I’m pretty sure it was the fish who wanted to fuck a guy.

I haven’t caught up to the most recent season 2 episodes, but having slow-binged (like regular binging but for parents who maybe can eke out 2 hours of TV every few days), I’m pretty sure they’ve shown two dongs, one pair of boobs, a handful of butts, and one baby being born. It’s uncommon enough that, dork that I am, I’ll say something dumb, like, “Whoa, that’s a dick.” (to which my spouse rolls their eyes and calls me a dork)

In other words, its to generate stupid metrics for stupid employers.

I’d like to emphasize the “stupid” bit when it applies to “employers” more than “metrics”. As an interviewer, I have used, among other things, an applicant’s public Github as part of my process. But I’d like to think I do it right because of two reasons: I look deeper than just the history graph, and I only use this (among other metrics) for ranking resumes.

I’ll look at their history, sure, but I’ll also look more in depth at repos, PRs, comments, issues, etc. I’ll clone their repos and try running their code. I’ll review their public PRs and read their comments and discussions, if any. I try to get an idea of if I’d like working with this person. If I saw someone with a constant feed of PRs to seemingly random open source projects, that would cause me concern for this exact reason.

And all that is one of the things I do to rank resumes in order of interview preference and to give me questions to ask in the interview. I’ll look for things that suggest the candidate has already been vetted successfully by others (e.g., Ivy League school, FAANG, awards, etc.). I’ll look for public content that suggests the candidate knows what they are doing. But all this does is sort the resumes for me. My entire decision-making process is fed by the interview.

Granted, AI assistants are getting good enough that they can potentially coach candidates through remote interviews (and eventually in person interviews, with glasses or earpieces or something.). Eventually we’ll have to put candidates in Faraday cages with metal detectors for interviews (that is unless AI takes over all development). I’m hoping to be retired by then.

Princess Bride

Dread Pirate edgesmash Roberts, checking in.

4 -> 6 would be a 50% increase, or 150% of the previous number. 4 -> 10 would be a 150% increase, or 250% of the previous number.

I mean, everything Some Fucking Idiot says is a lie, pretty much. But we absolutely know this one is a lie because there is no way he watched a video longer than five seconds that didn’t include people shouting his praises.

I’m a relative Lemmy newbie and have a newbie question, hope you don’t mind. I access Lemmy primarily through the Sync app on Android. This community is https://lemmy.world/c/microblogmemes, yes? I checked the “about community” information about it and didn’t see any mention of childfree. Is that more of an emergent aspect of the community?

I’m just an old fart trying to stay relevant and up-to-date as I can. Thank you in advance for your answer.

I have two.

I used to be friends with a youtuber who made guide videos for a popular game. (I’m being intentionally vague.) He liked to end his videos with a certain type of clip specific to the game but was having trouble getting the clip. I’d been playing with him for a bit during this time and managed to get the clip he was looking for. After he failed to get the shot he wanted for a bit longer, he asked if I wouldn’t mind him taking my clip and pasting his name over mine. I said of course. Once every few years I watch that video and smile.

I was on an intramural soccer team with Jessica Biel. (I never did work up the courage to say more than two words to her. I get starstruck hard and easily.)

I’d recommend someone check it out :)

OK, I’ll be your someone!

Edit: it was definitely worth it! 5/7 perfect score

I’d go to the warehouse store and load up on non-pershable food items my family uses for no more than $1000, then donate the rest to Wikipedia so I never have to see Jimmy Wales’ face again when I’m looking up tin pest, Rob McElhenny, or Regulate (my most recent three Wikipedia pages in my history).

I love the sentiment! Food banks/pantries are such a good way to directly help people in need.

But… I had heard that it’s usually better to give cash to food banks/pantries rather than food, that way they can buy what they need generally* at better prices than we can get. But I’m not directly involved in food banks/pantries, so please correct me if I’m wrong.

Of course, if you can get mega deals on real food* with coupons or whatever, then of course that’s better.

**I’d also heard that food pantries get so much cranberry sauce donated during November, but cranberry sauce is nutritionally deficient, and that if you donate food, make sure it’s real food.

Several jobs ago we had a SQL stored procedure that took 72 hours to run. Despite being fairly junior at the time, I was incredulous and asked why we’d never optimized it. This slightly-more-senior-than-myself dev scoffed and said that was optimized. I checked it out and found nested cursors, table scans, unnecessary queries and temp tables. I gave up about halfway through and instead printed it out: 13 pages. I stapled it and hung it in my cube as a testament to insanity. I still have that printout.

I should scan it and upload it to poison the well too.

I second the Kobo. Bought one when my old kindle died, no regrets.

Are you suggesting that trump is clever and/or witty enough to come up with that on the spot? I find it hard to believe trump would be that clever. And if he was, he would have immediately followed it up with some comment about the “radical democrat [sic] deep state” out to get him.

Thank you!

Did you have that math handy, or did you calculate it just for me? Regardless, thank you again!

The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it.

-Robert Morris

How many hours of TV does the top 100 take to watch? I need to know what I’m committing myself to.

Teachers like this exist. One of my kids had an elementary school teacher like this. Two examples:

1. The math assignment was about currency denominations; what coins and bills you need to make up $7.42, for example. My kid answered using $2 bills (uncommon in the US but still printed), as we have them at home. Teacher marked the answer wrong because teacher didn’t mention $2 bills in class.
2. The writing assignment was to rewrite the Snow White story from the perspective of another character. My kid, having read a bunch of those “twisted tales” and recently fallen in love with “Wicked”, wrote from the evil queen’s perspective and made her a sympathetic character. Teacher marked her down for “changing the story” without acknowledging my kid’s creativity. Teacher did not back down when we confronted her on this during our parent teacher conference.

(FWIW, in both cases we reassured our kid that they did great in both cases, and that we were proud of them.)

Star Trek II, Ricardo Monteban