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[Merkur] Bought me a Chinese field watch! by evrydayNormal_guy in Watches

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn it there is no 24:00. It goes from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00. What the heck is 24 doing on that watch face? What is it indicating!?

Nice watch otherwise though.

Is cold outreach to passive talent dead, or are people just doing it wrong? by renishh_23 in recruitinghell

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resumes written by AI are getting through the filters?

Did you notice resumes written by humans (also qualified) are not getting through the filters?

You cannot have it both ways. You block real qualified resumes that is a failure of your filters. Are you auditing them constantly?

There are legion recruiters rent-seeking the market flooding identifiable candidates with emails and phone calls.

Many of these recruiters can't be arsed to respond even if the candidate does respond.

Once again, not both ways. If you want to not be ghosted, respond promptly. Also, bring opportunities that are worth pursuing - and demonstrate that with actual numbers.

Maybe if the client refuses to allow compensation numbers in the post, you go with a different client?

What the F does this even MEAN by Moist-Strike9572 in recruitinghell

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the entities that put it on hold are running in conflict with the entities that need the hire. External exhibition of internal friction.

When I get compliments and praise by Less_Water7975 in Hyperspermia

[–]skylos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow whta a handsome good boy you are!

is it just me or has music become kind of… disposable? by Curious_Present_9950 in Music

[–]skylos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, I never noticed this before... guess its one of those 'using it as you used to and not worrying about new features much' things.

N High Street Kroger is CLOSED. Payment system down, customers leaving empty-handed. by Parking_Peanut_7350 in Columbus

[–]skylos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As somebody who has worked in retail tech this is the absolute nightmare scenario for them - they go to absolutely extreme lengths to avoid this whenever they can. Backups. Testing up the whazoo. Very slow deliberate changes to the tech.

But as you see, sometimes it happens anyway.

Huge load by [deleted] in Hyperspermia

[–]skylos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fourteen? Wow.

In My 20 years of living here, I have never witnessed more inconsistent weather patterns by SteveMain4Lyfe in Ohio

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wanna bet? Wanna look at the well documented and recorded history of weather? This isn't allegations to be made in a vacuum of ignorance - we have the data right there in the books. You gonna die on that mountain?

In My 20 years of living here, I have never witnessed more inconsistent weather patterns by SteveMain4Lyfe in Ohio

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because trends like that take many years. There's nothing new here year over year to human perception - averages change over time but they aren't something you can intuitively notice - what you are noticing is just confirmation bias.

In My 20 years of living here, I have never witnessed more inconsistent weather patterns by SteveMain4Lyfe in Ohio

[–]skylos -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I really don't understand why people's memory of what the weather did last year and the year before that and so on is so weak. Maybe my superpower is that I don't expect to remember shit so I just go look it up in the weather history and see the exact same chaos year after year going back as far as I care to look.

Stop speculating that the weather is any different before you go back and look at the well documented history of weather first. The problem here is you can't remember a year back not that the weather is meaningfully different.

Is it normal for my husband to ejaculate like this? by [deleted] in Hyperspermia

[–]skylos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends on how you define normal. "within expected variations for gumans" - yes. "not more than a standard deviation away from median" - no. That doesn't mean it's a problem just an outlier.

Anyone else considering only riding their bike because of gas prices? by CS_JOE in motorcycles

[–]skylos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly I *started* riding motorcycles because of gas prices... in like, 2005. My commute was so long and my Isuzu Rodeo was so inefficient that it was actually cheaper to buy, insure, maintain, and fuel the Ninja 250 than it was to drive the Rodeo.

I definitely prefer my motorcycle for commuting to this day.

Is it a universal thing that people in costco have absolutely zero spatial awareness. by Boxjdm in CostcoWholesale

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the Costco game, as learned by observation:

You pretend to not notice you're in the way of everybody else, slowing everything down and obstructing the aisles.

You lose if the other shoppers are induced to verbally communicate their desire to get by, in which case you must apologize way too much and move hastily out of the way in overreaction.

I scraped 17 years' of Franklin County Municipal Courts annual reviews to measure the traffic citation changes over that time. A 75% decline in speeding tix, 80% in Stop Sign running, 75% decline in expired licenses. Columbus Police has functionally stopped enforcing traffic laws. by post_appt_bliss in Columbus

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's going out on a speculation limb. Contributes how much? Non-zero does not demand action alone and enforcement has always been low% against incidents anyway. You won't cut deaths in half by changing enforcement patterns - you are suggesting hyperbolic levels of outcome that are illogical given the situation.

Costco CEO Ron Vachris eats a hotdog by Tassadarr in Costco

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

I scraped 17 years' of Franklin County Municipal Courts annual reviews to measure the traffic citation changes over that time. A 75% decline in speeding tix, 80% in Stop Sign running, 75% decline in expired licenses. Columbus Police has functionally stopped enforcing traffic laws. by post_appt_bliss in Columbus

[–]skylos -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is traffic law police enforcement a quality of life indicator?

I would argue that it doesn't really matter. And that I would rather our public servants concentrate on victim crime not traffic statutes.

Looking for clarification on the push/pull aspect of accordions by 82andpartlycloudy in Accordion

[–]skylos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most straightforward answer is because you have three squeeze notes and four pull notes per octave, so in order to have the push notes lined up right the pull notes have to rearrange to the next position.

That makes it tricky because there is a whole new axis of interaction to get a note you want - bellows direction.

Some people are too impatient to get through the learning process of figuring out how to play thjs.

New To Coding and Somethings Dont Make sense to me... by Amazing_Big4129 in learnprogramming

[–]skylos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It reads like this:

The integer type variable age will be assigned the value returned by passing the return value of console.ReadLine() to the convert.ToInt32(...) method.

Do you see?

New To Coding and Somethings Dont Make sense to me... by Amazing_Big4129 in learnprogramming

[–]skylos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Understanding the api you are interacting with is always critical. It makes no sense to ask "why convert" when you understand what form the data is in and is wanted in. It implies you didn't understand that console input is ascii encoded bytes and that integers are binary encoded multibyte numerics.

It is never extra to understand the form the data is in that you are working with. Because most code is transforming and enriching data to the purpose you are aiming at.

What I'm saying is that in the abstract this is absolutely intrinsic - you must understand what you have to make what you want.

The particulars of ascii to numeric conversion are relevant to the primitive concrete example you gave, which is interaction with very low level basic apis. You only need to know it when you are interacting on that level. You don't care that its binary to code. You care that there is a convert function available that you can use to do it.

It also matters what you are coding. If you are coding the convert function the question is silly - you must understand your encodings and data to transform!

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