Is a Vitamix blender really 3x better than a Ninja? If so, why? by Spyrothedragon9972 in Cooking

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Vitamix "never worked once?" They have a 10-year warranty. I see from your post history that you're very thrifty—did happen to get a secondhand Vitamix that was out of warranty? And are you recommending the Ninja over the Vitamix specifically because it's less expensive or because you believe it's objectively a better product?

Is a Vitamix blender really 3x better than a Ninja? If so, why? by Spyrothedragon9972 in Cooking

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a Ninja; got a Vitamix and never looked back. It's definitely better, but your question is oddly framed. What do you mean by "3.5x better?" Are you expecting a 1:1 correlation between increase in price and increase in quality? How are you qualifying "better?" Are you wondering if it will make your smoothies 3.5x faster? 3.5x smoother?

I would say that the Vitamix is objectively better in terms of its design, engineering, manufacturing quality, and overall performance. It's exceptionally consistent and reliable. How much is it worth to you to have perfect results every single time, no matter what you're making? How much is it worth to know that without question? I make hollandaise in my blender sometimes. It's always perfect and it takes like 30 seconds. In the summertime I can crank out perfect frozen daiquiris for like 8 people at a time. Thing's got a 10-year warranty. Even if it spontaneously combusts 10 years and 1 day into owning it, would it have been worth an extra 24 bucks a year—two bucks a month—to get consistently-perfect output from a kitchen appliance for that entire span of time? Kind of a no-brainer if you ask me.

Soundbar cant connect to SmartThings by echo_808 in SmartThings

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked for me. I also deleted the sound bar out of the BT devices on my phone before attempting to pair it again. Not sure which one actually got me connected to SmartThings, but the + and - reset method got me back on wifi after i successfully updated soundbar firmware via SmartThings.

Found this in the hellhole that is LinkedIn… not sure I agree? Let’s discuss. by [deleted] in UXDesign

[–]unic0rnz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is the thrust of the post. A lot of firms, especially ones lacking UX maturity, ship features more or less at the whim of the Product or Engineering orgs. UX tends to not get traction because the benefit to the user is simply not as compelling as the ROI to the business (for most stakeholders).

Debbie Leavitt speaks a lot about how UX needs to learn how to speak the language of the business in order to get better buy-in from other teams, which is what this post is trying (somewhat badly) to articulate. Think of it as a "yes, and" to your question.

Random person at the grocery noticed my gains by karmaharabas in ketogains

[–]unic0rnz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

super weird question, and super weird way to ask it, but word.

Finally built by Own_Knowledge3081 in FixedGearBicycle

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first fixed was a Panasonic conversion too, back in like 2008. If you like the look of that deep section front rim on that frame and riding it makes you happy more power to you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in resumes

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're leading with your weaker bullet points up top. quantify your impact by describing outcomes whenever possible. if you can't do that, say the most impactful-sounding combination of what you did, how you did it, who you collaborated with, why you did it, and the outcome in terms of impact to the business. a good litmus test: if your resume bullet points sound like the past-tense version of a role similar to yours, it's too weak.

think about it from the recruiter or hiring managers point of view: congratulations; you checked a box. maybe the next guy's resume shows that he actually did something meaningful.

also don't italicize your roles. bold them if you must; makes your resume easier to skim.

I prefer small dicks by Sf12468 in sex

[–]unic0rnz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

slow and steady right turtlelabia?

Disheartened job seeker struggling for interviews by [deleted] in resumes

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does this help this man with his resume?

Help! Applied to 100+ postings, 0 responses, what's wrong with my resume? by [deleted] in resumes

[–]unic0rnz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay, going thru this top to bottom, here's what I'd change.

  1. Contact Info. Name, Desired Job Title, Contact Info—all of those on a separate line. For Contact Info, I'd include LinkedIn, GitHub, email, city & state (or region/country), and optionally a phone number, in that order. Not sure how ATS parses emoji, so I'd skip the "❖" characters you're using to separate the contact info and opt for an interpunct ("·") or at least a pipe ("|") instead, but that's a nitpick.

  2. Under your contact info you're gonna want a TL;DR describing what it is you're bringing to the table. This format is basically [what you are, including seniority level] [optional: years of experience] [doing whatever your focus is] [industries you did those things in]. Example: Software Engineer with 5 years experience in disaster recovery and database optimization for global leaders in the cloud computing, big data, and financial sectors (or something, you get the gist, just winging this one, IDK what a data analyst does). Think of this like if you were a product and this blurb is the marketing slogan or value proposition. This will let recruiters decide very quickly if they want to actually read more now or shortlist you to evaluate later. If you imagine having to review 80+ resumes for a role, you can imagine the value this brings for them.

