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@dcon It's a pity. There is a lot of reasonable stuff in the regulations, but IME¹ large fraction of the people working on the products never get proper introduction to them, so they don't understand the point and do a lot of cargo cult stuff that misses the point. There seems to be enough left that it's not a complete disaster, but it's very inefficient.
¹ I mean, I contracted for an FDA-controlled industry and what happened was that we were thrown a bunch of workflow definitions over the fence that defined all the regulatory required checks. But they gave us no introduction or overview, so we were unable to make heads or tails of it simply by virtue of not being able to find any heads or tails to start from.
And the customer apparently did have some introduction to it if you asked around. They just kinda forgot to tell (or invite; they even had a training) everybody (since everybody was supposed to learn the rules).
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Bernie's bike shows a summary when it is switched off:
Distance 50.9 km
Time travelled 02:57 h:min
Average speed 17.2 km/h
Maximum speed 49.4 km/hAverage (pedalling) power 76 W
Average pedalling frequency 74 rpm
Calories 815 kcal
Total distance 602 kmThere is a minor .
Do you see it?No, I do not mean the decimal dot in German localization.
Just do the math.
Let me show you:
2 hours 57 minutes make 10,620 seconds.
Watt is Joule per second.
So, multiply 76 W with 10,620 seconds, and you'll get 807,120 J or 807 kJ.
How many calories per Joule?
(Oh, no, not the rounding error - 1% off is easily accomplished by the power being almost 77 W, or the time being almost 2h58min etc.)See: that's the bike for the people who want to do diet and sports.
Eat food worth 800 kcal, do a little cycle tour of 3 hours at 70W, and voilà, your calories are already gone.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Eat food worth 800 kcal, do a little cycle tour of 3 hours at 70W, and voilà, your calories are already gone.
Yeah, it's not how it works anyway¹, so whatever.
¹ The energy content of the food is measured by burning it, but how much the body can actually extract from it is … all over the place and depends on a lot of things including how much the body currently needs and how much it ‘thinks’ it should store for worse times, which depends on composition of the meal, composition of the overall diet, mood, genetics, state of microbiome…
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Watt is Joule per second.
Ah, another one assuming perfect systems incoming!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Watt is Joule per second.
Ah, another one assuming perfect systems incoming!
It’s true; SI is a perfect system
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@Tsaukpaetra so that's what Nietzsche meant.
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@kazitor ¡Sí, señor!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
Status: When your background image fails to load and thus the engine renders Void.
Needs more UbiSoft.
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
Well yes, when you're inside the building, the enter door is not the one you should take.
Filed under: we shouldn't have to ELI5 pictures to people on WTDWTF
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@izzion Maybe it's just a deviation from what's customary. You don't usually see Enter signs on the inside, IIRC.
Related to the Principle of Least Surprise.
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
@izzion Maybe it's just a deviation from what's customary. You don't usually see Enter signs on the inside, IIRC.
Related to the Principle of Least Surprise.
Oh I get it now... That should have said "Entrance". A noun instead of a verb.
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@dcon You beat me to it by two minutes. Something about it seemed wrong to me, and that was it. "Enter" is fine for someone going in.
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
@dcon You beat me to it by two minutes. Something about it seemed wrong to me, and that was it. "Enter" is fine for someone going in.
Yeah, when I saw the first image, it didn't quite register that this was the inside of the store looking out.
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@jinpa said in Error'd Bites:
@izzion Maybe it's just a deviation from what's customary. You don't usually see Enter signs on the inside, IIRC.
Related to the Principle of Least Surprise.
Yeah, but denizens of Walmart can’t read anything longer than six letters. So Enter becomes the shorthand.
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Another entry in the category
You Selected an Invalid Password
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Could you please tell me which characters are acceptable (german: "zulässig")?
The password I wanted to use was,iI6%4fR€+pHÖc
, i.e. from my point of view just intermediate safety (no kanji, various indian, armenian, etc. characters; only characters available on a "normal" german keyboard).
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@BernieTheBernie Many systems assume that you may occasionally need to type the password on an English keyboard and therefore don't allow characters that are not available on a "normal" English keyboard.
