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john_strinlai commented on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says   marketscreener.com/news/u... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Mattwmaster58 · 15 minutes ago
That's exactly where my mind went as soon as I read the title. HN rules say to "use the original title, unless it is misleading". I think the original title meets the misleading bar but I can't speak for other readers.
john_strinlai · 6 minutes ago
it is correct, though.

someone not knowing the definition != misleading title

john_strinlai commented on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says   marketscreener.com/news/u... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
rglover · 11 minutes ago
That's not the likely definition most will reach for here automatically (especially amidst the constant financial blackpilling).
john_strinlai · 7 minutes ago
what on earth is "financial blackpilling"?
john_strinlai commented on How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform   codewall.ai/blog/how-we-h... · Posted by u/mycroft_4221
keybored · 2 hours ago
Is a formal sentence which uses capital letters more sincere in its beliefs?

You can perfectly well believe that thinking that the echelons of academic success is a frictionless gold sieve is just a milquetoast belief. Believing that your beliefs are milquetoast are most often integral to said beliefs.

john_strinlai · an hour ago
...what point are you trying to make? you wrote a bunch of words, but they dont seem to be an attempt at communicating anything. certainly not anything that contributes to a conversation.
john_strinlai commented on DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership   micahflee.github.io/ice-c... · Posted by u/peq42
ramoz · 11 hours ago
The first one is literally a well-known massive corporation
john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
>The first one is literally a well-known massive corporation

i am sorry, i really must have messed up in my comment somewhere. on top of not trying to insult these companies by saying they have non-descript names, i was also not trying to imply that they are small.

non-descript, and what i expected of government contractor names. thats all.

john_strinlai commented on DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership   micahflee.github.io/ice-c... · Posted by u/peq42
tdeck · 11 hours ago
IBM had a corporate songbook!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpNzxz1XgU

john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
that was fascinating, i had no idea. and, surprisingly, i dont think i knew of this channel which seems to have a ton of interesting videos. thanks for that.
john_strinlai commented on DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership   micahflee.github.io/ice-c... · Posted by u/peq42
foxglacier · 11 hours ago
The cover is a strange thing to judge a book by. SAIC isn't somehow worse because they couldn't think of a witty name 60 years ago. IBM couldn't either, nor General Motors. Basic descriptive names are actually pretty good compared to meaningless "Meta" or "Google" that have no idea what industry they even want to appear to be in.
john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
>SAIC isn't somehow worse because they couldn't think of a witty name 60 years ago.

is "non-descript" an insult now, or something? where do you read "worse" in my comment?

john_strinlai commented on DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership   micahflee.github.io/ice-c... · Posted by u/peq42
andrewmcwatters · 11 hours ago
International Business Machines…

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

General Mills

General Motors

American Telephone and Telegraph Company…

You seem to have it backwards. Companies being called Poopity Scoop is a modern phenomenon.

Companies have otherwise been named like this for centuries.

john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
i havent heard a good jingle for any of those

(i didnt make the judgement you think i made. i simply said they are what i expected: very non-descript)

john_strinlai commented on DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership   micahflee.github.io/ice-c... · Posted by u/peq42
john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
a lot of these company names are kind of hilariously non-descript. no smart wordplay, no chance of coming up with a good jingle for a commercial. exactly what you would expect, really.

"Science Applications International Corp"

"Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc"

"Physical Optics Corp"

"Physical Sciences Inc"

"Applied Nanotech Inc"

edit: this is a light hearted comment. i am not saying your favorite non-descriptly-named company is worse than any other name.

john_strinlai commented on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job   theverge.com/featured-vid... · Posted by u/speckx
Manuel_D · 13 hours ago
For a first-round interview, it was not uncommon to have a leet-code style automated assignment as early as the mid 2010s. I recall more than a few highly regarded employers that did this in 2014.

Is an AI interview meaningfully different than one of these automated interview systems? A lot of people are assuming that there'd be a human interview absent this AI interview, but it could very easily just be another automated interview - just a less sophisticated one. A company using an AI interview where I'd normally see a Leet-code assignment (e.g a first round coding interview) would not strike me as a bad thing.

Of course if they wanted to the the entire interview loops with AI I'd stay away.

john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
>Is an AI interview meaningfully different than one of these automated interview systems?

i think it is important to remember that ai interviews arent constrained to the tech industry. many people who have no idea what a 'leet-code' is, and who have always done normal human-human interviews, are now having to navigate being interviewed by ai as well.

john_strinlai commented on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job   theverge.com/featured-vid... · Posted by u/speckx
dmitrygr · 13 hours ago
> So many problems would go away if

Writing it like you did implies that a magical solution exists and we are all maliciously withholding it from you. It does not and we are not.

john_strinlai · 11 hours ago
>implies that a magical solution exists and we are all maliciously withholding it from you

i did not get that from what they wrote at all.

they sound frustrated. but that does not mean they are frustrated at you specifically.

u/john_strinlai

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