Notices by Paul Reinheimer (preinheimer@phpc.social)

@evan I’m concerned that we wouldn’t be able to feed that much of a displaced population. We’re also abandoning a lot of fertile soil.

@evan I don’t think 300km from the border and keep the economy running is possible. That’s the entire Montreal to Windsor corridor, and half the country’s population.

Never sacrifice your goals for your plans.

In order to say "X is really important to achieve Y" you need to try things other than X.

So if you write a blog post about how hiring engineers who are a great fit is the most important thing. And one of the 'tests' you give them is to see if they select grapes or candy as a snack, then only hire people who eat the candy. You don't actually know that eating candy is important, it's the only thing you've done. You need to hire some grape eaters and see if anything changes.

Posts that say "We tried A, B, and C, and things really took off when we tried C" are just so much more useful (and believable) than posts who just say "We've always done D and it's amazing"

The fact that companies are rolling out AI and refusing to give people ways to turn it off... shows me they're not so sure this is a killer feature either.

When you develop a killer feature you charge more for it.

I can't fully express how bad Adobe Acrobat Pro is.

After losing all my work on a health form once already, I've realized that I missed something. For some reason I can't actually edit any of the data, it's entered some alternate edit mode.

I am now printing it out to add the last thing with a pen, then scan it.

I attended my first programming class almost 20 years ago, and I am printing something out to scan it again.

@Mastodon Y'all will ship to France but not Canada?

The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

Before we can leave the house on a date night, our children demand concessions. The negotiations over these concessions are detailed and wide ranging.

This evening we were told we needed to wear the “fun hats” if we wanted to leave.

So putting an air purifier in a day care cuts kids sick days by a third.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

Man, someone from Waterloo public health should just grab their credit card, order 220 air purifiers, and give two to every child care center in the city.

@evan I have no idea what the logo is.

We accidentally left a large container of dehydrated apricots on the kitchen table. Our quite large dog walked by and ate the entire container.

Apparently they didn’t do great under her system, but they did partially rehydrate. She puked them all up on the carpet and they look much more like apricots now than they did in the container.

@sean @evan I'm with Sean on this one (with the same disclaimers).

@evan If you have my phone number you can make it ring any time.

If I don't know you and you send me a zoom link I don't have to click on it.

I run ~3 businesses and have kids who go to school, I kinda need to answer my phone.

I didn't realize it until I came upon it in a podcast.

I view people calling twitter "X" without mentioning its former name a negative signal for how much I want to interact with that person.

I've read a lot of sci-fi.

In many books /where /you were on "the net" mattered, and it would take time to traverse. If you were in an upscale shopping district and needed to drop down to the seedy underbelly it would take time and effort to get there.

Part of this creation comes from the real world, and reflects the fact that much was written before the internet existed. Also: a useful literary device.

I've often wondered if it would be "good" if the real net was more like this.

The only thing I miss about twitter is the ability to complain at companies, and have it do something productive.

@evan You and I are aligned here, that's great advice.

Implied in your post is "you should write this for a particular job posting" which is huge. I'd rather have nothing than a generic cover letter. When we last posted a job on Indeed we got a _lot_ of "I'm excited to work for your company" with nothing about our specific job or company.

I particularly like how you cover requirements that might not be met. It's a wish list, but if you're missing one completely tell me how you'll be awesome.

Either a lot of people are using ChatGPT to write cover letters, or the correct tone to write them in is now "effervescent teenager" and no one told me.

Note: we did not ask for a cover letter, but provided an optional text area if people wanted to tell us stuff.