Do you consider yourself a data scientist of any variety? Maybe it makes up a bit of your job, maybe it’s all of it, but if you went to school in the UK and can spare quarter of an hour to reflect on a few things it would be hugely appreciated.
Got a question because I'm useless at business. I get a lot of emails from companies asking me to do webinars, interviews, be a podcast guest, etc. They never mention any payment (not just no payment amount, but no mention of it being paid at all). Then when I don't reply, they follow up later with "btw we can pay you" and it's always phrased like they simply forgot to mention that in the initial email. I understand me being responsible for negotiating my rate, but having to negotiate getting paid at all? Is this the norm or is this just unserious companies trying to see first if I'll work for free and I'm better to just not engage at all with them at all?
@malwaretech folks hoping for a free lunch. same as the "we'll send you the product for free if you review it" people who, when you crunch the numbers, are paying you less than minimum wage to advertise for them.
This is awesome! Full text search has come to Mastodon, and it's being rolled out in a responsible way.
I know full text search is a hot-button issue. For journalists, researchers and many others, FTS is essential. Plenty of others have good reason to keep their content unsearchable.
If you're in the latter category, you don't need to take any action. Your toots will remain unsearchable just as they were before.
For the rest, please manually change the default so your toots will be searchable. This will address a major shortcoming that has kept a huge number of fedi holdouts from joining.
To do that, go to Preferences > Public Profile and select the Privacy and Reach tab. Then check the Include public posts in search results.
*** Edit: sorry, my initial post told y'all to click the wrong box. Fixed.
I think the worst part about raising a kid is that there's no moment where I have any amount of consistent focus. Just constantly obliterated. I was working on something before this all kicked off, but fuck if I even remember what the fuck I was doing before Emergency #43895325 happened.
So I watched The Dark Crystal with the 9 year old last night and it's always disappointing how weak of a movie it is. I found it only makes sense if you assume Henson just had lots of ideas for cool scenes with advanced puppets and then just loosely strung together a plot with vaguely fantasy-sounding dialog.
@ZachWeinersmith Henson's best work was always as a consultant and prop manufacturer. The puppet characters in shows like Farscape worked so well because Henson's focus was on visual language and craftsmanship, leaving others to handle plot and dialogue that made you feel like they were real.
> The trash needs to be taken out. When can you take it out by?
I can answer "yes" to, "will you take the trash out" and sincerely mean it - just on a far different timeline than you were thinking. Or just answer yes because what I'm doing is taking all my mental cycles and "yes" gets you to leave me alone.
"When will you..." Is direct and also gives me the opportunity to decide what works best
@kennwhite there's gotta be a lawyer word for this, right? like when cops ask questions they know the answer to, wait for the interviewee to lie, then present evidence of the lie.
Hm. Although I believe that this is actually a feature I have specifically, personally requested (break off hashtags at end and put them underneath post specially formatted), the reason I was hoping for this feature was so separating the hashtags from the post content would make them less prominent, where this actually makes them more prominent than if the feature did not exist, actually much more prominent, so I don't think I'm going to start using hashtags…
@mcc yeah that bright out-of-place colour and the bloated box padding and spacing are way overkill for what should just be added metadata, especially given that you often don't care what hashtags are on the post as a reader. not a fan.
luckily it's fairly easy to tweak with user CSS, but that doesn't excuse the iffy UI design.
a) Shipping. Big container ships can't be sail-powered (the largest sailing ships ever are about 1% of the size we'd need). But existing marine nuclear power is a proliferation and/or meltdown risk. If we can make a small fusion reactor, we could make our existing global supply chains carbon-neutral.
b) Continuous industrial processes that can't survive a power glitch, much less nighttime on a windless night (no renewables). There are a lot of those.
@rszasz@cstross pumped hydro is not the clean power storage that folks tend to think it is, unfortunately. the local ecological impact is fairly massive.
I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.
If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on [email protected].
@SusanPotter I think I'd reply "I assume this promotion to a hybrid work position comes with a 35% payrise to cover the 12-15 hours travel time per week, and a company car or equivalent allowance? if you can draw the contract up I'll review it later this week"