Don’t forget works on putting Marxism-Leninism into practice, too. You shouldn’t neglect the practical applications by focusing too much on the theory.
You’re forgetting the entertainment afforded those of us on the sidelines with 
OMG yes
I can’t think of anything sane. That is, a high explosive in liquid form, that you’d actually carry around as a weapon, as opposed to set down in an empty field very carefully then run like hell.
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I’m feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
Work done, drinking a cold cider and playing JSAB with the teenage offspring, then off to the pool.
Comparing Trump to Stalin is funny, actually, because no matter the mistakes and errors Stalin made over his decades as the leader of the soviet union, he was never a genocidal imperialist.
Wait, what? The USSR wasn’t an empire? The Holodomor wasn’t a genocide?
Already planning Australia Day. Think I’ll celebrate with a pint of VB (not my usual tipple) and a read of The Lucky Country.
Considering starting a local computer club. Had a really good experience running a one-off installfest and thinking there should be IRL options for like-minded geeks to meet up on the regular.
No, though they did see if they could bend the process for me. Turns out not.
Keeping doors open is important. I once had a great contracting gig as an exec EM with an org that had more or less fired me (declined to renew my contract while keeping the rest of the team) some years ago. Second time around they wanted my approach, first time I stepped on toes.
Unless the reason is something truly egregious, don’t burn bridges on your way out, even if you’ve had a bad time. Organisations change as their management changes, and you never know where you’ll be in a decade’s time.
I experienced a similar thing a few years ago, applying for a management position with a nonprofit. (A nonprofit!)
My reply …
Hi $PERSON,
Your application was strong and we’re really pleased to advise you that you’ve progressed to the next stage.
Great! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
We’d like you to answer a few quick questions using our online video platform, SparkHire. This will help us get to know more about you and what skills and experience you can bring to the role, the team and $NONPROFIT.
…
A set of questions will appear on the screen (some filmed, others just text) and you’ll have the opportunity to create video recordings of your answers, within a specified time limit. You can review and re-record your answers as many times as you need.
I’d love to catch up either face to face, in a video chat, or even a phone call to discuss how I could use my skills and experience to help out the $NONPROFIT team. To be honest though I’m not at all keen on recording a one-way video interview.
I do have several concerns with SparkHire (no data retention policy that I could find; and enhanced privacy protection for EU customers only; email instructions years old that referenced Flash).
But my main concern is that the idea of one-sided video interview feels … well, one-sided and dehumanising. To be honest it’s quite the opposite of what I’d have expected from the employee experience of an organisation like $NONPROFIT.
Even if I were placed in the role, I’d be reluctant to refer friends if they were also required to participate in a one-sided video interview.
Please drop me an email at $EMAIL or give me a call on $PHONE if you’d like to chat further, either virtually or in person.
What if the intent is to filter out people who won’t put up with this sort of shit? It might be working very well indeed from the perspective of the hiring managers.
The hiring company failed the interview. It happens, and IMO you’ve exercised good judgement here.
My personal suspicion is that this sort of inhumane, inhuman, hiring process filters for people who are either desperate for work, or who don’t see anything wrong with this sort of thing.
Instability in my WIndows NT 4 development machine. I’d been using Linux as a hobbyist for several years, but switched to it at work so I had a machine that didn’t crash every few hours.
I did this some time ago - I have a very heavily filtered Mastodon feed, and a carefully curated RSS feed - both mostly around tech news, and as little to do with LLMs as possible.
Don’t regret this for a minute from a mental health perspective, especially when something happens like this.
Australian here - we have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_of_the_Year
Sincerely hope he’s awarded the next one.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she said.
But the current President is one of those rich powerful men raping the trafficked. What did she expect would happen?
You should see the translucent ones though. They’re as creepy as fuck.
A browser. Just make a browser. A FUCKING BROWSER. Don’t bloviate on other topics. Don’t bake AI into it. Just do ONE THING well … make a FUCKING BROWSER.