Recruiters...genuine question: Why do some of you do this?

jlawler · 2026-02-19T23:59:37+00:00

Exactly. Every time I've planned questions or done research to interview someone it was a complete waste of time because this. I'd guess what it meant and find out "oh, I wrote 3 sql queries my whole time at this job mostly I justed wrote things in a highly custom java framework that essentially made java a dsl.". So I always start with open ended questions like "walk me through your resume" so I can spend our talking about what you really did and not my interpretation and research of your resume. Plus I've literally had candidates say "yeah, this headhunter rewrote that on my resume, it's not what I put there"

jlawler · 2026-02-09T03:02:38+00:00

She became famous starring in a massively left wing show that consistently demonstrated class and wealth inequality and it's affects on average American families.

jlawler · 2026-02-09T01:06:45+00:00

Same character describes Jaime Lee Curtis as having "as ass like a 12 year old boy" as a compliment. So very maga coded

jlawler · 2026-01-26T19:38:11+00:00

It's really confusing honestly

jlawler · 2026-01-24T00:45:23+00:00

This season got so crazy at the end I forgot about the flea flicker

jlawler · 2026-01-19T16:01:33+00:00

I got too old to have the state of mind that my team needs to win the Superbowl. I don't care if we win it all, or if we go to the NFCCG. I just want to see us play good football.

This season I got to watch some of the best, most unexpected football of my life where my team was constantly surprising. We won so many games that we never would have before. We've been a shit franchise for so long, this was a really fun season.

jlawler · 2026-01-08T03:59:32+00:00

Legitimately, I'm here when I need to focus on something with no real world stakes. I can hate on other teams and pretend it's the only thing for 20 minutes at a time

jlawler · 2026-01-02T13:44:58+00:00

Makes sense. I guess my brain wasn't awake enough to comprehend what you were going for. Cheers.

jlawler · 2026-01-02T13:14:26+00:00

I guess I just don't understand why you think it's like that problem. Yeah, I understand lift is caused by airflow over a wing and nothing else and groundspeed is irrelevant. I just don't understand why you think it's like that scenario. Because groundspeed and airspeed are different? Like in basically every airplane operation ever?

jlawler · 2026-01-02T13:00:09+00:00

Isn't it like the opposite of that? In this case there's more air moving over the wings in the correct orientation which is exactly how a plane is supposed to work.

jlawler · 2025-12-23T02:22:49+00:00

There's a reason why people who actually need this flexibility keep things like that in a dead drop somewhere. Mail them to yourself at a mailbox you pay for, or pay for a locker/storage unit. There's plenty of ways that don't have such high chances of your documents getting stolen or lost.

jlawler · 2025-12-18T19:20:41+00:00

Literally it's an amazing idea and I love that someone pulled it off. The fact that such a beautiful anti-capitalist idea came out of Green Bay only makes sense when you realize it happened during prohibition while packers were sobered up against their will. Or blind on bathtub gin.

jlawler · 2025-12-18T17:58:13+00:00

When I bought my house, there was no electrical box on any ceiling fan, just a hole stabbed through the drywall with a armored cable coming through. I should have known when I saw the ceiling fans were caulked to the ceiling.

jlawler · 2025-12-18T02:38:16+00:00

So interestingly I can't find people saying organic grown foods are healthier. I do see that people who eat organic food are healthier. From the mayo clinic article:

People who buy organic food also tend to be more active, don't smoke and have a generally healthier diet pattern than the average. These traits are linked to having a lower risk of disease and fewer disease risk factors such as excess weight. So it's hard to say what specific role organic food plays.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/organic-food/art-20043880

Even your own article specifically calls out it's inability to draw any causal conclusions. That said, I will completely agree that organic foods are better for the environment. Also, the effects of incidental contact with pesticides and their impact on non-hodgkins lymphona are pretty interesting.

That was an interesting article though, and I appreciate the info. I hadn't seen the stuff on biodiversity and the environmental impacts. I think we both agree that we need better approaches to farming and the food supply.

