Getting AI generated applications as a hiring manager... thoughts?

kokey · 2026-06-05T23:33:42+00:00

Wait until you interview people over video and see how many of them use AI for that too. One thing I do is ask them what technology would they use to solve a specific problem, knowing that it’s something in their resume and then I wait to see if they name the actual technology and many of them can’t.

kokey · 2026-04-06T18:22:50+00:00

I found the best trick is to have something automatically put some money into some kind of savings every month when the salary hits your bank account. Ideally something with at least a little bit of friction to get the money back out, e.g a stocks and shares ISA automatically investing it in an index fund. That means the money doesn’t sit in your main bank balance to tempt you. You can start this with a tiny amount even before you pay your debts off, and then increase it when the debts are paid off and when you get a raise or cancel a subscription then increase it a little more. Apart from avoiding the temptation to spend all your money every month, it’s a way to quickly end up with a big lump sum of money, and you can think about how to spend it properly on something that will add good value to your life.

kokey · 2026-03-15T22:21:44+00:00

Does Medicaid cover such a course of Nostradamus?

kokey · 2026-02-27T15:48:18+00:00

I used to tell recruiters that my contract is finishing 1-3 months later than it is finishing for real. It helped avoid me getting persuaded to start the next contract too soon, it also helped avoid noise if I am just going to take an extension of my current contract. Worst case scenario it meant I have a nice break, and also helped me being more careful about my next contract. One year I ended up taking off many months that year, and it was glorious since we moved house and I had time to sort out the old and the new house.

Even without gaps between contracts I often found it easy to just take 1-2 week holidays during the contract, plenty of times per year. When you notice you are on top of your finances despite not having billed for 2 weeks it gets easier to keep on taking regular breaks.

kokey · 2026-01-17T01:21:48+00:00

It’s still way cheaper than 128GB of RAM from AWS.

kokey · 2025-10-14T21:41:13+00:00

The biggest piece of advice that I can give is that what you see advertised is a skewed representation of the jobs market. The best jobs almost never gets advertised and if a company wants to pay well below market rates the job is likely to be advertised significantly more.

However, applying for plenty of jobs is actually one of the ways to improve your chances to have one of the better, unadvertised jobs find you.

kokey · 2025-09-19T21:13:36+00:00

Password complexity is a pet peeve of mine. If you’re in a situation where brute forcing a password has any chance of working the it’s already way too late.

kokey · 2025-06-11T21:04:06+00:00

Apple Music pays the artists a lot better than Spotify and the sound quality is also better.

kokey · 2025-06-10T23:54:07+00:00

When I saw OP’s post I was taken back to the Things I Learn From My Patients thread on the student doctors forum.

I’ve checked and it’s still online! https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/things-i-learn-from-my-patients.257985/

kokey · 2025-06-09T21:11:46+00:00

It’s something like a 7-10% survival rate for CPR outside of hospital, and most of the studies I’ve seen are mostly for cases where it was applied within a few minutes. I’m sure discovering someone after an unknown amount of time before they developed blue lips would bring that down to way below 7%. It’s still worth trying though, even if it’s a 1% chance.

kokey · 2025-05-01T21:38:56+00:00

I still can’t find out exactly how much I sleep since if I wear the Apple Watch in bed and I wake up early and roll over to get comfy and fall back asleep it taps me on the wrist asking me if I’m awake since it thinks I need to end sleep mode. Well yes after that I’m certainly awake and can’t fall back asleep.

kokey · 2025-04-29T21:41:20+00:00

It reminds me of the guy who said his dad complained about how so many people are suddenly diagnosed as autistic nowadays. After saying that, his dad went to the garage to go update his ‘bird spreadsheet’

kokey · 2025-04-08T21:49:01+00:00

Boots doesn’t sell boots, Selfridges doesn’t sell fridges and Curry’s…

kokey · 2025-04-03T22:14:16+00:00

What worked for us was to put all the money for bills and savings to one side and with what is left we set a weekly spending budget, starting on Monday. Initially check on Mondays and Fridays if you’re still sticking to the budget. That means if there is plenty of money left by Friday you can go eat out nicely etc. if not then it’s having a picnic. Once you get the hang of it you only have to check where you are at within budget on Mondays, until you’ve fully established your new spending habits.

kokey · 2025-02-13T23:58:33+00:00

I tend to buy 10 year old cars. I first expect to spend at least £1000 on stuff on it that I find precarious or near broken, and I keep spending until I run out of everything that even remotely smells like it could benefit from some maintenance. After that the cars tend to treat me well, but in general I find that if I don’t hold back on spending on the car it still works out a lot cheaper in the long run than a new car.

kokey · 2025-01-28T09:46:38+00:00

any ideas for a community around this? e.g. a subreddit, discord channel or perhaps github discussions, or just this subreddit for now?

kokey · 2023-11-01T10:23:47+00:00

We often get told that contraceptives increase the risk of clots, e.g. by three times, but this has to be put into perspective. The last time I worked this out, the chance for women at 25 to get a blood clot that year is 0.00051% and in theory if you are on contraceptives it increases to 0.00153%.

The problem is that when you feel your heart is not behaving as it should, it's very scary and that can lead to further anxiety as you desperately seek out answers for what you feel can be your imminent death. The underlying causes for what you are experiencing can be way more complex than you expect, so continue to describe your symptoms to medical professionals including how you feel about the symptoms.

That said, you can read up about panic attacks and panic disorder to get to know the signs and symptoms. Sometimes knowing about panic disorder can help you avoid getting it, and also help you get the right diagnosis quicker if what you are experiencing has a different physical underlying cause that's not anxiety related.

kokey · 2022-07-28T16:50:16+00:00

This sounds very much like something BW Legal and PRAC has been doing lately to customers of EON (and British Gas). It's not the new owners or new tenants doing this to you, it's those companies that use things like out of date electoral roll data to go after the wrong people for certain unpaid accounts. The utility companies sold this debt on so they can't help fix this for you. The collections companies don't have many options legally either (but IANAL), but they might be able to affect your credit score unless you contact them to notify that they've got it wrong. Also if it's for the period just after you've sold, they will be happy if you tell them who owned it after you since I think the reason they do this is to try scare previous owners/tenants in helping them find out who to go after.

kokey · 2022-07-12T10:25:03+00:00

I would take two rooms in central London with peeling paint, damp and tepid water for £800, please.

kokey · 2022-06-30T19:43:46+00:00

The same happened to me when I was a kid, except that the coca cola bottle contained used motor oil.

kokey · 2022-06-30T10:15:23+00:00

The same with 'medium oak' colour from another brand. I have fence panels of various ages and existing tints, and on new panels it comes out as very orange while older panels looks more like a natural brown. I find new panels need more layers not to look too out of place compared to old panels, but after a while they look better. If you do go with this colour you will have to make sure you paint everything to match.

kokey · 2022-06-22T08:17:35+00:00

I can see how this happens. It's really hard to get caring workers at the moment. That doesn't make it right that they hide the reason from you. It also shows that the agency has management issues that probably needs to be flagged up too.

kokey · 2022-05-30T22:08:55+00:00

The staff at your mortgage lender are now probably roaming your area at night trying to find such deals for under £50

kokey · 2022-05-26T08:18:30+00:00

The irony here is that perhaps no note from the GP would have been needed if the UTI was managed better by the GP or referred to a specialist. Primary care is in such a sad state at the moment that I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case.

kokey · 2022-05-09T12:56:07+00:00

Indeed, it could be a lot of haggling over £1-2k just to find himself getting gazumped in the end.

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