist within these database. Periodically engineers will get assigned to remove leaked questions and add new questions to this pool of questions, to keep it fresh.

Isn't there luck involved?

Yeah, luck is always involved. You could practice Tree problems all month and get hit with a Heap problem, while someone else who practiced Heap problems will make it through.
Luck is involved in most things in life, even in non-DSA interviews.

I'm not good at Leetcode and I don't want to practice, what should I do?

There are still many companies which don't use DSA problems in their screening. When I was a new grad I interviewed at a consulting company and their interview consisted of them asking me some OOP concepts, some Java concepts, and a simple problem like FizzBuzz.
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards has a list of companies which do not use DSA/Leetcode interviews.

I think these interviews are unfair!

That's valid. But like most things in life, the more popular a thing is, the more competition there is for it. It is more difficult and requires more studying and effort to get into MIT than University of Phoenix, the same applies for tech companies.

Are you even making good hires if you are not testing their REAL SKILLS during the interview?

According to our analytics, we are making good enough hires. We have found that people who have good generalist and foundational knowledge are able to learn whatever REAL SKILLS are required quickly, and end up becoming very productive members of our teams.
At one of my previous companies, we did an AB test where one cohort got the regular DSA/Leetcode interview and another cohort got a take home assignment. After 3 years the data showed that the hires from the DSA/Leetcode cohort got promoted to SE2 slightly faster than the hires from the take home assignment set. The increase was not too significant, but it proved that it was not worth spending the extra resources on coming up with take home assignment questions.
Of course we do make bad hires every now and then, but they are rare, and PIPs exist for this reason.

What about all the good engineers you are missing out on because they don't like DSA/Leetcode interviews or are bad at them?

We might miss out on some good engineers, but it does not end up mattering because of sheer volume. For example, if only 5% of 2000 applicants pass the interview, that is still 100 people.
There is probably at least 5 good engineers within that 100. So even if 500 good engineers got filtered out, we can still hire the 1 good engineer we need for that specific open role.
I'm sure MIT misses out on many exemplary students every year as well!

How many candidates actually pass these interviews?

I would say anywhere from 5-10% of the total interviews we do at the entry level turn into offers.

Summary

I hope that explains the reasoning behind why these interviews are the way they are.
I personally think the perfect system would be similar to how it works for med students with medical school. You get your BS in CS and then go to a 4 year "software engineering school" and a government body (similar to the LCME) will hand out out licenses upon completion. Then you do 3-7 years of residency in various domains. The top of the class get placed into the company and domain of their choosing, and the bottom get placed into whatever is available.
Feel free to ask questions, I will try to answer them. I will not argue with you though since that's pointless.

Hi guys, I'm having problems when I turn on the shaders on Iris the game crashes, what do you think is the cause and how can I fix it?
Thank you so much
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Time: 2023-06-03 22:06:48
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java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

`at io.github.douira.glsl_transformer.cst.token_filter.TokenChannel.(`[`TokenChannel.java:49`](https://TokenChannel.java:49)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.transform.TransformPatcher.(`[`TransformPatcher.java:129`](https://TransformPatcher.java:129)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.postprocess.CompositeRenderer.createProgram(`[`CompositeRenderer.java:295`](https://CompositeRenderer.java:295)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.postprocess.CompositeRenderer.(`[`CompositeRenderer.java:99`](https://CompositeRenderer.java:99)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.newshader.NewWorldRenderingPipeline.(`[`NewWorldRenderingPipeline.java:228`](https://NewWorldRenderingPipeline.java:228)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.Iris.createPipeline(`[`Iris.java:647`](https://Iris.java:647)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.PipelineManager.preparePipeline(`[`PipelineManager.java:34`](https://PipelineManager.java:34)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.Iris.reload(`[`Iris.java:589`](https://Iris.java:589)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.apiimpl.IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.setShadersEnabledAndApply(`[`IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.java:28`](https://IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.java:28)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.applyChanges(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:542`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:542)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.lambda$init$2(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:227`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:227)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_4185.method_25306(class_4185.java:43)` `at net.minecraft.class_4264.method_25348(class_4264.java:16)` `at net.minecraft.class_339.method_25402(class_339.java:120)` `at net.minecraft.class_4069.method_25402(class_4069.java:27)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.method_25402(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:180`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:180)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_1611(class_312.java:94)` `at net.minecraft.class_437.method_25412(class_437.java:489)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_1601(class_312.java:94)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22686(class_312.java:165)` `at net.minecraft.class_1255.execute(class_1255.java:103)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22684(class_312.java:165)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback(`[`GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43`](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)`)` `at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout(`[`GLFW.java:3474`](https://GLFW.java:3474)`)` `at com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem.limitDisplayFPS(`[`RenderSystem.java:222`](https://RenderSystem.java:222)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1523(class_310.java:1208)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1514(class_310.java:768)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.method_44604(`[`Main.java:244`](https://Main.java:244)`)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(`[`Main.java:51`](https://Main.java:51)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch(`[`MinecraftGameProvider.java:462`](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:462)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch(`[`Knot.java:74`](https://Knot.java:74)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main(`[`KnotClient.java:23`](https://KnotClient.java:23)`)` 

