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by mathgeek 2y ago
A button up shirt without a jacket, at the time, was business casual at most. What they wanted was a t-shirt and jeans. Even Walmart, when I’d worked as a teen, expected a collar and appreciated a sports coat for interviewing. Different tim
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Too real. I once got turned down by the Apple Store for a retail position because I wore a collared shirt to the interview (after being told in advance not to wear anything formal). Interviewer let me know I came off as too formally dressed
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Fair, but that’s different from everyone who uses AI ending up with the same keywords and content on their application (see GPP)
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Paying directly for referrals that lead to an offer seems a natural result of how much the value of an internal referral has increased since the automation war turned its guns at job boards. Even with how much less a generic referral means
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Fair for the ones who don’t put in any effort, but I don’t buy this generalization for the folks who are real people in the middle between “completely unqualified” and “telling the truth about their experience”.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Agreed, the “I used AI” part is just the 2025 version of “I did my research on your company and then lied about my experience to make me sound like a better fit”.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> I nearly ordered hellofresh after getting a voucher, but they've interrupted my YouTube experience too many times in the past I totally relate to the “I’m OK with certain types of advertising” angle here.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> People want to ride into battle and swing swords and conquer civilizations, not manage the intricacies of military campaign logistics and foraging operations and tax collection. I assure you that there is a niche market of folks who ab
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> So in your world, the people running the business should fire themselves first? If they are needed to continue leading, they should consider cutting their own salary until the problems are fixed. Let them take their entire compensation
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It’s not a part of Catholic doctrine. You won’t find the core beliefs of much, much more mainstream sects in Catholic teachings, let alone the more uncommon beliefs that are out there.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Generally, no. Some folks do, some don’t. It’s uncommon to find anything subjective that generalizes to an entire population of folks with knowledge of a specific widespread skill.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> Not that I'll ever be important enough for that to happen Not that it keeps me up at night, but it’s fascinating to me that if we ever get to the point where a machine is in a position to care about your DNA, it probably will have
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> so any Arctic air brought down in the US won't "feel" as cold compared to if it happened in January because we are in a warmer part of the year. I read this pretty simply as "March is warmer than January". More
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Was not obvious but could be inferred, which is why I asked. There were a few adjacent threads it made more sense in.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Did you mean to respond to another comment? You’re in the thread about vandalizing left-leaning Tesla owners.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It did, both in that OS/2 was backwards compatible with DOS, and that the games were ported. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/OS/2 https://www.os2site.com/sw/games/action/quake/in
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by mathgeek 2y ago
You have several typos on your pricing page (not sure about any others, only page I looked at).
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I read the author's comments as separating out Christianity (the religion that grew from the teachings of Christ) from the actual source of its teachings.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Perhaps something like https://llmjs.themaximalist.com/
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It took me far too long to realize you meant nautical miles and not a mistyped nanometers. More coffee needed.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
While this is a wonderful idea in theory, a key reason it's often not used for experiments is that there are just too many variables to control for (including, for example, the ongoing effects of spending a month wondering if you'
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by mathgeek 2y ago
That's my reading of it as well. For personal archival purposes, that's very risky. For "some of it will survive" purposes it's great.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It's been a while, but IIRC when we assume all other variables as constant, a lower center of mass (a) will decrease the denominator and thus increase the resulting necessary tipping force. Fₜ = (m × g × cos(θ) × b) / (a + b)
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Some CD-specific stats here from about 16 years ago at the Library of Congress (which thankfully disregards CD-R's and the like): https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/CDservicelife_...
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It was an honest question, and no, your implication is not obvious to me. Let's assume best intent instead of defaulting to "no, you."
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by mathgeek 2y ago
In the long term, most original physical media will degrade over a few decades. It's the ability to create new backups/copies and port media to new formats that beats everything.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> Sure, but I am tired of there being two set of rules for those with power and those without it. Can you elaborate on how this project is going to impact that? What change do you expect will come about from it?
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by mathgeek 2y ago
As a 10 year old at the time whose first exposure to memory management in general was the boot disc for Ultima VII, that game was the epitome of things that led me to love hacking things together.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Like most things that tempt us with nostalgia and “the cool factor”, many of these likely end up on a shelf or drawer. Still, there are tons of folks buying collector’s editions of new games, etc. The market is there. I personally just own
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by mathgeek 2y ago
To be clearer: when you say the latter, do you mean the latter of your blueprints example or your avionics one? I'd guess that since most developers/engineers are working in things like web apps, fintech, applied AI/crypto, e

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