bluGill

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The labor market isn't going to decline that much in our lifetime.

  I'm reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can't get anything else done. My job isn't to hire people it is get engineering work done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is they are looking for different information and putting that information into the parts humans will read makes the humans more likely to reject you.

  Sometimes humans and the machine care about the same thing, but when there is a difference you don't want the humans to reject you for having information the machine needs.

  Last time we were hiring my boss gave me 50 resumes to read and half an hour to get the job done. Not only is that less than a minute each, but the ones I forwarded on got 3-5 minutes (as did 1-2 rejects), if you want to be hired you need to capture my attention in a few seconds - anything that won't capture my attention needs to not be on the resume even if the machine needs it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn't redundant.

  You want your resume for humans to read, which means your respect their time (remember they have the power and you as unemployed have time) so they don't throw you into the trash. That means you ensure that the things in your background that make you look good to them are easy to find.

  You want the forms to be things that the machine is looking for, even if they are not interesting. The machine might verify so don't lie, but a lot of things the machine is looking for are boring things that the box needs to be checked - since they are boring you don't want them on a resume - but not having them someplace means the machine rejects you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There shouldn't be the same data except for intentional or trivial duplication. Your resume is for humans to read. The form is for machines to verify you can do the job and that you really have experience for the job level. These are different purposes and need to be treated differently.

  Write your resume for humans to read, so figure out what they are looking for and give them that. sometimes 5 years in a job is just one line "I wasn't letting my experience rot but otherwise you don't care so I won't waste you time", while a single year of interesting to them work can be 15 lines.

  Write the machine forms to be honest - they might check that you really worked those dates and had the job title so don't lie. They will flag a gap in dates but the 2 years fast food is just as good as anything else. They know what java is so if that is a checkbox item you better have it, but they don't know the difference between 10 years extensive experience and I saw java for 15 minutes every year for the last 10. (don't lie about your abilities, but if you know the job won't be writing java you just need to convince the machine you have enough java to check the box and move onto the humans who make decisions).

  Note that I assume above you have done some research. You can't always figure out if a job that wants 10 years java really is writing java, or if java is a buzzword - but often you can. Don't submit any resume until you have 15 minutes research into the job/company, but time limit your research to no more than a couple hours (set a timer at 1 hour and decide if either the research is interesting anyway; or you know you have a good chance and are learning things that give you a better chance).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good leadership is dearly needed in the world and so we pay for even the hope that someone might be. Technical skills are important, but not as important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So why am I bald. Worse, I'm the whitest person in whatever city I'm in (when I was in Stockholm it was a tie), and as such burn easially if the sun hits my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Focus your spamming on jobs that you have a reasonable shot of getting should they read the resume. Even 10 minutes of research on a company can often figure out something you can put on a resume and cover letter that would greatly help your chances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨: Do people who were blind from birth see anything in their dreams, or is it just audio and textures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of blind people can see the sun. Blind really means that their vision is so bad that we cannot correct it to anything close to normal and not that they see anything at all. Each experience is different, but likely they can see enough that for purposes of your question they are not blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For most people the short answer is, mains power is so reliable that it's not worth your bother to worry about the emergency situations. As long as things work, even a significant amount of inefficiency doesn't add up. So stop worrying, just get things working.

  If, on the off chance, you actually are using emergency power a lot, for whatever reason, then yes, this is a worrying about. In that case, you no longer want a short answer. You need a long, complex answer that covers all the different possibilities. So you need to start studying. Be prepared to spend months working at all the details for your specific situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Songs are often mastered differently for different media. Streaming services often do this automatically. Mastering is why vinyl often sounds better than CD even though CD should be better, CDs enabled the loudness wars which vinyl couldn't handle so vinyl got a more musical content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn't the most sanitary so it isn't common anymore.

  For anyone doing work that doesn't depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn't make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team's work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ar15, but they are the same other than details

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While many hunters own an M16, they're not a popular hunting round. The typical M16 doesn't have enough power to take down the deer. You own M16 because it's fun to fire once in a while. You want a more powerful rifle or often shotgun depending on where you are because that's what puts foods on the table. If you want to challenge, you will get a bow and arrow or a muzzle loader. They're lots of fun. However, they take a lot more practice.

  There is no one best hunting gun. That is why hunters will tend to own at least four or five guns. You want a 20-gauge shotgun for small birds. You want a 12-gauge for larger birds. You need a small rifle, say a .22 or something in that range for your squirrels and rabbits. And then you need a bigger gun, like a .30-06 common for your deer. Since guns do break once in a while, you will try and have a couple spares. Usually you're hunting with a buddy and if a buddy has a spare that would be good enough that you can borrow it if you need it. But for one of your hunting trips, you will be that buddy that the other person borrows from. Often when you're young you will buy a cheap gun that works but it's not very good and so you'll keep that while you buy a more expensive one which again adds to your collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I retire I can I get a decent home for about 200k in canada with about an acre to live on that is out in the boondocks, and grow some weed and vegetables? Other questions inside.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, but access to medical care will be hard and that is important to retired people in a way younger don't understand. Access means you want a good hospital with doctors on staff who know how to treat you. There are stroke procedures only a few hospitals know how to do that are much better than typical treatment elsewhere as on example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually but I've seen exceptions. Modern low flush toilets beat the legal and thus common regular flush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That should be part of your plans. Which neighbors are you helping. Who knows about your stash in case you die in the disaster - hopefully they survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my code is ai generated - but I have to carefully review everything because it ofte makes poor decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I actually find a job that isn't retail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Retail will take anyone and train them which is why it is so easy.