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: java.io.InvalidClassException: org.antlr.v4.runtime.atn.ATN; Could not deserialize ATN with version 4 (expected 3).

`at org.antlr.v4.runtime.atn.ATNDeserializer.deserialize(`[`ATNDeserializer.java:187`](https://ATNDeserializer.java:187)`)` `at io.github.douira.glsl_transformer.GLSLLexer.(`[`GLSLLexer.java:2924`](https://GLSLLexer.java:2924)`)` `... 33 more` 

Caused by: java.io.InvalidClassException: org.antlr.v4.runtime.atn.ATN; Could not deserialize ATN with version 4 (expected 3).

`... 35 more` 

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A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Thread: Render thread
Stacktrace:

`at io.github.douira.glsl_transformer.cst.token_filter.TokenChannel.(`[`TokenChannel.java:49`](https://TokenChannel.java:49)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.transform.TransformPatcher.(`[`TransformPatcher.java:129`](https://TransformPatcher.java:129)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.postprocess.CompositeRenderer.createProgram(`[`CompositeRenderer.java:295`](https://CompositeRenderer.java:295)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.postprocess.CompositeRenderer.(`[`CompositeRenderer.java:99`](https://CompositeRenderer.java:99)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.newshader.NewWorldRenderingPipeline.(`[`NewWorldRenderingPipeline.java:228`](https://NewWorldRenderingPipeline.java:228)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.Iris.createPipeline(`[`Iris.java:647`](https://Iris.java:647)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.pipeline.PipelineManager.preparePipeline(`[`PipelineManager.java:34`](https://PipelineManager.java:34)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.Iris.reload(`[`Iris.java:589`](https://Iris.java:589)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.apiimpl.IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.setShadersEnabledAndApply(`[`IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.java:28`](https://IrisApiV0ConfigImpl.java:28)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.applyChanges(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:542`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:542)`)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.lambda$init$2(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:227`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:227)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_4185.method_25306(class_4185.java:43)` `at net.minecraft.class_4264.method_25348(class_4264.java:16)` `at net.minecraft.class_339.method_25402(class_339.java:120)` `at net.minecraft.class_4069.method_25402(class_4069.java:27)` `at net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen.method_25402(`[`ShaderPackScreen.java:180`](https://ShaderPackScreen.java:180)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_1611(class_312.java:94)` `at net.minecraft.class_437.method_25412(class_437.java:489)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_1601(class_312.java:94)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22686(class_312.java:165)` `at net.minecraft.class_1255.execute(class_1255.java:103)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22684(class_312.java:165)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback(`[`GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43`](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)`)` `at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout(`[`GLFW.java:3474`](https://GLFW.java:3474)`)` 

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-- Affected screen --
Details:

`Screen name: net.coderbot.iris.gui.screen.ShaderPackScreen` 

Stacktrace:

