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   d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 21:32:21 JST d
   I think I would actually laugh out loud if someone asked me to do something so simple in a technical interview
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 21:32:21 JST 翠星石

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     @deprecated_ii >Linux command line
     echo $SHELL -> /bin/bash
     bash --version;
     GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
     Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
     
     This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
     
     mkdir --version;
     mkdir (GNU coreutils) 9.5
     Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
     
     Written by David MacKenzie.
     
     dir --version;
     dir (GNU coreutils) 9.5
     Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
     
     Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
     
     ls --version;
     ls (GNU coreutils) 9.5
     Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
     
     Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
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     Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 11:15:43 JST Account: Computers

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     @merchantHelios @deprecated_ii Look, they do FizzBuzz at interviews for a reason.
     
     A couple of months ago, my interview task was to find a property in some kind of a PCI ROM. They have an obscure spec with rather strange definition. The trick was: what happens if your ROM is full of zeros (a naive interpretation of the spec would make the program loop forever in that case)? What if it's full of ones? What happens if the property is at the end of page? Program workarounds to make it safe.
     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     merchantHelios (merchanthelios@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 11:15:44 JST merchantHelios

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     @deprecated_ii genuinely think i could do that right now having not touched any actual code in like 3 years