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Why is this so surprising

It's not surprising. But what it does is illustrate the absurdity of the current hiring system that some companies choose to employ.

Any company that works like this is not a company worth working for. Yes, I include FAANGs in that, too. If a company automates its hiring process to this degree, what makes you think any other part of the company is going to be fair to its employees?

We see this more and more as employees with actual real grievances at major tech firms come forward and tell their stories, which always seem to include "...and then HR blew me off." Sadly, no shit. If they don't know how to hire people, they certainly don't know what to do with them when something goes wrong.
As others have said, our entire way of thinking is predicated on lack. Or, as it was said by The Watchowski Sisters in The Matrix:

> Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
>I'm nobody special

From your LinkedIn:

- You have two degrees, including one in an incredibly "hot" field right now.

- You've co-founded two companies.

- You were accepted into a Microsoft program as a student.

- You are quite good looking.

Ignoring your local reputation, that alone puts you in the top few percent of candidates.
> I also see real improvements in Windows nowadays

How is Windows 11's horribly dumbed-down taskbar and start menu a "real improvement"?

They got rid of the old Windows 7 screen-clipping tool but the "new" version from Windows 10 still lacks ultra-basic things like text-annotations and arrow shapes... (but it's got a full-suite of pen-inking tools, which I'm sure everyone uses all the time).
Eliminating the deduction would lower a renter's taxes, and money is fungible.
This is a report commissioned by a political group (EU Greens). The very same people who support mandatory vaccine passports, "contact tracing" and a multitude of other over-reaching Orwellian measures. In my city the local government just leaked the emails of over 100 people who attended a gay sex party. Accidentally, as they claim, because they're overworked from all the contact tracing they have to do. Someone simply put all the mails in cc.

I don't trust these people with that kind of data or any personal data. They don't actually stand for freedom when push comes to shove, it's all lip service.
It's sad that this book is written in such a self-validating tone (the very first sentence is "This is the best book ever written on how to practice at the piano!" for crying out loud), because the content is excellent.

I read it a couple years ago and it completely changed how I approach practicing.
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It's almost as if the piece is asking him, "Why are you still trying to be a journalist? No one else is."
The ethical dilemmas we face now will pale in comparison to those of tomorrow.
Amateur: https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...

This will bring his batting average to 150%.
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Or it could be the lack of change in top ranked inventory for toys and other holiday sellers year over year. The same SEO gamified titles and descriptions are keeping the same products on top and once kids get the gamut parents have to go look elsewhere for holiday gifts. If that happens in the toys section, it likely happens elsewhere as well. The attractiveness of top products on basic search has gone down substantially.
you mean plants? this guy is doing cool things with hydroponics
https://ezgrogarden.com/backyard-garden/sage-mind-homestead-...
Yet at the same time it doesn't feel like it's doing any work. It's an M1 Pro but I still don't hear the fans kick in or feel it warming up at all. So I feel like there is probably room for optimisation, whatever the update process does.
...and that isn't a problem? because folks decades of experience is irrelevant to their ability to memorize whatever it's required to be a widget in a widget factory? just because the process works for FAANG doesn't mean its good or right for other companies.
> many examples of ugly misfeatures in recent programming languages

I've seen more misfeatures that seem to come from people not knowing the history of JCL. The lesson would be to plan for expansion of the semantic space.

> The defect that is most universally accepted is that it is too verbose.

It feels less verbose than Java or C#.
>Leftwingers who fervently oppose this kind of research seem to agree on one thing with neonazis: if we find such genetic differences, well, that would make racism fine.

What the fuck? I admit it doesn't come up very often, but every left-winger I personally know agrees that, even if you could pin a higher likelihood of bad behavior (say, violence) to a race via genetics, that still doesn't make discrimination ok, because the downsides, both practical and moral, of discrimination are just too big.
I have to disagree with this. Many women want to have a family and will avoid careers that are not family friendly. This is still true today. But fixing those careers to be family friendly will benefit men as well as women.

I went to an all girl college prep high school in the early 1970s. All the girls on college track took an aptitude test. We were told to take both the boys and girls test. There were two tests back then. I scored very high in engineering and math on the boys test, but those options did not even exist on the girls test. I found the girls test ridiculous.

This will sound silly but I didn't even consider engineering until after I read The Menace from Earth by Heinlein. I thought engineering meant I wouldn't have a husband and family. I didn't even consider math until after I took this test. I ended up double majoring in Math and Computer Science.