`at net.minecraft.class_437.method_25412(class_437.java:489)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_1601(class_312.java:94)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22686(class_312.java:165)` `at net.minecraft.class_1255.execute(class_1255.java:103)` `at net.minecraft.class_312.method_22684(class_312.java:165)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.callback(`[`GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43`](https://GLFWMouseButtonCallbackI.java:43)`)` `at org.lwjgl.system.JNI.invokeV(Native Method)` `at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwWaitEventsTimeout(`[`GLFW.java:3474`](https://GLFW.java:3474)`)` `at com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem.limitDisplayFPS(`[`RenderSystem.java:222`](https://RenderSystem.java:222)`)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1523(class_310.java:1208)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1514(class_310.java:768)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.method_44604(`[`Main.java:244`](https://Main.java:244)`)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(`[`Main.java:51`](https://Main.java:51)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch(`[`MinecraftGameProvider.java:462`](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:462)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch(`[`Knot.java:74`](https://Knot.java:74)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main(`[`KnotClient.java:23`](https://KnotClient.java:23)`)` 

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-- Affected level --
Details:

`All players: 1 total; [class_746['Rafa20100'/278, l='ClientWorld minecraft:overworld', x=46.22, y=66.00, z=-100.00]]` `Chunk stats: Client Chunks (ImmPtl) 756` `Level dimension: minecraft:overworld` `Level spawn location: World: (64,64,-48), Section: (at 0,0,0 in 4,4,-3; chunk contains blocks 64,-64,-48 to 79,319,-33), Region: (0,-1; contains chunks 0,-32 to 31,-1, blocks 0,-64,-512 to 511,319,-1)` `Level time: 2717 game time, 8107 day time` `Server brand: fabric` `Server type: Integrated singleplayer server` 

Stacktrace:

`at net.minecraft.class_638.method_8538(class_638.java:453)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1587(class_310.java:2341)` `at net.minecraft.class_310.method_1514(class_310.java:787)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.method_44604(`[`Main.java:244`](https://Main.java:244)`)` `at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(`[`Main.java:51`](https://Main.java:51)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch(`[`MinecraftGameProvider.java:462`](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:462)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch(`[`Knot.java:74`](https://Knot.java:74)`)` `at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main(`[`KnotClient.java:23`](https://KnotClient.java:23)`)` 

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-- Last reload --
Details:

`Reload number: 2` `Reload reason: manual` `Finished: Yes` `Packs: Default, Fabric Mods` 

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-- System Details --
Details:

