Notices by Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis] (musicman@mastodon.social), page 2

@notclacke I'm not sure 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive

@strypey might be headed to #Auckland in January through March some time. Might just be Auckland and surrounding as a stepping stone to Vietnam. Everything very unclear at the moment, but I found a good deal. We've been talking about it for ages but never past "seems like a cool place" and we're past that now.

Anything we should make sure we do? Anything we should avoid?

I'm going through History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast - https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/646b293a1848550012cb049c

to attempt to not be too ignorant

@nafmo were you in the stadium? we had captions

so far, so good.

got my new meds. Maybe I will stop feeling like shit all the time.

@alainamartin also, depends on what kind of interview you want. @cwebber and @evan are the real people to talk to if you can get them.

Probably more than a decade ago now, @lnxw37a2 told me that promotion of an event through a daily post is acceptable. I guess let me know if these get annoying...

It's really hard to keep up with that pace when it isn't something you do full time, but I should probably try, at least until I get the speaker slots filled.

https://friendsofccmusic.org/2024/05/07/calling-midwesterners/

#CCMusicSummitMidwest

#NetlabelDay2024 #ccmusic #netlabels #events

got to drop tags from yesterday's post...

#Minnesota #MPLS #STP #Dakotas #MN #WI

@BeAware agree with you.

But also, I feel like this happens to every hype cycle. There have been grifters and shysters since the dawn of time.

There are also the good-natured ignorant folk just trying to get by and not understanding they are adding to the mess.

I need to write 8 #postgres articles. Any thoughts on what I should write about?

this is so dumb no one would even buy it as a plot from a supervillain. like not passing heat protections ok but blocking them from being used?

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244316874/florida-blocks-heat-protections-for-workers-right-before-summer

Not that folks always comply with policy, but if your company doesn't have something similar in an #AI / #ML policy, you are 100% doing it wrong:

"must have human oversight to protect from unfair biases, performance issues, inaccuracies, offensiveness, and other defects that may arise when generating content while using AI Systems and AI Solutions."

@freemo that makes sense hiring at a junior level, but if you are hiring at a senior level, I think you need to be really careful that the toy project has adequate complexity to show the skills and experience you are looking for.

@freemo First off, a caveat. my role is VERY strange. My title is Enterprise Architect, and I have seen my fair share of code, but I have *never* had a purely programming position, so I might not understand how hiring works.

In any case, my thought...

this seems very fair, but wonder if u might just send everyone the bounty route. If they don't have at least passing familiarity with the codebase, how likely are they to get the job? The toy project seems like it might give a false sense of hope

I've never seen a delivery notice that said to secure your pets. I mean, I guess if you have a pet alligator or something that could be important.

The delivery isn't going to be here for like an hour, so seems premature, but good on them for thinking of driver safety.

@wjmaggos idk if you have seen Doom Patrol, but I am imagining Danny's parties

@wjmaggos we'd probably have a fun time with homo-rhythm, but not really sure that's what we are going for, lol

i have exactly one Die Hard opinion:

if you have you company holiday party on Christmas Eve, you deserve whatever bullshit comes your way.

@lnxw37a2 let me try this again

Now that the last battle is upon us with Meta, has anyone attempted to ban the word thread?

I don't give a shit about Zuck, but what I really want to know is when is Lord and Savoir Elon going to join the fediverse?