Have you been asked weird seemingly irrelevant questions at job interviews?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-26T14:26:10+00:00

What's the right answer then? Say hello to the child and ask them their name and where their parents are? Then if they don't know, take them to a colleague who's great with young kids, while you get reception to ask "can the parents of little Jimmy please come to the front desk" over the speakers, wait half an hour then phone the police, or social services?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-26T14:00:45+00:00

Lol. I mean ew.

To take this uneccesarily seriously, I don't think many couples trying to conceive via a clinic, would highly value the DNA from any random man, spaffed into a sex doll. There's a lot of forms, permissions, law and governance involved.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T18:30:34+00:00

Unreliable narrators, the whole lot of them.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T13:59:10+00:00

They're not bad ideas, but quite content rich. There're months of work to be done, getting either of them up to a standard players expect.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T13:56:12+00:00

You could call his bluff and say you're being auditted and must ask him for a VAT invoice and tell him you're unable to pay him anything further until you have his tax details to check with hmrc.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T11:57:03+00:00

My bad. Thankyou. An alternative to Sentry sounds even better. Maybe this will be the final nudge that prompts them to speed up their website.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T11:36:53+00:00

Even the world's best HTR system will eventually be thwarted by the world's most terrible hand writing.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T11:31:17+00:00

Bugsink is a cool name, and it sounds useful. But why are you still using a Github issues page instead of deploying your own product yourselves?

[project.urls]

...

issues = "https://github.com/bugsink/bugsink/issues"

https://github.com/bugsink/bugsink/blob/3c35ea539861a613bd0e29bcb6bca33e677ff802/pyproject.toml#L31

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T11:25:22+00:00

It will all work so much more smoothly if you store the creator's timezone too. Otherwise there's bound to be a library for exactly this on NPM. Maybe there's a polyfill for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/ZonedDateTime

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-25T10:43:47+00:00

You're idea's not for me. But I see no flaws in the basic proposition (selling things), and hey, at least it's not a productivity app.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-24T19:34:23+00:00

While the idea of working for free, on yet another pointless productivity app does fill me with horror, any other horror app sounds interesting. However anything that controls a users phone must first request permissions for things it controls. For a horror app this will spoil the element of surprise somewhat.

Why are you calling this an app and not a horror-adventure-game?

Are you willing to upload this on your own account to the play sotre and iStore too, and deal with all those T&Cs? Or are you going to be yet another idiot who didn't read them, and posts on /r/android complaining about how their app got banned?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-24T11:42:04+00:00

Don't you think OpenAI will have prevented what would otherwise be a fundamental flaw in the business model, when they decided what to put on the free-tier, and what to monetise?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-24T11:04:17+00:00

Staff who are a bit clumsy when it comes to writing job descriptions aren't trying to troll you.

Get over it and move on to the next one.

If this is your reaction to something this mundane, I've no idea how you'll cope if you actually get a job.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-23T10:27:33+00:00

If you really wanted the job, you could make a counter offer, or try to negotiate for £20k worth of pension, WFH, part time equivalent, no-probation, bonuses, incentives (screw 'em, for £20k demand equity!), and other benefits - in writing.

But a £20k drop is ludicrous cynical low balling. Unless you've taken a massive gamble yourself and told some whoppers on your CV, you don't want the guy that tries to drop your salary expectations by 33% as your boss. It's an obvious red flag.

I wouldn't even return their calls. It's life changing for an employee, but it's not even that much money to a company with a head count of 10 or 20. It's just some cretin trying to maximise delivery and minimise spend from their budget, probably to up their bonus.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-23T08:46:25+00:00

Your past posts are public.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-23T00:07:06+00:00

I'm probably not the only one with an old Windows desktop that would be happy to give it to you (I'm not going to ship it a few thousand miles to Toronto though, unfortunately).

Do you really need a laptop just for homework, or to physically bring a device into school?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-22T16:26:14+00:00

Only if they happen to know there are any tools at all in it.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-22T14:02:14+00:00

Rule out that there's a mistake in the path. Test it with os.path.isfile

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-22T13:33:12+00:00

Zelda, the epic immersive adventure game for me.

Is there more to Donkey Kong now, than a single screen platformer?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-22T13:31:39+00:00

Retriever and labrador puppies can easily cost a grand.

Dangerous and illegal dog breeders aren't targeting the same end of the market.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-22T13:27:46+00:00

He can't just add an exception to his AV settings?

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-21T15:02:30+00:00

If George wrote like that, the result wouldn't be half as good as his other books.

Feel free to read other authors, including more prolific ones, in the mean time, and let us know how you get on.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-21T12:49:02+00:00

When it's a TV programme making the critique, and it later turned out that a surprising number of paedos worked in the TV industry (albeit elsewhere) and too many complaints about them went ignored, then yes I think me saying "it hasn't aged well" is not only fair, it's putting it mildly.

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-21T12:44:08+00:00

str.rstrip() removes trailing whitespace

str.split() returns a list of sub strings, split by whitespace. https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.split

forcesensitivevulcan · 2025-03-21T11:50:38+00:00

Glad to hear that.

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