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  • Were you carrying around 1000 camp supplies, 8 looted swords, 35 potions, and 2 suits of plate armour by any chance? ;)

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    A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN
  • You are making sense, logically. That’s how it should be: If you are a better candidate, you should get the interview.

    But picture this nonsense scenario that I think is nevertheless illustrative of the problem: the hiring manager is overworked, at the end of their 12 hour shift filling in doing odds and ends because they’re understaffed and the guests need service, a kid threw up in the pool, there is a standards compliance issue regarding detergent and it might be illegal to wash the sheets with this, the breakfast delivery was cancelled and in six hours there will be hungry guests, and there are 30 CVs to read while they’re on hold talking with an emergency industrial bakery.

    Those CVs are not getting the attention they deserve. The job won’t be going to the best candidate. The job will go to whoever seems most acceptable of the 5 CVs they managed to read before the croissants got ordered and they’re off to their next emergency.

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    A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination | CNN
  • It could be racism, or it could be because the reviewers eyes fell on different words while they were skimming the CV, or it could be because the reviewer was slightly more tired for one of the CVs. This sort of thing is very hard for a human being to be consistent at.

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    Elsevier
  • Docx doc rtf and all those have a different purpose than pdf, word docs don’t even necessarily look the same on two different computers with the same version of word, and rtf doesn’t even attempt any kind of paper description, it’s literally only a rich format for text. None of these are a true “if I give this to someone to print I know what I will get” “portable document format”

    I will look at fb*, I had not heard of them. Thanks!

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    Good evening I hate Windows. Yes, I have to do this.
  • Until you have it write a github action that uses a bash script to process a directory structure with spaces in the names. Never seen ChatGPT so confused before.

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    Euro bottles are so much better now
  • Depends on what you drink. On a smoothie the thicker liquid will cling onto the lid while you drink until just at the moment then drip onto your clothes.

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    Heathcliff without Heathcliff 4/3/2024
  • You’ve said that’s beds are made out of meat before… is it just because of the colour? Surely other things share colours, why in this case does that equate to sharing materials?

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