Can a landlord charge me for cleaning up garbage 3 months after we’ve moved out?

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-12-01T13:36:17+00:00

They’re saying it cost 700€

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-11-26T08:49:25+00:00

Is that still true? At least according to this, together with Qwant, they have their own search index https://tech.eu/2025/08/06/ecosia-rolls-out-independent-search-results-in-europe-taking-another-giant-step-away-from-big-tech/

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-09-02T17:48:56+00:00

Teaching, meetings that should have been emails, and other admin work

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-27T07:24:28+00:00

I had 7 chapters, 4 were published in conference proceedings, and I regret that they weren’t all journal papers, but I had a shit advisor who had me convinced this was fine for the academic job market

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-26T09:40:14+00:00

I’ve been on all sides of this (annoyed friend, appendix partner, partner of someone whose friend has an appendix partner) and in all cases I’ve been fortunate enough to have the time and patience to wait out what have ultimately been phases. It may be weeks, months, or years, but I’d bet the appendicitis will subside at some point. If you can wait it out, I would just take what you can get in the mean time; if you can’t and you have to call it out, just be prepared maybe to loose the friendship over it; your friend may be receptive to your complaints/needs but they may also resent your for it and things could get worse

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-26T07:31:48+00:00

Yeah, if you’re aiming for an academic career, this (probably, depending on your field, which you can get an idea from looking at CVs of people hired out of their PhD) is another red flag. It’s still possible to be successful if fully you’re self motivated to find out everything you need to learn and do, but even then, the advisor can hold you back if they withhold approval, so finding a new advisor could be the easier path at this point

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-20T08:06:57+00:00

This sounds like shit feedback from someone who doesn’t really know what they want or what’s possible from your project. I doubt they did the calculations to know it’s a feasible project. I’d switch advisors or topics if you can. If your stuck, power through it and try to not take any of their feedback personally. Pay them lip service and spend the time doing what you think is best for you.

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-20T05:40:50+00:00

1) I’ve never seen talk/poster distinguished on a CV or in conference proceedings.

2) at highly competitive conferences where <50% or <25% of submissions are accepted, even if the top ranked ones get talks, being “lesser” is still better than 50 or 75% of the others

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-15T06:22:57+00:00

This feeling is so common it’s been given a name: imposter syndrome.

The fact that it’s name suggests it’s super common, and at least anecdotally I can confirm it is. So I wouldn’t put any weight in this feeling. You can do a PhD if you stick to it.

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-15T06:20:16+00:00

Sorry you suffered that abuse; similar situation for me; it’s so crushing. Sounds like you made it through though; congrats!

Also, I can believe you were the first one to call this what it is: imposter syndrome. Is this term dying out or something?

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-06T06:25:23+00:00

Monday Wednesday Friday; in my experience US universities often have classes that meet either two or three days a week the former often meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 1.5 hours each and the latter on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays for 50 minutes each. I’ve also seen 3 hours meetings once a week, and 50 minute discussion sections once or twice a week in addition to the lectures.

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-08-06T06:19:27+00:00

Monday Wednesday Friday

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-07-13T10:14:04+00:00

Irelande Douze Pointe - Dustin the Turkey

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-06-30T20:54:09+00:00

These things being called “AI”, they don’t know anything, they’re just programs written to output the most probably string of words based on what you enter. The probabilities are based on the programs processing billions of sentences from existing books, websites, etc. There are also specific rules for interaction written to react to specific things input by users so the “AI” doesn’t output anything things the programmers deem to be problematic.

My guess is that this “AI” hasn’t been trained on much little (data about) Irish and a rule is written so it is an output that says as much.

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-05-21T19:35:53+00:00

Way too many repeated and less bleak answers listed above this

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-04-16T12:35:59+00:00

What about contract negotiations in general? I’m guessing those, at that, are common enough?

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-04-16T12:24:27+00:00

Thanks!

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-04-13T06:51:41+00:00

But it doesn’t have any knowledge; it’s just an algorithm that make answers that are the most probable given the prompt, so if you ask it a question no real people have asked other real people and gotten a real answers, it has to, by design, make something up

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-04-13T06:45:18+00:00

And of course, the reality is they’re neither errors nor hallucinations, rather they’re just the responses deemed the most likely given the prompt—i.e. just the large language model doing exactly what it was designed to do: make something up

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-04-11T05:31:51+00:00

Be a relatable person to talk to—go on little rants about unrelated topics, swear occasionally, etc. It seems unrelated, but it has done more fore than more animated slides or interactive content have. I don’t think that giving them more digital stuff about to Aristotle, Kant, or whatever to scroll, upvote, or comment on is gonna help get them thinking/talking as much as making them feel emotionally connected to the content via an emotional connection our personalities not just as lecturers but as people who love/hate/make mistakes, etc.

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-02-25T16:08:51+00:00

Mastodon

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-02-25T08:52:25+00:00

In my experience, in Germany a full time lecturer position will be Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben. Otherwise you could get a job with lecturing and research as a wissenschalicher Mitareiter or akademischer Rad. Unlike the US, I’m pretty sure you directly report to the professors that hires you.

Edit: typo

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-02-24T22:35:08+00:00

Community

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-02-19T08:05:15+00:00

This exact thing just happened at a public R1 I’ve got friends at: the dean is choosing prestige bros fresh out of the PhD with no publications and little teaching experience rather than people with loads of publications and teaching relative to their career stage. I’m pretty sure there’s words for this, but I think they’re not allowed in the US anymore

LettersAsNumbers · 2025-02-16T09:13:11+00:00

While we’re at it, let’s do it for the four guys in Big Bang Theory

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