This was in the early days before Comp Sci was gendered. 30% of my Comp Sci class was female. Compare that to my daughter's experience. Her Comp Sci classes were about 15% female until she took a Human Factors class which was 50% female. Sometime in the 1980s women enrolling in Comp Sci dramatically declined.
Why not "if they have the skills then it seems logical that they should get the job"? There are gender-neutral ways of using English, and I think we should try to use them.
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Pretty sure it does do this.
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Last time I went through a FAANG tier loop nobody that interviewed me had even looked at my résumé. And when I’ve been on the other side of the table I rarely gave them a glance either. Although I will say I’ve never once had a bad interview or work experience with a U of Waterloo graduate. They’re doing something wildly right up there.

I’m not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing. In any event it’s clear to me that the sole purpose of a résumé is getting past the talent acquisition filter. Which is interesting since evidently they don’t read them either.
the fake experience is the reason, despite the buzzwords
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True, I can also see it expanding into non-tech. Like Excel, Salesforce, Google Analytics Experts... or Video Editing / Adobe Premiere experts..
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I agree; it is surprisingly good. And conceited...which is an acceptable tradeoff ;)
"Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team"

In the recruiters defense, the resume was that of a Unicorn that shits gold bricks. You'd probably not read about their intern experience and/or overlook crude jokes too if you found one of those in the forest.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkrauss/2021/09/26/what-s...
JSON feels like a terrible choice to me, especially on the latency aspect of things.
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No one in a civilised society should be threatened with harm and death. Anyone doing this is delusional in addition to breaking both law and codes of civility and community.

Wherever this is happening, in whatever form, it is a sign of sick minds and lack of restraint. Social media is enabling destructive discourse at no cost to the ignorant and disturbed perpetrators.
If you read the reddit post linked from twitter - that's their point https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this... - despite the resume being very very clearly bullshit (one of the bullet points is: gave herpes to 60% of the interns!), nobody cares if you have FANNG on it.
It certainly has a dark history. But it is not obvious that the advanced genomics of today has much in common with the eugenics of the 1930s. No sane or influential people are calling for compulsory sterilization programs.

Racism is a significant political force in the US and in many nations and racist are eager to use genetic arguments for their purposes. Generally, they're completely wrong and deluded but they make an effort. A friend I cut off a while back sent me a bizarre article claiming Jews exceed Christians in intelligence because Rabbis didn't have to be celibate.

If you want to convince someone that your studies have no problems, showing a lack of awareness of problem people aiming to use your results isn't a good start.
It is important to compare the 77% with the acceptation rate of white students that didn't lie. Each university accepts a tiny fraction of the applications, but each student usually apply to many of them, so the acceptation ratio is higher.
This is cheeky tinderisation from the job hunter playing against pervasive crowdsourcing from employers, but employers still have the upper hand and will double down as soon as they find the job hunter trick out. Good for a laugh, albeit pretty sad and again proving bs is the quickest path to an interview with professional, hard-wired bs spouters.
I would like to think that the obvious comic bits like the Rick Rolling and the vodka shots makes it clear not to take the rest seriously. However we live in a world where disclosing a security hole gets a threatened prosecution from the Governor of Missouri.

Was Sokal fraudulent in his publishing Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity?

I would prefer to live in Sokal's world than in Parson's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Then why do leftwingers generally insist with such intensity and aggression that different human populations have no psychological differences? To the point of attacking, ostracizing, and trying to ruin the life of anyone who even expresses uncertainty about this, or wonders about the question at all.
Did you actually read the Tweet with the CV? It was hilariously made up and bad, but just gamed the algorithms.
invidious has no restrictions

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A good book. Although this statement:

While writing it, I discovered that piano pedagogy had never been researched, documented, and analyzed properly

is totally wrong. There's a Piano Pedagogy group just in the Bay Area, and lots of books on it.

I was an Adult Beginner, which is sorta a Thing. My teacher had about 12 adult students, and we had separate recitals from the kids. The hidden reason for this is, you don't want to hear some 9-year-old kid who plays better than you ever will.

Almost all of the other adults had played as a child and given it up. Many teachers won't take adults like me because they have unrealistic ideas about how good they're going to be. The truth is, you are not going to be very good, and lots of people who are orders of magnitude better than you can't make any real money playing piano, because that level of skill is so common.

The interesting thing about how our brains work is: I could memorize effortlessly, but I couldn't sight read worth shit. There are other people who are the exact opposite.

Lastly, one thing they said really resonated with me:

The first thing that must be done is to eliminate the habits of stopping and backtracking (stuttering), at every mistake. The best time to develop the skill of not stopping at every mistake is when you begin your first piano lessons.