… I was also somewhat recently prevented from using
"
in password for my customer account (that I use for my primary company account), but you do have"
listed in the allowed characters.
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@Bulb Also many website prefer requiring 7-bit-ascii-only passwords over possibly having to think about encoding issues in form data.
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@PleegWat said in Error'd Bites:
requiring 7-bit-ascii-only passwords
That way, you gain the valuable validation feature of every 8th bit being 0. In case you're wondering whether somebody's been messing with the stored cleartext.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
a "normal" german keyboard
Those must be hard to come by, with increasing difficulty obtaining human skin.
@Bulb said in Error'd Bites:
a "normal" English keyboard
Little monocles? No 'H' key? Handy macros like
olmondel
foruml
andorcestersh
foroostersh
?
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More fun with job applications....
In Germany, an application usually has a cover letter, follwoed by CV/resumé, and then letters of reference, diplomas etc. The CV usually contains a photo.But some companies are very special...
Please submit your CV or resume (w/o picture and w/o cover letter, reference letters and diplomas are optional).
Only applications that fully meet our requirements will be considered.
That s, if I include a cover letter, or if I do not remove the photo from the CV, my application won't be considered.
Thanks.
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@BernieTheBernie probably an antidiscrimination measure ?
Edit: stupid autocarrot ando Dumbo (grrrrr) editor widget. How come the 'right arrow' (post edited content) can not show in prev edit and now iit shows?
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@cabrito said in Error'd Bites:
probably an antidiscrimination measure ?
Removing the photo will be, although our recruitment team just have the candidate submit their CV as normal then create a new version in a standard format with any of that sort of info removed.
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@cabrito said in Error'd Bites:
probably an antidiscrimination measure ?
I'm not in favor of requiring photos in applications, but as an antidiscrimination method, it's pretty weak. Companies that want to discriminate will just ditch candidates they don't like after the interview rather than before. (Unless you force them to do remote, audio-only interviews, but I never heard anyone proposing this.)
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@Zerosquare It won't prevent genuine discrimination, but if the first impression is left to the interview, it will be fairer than if its made primarily from a photo.
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@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
Unless you force them to do remote, audio-only interviews, but I never heard anyone proposing this.
I can barely remember the last time I had a face-to-face interview. I thought it was probably when I moved from WA back to CA — I had to fly down for at least two interviews — but I just remembered having at least one face-to-face interview with a local, Bay Area company after that contract ended. However, everything since then has been remote from where I lived at the time I was interviewing, and most of them have been working remotely. I don't have a webcam on my desktop computer; if I want to use video, I have to join from both my computer (for audio, whiteboard, etc.) and my phone (for video). That's a nuisance, so I don't do that unless they insist. Sometimes they don't; sometimes they do.
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@HardwareGeek Hm, I've been in a bunch of interviews lately (from the hiring side, as the technical examiner), a few were in person¹ and the rest was over teams, but so far all of those were with video.
¹ And some were partially in person—the candidate met the hiring manager and perhaps the line manager in person while some other people joined in by teams. We have six branches now and often they are hiring someone in one location, but the important people for that project are in another, so the candidate comes to the branch they'd work at, but the project people call in.
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@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
I'm not in favor of requiring photos in applications, but as an antidiscrimination method, it's pretty weak.
It is very weak, but OTOH there is exactly zero good reason for an application to contain a photo, and even less than that for a company to request photos in applications.
The only exception are jobs where physical appearance is paramount (e.g. models). Even then, the simple mugshot that's likely to be on a standard job application wouldn't really be of any help to actually see what the person looks like.
But it is extremely unlikely that anyone posting here is applying for that kind of job. For any IT or IT-related job, I would trust a company that requires photo for not discriminating based on them about as much as I trust a company that uses graphology for... well I wouldn't trust it for anything, but the same applies to photos.
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@Bulb said in Error'd Bites:
@Zerosquare It won't prevent genuine discrimination, but if the first impression is left to the interview, it will be fairer than if its made primarily from a photo.
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@remi said in Error'd Bites:
the simple mugshot that's likely to be on a standard job application
I've never even considered putting my photo on any job application. This idea is foreign to me.
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@remi said in Error'd Bites:
about as much as I trust a company that uses graphology for...
