misterkgb

The title of the paper is misleading -- it's not generating energy from ambient humidity, but from sitting across a humidity gradient (i.e. sitting in a bucket of water on one end).

Still a really cool advancement, but not some magical de-humidification technology.

Too close to the Son?

Those solutions all require additional hardware - hardware that's far more expensive than an on-board real-time clock and battery.

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I was a tech lead for some interesting, innovative infrastructure at an engineering focused start-up when we were acquired. It was a very happy outcome, but after a few months my team and department were dissolved, and I found myself inside a very bureaucratic, very risk-averse company focused on product design and not technical innovation. It was hell for someone who likes to build stuff without having to get buy-in from at least 3 departments and 2 project managers. I stayed way too long though because the golden handcuffs were on real tight. After about 18 months of that I broke and quit suddenly.

I ended up not working again for almost a year. And even after that only on part-time contracts. I wouldn't say I ever "recovered" -- I now have a very different view on what work is and how it fits into my life.

If (1) coding homework sucks, and (2) coding live sucks, how do you propose assessing a candidate's coding ability? Take their word for it?

Absent a large open-source repository or other public corpus of work, you generally have to rely on one or the other.