`Minecraft Version: 1.19.2` `Minecraft Version ID: 1.19.2` `Operating System: Windows 10 (amd64) version 10.0` `Java Version: 17.0.3, Microsoft` `Java VM Version: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Microsoft` `Memory: 1398910816 bytes (1334 MiB) / 2684354560 bytes (2560 MiB) up to 6442450944 bytes (6144 MiB)` `CPUs: 8` `Processor Vendor: GenuineIntel` `Processor Name: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz` `Identifier: Intel64 Family 6 Model 140 Stepping 1` `Microarchitecture: Tiger Lake` `Frequency (GHz): 3.30` `Number of physical packages: 1` `Number of physical CPUs: 4` `Number of logical CPUs: 8` `Graphics card #0 name: Parsec Virtual Display Adapter` `Graphics card #0 vendor: Parsec Cloud, Inc.` `Graphics card #0 VRAM (MB): 0.00` `Graphics card #0 deviceId: unknown` `Graphics card #0 versionInfo: DriverVersion=`[`0.38.0.0`](https://0.38.0.0) `Graphics card #1 name: NVIDIA GeForce MX450` `Graphics card #1 vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)` `Graphics card #1 VRAM (MB): 2048.00` `Graphics card #1 deviceId: 0x1f97` `Graphics card #1 versionInfo: DriverVersion=31.0.15.2686` `Graphics card #2 name: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics` `Graphics card #2 vendor: Intel Corporation (0x8086)` `Graphics card #2 VRAM (MB): 1024.00` `Graphics card #2 deviceId: 0x9a49` `Graphics card #2 versionInfo: DriverVersion=27.20.100.8984` `Memory slot #0 capacity (MB): 8192.00` `Memory slot #0 clockSpeed (GHz): 3.20` `Memory slot #0 type: DDR4` `Memory slot #1 capacity (MB): 8192.00` `Memory slot #1 clockSpeed (GHz): 3.20` `Memory slot #1 type: DDR4` `Virtual memory max (MB): 28457.54` `Virtual memory used (MB): 25152.34` `Swap memory total (MB): 12294.23` `Swap memory used (MB): 563.64` `JVM Flags: 9 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xss1M -Xmx6G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M` `Fabric Mods:` `cinematicstudio: Cinematic Studio 1.0-SNAPSHOT` `corduroy: Corduroy 1.0.4` `fabric-api: Fabric API 0.76.0+1.19.2` `fabric-api-base: Fabric API Base 0.4.15+8f4e8eb390` `fabric-api-lookup-api-v1: Fabric API Lookup API (v1) 1.6.14+93d8cb8290` `fabric-biome-api-v1: Fabric Biome API (v1) 9.1.1+16f1e31390` `fabric-block-api-v1: Fabric Block API (v1) 1.0.2+e415d50e90` `fabric-blockrenderlayer-v1: Fabric BlockRenderLayer Registration (v1) 1.1.25+cafc6e8e90` `fabric-client-tags-api-v1: Fabric Client Tags 1.0.5+b35fea8390` `fabric-command-api-v1: Fabric Command API (v1) 1.2.16+f71b366f90` `fabric-command-api-v2: Fabric Command API (v2) 2.2.1+413cbbc790` `fabric-commands-v0: Fabric Commands (v0) 0.2.33+df3654b390` `fabric-containers-v0: Fabric Containers (v0) 0.1.41+df3654b390` `fabric-content-registries-v0: Fabric Content Registries (v0) 3.5.2+7c6cd14d90` `fabric-convention-tags-v1: Fabric Convention Tags 1.3.0+4bc6e26290` `fabric-crash-report-info-v1: Fabric Crash Report Info (v1) 0.2.8+aeb40ebe90` `fabric-data-generation-api-v1: Fabric Data Generation API (v1) 5.3.8+413cbbc790` `fabric-dimensions-v1: Fabric Dimensions API (v1) 2.1.35+0d0f210290` `fabric-entity-events-v1: Fabric Entity Events (v1) 1.5.4+9244241690` `fabric-events-interaction-v0: Fabric Events Interaction (v0) 0.4.34+562bff6e90` `fabric-events-lifecycle-v0: Fabric Events Lifecycle (v0) 0.2.36+df3654b390` `fabric-game-rule-api-v1: Fabric Game Rule API (v1) 1.0.24+b6b6abb490` `fabric-item-api-v1: Fabric Item API (v1) 1.6.6+b7d1888890` `fabric-item-groups-v0: Fabric Item Groups (v0) 0.3.39+9244241690` `fabric-key-binding-api-v1: Fabric Key Binding API (v1) 1.0.25+5c4fce2890` `fabric-keybindings-v0: Fabric Key Bindings (v0) 0.2.23+df3654b390` `fabric-lifecycle-events-v1: Fabric Lifecycle Events (v1) 2.2.4+1b46dc7890` `fabric-loot-api-v2: Fabric Loot API (v2) 1.1.13+83a8659290` `fabric-loot-tables-v1: Fabric Loot Tables (v1) 1.1.16+9e7660c690` `fabric-message-api-v1: Fabric Message API (v1) 5.0.7+93d8cb8290` `fabric-mining-level-api-v1: Fabric Mining Level API (v1) 2.1.24+33fbc73890` `fabric-models-v0: Fabric Models (v0) 0.3.21+c6af733c90` `fabric-networking-api-v1: Fabric Networking API (v1) 1.2.11+10eb22f490` `fabric-networking-v0: Fabric Networking (v0) 0.3.28+df3654b390` `fabric-object-builder-api-v1: Fabric Object Builder API (v1) 4.2.2+d8ef690890` `fabric-particles-v1: Fabric Particles (v1) 1.0.14+4d0d570390` `fabric-recipe-api-v1: Fabric Recipe API (v1) 1.0.1+413cbbc790` `fabric-registry-sync-v0: Fabric Registry Sync (v0) 0.9.32+9244241690` `fabric-renderer-api-v1: Fabric Renderer API (v1) 1.2.1+1adbf27790` `fabric-renderer-indigo: Fabric Renderer - Indigo 0.8.0+1adbf27790` `fabric-renderer-registries-v1: Fabric Renderer Registries (v1) 3.2.24+df3654b390` `fabric-rendering-data-attachment-v1: Fabric Rendering Data Attachment (v1) 0.3.19+6e0787e690` `fabric-rendering-fluids-v1: Fabric Rendering Fluids (v1) 3.0.11+4d0d570390` `fabric-rendering-v0: Fabric Rendering (v0) 1.1.27+df3654b390` `fabric-rendering-v1: Fabric Rendering (v1) 1.12.1+d8ef690890` `fabric-resource-conditions-api-v1: Fabric Resource Conditions API (v1) 2.1.2+aae9039d90` `fabric-resource-loader-v0: Fabric Resource Loader (v0) 0.8.4+edbdcddb90` `fabric-screen-api-v1: Fabric Screen API (v1) 1.0.32+4d0d570390` `fabric-screen-handler-api-v1: Fabric Screen Handler API (v1) 1.3.7+1cc24b1b90` `fabric-sound-api-v1: Fabric Sound API (v1) 1.0.2+c4f28df590` `fabric-textures-v0: Fabric Textures (v0) 1.0.24+aeb40ebe90` `fabric-transfer-api-v1: Fabric Transfer API (v1) 2.1.6+413cbbc790` `fabric-transitive-access-wideners-v1: Fabric Transitive Access Wideners (v1) 1.3.3+08b73de490` `fabric-permissions-api-v0: fabric-permissions-api 0.2-SNAPSHOT` `fabricloader: Fabric Loader 0.14.18` `immersive_portals: Immersive Portals 2.2.5` `cloth-config: Cloth Config v8 8.0.75` 

