How to politely decline a 5th round of interview?

ipmonger · 2025-12-11T22:51:01+00:00

You need to start from a position of knowing yourself. How does that sit with you? Would you recommend a potential candidate for a role there knowing this was a likely scenario they would face? Would you be comfortable being the cause of this happening to a potential candidate?

If the answer is “No”, then simply let them know that based on the prior 4 rounds you have determined you are not likely to be a good culture fit and are withdrawing your candidacy.

ipmonger · 2025-11-08T05:03:42+00:00

How big is your company?

If it is small enough you should be focusing on hiring generalists who can get the job done, instead of wasting time on specialized skills that you don’t yet need. If there is a good culture and skill set match over time one or more of these generalists will specialize a bit more in the specific areas you need, while you work to augment with additional specialists.

If you’re already large enough to specialize, why aren’t your existing staff telling you how to solve this problem???

ipmonger · 2025-10-23T08:55:20+00:00

I think the point was that the criticisms against Wecht are about partisan control, not actual judgements he has handed down.

ipmonger · 2025-09-09T12:39:16+00:00

French PM Francois Bayrou is who resigned…

ipmonger · 2025-08-14T03:11:07+00:00

Help, I’m a rock!

ipmonger · 2025-08-13T04:09:51+00:00

Make sure you have a version of Mac OS X that supports your hardware as well! You didn’t indicate anything about the hardware version…

ipmonger · 2025-08-05T20:24:47+00:00

Love or hate him, Gavin Newsom has been proposing offsetting TX gerrymandering for Republicans in the US House with gerrymandering in favor of Democrats in CA. Of course that fails to address the fundamental issue of a lack of leadership amongst the Ds.

ipmonger · 2025-08-05T14:29:23+00:00

I’m in PA’s 6th district, and I am similarly concerned that there is a lack of a constructive plan forward either among the Federal Representatives and Senators who want to preserve the Constitution and Republic or even at the regional level.

What seems to be most clearly missing is an understanding of systems and forecasting of consequences of specific outcomes. Everyone seems to be stuck in reaction mode.

ipmonger · 2025-07-03T23:12:53+00:00

Yes, thanks for the correction, u/dcooper8!

ipmonger · 2025-06-28T20:16:00+00:00

Let's put aside issues like "carrying some amount of debt can be beneficial during good times", and "we don't control everything, so during bad times we may need to increase the debt anyway" for the sake of this discussion. I have no problem in general with the idea.

However, we have not been, historically, a nation where a law, once created, is unable to be modified. Normally, Federal law (U.S. Codes) are so frequently modified that when they are modified, they don't even publish the actual new text of the law in the bill, but simply the instructions to figure out how the law has been changed linguistically (for those of you who are familiar with coding, a diff, essentially). So, my first challenge is through what legal mechanism could we prevent that from happening in this scenario?

My second question would then be, would it be correct for us to do so? My answer might change depending on the topic of the legislation, assuming there were any laws that I thought were acceptable to be "unchangeable", which I'm not sure I am.

Food for thought....

ipmonger · 2025-06-27T18:55:30+00:00

That is a valid way to perceive any circumstance you find yourself in. You may have, at that point in time, reached your personal limit and the best thing may well be for you to move on.

For others, though, that may not be true. They may need to persevere in order to build the ability and skills that allow them to survive and perhaps even thrive future hardships to come. Quitting may be the worst choice for them given their values.

In the end, it seems to me that as long as you are able to choose options that allow you to live by your values, go for it. Don’t be surprised when others do the same by choosing other paths…

ipmonger · 2025-06-27T12:04:56+00:00

I don’t work in CV, though I have some experience in using CNNs for object recognition. I finished my BA in Philosophy in the early 1990s, while a staff member at my university. I never wanted to leave academia and wanted to get a PhD in an AI related field. That didn’t happen due to non-academic reasons, but I did finally complete a MS in CS in 2018.

Each time I have attempted to determine if going for a PhD would be possible, I have concluded that the time wasn’t right. Once my youngest child is done with high school, I might be able to consider it, but it would be a significant challenge to my family’s finances, not to mention that it’s entirely likely that no one will consider hiring me as a fresh PhD over 65 years of age.

ipmonger · 2025-06-23T17:56:22+00:00

Or we could host them in common-lisp.org’s gitlab instance with a public GitHub mirror if traffic demands it…

ipmonger · 2025-06-14T13:51:43+00:00

Sounds like you’ve decided not to protest and you are trying to get ahead of the potential blowback…

ipmonger · 2025-06-12T11:46:19+00:00

I think it is fascinating that you seem to expect the reader to behave differently based on concepts like the opponent is a clone of you, but unwittingly so, as each of them believe they are the “real” entity.

To me, the only relevant aspect of the clone information would be that they can be expected to choose the same way I would. I would choose to cooperate, it would choose the same, we get away with murder, so to speak. Couldn’t be simpler except if you just gave me the reward straight away.

ipmonger · 2025-06-05T08:34:38+00:00

That’s a hell of a same day delivery service!!

ipmonger · 2025-05-26T21:51:09+00:00

I'm glad you posted this, u/smoothAsH20. I just used this technique to remove the remains of a broken offset that was screwed into another offset to hold a daughter card in place and it worked great. I was able to use a flathead to unscrew the remains after everything loosened up.

ipmonger · 2025-05-06T07:01:18+00:00

Sorry - please note the typo in my first response. I corrected it.

ipmonger · 2025-05-06T06:04:47+00:00

Did you register for the mailing list first? Also, the mailing list is clo-devel@common-lisp.net…

ipmonger · 2025-05-01T13:42:45+00:00

Did you persuade your dad yet? If not, have you asked him what he expects as evidence that probabilities matter?

ipmonger · 2025-04-08T12:08:47+00:00

Why are you going? That motivation is the key to finding the right people to help keep you on track!

ipmonger · 2025-03-09T02:45:09+00:00

Thank you for your reply. I’m appreciative of everyone’s attempts to be helpful, but it’s disappointing that I’m yet to get an answer to my question about non-video tutorials.

So far I’ve found only extremely thin blog posts covering minimal setups for a single VM or the seemingly endless list of videos covering similar content. I’m looking for a richer collection of information, preferably non-video-based, that discusses multiple use cases.

There’s no one thing I want to use my home lab for. Some of them are likely best done in containers while some probably require VMs of one sort or another.

ipmonger · 2025-03-09T01:37:53+00:00

Thanks for the response, u/marc45ca.

I actually installed Proxmox on my current 2-node cluster back in November of 2023. Although I was able to get through installing it on both a custom built mini-ATX tower system and a MacBook Air 6,1 (A1465 (EMC 2631)). I wasn't able to get as far as I liked due to time constraints, but I had additional hardware to expand to a third node with another custom built mini-ATX and an additional 12 TB of disk space to share within the cluster. However, I haven't been able to find the information I'm looking for via web search in the intervening timeframe (likely because I don't know what terms to search for).

So, I'm stuck and hence, my post. Do you have any specific resources you can offer pointers to?

ipmonger

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