  Every other job needs someone with special skills and so they are selective and hard to get in. Even though most people don't work retails, there is much more competition for these jobs, and a lot less job in any given specialty. The better the job the less competition there is - but there still is plenty of competition.

  Which means you need to not ask for "a job", but select the specific job and then set yourself up to be good at that on your own time. The more specialized you get, the better a chance you have a job in that specialty - but the worse chance you get at any other job! Which means choosing the right specialty is critically important. Good luck (usually it too bad though as most things have enough demand).

  The worst part: once you get a job they start teaching you the skill for that. It is really hard to change latter because you go from an expert to beginner.

  Remember what others have said though: who you know is more important that what you know! So figure out who you know! Figure out what they can maybe get you into, and apply the above in consideration of that. Sometimes people will tell you what they can help you with, sometimes they won't know but you can guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fad. Someone started doing it, and it caught on so no everyone does. The iPod started the iEverything phase. A local car dealer near me uses NameTube.com because they decided they needed a website about the time youtube got a lot press. There are many more things over the years that became a fad for a while, and there will be more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There would be so much other news that this slow-new-day story wouldn't be covered by anyway. Assuming it even moves - the idea that at 0 it is too late and so it can't reach zero because nobody is left to move it is reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to reverse pit a copcar before they pit you? Like if you know a cop is going to pit you on their right side, can you use your left back end to hit them first?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common tactic these days is raeio ahead and some other cop throws a tire puncture device in front of your car. You won't go fast with flat tires. They have to be careful not to get other cars but otherwise that is safest for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is stupid to die with money in the bank. You don't know enough to plan this out exactly though, so the real goal is minimize the money left, but don't run out before you die.

  The first question is what is your situation like.

  How is your retirement savings plans? 6 figures at 25 is a very good amount of savings, 6 figures at 60 is a terrible retirement account.

  What is your education like - this will buy a good college degree, which tends to pay off very well in the long run for young people. (but only if you pick a good degree and study)

  Make sure you have a good amount of emergency savings. 6 months living expenses is the general rule of thumb. You never know when something bad will happen in life - but bad things happen to everyone and savings it a useful way to ride it out.

  Once the above is done:

  Will a better living situation improve your life more than something else? You could go on a cruise every year with that money instead (I picked something wasteful that some people like, others hate). You could buy a really nice piano with that money. You could do lots of other things. Buying a better flat is one good option, but it isn't right for everyone. There is no universal right answer here, only right for you, so you have to decide (and understand sometimes you will be wrong)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  depends on your applications. Some are fine on 1gb. Some run short on 8gb. I'm under NDA so I can't say more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  infotainment is effectively a pc. How much ram would you expect in a pc running all that? Everything else probably isn't much, but that system will have a lot. Often the backseat has sysems which need more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to inflation. If a price isn't going up regularly someone is getting ripped off.

  When my boss gives me a raise I always compare that to the yearly inflation rate - it has more than once turned what looks good into a loss for me. (I might accept it once in a while, but I'm looking for new jobs soon if they don't fix)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think it is just one song? In the 1980s it was a mix tape that took the good tracks from several albums. With computers it is a playlist. Or more often it is a play random tracks from my large collection until I hit stop.

  I do listen to just one song once in a while when that is all I have time for, or when some song comes to mind that I want to hear. However mostly it is a playlist that I created.

  There are a few albums that are related collection and work best listened together, but most are just a bunch of songs and you can listen in any order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to the political party of your choice's monthly meeting. Each party/state has slightly differen't rules, but the major parties have a local chapter in every state. Speak up when the chance is offered / on topic (it won't be everytime). This is where you learn who is planning on running before they announce - in enough detail to have an informed opinion on if they are good. that is where you go to find out how to help those who are running win.

  everything else is noise that won't change much. Get good people elected. Knocking on every door will turn out enough votes toechange election results in your area.

  don't fall for one party good. all are badin different ways. Find one that mostly you can support and reform it. Small issue voteres who get involved change how the party acts (in part by ensuring people who agree are on the ballot, in part because those who do the work get long conversations with the people they support - thus changing how congress thinks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ice heavier than water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pound is the same for both. The oz measure is what was different. Thus an oz of metal is heavier than an oz of feathres. However a pound of both weights the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i assume you mean as in your increased earnings will no longer pay the expense. The never too late crowd is thinking of school as a pure 'fun' activity which is a valid way to look at things but if you don't like school isn't for you and that is how I'm choosing to interprut your question.

  the question is never answerable unil after the fact: I can calculate after you are dead. However I went to school with someone who went right to college, a mistake because he died in an accident at 21. Other people get mental decline in older years and so it is too late when they are no longer able to learn.

  you can retire at any age when you have enough savings, but some people find it boring and will continue to work anyway - if this is you it can be worth it even if ecconomics don't work out if you get a job you like (or perhaps one that by not wearing on the body you can do longer)

  many jobs pay for your schooling. if this applies the only quesntion is will you have to remain at the job longer than you want to afterwards.

  if paying for your own schooling you can calculate the expected earnings after and compare to the cost to make a decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I do - but there are a number of reasons it isn't a good answer. Electric is a lot cheaper, and much better for the environment (My city is powered 100% via wind). However if I have to sit around waiting for my car to charge so I can move it on demand instead of doing those things I'm there to do the whole isn't acceptable.