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I’ve found that a lot of recruiters who reach out are offering really mediocre jobs, and probably have one themselves. I had a recruiter email, text and call me within 2 hours for a role he had, which would be paid about half of what I’d been making when I was recently unemployed. Starting at 8:30am my time. When he told me what the role paid, I basically told him I’m not desperate, but he clearly is.

I think I’ve had one recruiter reach out in the last year about a role that isn’t at least a 30% pay cut, and that was one with a step up in responsibilities, with a small pay cut.

At first I was offended that they were even bothering to reach out for super entry level roles, when I’m clearly not at that level, but I think they’re just spraying and praying, and probably paid mainly based on how many people they get into jobs.

You can run a VM in Windows. Virtualbox is what I’ve used in the past, and it’s pretty good. It’s obviously work to set up, but you can revert a VM and use it to test other sketchy software if you need

5. Windows as a whole is less useful than prior versions in significant ways. They presumably know this, but think they can make it better in the long run than it was before, without AI. But given that a lot of what they’ve done is tear out well-suited technologies for the problems people face on desktop OSes, and replace them with LLMs that aren’t as well-suited to the task, I’m not sure how they can justify that to themselves. I can’t imagine the justification is particularly good.

Yes, but if Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment is evidence of anything, brazenly defrauding the legal system for political purposes can have that effect. Much like Comey’s claim being one that rarely succeeds, I think we’re in the realm of possibility where rare things may well happen

Salmonella recall? Nah, I’ve got a kitchen autoclave, I’ll be fine

If the goal is to serve people with larger distances to groceries today, and unmet needs, it’s probably not as helpful in wealthier areas like Staten Island. Though surely some people there will benefit.

I can’t find easy data on grocery store density, but I’m guessing if the program is as successful as it seems like it should be, dozens of stores across NYC seems like a place they could get quickly. Probably not evenly distributed across boroughs though.

As an experienced Linux user, I just migrated my last windows machine to Debian sid, my gaming PC. And it’s great. But I started on stable, and moved to sid after a few weeks, and it really wasn’t an issue for gaming or general use. My partner’s gaming computer is still on stable.

But yeah for someone less familiar, Bazzite and Mint are great choices. Pop! OS if you like the look of it, or Zorin OS if you like its look. You can always try something new if you’re interested in its features.

There’s a very easy way to prevent that; add a rule that any claim made against an officer without a working body cam is presumed to be true, and the officer’s contracting testimony isn’t relevant. If they don’t want people lying about their conduct, they’re given the equipment to protect themselves, and responsible for ensuring it’s functioning.

In what way? There’s this, and the punching down / anti-trans rhetoric thing, but it feels like you’re talking about something else entirely.

Dick/Nixon

A launch that affects some measurable user behavior? I bet a tenth person got promoted for this

I mean, it’s in western Asia, next to Azerbaijan and Georgia. “Complicated definitions of Europe” are part of the point here, but it’s pretty clearly not Europe in my mind, but given the Turkish border, it’s not far from Europe like Australia is

Australia, Armenia, and Morocco are all outside of Europe, and have completed too. Basically all European countries are eligible, plus those whose public broadcasters are part of the European Broadcasting Union.

Why not both?

at least ransomware is upfront about its intentions?

This is one of many examples of a class of problem where the technology is the easy part. There’s room to improve the tech certainly, but the technology sufficient to solve the problem is already well understood.

The hard part is how to get people to actually do the necessary changes. To consume less, get fewer gas cars on the road, increase the amount of nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind in the grid, and minimize coal and gas use. To reduce land use by cows, and increase land use by trees and native plants.

But maybe AI is the secret here. We have tools that are in the hype moment whose training data already contains several reasonable solutions to climate change. Maybe if AI “finds” the solution to climate change, people will finally listen

Every time I see something this funny on LinkedIn, I remember that it would be an insult to the creative genius of the satirist who wrote it not to laugh react it. Have I laugh reacted something meant seriously? Probably, but it’s for the greater good.

When I was looking for a job last year, I made a point to be honest. I was definitely trying to present an appealing version of myself, but I didn’t want to land a job to learn a few weeks in that they had toxic management cultures, insane work expectations or other giant red flags. Maybe if I examined everything I said something was untrue, but I certainly tried to be honest.

I interviewed over 30 places, some of them almost certainly rejected me because I was honest about being a poor fit for a toxic environment. But that’s fantastic, I wanted them to reject me if they were like that. I’m super happy with where I landed.

Lots of people lie, and there’s certainly an expectation to lie and commodify yourself. Some people even believe the lies they tell themselves. But I think being more honest about your basic expectations and minimum requirements is a better strategy. Be yourself, and not the commodity they want you to be, but also make sure they understand why your unique skills are helpful to them. It’s a fine line, but I think threading it works well, and if everybody tried to, we’d have a bit better world.

What’s really wild is that not only are games good enough on Windows, but tests lately are showing a consistent trend where the two are often indistinguishable in performance, and where they’re not, Windows isn’t consistently winning.

If you’re not into the genre of competitive multiplayer games that have kernel anticheat, Windows isn’t really better for gaming anymore, outside of being more familiar for many people. Today we’ve reached the point where it’s a few fps either way, and people should use whatever they want, but if Microsoft keeps bloating Windows, it might soon be that the “Windows tax” also refers to the performance penalty you pay for using the familiar OS instead of learning something new.

Would it have actually worked though? The access Hollywood tapes came out during that election, Trump’s behavior of entering the dressing rooms of Miss Teen USA were well reported on, and neither really hurt him. Maybe there’s a chance it would’ve changed the outcome, but it’s hard to imagine that chance is large.