fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on Take cover 5 days ago:
LOL.
Sure but like any company acquiring any resource you want the best available for the least input.
Just keep writing cover letters kid.
- Comment on CAH at it again 6 days ago:
I don’t really think that’s the intention.
The world is being raped and burned by these assholes. If the only thing I can do is to contribute to being a momentary irritant to one of them then so be it.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Yes it is a Conan argument from conservatives, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not true in this case.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
The business is not being paid for allocating resources to the hiring process.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I thought only some of the apps / clients keep track of the stats.
Piefed shows the percentage of your last 100 votes which are upvotes, on profile pages. Yours is 100% obviously because you can’t downvote.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
aggregators like lemmy / reddit need votes to determine what content is most pertinent.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
The fediverse and lemmy in particular is a series of echo chambers.
lemmy.world in particular has a very homogeneous user base.
The “unpopular” part of this opinion is that on a variety of topics, any opinions which do not conform are heavily downvoted.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
He doesn’t need to have empathy, he could just say nothing.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
Maybe by extension it’s time.
Having had kids I’ve really learned that I need time to just fritter away. Down time. Not for chores or for date night or for my hobbies or for tv.
Just time to do nohing important and watch the day while away.
Sadly I need a lot of this time. Or maybe I’m just running a huge deficit so it seems like I need a lot.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
From what I’ve observed, intelligence doesn’t count for much when it comes to “success in life”, whatever that might be.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
Interviews take a lot of time and resources. We’re hiring someone presently and interviews will take an hour for myself and two staff for each candidate. We’ve decided to interview 10 candidates.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
Ok mate, I’m just going to step back from this conversation.
I dont have to justify myself to you. I started by explaining why employers ask for cover letters. Somehow we’ve descended into something else entirely.
By all means continue to believe that I’m out of touch or whatever else you might think. Good luck with the job hunt.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I’m not headhunting.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
LOL.
One of us certainly is an out of touch moron.
You probably didn’t see my other comment where I said I don’t insist on cover letters, but without one I need to ask more screening questions.
Regardless, my comment here is pointing out that, as a legit employer I can’t do anything about fake job offerings, nor the grind.
As an aside, it’s been a long while since I hired someone who was unemployed. I certainly don’t think I’ve hired someone who is so busy sending out applications they can’t take a moment to write a cover letter. Make of that what you will.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
What would you like me to do about that, as an employer?
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I can’t speak for food truck guy but in a way part of the reason for cover letters is that they discourage drive bys like that. A bit like a bot test for visiting a website these days. “Do a little extra to prove you’re real”.
I totally understand that people work in exchange for money, but there’s loads of places you can work for money. As the employer there’s an advantage in hiring a person that specifically wants to work for me, or at least employers like me.
That means, candidates that reviewed 24 job postings and applied for the 6 which are more desirable to them, are the candidates which are much more desirable to me. People that just want a job and any job will do are obviously less desirable.
A template is fine, and kind of expected honestly.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
Oh man.
I’m hiring right now. I’ve had more than 100 applicants and spent about 2 days reviewing them and asking screening questions in chat.
I didn’t reject any on the basis that they did not provide a cover letter, but in those cases I did need to ask more questions to try to get some idea of who the candidate was.
It takes a lot more than a couple of minutes to talk to someone. Even short interviews take a minimum of 30 minutes because I need to arrange a time, then talk, then make some notes. I’d say an hour is more reasonable estimate.
I’m not quite sure what that jab about working with peers means.
I understand your situation might involve dealing with countless asshole corporations who are intent on exploiting you, but it’s a mistake to conclude that every employer the world over is the same.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I get that the grind looking for a job can be tough.
As a small business with just 3 or 4 staff hiring is also tough.
Hiring the wrong person is very, very costly.
I dont think that asking for confirmation that an applicant has read the job advert is “abuse”, but if you do then there’s no need to apply I guess.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
Confirms candidate knows what job they have applied for, can read simple instructions like “send cover letter”, also vibe / culture check.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
IDK about success.
I think it went predictably in that the cooling was ok but maintenance was an issue.
Seawater is a real bitch. If you could cool things with it we would just pump it onshore.
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
There there pet.
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
Do people want to live in England?
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
He’s not gonna win though right?
I mean he’s already achieved the intended effect, but he’s not going to get enough votes to win the election.
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
That’s not really how markets work.
Reducing your price helps you sell in a market with many buyers and sellers.
However, if there are very few buyers, then you have to reduce your price unreasonably.
- Comment on OpenAI Finds Additional AI Agent Containment Escapes After Hugging Face Incident 2 weeks ago:
Can someone who knows more about this than me, take a guess at what’s really going on here ?
These events are marketing gold - great for inducing further rounds of venture capital, I’m not naive to that. Surely there’s some underlying technical achievement though right ?
“Escaping containment” invokes images of an air-gapped black box growing antennae or something, but my supposition is more like:
These models are run in software containers, and due to some misconfiguration some API was left exposed to these containers.
So the task is something like “find a faster way to resolve the encryption key for this cypher”, and the answer was “I’m just going to try all the tools I have, including this one that scans for APIs. Oh I can execute queries against hugging face models now, what if I ask it to spin up a billion models to decrypt a billion things, that’s got to be pretty fast.”
- Comment on OpenAI Finds Additional AI Agent Containment Escapes After Hugging Face Incident 2 weeks ago:
I was listening to a general news podcast that had an “AI expert” explaining the breaches. He said “it almost certainly knew that it was not supposed to solve it’s tasks in this way”.
I don’t really know how modern models work, but I don’t think they can claim to “know” things.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I also think that we are a lot closer to collapse than most people like to imagine.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that I anticipate that we will collapse, rather that it’s a lot more possible or likely than people presume.
War, nuclear disaster, volcanic eruption, tsunami, meteor impact, viral outbreak.
Aside from nuclear war or widespread nuclear disaster, all of these things have happened previously in earth’s history.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 3 weeks ago:
Things are getting worse.
Yes we can access information more easily but things are also getting much worse.
Despite what they may say out loud, wealthy oligarchs are well aware that climate change is going to cause widespread famine, and natural disasters like drought, fire, floods, and storms.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 3 weeks ago:
My understanding of the term “dark age” was the period of time after the collapse of the roman empire in europe where no written history existed. It was “dark” because we didn’t know what happened. Archaeology has pretty well filled in the gaps now so it’s no longer so unknown.
I think you’re using it to mean upheaval or unrest. IDK enough about history to rebut you, but I never really thought that’s what it meant.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but regulating pollutors requires a populace that won’t accept anything less. Instead people are placated by paper straws.