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Is nobody going to mention what a pain in the ass it would be to change all those filters regularly? I love in a somewhat dry and dusty area and need to change my filters (near the ground) every two to three months. I'd hate to have to climb up a ladder to change eight to nine filters that often.

Here are some thoughts on coping strategies:

(1) Seek contract work on sites like Upwork.com or Freelancer.com instead of traditional jobs. Frequently all communication is via writing and this should be a boon for your needs. You can do a little freelancing on the side without quitting your current job. And it may help you gain additional modern skills or improve your pay while you look for a steady full-time job.

(2) I understand that your psychological conditions are rare and extreme, but it's always worth investing in self-improvement to try and mitigate some of these challenges. Practice interviewing, even if you don't want / need the job. Consider consulting with a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist for ongoing work to improve your social interactions. (I realize you've probably heard this a hundred times before and I apologize for repeating it again, but I had to include this for the sake of thoroughness.)

(3) I'd hire you for one of my projects in a heartbeat if you have the experience I need. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to provide a stable full-time job with benefits.

(4) Many companies with well-paying jobs will provide accommodations to candidates with special needs such as yours these days. You should apply to jobs normally, and for those that call you back be prepared to make a statement about your needs. Many jobs will even state that they will make "reasonable accommodations" to candidates with disabilities up-front. The ADA requires employers to make such accommodations to employees with disabilities.

redis has clustering capabilities right out of tge box. So do mysql and mariadb. Postgres needs an extension like citus, however.

In this case, yes.

Very counterintuitive. I understand how the proportional space of an n-ball bounded in an n-cube can go to zero, but I don't understand how the volume of an n+1-ball can be of a smaller volume than an n-ball.

I also got "banned" from twitter. (They actually just told me I couldn't use it again until I sent them some form of government ID - no thanks.) Never even posted a comment, only used it to read and like tweets periodically. Had it for maybe two years before they pulled this shit on me.

And yet the study only considered the application of filters, which are pure "polish".

And as I said: That isn't fair. But it also doesn't detract from my point that the people who put more effort into their applications are likely to also put more effort into their work. Once again: It's not a strong signal, but it's a signal.

If that had happened, then no. But it didn't.

I'm going to buck the trend and say that candidates with attractive photos are quite possibly actually more competent. When hiring, I consider the content of a resume and not its aesthetics. But the people who go the extra mile to add polish: An attractive, well-formatted resume; being well-dressed for an interview; and even adding polish to a photo - are likely candidates who express the added attention to detail I'm looking for in many roles. (Especially in design-focused roles.) Does it beat years of experience or technical competency? Absolutely not. But much like technical interviews not being a strong signal for a person's competency at a particular role they are still treated as a signal. You can have a polished photo without being an attractive person. So perhaps this study is actually measuring to some extent the perception of a person's professionalism and attention to detail rather than their inherent attractiveness. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Which isn't to say some people may be hired based on actual attractiveness rather than their perceived capabilities, which shouldn't be a factor generally. But if you're going to get indignant about people being hired based on looks then you'd better stop using sites more attractive than craigslist or products more attractive than crocs.

> It is truly shocking to me how many resumes has spelling and grammatical errors

Until a couple decades ago it was well understood that in English the "masculine" was gender-neutral and the "feminine" was an honorific. Hence why esteemed possessions, countries, etc. were referred to in the feminine. Is it possible that taking away that honorific from women has harmed their sense of self-worth or some other aspect of their well-being?

I've experienced similar. It's so they can tell their clients they've met with each candidate in person. Decidedly less of a selling point these days.

I used to. Stopped doing it as it was too much hassle to keep track of, but the biggest spammers were tech recruiters. I think some of them post fake jobs just so they can harvest your email address when you apply. Then that email address gets passed around on various lists for years.

Still incorrect. Valid email addresses can contain multiple '@'s as long as all but one are quoted.

Content moderation. Moderation creates the culture of online communities by reinforcing or diminishing certain behaviors. Not all communities have great cultures.

They don't rely solely on Bing. If a popular site doesn't appear, it's definitely a conscious decision on their part.

Taiwan is a separate country.

Many were skeptical and they were right to be skeptical. We're now experiencing inflation the likes of which we've not seen for decades. And it isn't over. It's not unlikely we'll enter a period of hyperinflation soon that breaks all historical records for the US.

Didn't China try something like this and end up with crumbling skyscrapers that were totally uninhabitable and expensive to replace?

That's exactly what a credit score is - only the defaults disappear after a certain number of years to give people another chance.

This is how it begins... mandate a "privacy-respecting" electronic currency capable of offline, anonymous, peer-to-peer payments. Then a few years later, mandate an exception for convicted criminals: gotta get their money to pay the victims, after all. Then later still mandate an exception for suspected drug traffickers or money launderers: we have to know where the money's been. Pretty soon anyone the government mandates will have their money frozen for any reason they choose.

Ubuntu is too heavy. Try CentOS.

Back in 2010 I built and operated MySpace' analytics system on 14 EC2 instances. Handled 30 billion writes per day. Later I was involved in ESPN's streaming service which handled several million concurrent connections with VMs but no containers. More recently I ran an Alexa top 2k website (45 million visitors per month) off of a single container-free EC2 insurance. Then I spent two years working for a streaming company that used k8s + containers and would fall over of it had more than about 60 concurrent connections per EC2 instance. K8s + docker is much heavier than advertised.

Shouldn't that be "daylight saving's time"? As in "the time of daylight saving".

Perhaps I am misinformed but I was taught bacteria come in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic varieties. Are algae not bacteria?

Why would they call these the largest when things like this [0] exist? It's my understanding that even these large cells aren't the largest.

[0] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/...

What's worse is they didn't surrender after Hiroshima was destroyed. They reasoned that the US military probably only had a few of these weapons, and therefore losing a few cities was considered acceptable losses.

The leadership of Japan during this time was truly reprehensible: Willing to sacrifice millions of their own citizens to continue their failing war of aggression.

Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki were civilian targets. Hiroshima was the headquarters for the Japanese 2nd Army, which defended half of Japan and Nagasaki was the production center for 90% of the Japanese fleet. Both were critical military targets.

Everyone judges. That's why we have judgement. As the ancient saying goes "To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."