BasicTraveler

joined 1 year ago
[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

Every republican and probably joe manchin too so clearly both sides are the same.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

Idk, maybe. But i think you may have issues with tolerances and reproducibility. With analog and neutral nets your going to have edgecases where some devices will give vastly differing outcomes. For something that's fine but not for others.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

They're not deep thinkers...

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

It's not much, but 30 votes is 30 votes!

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We have rubrics. Like if we're asking for an AA degree, but a BS preferred, you'll get tossed out if you don't have an AA, you'll get 1 point for an AA, and 2 points for a BS. But you'll also get a 2 for a MA or DR.

It gets weird when it's education and or maybe experience somewhere in the field.... some people who write our job descriptions don't think things through....

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I brought this up a few years ago where I work. I want to have a team sanitize the applications before the hiring team gets to see them. Remove names, dates that can be used to construe an age, gender, etc. I hope this study helps me get my point across at next years EEO training.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I doubt it's your name/ethnicity. It's probably more that you're over qualified and they're afraid you're going to work for 3 months before getting a better job better matching your qualifications. To be clear they shouldn't discriminate because of over qualifications either.

I say this as someone who works in the public sector, for many years. Every year I have to go to an EEO training and they drill it home what we can and can't consider. There's no way they are managing to discriminate against white sounding names for a decade without someone blowing the whistle. I 100% guarantee some fox news watcher there is blowing the whistle for their 20 minutes of fame.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Remember it's not the school that won't pony up, it's your local and state government that aren't giving them an appropriate budget.

Also keep in mind that most grant money comes with stipulations. I remember many years ago (late 90's or early 00's) we got a big grant for computers in the classroom. Good chunk of money. But it had to be spent on computers, and only computers. Would have been nice to get some furniture to put them on. We had some in the back of the classrooms next to the sink, some we put 2 desks set front to front (it was not level) It was janky, but the computers were nice.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

...the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made earlier in the year. "We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law,"...

--https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-build-new-barriers-roads-texas-border-area-2023-10-05/

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Some of those comments are vile. Oh, foxnews... makes sense.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully being a community thing and not a corporate thing will help. I think people will be less likely to steal, and more likely to rat someone out for stealing.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the main US labor federation. “This is being done the right way. Each railroad is negotiating with each of its individual unions on this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave

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