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MajorHavoc

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  • What reason do I express for changing jobs during my interview?

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  • Agreed. And either way, they remember me fondly later when they're ready for their next job switch...

  • What reason do I express for changing jobs during my interview?

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  • As a hiring manager, I hear "my position is a one year contract" fairly regularly. It tells me a couple things:

      1. This person is talent I wouldn't have access to if not for the expiring contract.
      1. There's a solid chance that the current employer gets off their ass and makes a permanent offer when they realize I've made an offer.

    Honestly, neither is a negative, to me.

    • Regarding 1, I do like when I get a shot at talent that wouldn't normally be on the market. I have a track record of successfully recruiting and retaining those folks.
    • Regarding 2, Knowing there's a chance their current employer will counter-offer is pretty normal for the talent I hire. I already account for that when making my job offers.

    So overall, as others have said, I would just tell the truth about this. Everyone has a right to look out for their job security.

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  • "and then we'll put oil and all kinds of weird stuff in all of the food, so then we can charge extra for anything that's just made with... Like...actual food. It'll be super profitable, guys."

    This really might be the worst timeline.

  • Just weeks later, Ubisoft walks back some disappointing Assassin's Creed Shadows news: it will be fully Steam Deck Verified "despite the fact the team thought it would not be the case"

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  • Holy title gore, Batman.

    But anyway, hooray.

    "We have some exciting news to share: our talented developers gave Steam Deck players the option to play Assassin’s Creed Shadows at launch; despite initially announcing we wouldn’t be able to support until later,"

    Edit: We just wanted to deny that we're not not going to do the thing at said we wouldn't not be able to do.

  • Virgin fights ruling that could stop it getting back into trains

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  • Whatever is happening, it's usually a safe bet the common person is better off when 'Virgin' doesn't get their way. Virgin has not established a reputation for being an ally to the common person.

    I miss when we acknowledged that matters, instead of just throwing up our hands and saying "corporation are going to be evil".

  • Organisational Theory Thesis Survey

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  • Neat. I don't use Google products voluntarily, but good luck!

  • Unofficial parental control apps put children’s safety and privacy at risk

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  • Particulary relevant bit that made the rest of the topic more accessible, to me:

    The researchers noted that a backlash against apps being marketed to catch cheating spouses, for example, has seen developers switch to marketing apps as parental control tools instead.

    Ms Eva-Maria Maier, first author of the study from St. Pölten UAS, said: “The key issue with the extensive functionality of these unofficial apps is consent. If a parent has an open, transparent relationship with their child, they shouldn’t need to hide them on their child’s phone or have access to so much private information.

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  • In my experience

    That's great, and that's why it's an option.

    But research consistently shows that everyone is different and has different learning needs.

    More ways to learn means more people succeed in learning.

    Now your specific question is still quite interesting, with emphasis added to default:

    Why it is not the default option for universities?

    I think online is rapidly becoming the default for anything that can be learned online, for anyone who can learn online.

    But I'm thankful that we have both community colleges and universities for things that cannot be effectively taught online and for people who needs more modes of learning.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • Yeah. Every farmer I've met was also a solid mechanic.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • That's pretty plausible. Inexperienced engineer plus overheating...good chance that adds up to a malware infection.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • Yeah. Hiring inexperienced children into government isn't fraud, by itself. But I bet it makes fraud way easier.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can "wrangle data" and say "yes" ?

    There's two issues going on:

    1. Elmo's sociopathic approach to laying people off is public knowledge, and top experts have the luxury of not even applying for his jobs.
    2. Elmo's ability to judge engineering talent has likely been wildly exaggerated thanks to how he has successfully bought organizations full of talented people, in the past.

  • What is a specific fear you have?

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  • Im not sure what is going to happen when I have kids

    For me, it went like this:

    • I'm afraid I'll drop or hurt this tiny helpless child.
    • But this tiny helpless child can't even go drink milk by itself.
    • I guess I can only make things better helping it get milk. I'll just be really careful.
    • That wasn't so bad. I guess I can do this.

    Then repeat in stages every 15 minutes or so as it needs diapers, or cuddles to warm up, or cleaned, or milk again, or diapers again.

    Until eventually I'm confidently picking it up in a moment of complete terror so that it won't run out into traffic.

  • Which Sisko are you today?

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  • My little brother wants to answer questions ama

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  • I think this is the best answer we've had yet to the dinosaur question.

    And that's a big deal, because we ask everyone their favorite dinosaur.

  • What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good?

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  • (that Blade Runner largely omitted).

    I know we're dunking on a beloved classic, but it would be fair to state this even more harshly.

    I felt like there's really barely even a scrap of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in BladeRunner.

    I think BladeRunner is cool, and I'm thankful BladeRunner 2049 actually at least has some ideas from the book.

    But I can't help but regret that BladeRunner has kept us from ever getting a proper Electric Sheep movie.

    Honestly, I really just want more people to get all the amazing Turtle-on-its-back jokes done with Bender in Futurama.

    Edit: And how does a movie skip over the

    The electric spider?!

    That would have made a fantastic movie ending to roll credits on.

  • What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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  • The Planet of the Apes musical.

    This one threw my head for a spin. Had to take a deep dive to disentangle what was original and what the Simpsons added.

    And frankly, some of the Simpsons musical numbers would have done the original films credit.

  • What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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  • You'll laugh!.You'll cry! You'll kiss three bucks goodbye!

  • What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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  • ...Maybe I'm the plucky comic relief...