Haven't you ever seen a company requiring your CV written by hand?
Yes, really: I saw job ads saying so, though several years ago.
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@BernieTheBernie Sounds like someone was a fan of graphology.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
@remi said in Error'd Bites:
the simple mugshot that's likely to be on a standard job application
I've never even considered putting my photo on any job application. This idea is foreign to me.
A colleague told me of a prank she did with her boss. She knew he was a fan of blondes. So, when a position for a lab assistant had to be filled, she wrote an application. She invented a CV, created some letters of reference, and added a photo of a blond girl taken from a magazine. And the phone number was from an escort service...
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"And that kids, is how I met your mother."
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Haven't you ever seen a company requiring your CV written by hand?
Some time ago (), it was very commonplace in France to request the cover letter (not the CV) to be hand-written. Some companies, including some very big names, were open about the fact that they used graphology. Some others were using it, but did not dare publicly admitting so.
A quick search yields some recent results, so apparently it's still a thing, though apparently as well, if a company uses it, they must warn you (and get your approval, I think? though of course they're probably allowed to reject your application if you refuse so you have little say in the matter...) and show you the results of the "analysis." No idea if they do.
From my current safe, securely employed position, I'd say I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. But then again, that's easy to say when I'm not really involved.
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@remi said in Error'd Bites:
But it is extremely unlikely that anyone posting here is applying for that kind of job. For any IT or IT-related job, I would trust a company that requires photo for not discriminating based on them about as much as I trust a company that uses graphology for... well I wouldn't trust it for anything, but the same applies to photos.
But the phrenologists are in with a chance?
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@remi said in Error'd Bites:
A quick search yields some recent results, so apparently it's still a thing, though apparently as well, if a company uses it, they must warn you (and get your approval, I think? though of course they're probably allowed to reject your application if you refuse so you have little say in the matter...) and show you the results of the "analysis." No idea if they do.
I believe it is important in a few roles. For example, if you have neat handwriting then you're excluded from being a medical doctor.
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@dkf said in Error'd Bites:
But the phrenologists are in with a chance?
I don't think so, but I'm not sure for astrologists. Let me ask .
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
Haven't you ever seen a company requiring your CV written by hand?
I wrote mine by hand. On a keyboard.
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@remi said in Error'd Bites:
graphology
Dafuq is that? Trying to see if you're a psychopath by how unsteady your hands are?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
@remi said in Error'd Bites:
graphology
Dafuq is that? Trying to see if you're a psychopath by how unsteady your hands are?
Nothing so sensical. More about loop curvature and 'cenders.
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@Tsaukpaetra According to Wikipedia:
Graphology is the analysis of handwriting with attempt to determine someone's personality traits. No scientific evidence exists to support graphology, and it is generally considered a pseudoscience or scientifically questionable practice. However, it remains in widespread use in France and has historically been considered legitimate for use in some court cases.
Yeah, France!
The term is also sometimes used for/confused with graphanalysis, the forensic examination of handwriting to determine if two documents were written by the same person.
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@HardwareGeek said in Error'd Bites:
Yeah, France!
It is a complete , indeed. And as @remi hinted, some companies (including large ones) also rely on astrology for recruitment, and don't even try to hide it. Maybe they no longer do, but it still existed 10 years ago.
I'd like to see what would happen if a candidate sued them for discrimination.
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@Zerosquare said in Error'd Bites:
It is a complete , indeed. And as @remi hinted, some companies (including large ones) also rely on astrology for recruitment, and don't even try to hide it. Maybe they no longer do, but it still existed 10 years ago.
I'd like to see what would happen if a candidate sued them for discrimination.
That totally sounds like what an Aquarius would do.
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@dkf said in Error'd Bites:
But the phrenologists are in with a chance?
If you're asked to show your profiles and then bow your head in a video interview, you'll know what's going on.
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@Watson said in Error'd Bites:
@dkf said in Error'd Bites:
But the phrenologists are in with a chance?
If you're asked to show your profiles and then bow your head in a video interview, you'll know what's going on.
Vogue.
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@Watson said in Error'd Bites:
If you're asked to show your profiles and then bow your head in a video interview, you'll know what's going on.
Either that, or you're applying for a job in a Japanese company.