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[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Let's say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You are describing Real Time with Bill Maher. People continue to watch his show. At least, I think you are, because I'm not sure what a "questionable guest" even is.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 13 points 2 years ago

My (red) state is one of those that changed the law to make it illegal for pornographic websites to be seen by children. To view them, you'd have to have some kind of central ID to prove that you are over 18. This is absolutely a precursor to having to have an ID to use the internet at all. Every bad thing that has ever happened on the internet will be used to convince legislators to enact a law like this. It's only a matter of time.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like the choice of SIlverstone for the case. I got one of those for my proxmox server. It was compact, but not so compact that I left a lot of skin and blood behind after mounting components. I will say that other manufacturers (like Fractal Design just seem to understand how to design an interior a lot better, though.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 3 points 2 years ago

I have never been so glad that I talked myself out of buying the new iPhone this year! Siri is the primary input method I use for my iPhone. I would say I make around 20-30 vocal requests a day. It will be so nice to be able to do things like create a meeting on a calendar with a conversation instead of having to frame the request in a single sentence! I hope they do this rollout well.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 10 points 2 years ago

In 2005 or so, I got a tip about an application called LaunchBar, which would later be copied by Apple to replace the Sherlock search tool, and later by Microsoft in its PowerToys suite. The machine learning LaunchBar used to tailor its responses based on my previous behavior was life-changing. Instead of configuring an application, I just had to use it to change how it behaved.

This is how language models and AI are going to improve your products. Subtly. Behind the scenes. Slightly improving a thousand different use cases, only a fraction of which your regular usage patterns are going to intersect with.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for posting this! I thought I had been banned.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 11 points 2 years ago

I thought it was just me! I woke up one day to find that I was logged out, and I couldn’t log in via my apps or even via the Lemmy UI. I thought I had been banned!

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Full results from the study, presented at the American Heart Association annual scientific meeting in Philadelphia and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest the drug has other beneficial effects beyond the known health benefits from losing weight.

The heart risk difference between patients who received Wegovy, known chemically as semaglutide, and those on placebo began to appear almost immediately after starting treatment, researchers said.

So it’s not just from losing weight!

The associated risk factors include inflammation, blood pressure and blood sugar control, all of which can impact heart health.

Patients on Wegovy experienced decreases in C-reactive proteins, an indication of inflammation, similar to those reported with cholesterol lowering statins, which are known to significantly lower heart risks, researchers reported.

That is really promising!

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. That's what I get for having a ton of tabs open!

 

Ignore the article's over-sensational headline. This is actually a great look at how and why opinions on sensitive cultural issues have changed over time.

 

The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It's making for an engaging show that also feels modern.

 

They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.

 

This isn’t terribly long — maybe 6.5 minutes. It compares and contrasts traits of fascists and authoritarians to see where Donald Trump fits best. I’m curious to know if you agree with Reich’s conclusions.

 

Update to our earlier announcement of kbin.social being temporarily blocked:

Unfortunately, the porn posts have continued to appear in our new feed for over 12 hours now. It's clear that we can't user-ban our way out of this.

Blocking kbin.social was a temporary measure that allowed us to stop the flow of spam posts, wait a while to see if kbin.social had gotten the problem under control, and then re-open the gates to check to see if more bots were posting links. Every time we checked, they were. However, they were studiously keeping to the !random@kbin.social community, never once posting in any other community.

For now we have decided to remove the community and leave access to the rest of kbin.social open. This is a little risky, but leaves us connected to the rest of Kbin.social's content. If you were a subscriber to that community, you won't see any past or future posts in it. Nobody will be able to search for that community from lemmy.ninja, either.

We'll keep an eye on the "New" feed and take action if the bots migrate to another community on kbin.social. For now, however, consider them in chains!

 

I'm wondering: where does Lemmy UI get the timezone for the time stamp on posts?

We are using Lemmy in docker. Two of the five containers in the stack have tzdata, and all of them are set to UTC right now. But when I hover over a post's relative time stamp to get the precise time it was posted, I was surprised to see UTC -6.

I'm in UTC -6, and the host that the docker stack is running on is currently set to UTC -6.

Basically, I can go to all the trouble to set the env in docker-compose to set the correct time zone for the containers, but I'm wondering if I need to bother. Any feedback would be helpful as far as best practices for setting time zones to make posts have the right time stamp and for making logs readable.

Thanks in advance!

 

For the last three hours, kbin.social has been under attack by a group of bot accounts. They've been posting hundreds of porn links to the random@kbin.social magazine. These posts have been flooding across to lemmy.ninja this morning. So far we've been able to remove the content and ban the bot users, but we're unable to keep up with the rate of posting.

We've decided to temporarily block kbin.social until the admins there can get the problem under control. We'll monitor the situation and restore connection to kbin.social once the attack has ceased.

Thanks for your understanding.

 

This means that a first-time homebuyer needs to earn an annual salary of around $64,500 — which is over $10,000 higher than the average wage of Americans aged 25-34 — and up 13% from $57,222 a year ago.

 

“He was trying to tell them that he was a doctor and probably trying to tell him who he was, to be honest. And they were screaming that they did not effing care who he was,” she said. “And the next thing I knew, they had him on the ground, grabbed him by the shirt, threw him on the ground, face first into the concrete and had him in cuffs.”

 

When I first learned how to put my media into Plex, I did it by using Handbrake, compressing the content down to .mp4, and doing my best to use “audio passthrough” for the highest quality audio tracks I could find. But nowadays a lot more discs are coming with TrueHD, which apparently isn’t supported by the .mp4 container.

I’m wondering what I should do for these audio tracks. I don’t really want to keep my media in .mkv format because of the challenge of getting subtitles to work and because the .mkv files are enormous. I’m assuming that hevc isn’t the answer, since I believe that still uses the .mp4 container. Any advice?

 

Just a quick bug report for Lemmy 0.18.3:

Today I received a reply from a bot account. I have the setting set to not show bot accounts enabled for my account. I still got a notification that I had a reply from it (next to the notification icon), but there was no way to mark the notification as “read” because it doesn’t appear in the inbox. The only workaround was to check the “Show Bot Accounts” setting and then visit the inbox to clear the notification.

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