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  • Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company

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  • I think you and OP are viewing the problem differently.

    I think you're saying "Don't worry about it when they ghost you", which is fine. I agree with that sentiment. I don't worry about it when companies ghost me.

    OP, however, is saying a company's tendency to ghost applicants can be wielded against them to discourage the practice. By crowdsourcing information about which companies put in the minimal effort to send out a simple rejection message, some pressure may be exerted on companies that fail to do so. Looking bad on Glassdoor/Yelp/whatever can lead to some companies deciding to change their practices. Not because the company suddenly wants to do the right thing, but because they are now being publicly shamed for their bad behavior. And that could affect their bottom line

  • Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company

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  • One of our candidates turned out to be a nice guy but extremely lazy and entitled

    Not only do you have to do the hard work that 20 people used to do before the pandemic lay offs

    Is the guy properly lazy, or is he just not willing to handle the workload of 20 people? I'm a hard worker, but only up to a certain point. If I joined a small team that had one employee trying to handle the work that used to be split between 20 employees, I wouldn't exactly be inspired to go above and beyond my post/pay grade; I'd be concerned that no amount of extra effort I put in would ultimately matter because the team is fundamentally understaffed.

  • Reddit just started requiring logins to use old.reddit, the first step in it's eventual shutdown. Is lemmy ready for new users?

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  • I imagine the contingent of reddit users who are still browsing exclusively via Old Reddit is pretty small. And the subset of that group who feels strongly enough to abandon reddit altogether for the Fediverse is even smaller. If there's any influx of new Lemmy users from this change, I think it will be hardly noticeable. Most users will just start finally browsing using the regular site.

  • Reverse Puzzle: What must have been the last move for each player for this position to be reached legally

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  • Since the black king (e1) is in check by the white bishop (h4), I think the previous moves could have been:

    1. ... Rg5+ (Rook attacks king on g3)
    2. Kf3+ (King moves to f3, escaping check and opening up a discovered attack on the black King via the h4 bishop)

    Though that series of moves seems silly, given it's a blunder for black to needlessly sacrifice their rook, and for white to not immediately just take the rook instead of moving the king out of danger (planning to take the rook on the next turn).

    Does a reverse puzzle like this actually have an objective solution? Seems like there could be many possible moves that lead to this position

  • me_irl

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  • I wouldn't consider that worse. At least if they post on twitter I can get an RSS feed via xcancel or other alternative frontends. So far I haven't found a good/consistent workaround for artists who exclusively post on Instagram or Tiktok.

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  • "I like to close the bathroom door when I'm taking a shower. Doesn't mean I'm doing anything immoral in there. I'm just entitled to privacy."

    They can extrapolate from there if they've got two brain cells to rub together.

  • Microslop official documentation on how to ground an AI

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  • Yeah, never seen poor grammar or spelling in content written by Americans before 🙄

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    While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.

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  • The way I recall it being taught was that "elastic deformation" was deformation that didn't compromise the integrity of the original shape of the object (typically a rigid body in most of my textbook's examples, which could be where our understandings are deviating).

    One example my professor used to illustrate the concept in-person was with a paper clip. Bending one end the paper clip ever so slightly (such that it springs back into its original shape when you let go) was "elastic deformation" of the material. Bending the end of the paper clip enough such that it can't return to its original shape afterward was "plastic deformation".

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    While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.

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  • It's been a long time since I took material science, but if memory serves, the terms "plastic deformation" and "elastic deformation" are applicable to any number of materials. Metal alloys have a range of "elastic deformation" as well as "plastic deformation". Plastics and elastics also have those ranges. It's unintuitive in everyday parlance, but it wouldn't be inaccurate in the mechanical sense to say "this plastic is elastic" because plastics do have ranges where their deformations are defined as elastic.

  • Working on my politics-free lemmy experience, what words should I add next?

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  • Curating one's feeds does not inherently lead to ignorance.

    I've been aggressively filtering my newsfeed for years now and I didn't suddenly forget about all the corruption and injustice. I just have no need for those headlines to overwhelmingly dominate my day-to-day ingestion of news. "Corrupt Oligarch Continues Campaign Against Human Rights" isn't news to me; it's the status quo. I don't need a dozen headlines to remind me the sky is blue every day.

  • Working on getting back

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  • homework was a chain around our necks with unspeakable consequences had it remained incomplete

    I had the opposite experience. I worked hard to always finish my homework, but many of my classmates completely blew off both homework and classwork and still "passed". I knew kids who had all F's but would get their grades suddenly changed at the last minute to a C- because if the school failed too many kids they would lose federal funding.