cloth-basic-math: cloth-basic-math 0.6.1

 `imm_ptl_core: Immersive Portals Core 2.2.5` `q_misc_util: QMiscUtil 2.2.5` `iris: Iris 1.4.0` `io_github_douira_glsl-transformer: glsl-transformer 1.0.0-pre21.2` `org_anarres_jcpp: jcpp 1.4.14` `org_antlr_antlr4-runtime: antlr4-runtime 4.10.1` `java: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17` `lazydfu: LazyDFU 0.1.3` `minecraft: Minecraft 1.19.2` `sodium: Sodium 0.4.4+build.18` `org_joml_joml: joml 1.10.4` `Loaded Shaderpack: ComplementaryShaders_v4.0.1.zip` `Profile: LOW (+0 options changed by user)` `Launched Version: fabric-loader-0.14.18-1.19.2` `Backend library: LWJGL version 3.3.1 SNAPSHOT` `Backend API: NVIDIA GeForce MX450/PCIe/SSE2 GL version 3.2.0 NVIDIA 526.86, NVIDIA Corporation` `Window size: 1920x1200` `GL Caps: Using framebuffer using OpenGL 3.2` `GL debug messages:` `Using VBOs: Yes` `Is Modded: Definitely; Client brand changed to 'fabric'; Server brand changed to 'fabric'` `Type: Integrated Server (map_client.txt)` `Graphics mode: fast` `Resource Packs: vanilla, Fabric Mods` `Current Language: Español (España)` `CPU: 8x 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz` `Server Running: true` `Player Count: 1 / 8; [class_3222['Rafa20100'/278, l='ServerWorld minecraft:overworld prueba shaders vanilla', x=46.22, y=66.00, z=-100.00]]` `Data Packs: vanilla, Fabric Mods` `World Generation: Stable` 

Over the past few weeks my fps has dropped down to like 60-70-80 and even 50 sometimes whereas it was previously 90-100 fps or 80+ in some bigger trial areas.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced such an issue lately because I can't find any other issues with my pc or game (updated all add ons, fixed game files, etc)
To clarify this is for pc eu and I'm not talking anout Cyro :D