HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 16 hours ago:
HR reads the forms. The hiring manager reads the resume.
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- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
The value of experience is logarithmic. You’re going to learn far less in the tenth year of doing something than the first year. Since management usually doesn’t start at year one, they are still in the part of the curve that rises faster.
Also, a lot of the value in higher levels of experience is usually management adjacent, like knowing what order to perform different tasks on a project and identifying when there may be issues beforehand. Someone who remains an individual contributor isn’t going to be providing value for technical roles adjacent to management.
- Comment on Why are all of the Bananas and Oranges in FL from California? 2 days ago:
This video has a quick synopsis: youtu.be/NmhDcZHg7ik
I’m just surprised that you’re getting your bananas from Florida. Most bananas come from Central and South America.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Have you tried touching grass?
- Comment on Fox strikes $22bn deal for Roku to fuel streaming push 4 days ago:
Most major streamers tried to follow the Netflix model where they had enough for everyone in order to justify its subscription. It may be better if the major companies broke up their subscriptions so people can subscribe to far less content.
- Comment on What comes after postmodernism? 5 days ago:
Yeah. I feel that a lot of later 20th and early 21st century work has shifted from deconstructionism to some form of constructionism, attempting to build from culture rather than demolish it to its core items. I just don’t know what that will look like.
- Comment on Why do mosques feel so trippy? 6 days ago:
I love the second example. The Catholic Church needed so much money to build the place that it caused a religious schism.
- Comment on Why do mosques feel so trippy? 1 week ago:
A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques; I found the Blue Mosque in Istanbul to feel somewhat like a cathedral, but lighter and with patterns instead of iconography. The only mosque I’ve been in that felt off was the Hagia Sophia, and that is because it was converted from an Orthodox cathedral so it feels different.
I’ve also been to an Art Deco cathedral in Brussels that felt off too. It is the only Art Deco cathedral I’ve been to, which makes sense given what was generally built with Art Deco.
I think that, for you, maybe a lot of it is that you’re seeing some places of worship in a vastly different architectural style that you’re used to. The combination of grandeur and out of context architectural presentation makes the place feel alien.
- Comment on Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox, the Information reports 1 week ago:
I feel like the issue with doing it is that XBox development is subsidized by Windows gaming development. I don’t know how you cut what parts of development go into Windows and XBox.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 1 week ago:
You have a starting point to how you are exposed to music, defined by a lot of factors including language, location, and current tastes. You probably could go out of your comfort zone to find other music, but there are going to be various limitations both from your ability to reach music and the music’s ability to reach you.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve had people cold DM me on LinkedIn for an internship. For all of them, it was pretty useless since it was obvious that I had nothing to do with the department they wanted an internship in.
That said, if someone was interested in an internship in my department, I probably would have chatted with them and set up an interview.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If they come, it will be a trickle. There isn’t that much left for Reddit to do which would significantly harm the user base as a whole to force a migration. At best, one sub might get banned and come to Lemmy as a way to continue. Whether that community will be accepted by the current Lemmy federation is up in the air.
Regarding future growth, Lemmy isn’t ready for it. The moderation and admin tools need work if the platform were to 10x, let alone see greater growth. I expect if that growth were to happen, federation would fracture further. You would also see some Reddit items come here as a way to moderate like becoming more dependent on a karma score and requiring more for signing up.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Most appointments get handled with sick time or talking to the manager to see if they will let you adjust your schedule to accommodate your appointment.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
They are still a union protected job on construction sites and the docks in NYC.
- Comment on To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds? 1 week ago:
The quote comes from the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises, which would have been said during GWOT. The odds of death were lower during those wars/occupations than previous, but the odds were still higher than the civilian population.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
The Internet was a place.
Compared to now, you had to go somewhere physical to be on the Internet. That changed the relationship that people had with the Internet, you went there to do something rather than have it entertain you when bored. It also meant you weren’t always available to being messaged.
There were also a lot less videos online due to bandwidth. Animation was a far bigger deal since the bandwidth needed to show an animation was significantly less than the bandwidth needed to show even SD video.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 1 week ago:
Eh, I agree with nandert that an underground light metro would be more useful, in part because you can use it to extend transit north of Dodgers Stadium to create a better used system overall.
- Comment on Redditors discussing "Is the threat of inbreeding exaggerated?" is it true? 1 week ago:
If you have two siblings from a set of well mixed parents, the odds are likely lower because it is likely that only one parent had the gene at issue.
However, the taboo of marrying siblings and first cousins are usually cultural, which means the likelihood of both parents having the same gene which will cause a genetic issue. So, if you have a human population with a smaller overall gene pool and/or families where intermarriage within a family is high, the odds of genetic disease from familial interbreeding spikes.
- Comment on Redditors discussing "Is the threat of inbreeding exaggerated?" is it true? 1 week ago:
Not necessarily. If the problem is on a recessive gene or it isn’t a problem with only one out of two genes expressing the trait, the genetic disease won’t get bred out of the family.
- Comment on To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds? 1 week ago:
It is generally part of the job description. A soldier in a war has a high probability in dying. A soldier’s death is a typical cost to war. A politician, in contrast, doesn’t have death as a potential risk to their profession. If anything, the death of a politician is generally a sign of the state being actively harmed.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 1 week ago:
They gave up on the gondola?
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and they also seem believable as a rogue clandestine agency that the Federation is ok with having on “their side”.
Unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, the Federation has plausible deniability regarding the use of Section 31. Few powers seem to even know the agency exists.
And unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, Section 31 does a good job at being a clandestine agency. The Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar’s response to the Founders was to build a lot of ships to bomb a homeworld, something outside their expertise that gets them destroyed. Section 31, instead, genetically engineers a virus that attacks the Founders, a virus so effective that the cure is used as a bargaining chip in getting the Dominion to stop the war.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
That is an opinion.
- Comment on How come on The Price is Right you can't bid in change like 999.99 or for the jackoffs 1000.01? Or can you but has never been attempted? 2 weeks ago:
All bids have to be to the dollar, not cent.
- Comment on Are there any cities in the Phoenix area in Arizona that are a lot like Kentucky cities like Richmond or Versailles? 3 weeks ago:
You’re not going to find too many horse farms in the Phoenix area. Most animal based farms in the area are for cattle.
And as for a combination of rural and suburban, the divide is a lot firmer in Arizona since farmland tends to get developed in large chunks as suburban communities. The farms don’t have any relationship with the suburbs except as a place to drive through until the land gets developed.
And it is not going to be close to downtown Phoenix. Unlike Lexington, there was never a growth boundary chosen for the Phoenix area. Development has sprawled pretty far, only really limited by mountain parks and Indian reservations.
- Comment on How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world 3 weeks ago:
It is really hard for a government agency to switch from self performing to contracting and it requires a very different skill set in setting up contracts and regulations. Hell, it can be very difficult for government agencies to switch between different kinds of contracting.
And usually, it requires very intelligent people and it is hard to keep intelligent people in these roles on government pay.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
& t.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 weeks ago:
France is the only country I’ve been to in Europe that does a good job providing water.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 weeks ago:
It depends on the tourist place. Europe is very stingy with water, but other tourist parts of the world aren’t.