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Always remove the French language pack.

Probably not very.

Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.

Then it’s not all that ambiguous and could be answered with one sentence.

Fair point, but depending on the interviewee, you might get very different answers and/or follow up questions.

Even if they assume something, it might be just for the sake of the example. If they’re competent, they’ll follow up with another example and so on, depending on how exactly you pose the problem.

If you present it as an abstract question, one possibility is that you get an abstract answer. If you present it like a ticket with no description, you might get prompted to clarify.

Yeah, it’s basically that, but it has different uses - two main things I can think of right away are 1) verifying data when downloading large files and 2) cryptography (e.g. when storing credentials). Oh, and hash tables too.

If you hand out a problem and only accept one solution out of multiple valid ones, you’re part of the problem.

JSON Statham

Subtle hint that this is not for them.

Worse when curl?

You guys are using Thinpads? Come on, grow up and get a Thickpad.

Physical products - maybe, but it doesn’t seem to apply to software. And Apple is not the only offender in that (although I have to admit that they’re somewhat good at coming up with generic and yet recognisable names because of the context). Just try to think of a desktop or mobile OS that doesn’t bundle a default app with a generic name like Files, Mail, Internet and so on.

Is this xerox a Canon?

I’m kind of surprised that Apple didn’t name the iPhone just “Phone”.

From what I know yes, but it’s also way out of consumer use. Heck, many people don’t even back up the only copy of their data.

Winget and scoop are adequate, but those are probably catering to 1% of Windows users.

Yep, that was what I was referring to.

Ask them to ship their machine to you.