DrBob
@DrBob@lemmy.ca
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
- Comment on I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too. 4 days ago:
“What’s the career trajectory in the unit?” Which is a polite way of asking what happened to the last person. Another classic is if they are looking to sustain their current performance, make small improvements, or do an overhaul.
- Comment on I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too. 4 days ago:
Good point. On a callback I’d be all about expectations and details. That having been said I’m changing jobs this month and I still don’t know if there is a bike cage or showers at the the new place. But it wasn’t part of my decision criteria so I’ll find out when I start
- Comment on I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too. 4 days ago:
Unpopular opinion: the candidate shouldn’t have asked any of those questions. Those are offer negotiations because you can trade off salary for parking etc. That first I review is a chance to be strategic and ask about growth in the department or development pathways/programs. I was always told that first you get the ring, then you negotiate the prenup.
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 6 days ago:
Yeah but base building doesn’t seem as sexy. LSD is the basis of every coffee plan - Long Slow Donuts.
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 6 days ago:
I think it’s hilariously stupid. It might have made more sense if it followed a training progression. Like move from coffee sprint to coffee racer, menu long run and then the marathon maybe? Sprint to marathon is some Goggins level shit.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
I’m old and I don’t think that’s true. Frozen entrees have ways been on the light side. And frozen dinners for one would be 3 oz of meat, and a couple of spoonfuls of boiled peas or something.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 2 weeks ago:
May I suggest Solaris by Stanislaw Lem? The alien is a sentient ocean that doesn’t understand the distinction between past, present, or future, or between dreaming and wakefulness. It causes some issues…
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a modern convention. In the Celtic calendar solstice marked the middle of winter and older Christmas carols mark Yule as midwinter. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_R3GPkIDeM
- Comment on What do drain unclogging liquids actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Most drain cleaners are not acids but bases - same basic idea but the other end of the pH scale. Bleach is an example of a corrosive base you’re probably familiar with. Bases were used because they were more compatible with the solder that connected copper pipes in older homes. For non-corrosive cleaners they fall into a couple classes:
Fizzy things. These loosen clogs by bubbling them apart. They are typically made by mixing a weak acid with a base - hello vinegar and baking soda! The acid may help a bit with dissolving some clogs. These can take a while
Enzyme based cleaners. An active enzyme will digest some of the bonds in hair and other components of the clog. These can take hours to be effective so don’t be in a rush.
Temperature based. Fats often make up a big component of clogs. Something as simple as boiling water can do a lot to loosen up a clog. There are fancier mixtures that will warm up the pipe to try to get things flowing.
- Comment on What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion? 3 weeks ago:
It never would have been charged if he wasn’t the President’s son. He paid everything and a penalty in top of it so there was no reason to seek a conviction.
- Comment on Do you consider Taylor Swift to be of the working class and why? 3 weeks ago:
This really about a definition of “working class”. What’s always interesting to me in these arguments is that it’s a Britishism originally tied to class consciousness more than economic circumstances.
Vicars, writers and such were examples of “genteel poverty” who were very well educated but still lived a hand-to-mouth existence. They were not considered part of the working class even though they very much had to work, and were often poorer than many tradespeople. Because of education and contact with the well-to-do, those workers had an expanded world view and thus not considered part of the “working class” who were focused on tawdry gossip, when they were going down to the pub, and what was for lunch.
- Comment on How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically? 3 weeks ago:
Stout.
- Comment on That perfect Christmas gift - a picture to hang on your wall commenorating when you wore that classy orange jump suit 3 weeks ago:
Should I know these people?
- Comment on Seut 5 weeks ago:
Did you pick any up?
- Comment on seriousposting 1 month ago:
SN1cK3r5
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 1 month ago:
PRE-Cambrian my dude. The Cambrian explosion of life is associated with conventional body plans.
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 2 months ago:
Behold wonders of the Beaver Deceiver!
- Comment on Is wearing crew socks over your leggings when training in the cold simply aesthetics or actually functional? 2 months ago:
Shoes are sized for socks.
- Comment on Did binders used to be called tablets? 2 months ago:
A tablet is a pad of paper that’s glued on one edge. You can flip the sheets or tear them out. The full name for a binder is a “loose leaf binder”. Because it’s designed to bind…loose sheets!
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
Thanks! I assumed it was rhetorical question but this waaaaay outside my area of expertise.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can’t lead get made as well?
- Comment on Controversial picture to some 3 months ago:
Steak board?
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 3 months ago:
It’s voter suppression. By limiting the number of voting locations and understanding them you make long lines where people will wait for hours to vote. By not allowing food or water to be handed out they hope people will get discouraged and leave the line. The official reason is that it could be construed as a bribe to vote a certain way.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 3 months ago:
Pick lots of ballise fruit in White Orchard. It is tougher to find later on.
- Comment on 2real5me 3 months ago:
Let me introduce you gentleman to Doug Prasher.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 4 months ago:
It may helpful to think of this in terms of human rights; some rights apply to individuals so even though there may a group of them we’d refer to them as persons e.g. displaced persons. Some rights are held collectively and we would refer to them as a people e.g. Indigenous People of the Amazon.
- Comment on how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do? 4 months ago:
This true for every regulated profession. It’s not exceptional.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 4 months ago:
You should have seen the internet before 1993 lol.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 4 months ago:
I was a post-doc during this period. I had a mobile phone but data was eyebleedingly expensive, and there wasn’t much to do on mobile. Most companies had a minimal web presence and very little directed towards mobile. I drove across the US in 2009 and even then it was better to use the information preloaded on my Garmin than the mobile web.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 4 months ago:
This was a unique point in time when people had cell phones but had to carry a phonebook because there was no mobile internet. Some time between 1992 and 2005?