OMG, in the recitals there was one lady who just had to play every note correctly, no matter how many times she had to try. She stopped at every mistake and "corrected" it, until you wanted to scream at her.
Yes, that is better because it is more competitive and gives other ecommerce a better chance to grow.
Wait doesn’t wait on multiple objects. It just check the process table to see if any children have exited. If they haven’t it waits for a signal... any signal! It also sets a handler for sigchild. Unix in general can’t do the same for and arbitrary object because a) it requires that the waitable only signal a single thing, and b) there are only a small number of signals! So wait is a little special. Generally wait on multiple objects requires a general system to handle asynchronous ipc, which Unix doesn’t have (unlike say windows).

Also if you want to wait on multiple events, use a semaphore!
Yeah I can get plenty of spam too, for jobs I don’t want…
Maybe I’m old fashioned but keep html/css the heck of my music instruments please and thank you.
Still trying to figure out what to do myself.

It helps if you've played text adventures before.

Here are some things I've tried:

- LISTEN (kind of funny)

- TELL

- INVENTORY
Electron apps, like Capacitor app, are trusted content. This is a red herring.

However, both can have a bug that exposes XSS and give direct access to all the nice APIs both add.

For example, adding a SQLite plugin gives the attacker full access to all local db data for the app. Or node APIs vs FileSystem APIs.

The solution to have have two threads and let the dev specify their own API to communicate.

Electron had bad solutions for a while but it’s gotten better these days and might offer some ideas

I’m a fan of your work improving the stalled Apache product and moving it forward as Capacitor. I use it! v2 though, as I haven’t upgraded to v3. Maybe I’ll try that this weekend.
Yea, I was expecting to compare it to the actual resume where the only thing was different was the use of buzz words. But, at this point, we don't know if the person has 0 software experience and/or they went to school. The fake resume is hilarious, but the headline is just sensational.
This feels off.

Farming today is a seven day, every day work week. There is no day off with livestock, no matter what century, and what season. If the sun sets, or the weather is bad outside, there are plenty of work to be done indoors.

I would presume it was even harder without all the automation and technology in the Middle Ages. Maybe they did not labour for the employer all the time, but all the 'free time' was spent labouring for sustenance, and other life's maintenance.

If I recall correctly, the 8 hour day, 40 hour week, and five day work-week are all 19th century trends.
This is just encouraging resumes to contain the words "Instagram" and "Microsoft" even if you didn't work there-- and there's plenty of valid use cases for that (ex: Microsoft Word in a skills section wouldn't be completely out there for any office worker, including SWEs). I've found when my resume is optimized for ATS software rather than human readers it absolutely performs better (eg: getting a verbal offer).
Indeed the intent, though not expressed in the Objective-C declaration through the type system, is that the format string is a string literal.

However the intent of the Swift call described in the article is indeed that of a string literal with 2 data "parameters".

So is the correct use of NSLog in this case is this:

NSLog("%@", "Failed to get modification date at URL: \(url) - \(error)")

This should really be the behavior of NSLog in Swift, that it expands not to the variadic

NSLog(format-string-parameter, objc-object-parameters..)

but to

NSLog(@"%@", string-parameter)
More canonical
I suspect they also did not give 60% of the interns herpes.
Precisely.

Didn't the US finish up in Afghanistan and Iraq ? Why don't we go back ?
I know about 40 retired people who watch CNN religiously. It's always on in their house.

They are uniformly obsessed with the pandemic. Frightened. Paranoid.
Well, being a mathematician, and having written important texts on numerical analysis, numerical programming was probably foremost in Hamming's mind. Interestingly, he doesn't accuse C of the same issues. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. I just remembered the quote, and thought I'd share it. Hamming was a pretty awesome dude, so I reference him from time to time.
You can usually tell an article is garbage when it starts to make generalizations about "Leftwingers".
I came across this shortly before beginning my degree in music and it completely changed how I approached learning new pieces. When I tried to explain the technique to another pianist, they were confused as to what was 'new' about it. I guess they never had a teacher say "play it over and over until you can play it without mistakes".

Now, my wife is completing her education degree and I see a lot of this approach being implemented in K-12: identify and focus on weaknesses; use your strengths to enhance your weakness; spend time on the big problems; balancing holistic approaches with concise methods, etc. All seem obvious and yet I didn't have a single teacher in music or otherwise suggest any of them to me.
I put a velociraptor in my first PC build back in 2009. I thought the small form factor mounted on a 3.5" heat sink was really neat.
It’s a funny IP address meant to hopefully make you think Google is cool now.
to be clear my observation that stooping will have results beneficial to the stooper does not on my part serve as a recommendation to stoop.
To be fair if you put on a resume that you worked on VoldemortDB at LinkedIn I wouldn't bat an eye. I've seen way crazier internal tool names.
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I read that that's one of the reasons sites started making you fill out their online form, in addition to uploading your resume. I've also heard of students using that method when they have a teacher who is a stickler about wordcount for assignments, and they are maybe 1-2 sentences short of the cutoff.
> Then why do leftwingers generally insist with such intensity and aggression that different human populations have no psychological differences?