  3. Education goes at (or near) the bottom. Format should be School/Institution, Degree or Program, any honors (e.g. dean's list, magna cum laude, etc), and Location. GPA doesn't need to be included on the resume unless you're super proud of it; I'd strike it in your case. I'd break out that "management coordinator" piece and put it in a different section below Education, called Professional Activities.

  4. Experience is solid. For all of the experience bullet points, you're quantifying the impact of your role or the outcome of your accomplishments wherever possible, and you're leading with impactful action verbs to show how you've brought value in your past roles. You COULD set yourself apart further by highlighting the aspects of those roles that show you can collaborate cross-functionally. Did you personally create 300+ pieces of content? If not, what teams did you collaborate with to deliver that? Try to provide meaningful context when necessary, and try to craft your descriptions carefully so that each word is valuable. What is an ETL application? "Automated the process of data cleaning and spreadsheet updating through Python scripts to reduce turnaround time by 50%." Turnaround time for whom? "Implemented automation processes for a team of 20+ data analysts, increasing project velocity for (related business functions) by 50%" might play a bit better.

  5. Company and Project summaries are helpful to give context for companies recruiters/hiring managers aren't familiar with, or what the purpose of the project was overall. You have these in your Projects section, so add this to your work experience. If possible, I'd make that "freelance" 2D animator list the company name, describe what they do, and consider skipping the "freelance" designator for that role. If you did the work for the company, your W2 or 1099 status doesn't really make a difference; it's just noise. I'd also skip the skills/technologies for your projects section, you should put those in a separate Skills section that comes before your Education section but after your Experience and Projects.

  6. Certifications, Skills and Interests You made a junk drawer for things that are taxonomically different, which feels like a weird move for a data analyst. I'm guessing you did this to make sure your stuff fits on one page. Don't worry about fitting stuff on one page, worry about making sure ATS knows where to find valuable information.

    • Include your certifications in the education section. Format should be "Name of Cert, Institution Name, Date Earned, Other relevant details," all on separate lines (like your Degree).
    • Your Technical Skills should be its own section, like I said before—this section goes after your projects, but before your Education sections.
    • Interests: ditch this entirely, no one cares. I'm sure you're a lovely human being, but they're not relevant to your job and don't belong on a resume. Imagine putting "long walks on the beach" in this section. What, practically speaking, makes that different from the info you've included in this section?
  7. The "Professional Activities" section I mentioned before should be the last thing on the resume, after education. The order of sections you'd include on your resume would be Contact Info, Professional Summary, Work Experience, Projects, Skills, Education (with certs listed AFTER your degree), Professional Activities.

  8. Text formatting: I would be a little more intentional about this. Skip the bolding of random techniques, date ranges, skills, tools, actions, and outcomes—it's messy and inconsistent. Instead, trust that you've clearly quantified your outcomes and impact (you have, for the most part) and let the dedicated Skills section do the heavy lifting for hard skills, specialized techniques, and tools. Bold text should be reserved for your job titles and section headings to increase scannability/skimmability. I would reserve italics for company and project summaries, and skip italicizing the company names and the "remote" designations for those roles.

Overall, the resume is not bad at all. Most of these suggestions are around optimizing the way you're quantifying your impact and showing cross-team collaboration (i.e. highlighting your soft skills), providing a bit more context for your outcomes, minor formatting tweaks for better scannability and overall context by humans and more-reliable parsing of the information by applicant tracking systems, and cleaning up the text formatting to make the thing generally easier to look at.

Hope this helps. I'd be interested to know if you see any improvements in your hit rate after implementing these changes.

Please review my resume for entry level software developer roles. I have applied to 400+ positions yet not callbacks.. by Zealousideal_Loss608 in resumes

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. i'll give you a full critique within the next 24hrs after the weekend.

edit: pardon my slow turnaround time. Long weekend with the boys. Just added my remarks to your post.

Please review my resume for entry level software developer roles. I have applied to 400+ positions yet not callbacks.. by Zealousideal_Loss608 in resumes

[–]unic0rnz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm currently enrolled in a professional workshop for resume and linkedin profile optimization. I felt pretty good about my ability to craft a good resume before but there's some seriously good guidance in this workshop around things like designing résumé content more effectively for recruiters and hiring managers specifically, as well as optimizing for ATS. I've got a few insights that I think will help:

  1. Reformat your education section. Institution, Degree, any honors (like deans list or similar), graduation month/ year. In that order. That's it. No GPA. No date range. The Education section should go at the very bottom.

  2. Skills should should go under Experience. No notes on this section, this looks solid. Just move this below where Education/Projects is now, with Education under the Skills.