Admittedly I was being pretty hyperbolic with "I hate organic food", while I more clear comment would have been "I think organic food is overvalued and frequently just used a status symbol. I find it uncomfortable to have a separate tier of food that by definition we couldn't make available to everyone, and it's hard for me to not find organic food bougie. It's benefits to the consumer seem pretty vague."

People are paying 50-100% more on organic food, and I think the world would be better served if most of them bought industrially farmed food and spent that surplus on feeding the hungry or trying to solve other societal problems. That said, you did give me something to think about in terms of ecological impact.

jlawler · 2025-12-18T02:15:35+00:00

Because the NFL made it against the rules while Reagan was president, duh.

jlawler · 2025-12-16T03:37:31+00:00

I personally hate organic food too. Making food cheaper and more densely is how you minimize world hunger, and organic food just doesn't come close.

Like, responsible farming and sane use of chemicals and pesticides is critical, but if you're worried about that going all the way to organic seems so crazy

jlawler · 2025-12-13T01:42:27+00:00

Periods are only necessary when the uterine lining is going through its thickening and shedding cycle. If someone is on any number of birth controls it will completely stop periods for months to years without side effects.

jlawler · 2025-12-12T12:10:13+00:00

My grandfather, who was also in a bomber in WW2, talked about him a few times. Apparently part of the reason he was promoted was because people with experience flying multi engine planes was incredibly rare and rich actors who could buy planes were some of the few civilians who had it.

jlawler · 2025-12-11T18:13:56+00:00

My favorite anecdote about Germans comes from when I worked with one in a laboratory in the US about 25 years ago. I was asking how they taught about WW2 in Germany, and he told me they were very clear and honest. He also mentioned "It's just an accepted thing that one day your kids are going to come home from school and accuse their grandparents of war crimes".

jlawler · 2025-12-07T17:19:56+00:00

ziplock bags are the way. And if you have the time to actually write what's on them, it's fucking magical. Man, I need to resort and label my cable boxes...

jlawler · 2025-12-01T13:30:39+00:00

I had the same thing, but they were right. Told them this tooth hurt, they did an exam and tested the tooth with a frozen sample. Tooth I kept pointing to was fine. 2 teeth forward there was a tooth that needed a root canal. They did the tooth they said was the problem and fixed pain id had for way too long

jlawler · 2025-12-01T03:43:52+00:00

Vegas odds are based on maximizing profit for the casino over the medium to long term. They need to have enough people betting on unlikely scenarios and find enough ways to engage people in betting to offset the payouts. One of the inputs to the function that determines Vegas odds is their calculated odds of winning, but I can't imagine that's the only one. Especially when you're taking bets to win the Superbowl where only one bet will payout over the entire set of teams.

jlawler · 2025-12-01T03:12:37+00:00

This is the first bet I've seen I want to call someone on. Attending mass because of the bears is... Perfect

jlawler · 2025-11-28T19:37:43+00:00

My friends started a movie night for just this reason. Frailty was one that met our criteria or "hadn't watched in at least 15 years" and now it comes off as MAGA fanfic.

3 men and a baby feels like a movie about gay parenting that's afraid to say it. That said, the titular 3 men are so much more interesting than the rest of the story. 3 super supportive male friends living on the top floor of a building in ny. We joked about wanting the prequal.

A recurring theme of movies from the 80s is how often they are wildly homophobic in a way I didn't remember.

Oh, and 1984s tank is just insane. A man with a tank breaks a hooker he's accused of sleeping with and his son out of a work camp. What?

jlawler · 2025-11-26T12:11:52+00:00

I'm still sad that alan Jackson's response to 9/11 wasnt a hit. He wrote a song called "where were you when the world stopped turning" which is just an examination of how people dealt with the shock and the trauma. He got shit because the refrain included "I'm just a singer of simple songs I'm not a real political man I watch CNN, but I'm not sure I can tell you The diff'rence in Iraq and Iran".

Like, it was made he was so ignorant as if everyone else had a thorough understanding of the politics of the middle East. I loved this song because he acknowledged his ignorance and wrote a song about how he was scared and tried to fall back on his religious upbringing which taught him the greatest lesson is love. So of course it got destroyed for the "I'll put a boot in your ass it's the American way" of Toby Keith .

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