I despise the idea of a hiring process that treats the applicant as a supplicant. As a manager I once attended a training session on “Behaviour Based” interviewing. The approach itself - the idea of asking situational questions - had some merit, but the process they taught depending on keeping the applicant in the dark as much as possible and concentrated all the power in the hiring side.

To me the process needs to be two way. The applicant needs to know if the company, and the position itself will be a good fit for them. I can see an applicant asking the same kind of questions, “Can you describe how you would handle a situation where an employee behaved inappropriately to a female coworker?”. That kind of thing.

It’s beneficial to both sides. The applicant doesn’t want to land in a bad fit, and the hiring process is expensive and dealing with the vacancy has its own costs.

Taking the attitude that every applicant is simply wants to get the offer, and will lie and cheat to get it sets a bad tone right from the start, and the approach makes it difficult for the applicant to make an informed decision.

I realize that the OP example is the way that the world is going, but having an AI interview would just be a giant red flag for me. I would be tempted to just set an AI of my own to interact with the company’s AI directly and just sit back and watch.

I say, “would be”, because I’m retired, and will never have to deal with this BS. However, I hope that the people that I interviewed in the past appreciated the cooperative approach that I tried to take.

I would say Rap, but it’s not really music so I don’t think it counts.

I think that as you move towards replacing cloud services with self-hosted ones you take on the responsibility of providing the same reliability as the cloud services.

Just installing a UPS will let you ride through 99% of all power failures because most of them are only a few seconds long. My UPS says that my entire HomeLab, including Internet modems runs at about 100W, and it will last for the better part of an hour.

The question then becomes about longer outages, that run the UPS dry. There are two issues.

The first issue is system shutdowns, if they just crash when the battery ends, then you run the risk of data corruption and disk buffers that haven’t flushed. But in truth, this is probably a minor possibility. Your servers were up, but the rest of your house was already down. No feed from the cameras, no events in HomeAssistant, no WiFi, no nothing. This means virtually no activity on your servers for an extended period of time.

This doesn’t eliminate the possibility of corruption, but it makes it less likely.

The second issue is getting the servers back up and running when the power returns. This can be a bit more complicated, what if the power is up and down a bit before the UPS has some charge built up?

Maybe your best just leaving them off for a bit until things have stabilized and the UPS has a charge.

NUTs deals with both of these issues in an automated fashion. It can shut your services down in a controlled manner so that they don’t crash when the battery dies. It can bring your servers back on line when the power is restored and stable.

For me, my main concern is for when the power failure goes past he battery life when I’m on vacation. I won’t be able to go and push power buttons on the server. NUTs can get a bit tricky if you are looking for 100% hands-free operation. I can deal with anything when I’m home, but away in problematic.

I’ve decided to leave NUTs out of the mix for now. All of my servers are configured to turn on when power is restored, and all of the services are configured to start up automatically when the server boots. I’m content to let the UPS drain dry, crash the mostly idle servers when that happens, and then reboot when power is restored.

There’s a risk, but I think I understand it.

Something about this question rankles me.

It feels like there’s some underlying assumption of superiority of US law enforcement over that of the rest of the world. Even just by asking the question the way it is asked, “…flex a LAPD badge”, like anyone outside the US would even know what it was.

Flip the question around, could a Romanian cop who didn’t speak English, or one from the DRC maybe, “flex” his badge in Wyoming? It’s laughable. The OP probably wouldn’t ever consider the possibility that anyone in the US would ever care about a foreign police badge.

I dunno. The whole question smacks of, “Team America. World Police”.

The Cold War, the threat of “Mutually Assure Destruction” that hung over all of heads for decades until the USSR dissolved, was “fairly minor”???

My objection centres around the wording, “Premier is essentially the same as a US Governor”.

Not, “similar”, or “somewhat the same responsibilities”, “essentially the same”.

Yes, lots of countries use the term “Governor” for the leaders of states and provinces. But specifying, “US Governor”, adds a ton of baggage to the term that essentially makes the statement incorrect.

It’s a Parliamentary system, a different form of government and the roles are not “essentially” the same.

I didn’t see the “at war” part in the full text of the speech, and I don’t rememer hearing it when I watched it. Perhaps it was in response to one of the questions after the speech?

There’s a fair number of lawyers in northern Ontario who also do a lot of work in Manitoba. Winnipeg to Kenora is something around a 2 hour drive.

The Cold War. Transfer of Hong Kong to China. The collapse of the USSR. Arab/Israeli wars. Vietnam and the Peace Movement. The oil crisis. 9/11. End of Segregation in the US. Womens’ Rights especially after the Pill Gay/Trans Rights The Korean War The Beatles

It’s pretty much constant.

The scope of the powers is virtually identical within their jurisdictions. Provinces are clearly not going to be negotiating international treaties, for instance, but they are going to be negotiating inter-provincial relations.

Well, I object to the need to somehow relate everything to an American frame of reference. The two systems are fundamentally different, and the roles are not really analogous. Far better to say, “Like a Prime Minister, but for a province.” What’s hard about that?

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 🍅

The Sun is the same, in a relative way, but you’re older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Describe a time of geopolitical non-change please.

“With a fucking dildo!”

This is essentially incorrect. Canadian provinces use a parliamentary system very similar to the federal government. The Premier of a province is analogous to the Prime Minister of the country, but for a single province.

The Premier in not elected separately like a US Governor, nor does he act separately from the legislature of the province. He’s the leader of the party that holds the most seats in the Legislature and forms the Government of the province.

I think that the Bluenose on the tail of the dime is sailing under a tailwind. So that’s ok too.

There is so much variation between blade types that it’s really worthwhile trying out some sampler packs.

From Rush’s “Farewell to Kings”…

Bleating at the marketplace, And stopping at the “Y”

Very unusual behaviour for those scheming demons.

Feathers are about 20-25 cents each, while my preferred Big Ben’s are about 8 cents. I’m happy to get 4 - 6 shaves out of a Big Ben. The thing about the Big Ben’s is that the last shave isn’t rough, it just more work to get a really close shave.