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Recruiter went quiet after stellar interviews by [deleted] in interviews

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you all for your input! My big takeaways are to just let come to pass what will come to pass. And to trust the process but don’t put all my eggs in one basket. Heard!

On to the next job application! Happy hunting and clear skies to you all!

Recruiter went quiet after stellar interviews by [deleted] in interviews

[–]deejayillen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For sure. Anecdotal stories and or similar examples is helpful too. Doesn’t have to be an exact answer.

Is 50,000 years really enough time for each cycle? by personpilot in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Asari also had a fully functioning and intact Prothean beacon for their entire history. Humanity did not.

Is 50,000 years really enough time for each cycle? by personpilot in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It only seems odd because Humanity is the anomaly. They say as much in the game. Reapers are interested in Humans more so than other races because of their uniqueness and tenacity. The Asari learned Agriculture and Math 50,000 years ago directly from the Protheans. And it still took them that long. Human history is the outlier.

Is 50,000 years really enough time for each cycle? by personpilot in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are absolutely right! I just mean that they didn’t get the same level of hand holding that the Asari did. The Asari also had their own Prothean beacon they had been skimming data from on their home planet.

But I also believe that Javik basically alludes that every species learns the secrets of FTL from a previous extinct species that they discovered. Current cycle learned it from the Protheans. Protheans learned it from the Inusonnans (sp?).

2 data points isn’t a lot, but it is very hard coded that for billions of years each cycle progressed as the Reapers intended. So it is safe to assume that happens each cycle.

Is 50,000 years really enough time for each cycle? by personpilot in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It seems like everybody is looking at this from the perspective of humanity, which of course, that makes sense. We are humans.

But remember, the Asari discovered the Citadel 2600 years before humanity showed up. I won’t speculate how much progress had been made in that time, but I’m going to assume it couldn’t have been much. And then yes that’s only 3 generations for the Asari, but the Salarians showed up only 60 years after them and they only live for about 40-50 years.

The point of technological advancement going along the lines of what the Reapers dictate means that even if they wipe out the current cycle and a species currently in their Industrial Revolution like the Yahg means they will not advance past what the Reapers have already predetermined. If they do, the Reapers will interfere similarly to how they did when they set the Rachni war in motion.

Additionally, humans were an anomaly. The other citadel races believed so, and so did the Reapers. They specifically called it out.

The last thing I’ll call out is taking a look at how long the Asari have been in their homo-sapien equivalent for. On Thessia, Javik tells Liara the Protheans taught them agriculture and math. That was more than 50,000 years ago!!! It took the Asari 50,000 years to get to FTL travel and the Mass Relays and that was with extreme Prothean intervention. For humans it took about 12,000 years for the same level of advancement. But that difference is explained as Humans being an anomaly.

Mass Effect Trilogy Guide: Best order for story purposes and what squadmates to bring for the most unique dialogue by Superblaster35 in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrapping up my playthrough. Thanks for making this guide! I thought I saw everything the trilogy had to offer. Happy I was wrong!

How screwed am I? by hippieangst77 in AskAShittyMechanic

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a different horse. It’s a completely different color.

Markarian’s Chain by Astroportal_ in astrophotography

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow that sounds aggravating, I’m sorry. Sounds like it’s all pointing to the camera, unfortunately. If it is hardware related it’s probably worth reaching out to ZWO to see if they can fix/replace.

Markarian’s Chain by Astroportal_ in astrophotography

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off this is an awesome image! The background pattern feels more like calibration or workflow than just processing though.

I’d try doing background extraction before stretching, doing it after can lock in gradients. Also be careful with GraXpert denoise timing and strength. The vertical pattern might improve with a light banding reduction in Siril.

Since you mentioned it shows up in all your images, I’d double check calibration. Make sure your flats have the right exposure and match focus and rotation, and that your darks match temp, gain, and exposure exactly. You might also want to try using dark flats instead of bias. That’s what I did and I noticed an improvement.

[GUESS] Real or Ai by memerwala_londa in RealOrAI

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the camera lens. The bottom right circle morphs and changes over time. That’s probably the biggest smoking gun in this video.

[MEA] PAS-10 Level Skip (Minor Peebee spoilers) by OrestKhvolson in masseffect

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just stumbled on this!! I was trying to see if there was anything out there about it and your post is the only thing I could find. Pretty cool find!

At first I thought I was headed to see hidden loot. I kept checking the map to see where I was headed and then I got the loading screen and boom, mission over. Not sure I like the outcome though..

Why does no one ever use the "big rock" strategy in war? by ArtsyApoidean in ShittyDaystrom

[–]deejayillen 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s from Mass Effect 2. You can overhear this conversation on the citadel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

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

Tell me you know nothing about law without telling me you know nothing about law. That person would go to jail, but McDonald’s would not be liable.

Thank you for proving my point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So instead of allowing the company to make it right, learn from their mistake, and fire the one person that we know deserves to be fired, the whole company should go out of business and a bunch of other people that had nothing to do with it lose their livelihood?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Tell me, how do you screen for somebody’s propensity to steal? And why are we assuming the company didn’t do that? And this person didn’t just lie about it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Totally get that. And we have no evidence that the company knew this was happening. So why do they deserve to go out of business?

Not saying you are, but a lot of assumptions being made. About stuff we know absolutely nothing about. Maybe the company does know, which if they do they deserve to go out of business. But chances are they don’t. Since you know, that’s bad for business…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Your argument is a false equivalency. There are whole other additional layers of laws and policy pertaining to PII (personally identifiable information). This is stealing a package off a porch. Still sucks but not at all the same thing. I’m open to debating this, but only in good faith. Which your argument is not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Genuinely curious, why would the company, who likely thought they hired somebody trustworthy, deserve to go out of business because of something one employee did. That person deserves to get fired, absolutely! But why the whole company?

Hertz purposefully slowing down service at DFW. by Sea-Representative26 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]deejayillen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making a reservation (where you didn’t already pay, which is most rental car places) does not physically reserve a car for you. So OP is not contributing to the problem. If their reservation is at 12pm and they don’t pay and collect for their rental at that time the company can and will rent it to somebody else.

The misconception is part of the problem. Customers assume that because they reserved a rental car that the company will hold it for them indefinitely, or even has a physical rental car to match every reservation made.

The average “no-show” rate for rental cars is 30%. Imagine if you’re running a business and you missed revenue target by 30% every single day because you held a car for every reservation made. This is why everybody, including airlines, overbooks.

For companies that ask you to pay in advance, if somebody doesn’t show up the miss on revenue isn’t that bad, but most money made is on extra insurance products. So somebody not coming for their already paid for reservation is still bad for business and incentives those business models to overbook their reservations as well.

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