    Felt like the value of my high school diploma plummeted considerably when I realized just how many of my graduating class were completely checked out for the entire curriculum. I dunno how different it is now; I graduated nearly two decades ago.

  • GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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  • Gimp is really just a rare/archaic ableist slur anyway - like to refer to someone with a limp or otherwise a leg/lack of a leg that impedes their gait. I’ve never heard it used in my life.

    I've only heard it used that way once in my life. When I was in high school (about 20 years ago), I hurt my leg while playing basketball and was on crutches for a few weeks. This one kid in one of my classes constantly referred to me as "gimp" throughout my recovery.

  • Looking at Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed - do we have any idea how many active users there are in aggregate?

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  • Steam Controller early review leak claims $99 launch price

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  • Looks like a custom WP theme called "vc9100" or "vc9100s" based on the CSS/JS modules being loaded

  • Help Me like Penny Arcade

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  • I can't agree with the description "PizzaCake for men". I read PizzaCake as well and the similarities to Penny Arcade are surface level at best. The comics about parenting are similar insofar as many comics about parenting are relaying an experience that many people can relate to, but outside of that, I would say Penny Arcade's comedic range is far broader than PizzaCake's. And I don't mean that as an insult to PizzaCake; PizzaCake just tends to focus primarily on parenting and politics while Penny Arcade covers a much wider berth of topics (in addition to just having many comics be glorified shitposts carried by erudite prose).

    Frankly, my biggest criticism of PizzaCake is that when they do choose to make political comics, they're typically really unfunny. They're just blunt statements about Republicans being stupid/evil/hypocrites/etc with no real setup or punchline. I enjoy bashing conservatives as much as the next guy, but I can't consider PizzaCake's political comics to be funny or insightful. They're mostly just variations on this:

  • Help Me like Penny Arcade

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  • I agree with the other comments here saying the comic just might not be your cup of tea, which is totally fine.

    But since you're asking for people to share their favorites, I'll share some of mine here. I think it's a fun comic, but they've also been making comics consistently since 1998 and they can't all be zingers. Most of my favorites tend to be on the absurd side, leaning on the characters' respective weird idiosyncrasies or their #relatable moments with getting older and having kids.

    I'll probably edit this comment to add more later cause I know I'm forgetting some bangers.

  • How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?

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  • There’s only 1 Caesar

    Not necessarily. I originally thought the phrase "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" from the Bible referred to Julius Caesar, but apparently it refers to Tiberius.

    Though in modern times "Caesar" almost ubiquitously is referencing Julius

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    Haunting Sculptures by Philip Jackson | Street Art Utopia

    streetartutopia.com /2026/04/22/haunting-sculptures-by-philip-henry-christopher-jackson/

  • Spring has sprung at Chez Moi

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  • Nice! We also have birds who choose our house as a nesting spot every year. We have 3 nests that barn swallows reclaim every Spring. They set up shop about two weeks ago so we'll probably see some baby birds popping up before too long.

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog - Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation [of Mythos Preview]

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  • Perhaps I misunderstood the author's intent. Though even if their position is that the red team and blue team will be on a more even playing field when both have access to AI tools, I'm not sure I can agree with that assessment. The asymmetrical nature of offense and defense isn't fundamentally changed by the advent of AI tools. While the current slate of AI tools may be uniquely more useful for finding and patching bugs, I can't imagine a future in which AI tools aren't also being tailored for exploiting and penetrating. The red team isn't just going to sit around and not adapt the available toolset to favor their use cases as well.

    Much like the arms race between anti-virus development and virus development, there will be defensive AI development and offensive AI development. Similar to what we've already seen with the arms race between LLMs and software that can detect if something was written by an LLM.

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog - Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation [of Mythos Preview]

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  • This fluff piece has quite the pie-in-the-sky attitude toward the blue-teaming applications of AI.

    Some commentators predict that future AI models will unearth entirely new forms of vulnerabilities that defy our current comprehension, but we don’t think so.

    How reassuring.

    The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all.

    Could've said the same thing when enterprise anti-malware came onto the scene decades ago, but the reality was it was just another vector for the arms race between the red team and the blue team. The author seems to put a lot of stock in the whole "the blue team has access to these AI tools that the red team doesn't currently have access to" argument, which kinda ignores the fact that that reality is simply not going to last.

    I could be wrong, but any article suggesting "zero-days are numbered" doesn't pass the smell test.

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    Metal Sign on Railroad Says "790Hz"

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    How's everyone's holiday preparation going?

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    Attempting to Lactoferment Peppers

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    Cleaned My Wallet Out Today

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    First Time Receiving SSTV

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    Replaced my 12-year-old beard trimmer