HamsterRage
@HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 23 hours ago:
I despise the idea of a hiring process that treats the applicant as a supplicant. As a manager I once attended a training session on “Behaviour Based” interviewing. The approach itself - the idea of asking situational questions - had some merit, but the process they taught depending on keeping the applicant in the dark as much as possible and concentrated all the power in the hiring side.
To me the process needs to be two way. The applicant needs to know if the company, and the position itself will be a good fit for them. I can see an applicant asking the same kind of questions, “Can you describe how you would handle a situation where an employee behaved inappropriately to a female coworker?”. That kind of thing.
It’s beneficial to both sides. The applicant doesn’t want to land in a bad fit, and the hiring process is expensive and dealing with the vacancy has its own costs.
Taking the attitude that every applicant is simply wants to get the offer, and will lie and cheat to get it sets a bad tone right from the start, and the approach makes it difficult for the applicant to make an informed decision.
I realize that the OP example is the way that the world is going, but having an AI interview would just be a giant red flag for me. I would be tempted to just set an AI of my own to interact with the company’s AI directly and just sit back and watch.
I say, “would be”, because I’m retired, and will never have to deal with this BS. However, I hope that the people that I interviewed in the past appreciated the cooperative approach that I tried to take.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 2 weeks ago:
Something about this question rankles me.
It feels like there’s some underlying assumption of superiority of US law enforcement over that of the rest of the world. Even just by asking the question the way it is asked, “…flex a LAPD badge”, like anyone outside the US would even know what it was.
Flip the question around, could a Romanian cop who didn’t speak English, or one from the DRC maybe, “flex” his badge in Wyoming? It’s laughable. The OP probably wouldn’t ever consider the possibility that anyone in the US would ever care about a foreign police badge.
I dunno. The whole question smacks of, “Team America. World Police”.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
I’m old. Google tells me that “Celcius degrees” used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use “degrees celcius” for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980’s.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, “5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts”.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 4 months ago:
Isn’t that what the current one does constantly???
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 4 months ago:
For decades now, my wife and I have used “Kleeni” as the plural of “Kleenex”.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 4 months ago:
Seriously, it should be “octopoda”.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 months ago:
“If so why don’t people buy more 70’s cars?”. IMHO, this is actually the whole point of the OP’s question.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 months ago:
Everyone is concentrating on the crumple zones and safety at the crash. Remember that modern cars have features that make it easier to avoid the crash in the first place. Antilock brakes. Traction control. Lane assist/warning. Better headlamps, adaptive headlamps. Better suspension and handling. All things to avoid crashes.
All good reasons to avoid the 70’s car.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
That’s how we got “Layla”…but it didn’t work.
- Comment on my_ex_supervisor_irl 8 months ago:
In that a Gollum caganer?
- Comment on I'm baffled 1 year ago:
Not saddest, just worst.
- Comment on Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe 1 year ago:
Exactly, manage the outcomes, not the people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Religion. Ruins. Everything. Every. Time.
- Comment on No, Trump Cannot Run for Re-election Again in 2028 1 year ago:
Who said anything about re-election? Perhaps a coronation?
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 year ago:
93= Four score and a baker’s dozen.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 1 year ago:
Take a look at this:
This is in the Museum of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome, and it comes from an ancient Roman Villa in Rome. Probably painted in the first or second century CE. There’s walls of this stuff in the museum.
It’s not realism, but minimalistic sketches that, in many ways, outdo realism in artistic quality. To me, this looks more like something that you might find in Leonardo’s sketchbook than on the wall of on ancient Roman Villa from 1200 years earlier.
- Comment on Can I offer you a tan egg? 1 year ago:
What about the Nutria? Literally named like it’s food!
- Comment on New tech discovered 2 years ago:
You mean “flavour”, right? Another small but important difference.
- Comment on New tech discovered 2 years ago:
I think it’s a bit more than that. I think that the idea is that you simplify the problem so that the rubber duck could understand it. Or at least reformulate it in order to communicate it clearly.
It’s the simplification, reformulation or reorganisation that helps to get the breakthrough.
Just thinking out loud isn’t quite the same thing.
- Comment on If it ain't broke 2 years ago:
COBOL is not hard to learn. But it takes years to develop the muscles in your fingers to the point where you can write a subroutine in a single session.
- Comment on Protesting is getting weird... 2 years ago:
As a Canadian driving around the UK I always found these signs strange. When passing one we would raise our fists in the air and shout, “End road work…end road work everywhere!!!”.
It amused us.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 2 years ago:
There’s two kinds of issues: instance and pattern. The first time or two, it’s instance. You deal with those with specificity. Something like, “I would prefer not to talk about this subject with you, please stop”.
If it persists, then it’s a pattern problem. You deal with the pattern, not the instance. “I’ve asked you not to talk about subjects like this in the pant, but you haven’t stopped. This makes me feel like you don’t respect my boundaries and it’s making it difficult for me to work with you. Why are you doing this to me?”.
You can escalate from there, and this might involve management involvement but at least you’ll have the clarity of having made the situation clear before it gets there.
Honestly though, unless the coworker is actually deranged, they’ll be mortified when they find out they are making you uncomfortable and they’ll stop right away.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 2 years ago:
I think that a good starting place to explain the concept to people would be to describe a Travesty Generator. I remember playing with one of those back in the 1980’s. If you fed it a snippet of Shakespeare, what it churned out sounded remarkably like Shakespeare, even if it created brand “new” words.
The results were goofy, but fun because it still almost made sense.
The most disappointing source text I ever put in was TS Eliot. The output was just about as much rubbish as the original text.
- Comment on Spiders On Drugs 2 years ago:
It helps if you are an old enough Canadian to remember the original “Hinterland’s Who’s Who” shorts.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 2 years ago:
Stone only makes sense for people used to pounds, shillings and pence. For instance, “This costs 3 pound, 4 shilling and 8”, and, “I weight 12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces”.
- Comment on Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian 2 years ago:
Try living in Canada. Pretty much all the providers charge $15/day for roaming! No monthly plans available.
- Comment on How do you call in English 2 years ago:
“Row headers” seems wrong to me. Maybe “row labels”?
