Let’s say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.
I’m a 15-year user of Reddit. Lemmy right now is very similar to very early Reddit. Reddit’s users were more technical back then, too. I’m betting the early adopters of places like this are usually the technical types.
Another nice thing about Lemmy is that a lot of the low-effort, casual users on Reddit haven’t gotten here yet. Interaction here is definitely a lot more pleasant.
It’s so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I’m glad to see the sentiment turning around.
If I think I’m sick, regardless of what I’m sick with, I try to isolate and mask as much as possible. Nobody wants to get sick from me. For the flu and Covid, I go and get tests to allow me to take the antiviral medications. If I have Covid, I mask for a couple of weeks just to prevent spreading it.
Unit prices are easy to remember when you buy a single product. I bet you know the price of gas per unit immediately. What was the price of Pepsi per liter today? What was the price of Coke per liter? There are dozens and dozens of soda products alone you would have to memorize. And that’s just soda.
I applaud a store using its data to communicate to customers how prices have changed. We should do this everywhere.
Oh, I’m not actually angry about it. That said, I ask you: if an hat, an horn, an hobby, and even an hydrogen atom can all be preceded by “a,” why should “an” be attached to “historic” as if it’s an hero in an heaven of English grammar? Bring back the aspirate H!
At worst, it’s gauche. It’s much more likely that the moderator was personally offended by the use of that word than anything else. I have my own pet peeves. I can’t stand the sound of someone saying “an historic event” … but I’m not going to go around banning people over it. All that’s going to do is make everyone more and more angry.
This is why we put specific, actionable rules on communities, people!
I would like downvoted comments and posts that are below a certain threshold to be collapsed.
Yeah, this is usually the reason I will downvote a news article. Misinformation needs to be marked somehow, and a negative score is a good way to do that.
Roasting means to cook over a flame. Baking means to cook in an oven.
Oh god that’s hilarious
Most of the built-in thermostats on barbecue grills are garbage. Before speculating on what might be behind the temperature difference, get a thermometer that is accurate with two probes and measure again.
Maybe it’s just that I’m not as familiar with history as I need to be, but Reich’s points seemed to be a pretty good subset of Ecos. Where is he deviating?
Now this has some potential! I have something for my nighttime reading list! Great post!
Most people pick an instance by collecting a list of instances that are physically close to them, and then reviewing the /instances page to see how big the block list is. Lemmyverse.net can tell you how many users are on those blocked instances.
Heck yeah! I can’t believe how popular that game was. Every time I bring up this era, everyone talks about it.
I was a big Tradewars 2002 fan, myself. You can still play it, which is what made me start to think about connecting it to Lemmy somehow. That, and Nethack.
As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We’ve had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that’s difficult.
A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.
Well, OP is from lemmy.world, where there are tens of thousands of people connecting the instance to the various porn communities, so of course there’s a lot in the All feed. Over at lemmy.ninja, we have hardly any. Our paltry 150 users must not be that in to the pr0n.
First, I haven’t found MKV to significantly larger than MP4.
The raw .mkv file is usually four times larger than the comperssed .mp4 file. Handbrake settings vary, but surely most handbrake presets would result in a smaller file since the .mkv file is not compressed at all?
I specifically switched to MKV because it was much more flexible in terms of handling subtitles.
I should have said forced subtitles. My experience has been that the forced subtitles aren’t flagged properly to show up when viewing the content in Plex or VLC. I can’t remember which flag I always had to set — default or the forced flag — but I always had to do it before playing a .mkv. Even figuring out which subtitle track that is is a bit of a pain in the ass, since I have to test it by going to a part of the movie where I know non-English speaking is taking place. Handbrake’s foreign audio scan always solved this for me, which was a huge bonus.
I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.