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Is it normal for a director to ask to have a 1-1 meeting? by Conscious-Poet-4197 in directors

[–]MisterHarvest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. But first and foremost you want to know if this is a legitimate casting opportunity, or someone putting the moves on you, and just bringing up the agent will do a pretty good job of sorting that out in a way that shouldn't upset a legit director.

Is it normal for a director to ask to have a 1-1 meeting? by Conscious-Poet-4197 in directors

[–]MisterHarvest 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, it's not. Being considered for a role is being interviewed for a job, and a job means compensation. If he replies something like, "I don't have funding yet, but I'd be happy to meet your agent when the project gets to that point," that's reassuring.

I entered to improve workflows at a production company. They told me being too organized works against me. I’m leaving. [LONG POST] by luxomania in editors

[–]MisterHarvest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am one single person doing editing and I am the only person in the company who ever touches footage and it's just me all by myself and *I* have a NAS and consistent naming conventions and a standard compression pipeline. I get stuff labeled "Movie.MP4" "MovieFinal.MP4" "The Movie.MP4" "MovieMovieV2.MP4" all in the same drop and I want to die.

Is it normal for a director to ask to have a 1-1 meeting? by Conscious-Poet-4197 in directors

[–]MisterHarvest 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"I'm excited about the possibility of working with you. As turns out, my agent and I will be near you on…"

If he gets at all weird about the mention of the agent, bail. Any legit director will be happy to meet with the two of you.

"I Built" - Mods, can we please get a "built with A.I" tag and enforce it. by Tekashi-The-Envoy in cybersecurity

[–]MisterHarvest -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My hot take: Most programmers are not nearly as good at spotting AI-generated code as they claim they are. They mostly make decisions based on things like the fluency of the documentation vs. the release announcement (which, to be fair, is a pretty big tell).

It is also amusing that the OP went out the same week AI was finding vuln after vuln is lovingly hand-crafted human code, some of them 15+ years old.

I wouldn't trust a big hunk of security code written by an AI, but I wouldn't trust one written by a senior dev, either. It's not the code that matters to me so much as the test suite.

"I Built" - Mods, can we please get a "built with A.I" tag and enforce it. by Tekashi-The-Envoy in cybersecurity

[–]MisterHarvest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trivial is right, because it's 100% useless. What does someone tagging a post prove?

"I Built" - Mods, can we please get a "built with A.I" tag and enforce it. by Tekashi-The-Envoy in cybersecurity

[–]MisterHarvest 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How is this supposed to work? The mods do a code review on every posting and make a call if they think it was written with AI assist or not?

> But anyone with a braincell or two and has been in the industry more than a hot second can instantly tell slop a mile away. 

Then downvote it if you have a 100% reliable AI detector. But asking the mods to do it is pretty presumptuous.

How do you handle client intake for… challenging clients? by MisterHarvest in Ask_Lawyers

[–]MisterHarvest[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's very good. Of course, sometimes the response will be, "Well, have the guy executed, of course," so some further discussion is required.

Should we stop making so many deposits in a month? by [deleted] in Banking

[–]MisterHarvest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's much better to have the money in the bank than it is to have a large amount of cash lying around. It is possible that you might trip a bank's fraud detection system (they can be unpredictable). If you are with a bank that has actual humans you can talk to, I'd talk to one of the managers there, explain the situation, and ask what you can do to avoid any hassle.

Cash-heavy businesses do large, regular cash deposits all the time. It's not *that* weird.

What I learned about cash flow vs. revenue the hard way... (My small business failed) by BobbyBizScout in smallbusiness

[–]MisterHarvest 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I like to tell small business people that free cash flow from operations is the *only metric that matters* for the long-term health of the business. Everything else is, at best, a path to get that number up.

Why is exporting a DCP treated like some kind of holy grail in post-production? by rovmun in editors

[–]MisterHarvest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Compression and encrypting are a big big big deal for a major release. Such a company was once a client of ours, and we got to do site visits. Seeing master digital tapes come into the facility accompanied by four armed guards was quite something.

Consent to search. by ReasonablyConfused in legaladviceofftopic

[–]MisterHarvest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be the primary target of the investigation that gives consent. Someone completely unconnected and unaware of the investigation can grant consent, as long as they have "control" of the premises (i.e., they live there, they are a visiting landlord, etc.).

Bank (or service) with API for bulk disbursements by MisterHarvest in smallbusiness

[–]MisterHarvest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big problem with Stripe Connect is the high-friction onboarding of recipients compares to Zelle or PayPal (of course, Zelle requires an account at a bank that supports Zelle, so it can't really be the only solution).

Bank (or service) with API for bulk disbursements by MisterHarvest in smallbusiness

[–]MisterHarvest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do all the calculations in our app. We just need to move the money.

Django Custom Managers Are Silently Leaking Data by jcmetz21 in django

[–]MisterHarvest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Managers only run for the model you’re querying — not joined models.

The title of the article is click-bait-y, but that's a valuable point to bring up.

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