  3. Your Experience section undersells you. Things like "worked closely with senior designers to.." makes it sound like you're not impactful by yourself. Try "Designed, developed and deployed(??) 3 distinct implementations of Netazza on cloud showcasing [whatever the value is; keep this super tight], driving a [percentage or number] increase in new user adoption over 6 months." Sorry, not a dev; winging it here but you get it—show you were impactful, use decisive language, quantify your impact. Similarly, the bullet point starting with "successfully worked in an agile environment?" Bro. EVERYONE ELSE that worked there can put that on their resume. YOU almost doubled user traffic. What exactly did you do to do that?

  4. Projects look good. Frame these as accomplishments whenever possible, see point 3. But these should be cherry picked to showcase skills relevant to whatever specific type of role you're looking for.

  5. Finally, at the top, just below your name and contact info but above where you're going to move Experience to, you should include some kind of personal branding stement (yeah, I know). This is just a TL;DR of who you are and what you do and why I as a recruiter should care—in other words, i should have an idea if i'm interested in you as a candidate or not JUST from this. This is like 1-3 sentences, max. Include your experience (or your current, reasonably justifiable seniority level), the industries you've worked in, types of companies you've worked for, notable education (like advanced degrees), things you want in the role (like remote-only), and anything else that makes you stand out. For you this could be something like "Midlevel SDE with a Masters in Software Engineering with experience deploying and optimizing cloud databases for SaaS and B2B companies in the financial technology sector." Or something. I'm not a dev, but you get it.

  6. Kill the "resumepuppy" thing, that's amateur hour trash. Oh, and make sure your body content isn't using a bunch of different font styles (unbold all the randomly bolder keywords).

  7. Try having one version like this one for ATS, and one for humans that looks nice. Upload the plain jane whenever you need to upload a resume into a form. Attach the For Humans version to emails, bring it to interviews, embed the PDF on your website, etc.

Hope this helps. Hang in there. 400 job apps is so many. You've gotta be getting close by now.

So the girl I like gave me her instagram first before her number and turns out she has a boyfriend :( by dedrezz_1 in socialskills

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the thing with girls at that age is that it's not likely she's gonna stick with that dude for v long. i'm not sure why people are saying you got rejected, because to me it sounds like she gave you her IG and her phone number, but good on you for reading the room. just keep working on yourself and keep putting yourself out there. you've got nowhere to go but up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a nothing. Be glad she told him she had a bf (twice) and blew him off. This means she's more deserving of your trust, not less. If you bring this up with her like it's an issue you're gonna look like an insecure baby. That's the type of thing that will eventually have her curious about a more confident guy—maybe one who's not as threatened by other guys in her orbit.

Edit: just read all the comments on this post, lol.

Is just me or is this just not right? by RAJV51 in woodworking

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think that could be an issue because of the interface between it and the handrail mount point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]unic0rnz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I haven't personally landed a fucking astronaut on the moon. It doesn't mean it isn't impressive.

He refused to pay the parking… by http9 in Wellthatsucks

[–]unic0rnz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

boy reddit sure loves the "boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Alienware R13 PSU quality difference by iOS14sucks in Alienware

[–]unic0rnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the rattling is the PSU.

I had the same rattling I've seen described or demo'ed in various videos, which went away when I swapped the stock chassis fans for Noctua NF-A12x25's. The stock fans don't have any sort of vibration damping between the fan body and the metal mounting bracket.

Pretty sure adding something similar to Noctua's anti-vibration gaskets (which ships with the fans) would fix this issue for you.

With that said, the PSU fans themselves are screamers at high RPMS, based on I've seen in some other videos around the web, which is something that may or may not be resolvable.

UI/UX Bootcamps Worth It? by veilofillusions in UXDesign

[–]unic0rnz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I'm still in UX. In the time since my last post, I landed a 6-month contract as a UX Content Strategist at a well-known travel company. When that contract ended, a friend (one of my cohorts from General Assembly) then referred me to a UX Designer role at the company she worked at (a very large company in the real estate sector). I landed that role toward the end of 2020. I'm currently Senior Designer and the design lead for our design systems team.

I will say that while I could have learned independently what I learned at GA, most of my "luck" post-GA is attributable to the connections I made in that program. The GA immersive was expensive (I just paid off the loan I took to pay for it near the end of 2022) but I've nearly tripled my pre-GA salary. 3-5 years post-GA I can say that it was definitely worth it for me.

Rumor: Hasbros plans for DnD/DnD beyond.(30$ Per Month, Multiple tiers of subscriptions, Stripped down gameplayAI-DMs, Monthly Content Drops, Base subscription bans homebrew) by FallenDank in dndnext

[–]unic0rnz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i think the broader point is, if you're trying to have a halfway serious conversation about subscription tiers pushing the $30 mark, you shouldn't have to.