[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

They're not deep thinkers...

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

it’s obvious their pets handled the moving process poorly and have urinated in every room with carpet

Cleaning up pet urine can be really expensive depending on how bad it is. If it's not just a few spots here and there, seriously consider ripping out all of the carpet and padding and living on the floor boards until you can get new flooring.

You should buy a black light. Nothing expensive, $20 or so. And shine it on everything with the lights off, urine glows. As a side note, anyone looking to buy a house, or even get a new rental should get a black light.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I brought this up a few years ago where I work. I want to have a team sanitize the applications before the hiring team gets to see them. Remove names, dates that can be used to construe an age, gender, etc. I hope this study helps me get my point across at next years EEO training.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I doubt it's your name/ethnicity. It's probably more that you're over qualified and they're afraid you're going to work for 3 months before getting a better job better matching your qualifications. To be clear they shouldn't discriminate because of over qualifications either.

I say this as someone who works in the public sector, for many years. Every year I have to go to an EEO training and they drill it home what we can and can't consider. There's no way they are managing to discriminate against white sounding names for a decade without someone blowing the whistle. I 100% guarantee some fox news watcher there is blowing the whistle for their 20 minutes of fame.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Shit, seems like we actually should have just given everyone a bit of money every other week instead of giving 'loans' to business owners and hope they didn't just pocket it... whodathunkit

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's a gateway for stupider things.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Any time I tried to get someone to check out Reddit, I hated having to preface it with, oh and you're going to want to block these 30 subs, they're horrible, and here's another 100 that are kinda gross, I'll email you my list......

There's stuff to block, but there's stuff that should be banned too. I remember recommending some of the SQL reddits to coworkers just weeks before the jailbait crap hit the national news. It's up to ernest how he wants to run this place, but I hope we don't let the bar go too low.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I sent him one a few months ago, and it was gone within a few hours. I think he cares, but is swamped and probably gets a ton of BS.

It needs to be acted on though. We don't want this to become a nazi bar. I hope he can figure out a way to share the load sometime soon.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I've had success with trivial things, like write a log file parser with this pattern, or give me a basic 3 part left-right-center header in html. Works ok for trivial side projects. I would never trust it in production. Its a tool, nothing more at this point. Like an electric drill, better than a hand crank, but you still need to know how to use it.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Bachelors in Computer Science.... Never made the connection.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

It's software that lives in the hardware. It provides low-level control and functionality specific to that device. It runs on the hardware itself, not the CPU of the computer.

For example, a hard drive. We don't want the OS to have to know how to interact with every type of hard drive. Seagate does things differently than Western Digital, an SSD works very different than a hard drive, etc.. The OS sends the same commands to all types of hard drives, but each hard drive needs to know how to actually comply with the commands. If the OS is asking for a dozen different files all over the drive, it would be dumb to try and read them all at the same time. The OS doesn't really know where they are on the spinning disk, but the drive does. Firmware written specifically for the device can do a much better job planing how to fetch the data so the read head doesn't need to go back and forth a bunch of times, but instead make one good pass fetching all the data as it comes to it.

Hope that helps.

[-] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

For me it was all the screaming.

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