In my life as a center-lefty who frequently associates with people much further to the left, I’ve never encountered any who insist this.

Leftists tend to be very skeptical of unsupported claims that particular outcome differences are due to such differences, especially when there is evidence of systematic inequality in treatment.
If recruiters aren't getting value from resumes, than they should stop asking for them. Its kind of a dick move to ask the other party to do work if the recruiter has no intention of reading it.
> But it is not obvious that the advanced genomics of today has much in common with the eugenics of the 1930s.

Eugenics is one of the most popular reasons to get an abortion. Fetuses that test positive for Downs and other genetically screenable disabilities are highly likely to be terminated[1]. If that’s not eugenics what is?

[1] https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pd.29...
It's far better than panic.

If you have to exit a plane in a emergency, grab your bags and leave like normal, or panic and start screaming we are all going to die and start shoving.

Of course everyone who reads about it responded exactly right in their heads.
They didn't confirm or deny that on Reddit.
If you're a newspaper baron running propaganda pieces hyping the CIA's moral righteousness in executing the leaders of yet another elected democracy, you're not exactly going to have doubts about their ability to kill you and everyone you love to the sound of media trumpets.

The more concentrated media is, the fewer families TPTB need to threaten with violence for not keeping the newspapers on message. It's really very convenient.
Did you read the CV? It takes... a minute. And the next step was an appointment for a chat. That is bad.
If you are focusing on government production, then how would you measure that? Well, one thing I can think of is BEA gross output by industry tables. It only goes back to 1997

https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=150&step=2&isur...

But in 1997, government output (both state and local) as a share of GDP was was 12.8%, and in 2019 (skipping the covid stuff) it was 12.4%. A decline of 0.4% -- it doesn't seem really relevant as an explanatory variable, does it?

Or are you measuring government production in some other way?
Drat! This particular site isn't much use to me at the scale the hay is being sold at far exceeds my needs, but if anyone is interested in a similar concept, but on a much smaller scale (personal gardening), it might also be worth checking out getchipdrop.com

The idea is that once a tree is cut down and turned into woodchips, it costs the tree company chunk of money to dispose of the woodchips. Chip Drop lets the requestor (you) get woodchips (and maybe tree stumps) at no cost. The trade off is that the tree cutter gets to dump a load of woodchips off for someone else to worry about at a much, much lower price; I think they still pay some sort of fee to keep the website running, but it's supposed to be drastically reduced in price compared to the normal fees they pay.

The primary issue as a requestor is that, you CANNOT specify when or how many woodchips/stumps you're going to be getting. You might come home from work and find your driveway blocked by a gigantic mound of woodchips. There's also sometimes trash mixed in with the bunch.

But, if you've got a solid gardening community in your area, some active neighbors, or a very large gardening plot to work with, it might be worth to take a look at.
Liability is a concept. If the vaccines cause you harm, then the vaccine company is liable.

And as with all concepts, yes - they are defined by laws and statues so that society can function and the rules of the game can be determined. Vaccine companies changed their rules so they don't play the liability game like everyone else. Maybe fast food restaurants shouldn't be liable when they poison people too?
Such an experiment is quite useful to add to one's CV.
That’s fascinating to think about. I’m now picturing a future when we’re on the brink of resurrection technology, and VC firms invest and trade warehouses full of billion dollar cryopreserved brainwallets.
> The lives of the peasants were not great. They were mal-nourished and lived at the whims of their lords.

Replace "peasants" with "working class" and "lords" with "employers and landlords" and you could apply the exact same statement to 38 million people in the US alone[0].

- [0]: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america
Not really

They are trying to compete, and have different levers to pull with varying success. When the performance per clock or per watt levers don't work well enough, then they increase the power, and the end result is heat and inefficiency.

On the flip side, integrated solutions add another lever... writing hardware that does exactly what your software needs to improve the user experience.

AMD, ARM, and even Intel have some cool, efficient solutions, but not across their whole portfolio of products, and not at the higher ends of performance. But they are always competing, incrementing and working to get closer to that ideal.

Apple was able to focus on their exact market segment and get there rapidly.