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I am one of those who made through the hoop of first and second rounds with the most horrid of CVs, still cant believe I got the job.
Extremely happy that I did, I was told later that the resume I submitted was the worst one by far, but the person (ie. Me) was the best applicant, which I still consider funny yet depressing.
Posted by
Cocktail on Friday May 17, 2024 @04:38AM
from the reefs.com dept.
Do you have any issues with mold after air tightening the house?
Here in Finland pretty much every house needs constant airflow/intake and the houses built to breathe to fight against mold.
Im curious if youve had any issues, especially due to living closer to the tropical zone.
There is also significant cases before and currently in South Korea, namely illegal immigrants working at farms with nigh-slave labour conditions and factory workers in Samsung/Hyundai etc large multinationals
Not 100% sure what you are implying?
OP seems to be not from Qatar (notorious for being a modern slave labor economy) and in turn implies a good worker/emplyer relationship.
Quite a few people from poorer countries seek better conditions and employment elsewhere for understandable reasons, whats so wrong in this case?
Are there any suitable alternatives for OpenWRT? My huawei 4g router that i use over sim connection does not support OpenWRT or Tomato unfortunately...
That is true. I was not there and im of a completely different world.
Well, to be honest i ended up agreeing atleast partly too.
For context im from europe, and a small country arrayed against a historically and currently aggressive and strong neighbor, aaand i was conscript officer in charge of a few hundred men total.
Believe me that im not that detached from this question, however my concience about bombing civilians is also quite conflicted but heavily leaning towards the Geneva Conventions.
In conclusion; no, i dont agree that it was be "perfectly ethical" or even simply ethical, but rather a neccesity born of the lack of efficacy in the firebombing campaing. And yes, a top-down hierarchical militant society like imperial japan of the time would not have surrendered without significant show of power, of imminent destruction, demonstrated.
Im personally more convinced that Hirohito only issued the decree to surrender unconditionally due to the fear of imminent destruction of the capital, since a military society would always expect an attack on the command structure.
While i understand the rationale, ive come to question if "fighting fire with napalm" is such a good idea, from ethics perspective.
Is it not a duty to not fall prey to indulge in mass killing even if it may seem justified by the barbarity of the opposing side?
Posted by
Cocktail on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:36PM
from the ask-hn dept.
In a hypothetical scenario where HN would disappear for whatever reason more or less permanently, what alternatives would there be?
Where someone could find similar quality of commenters?
Posted by
Cocktail on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.
While I really enjoy the conversations in the HN think-tank collective, the topics usually are far off from my area of expertise, whish is in electronics and radio engineering.
Are there sites of similar format and quality that go more into "traditional" engineering topics instead of software?
Posted by
Cocktail on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:15AM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
Cocktail on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:25AM
from the 5gmokki.com dept.
User or component safety? I think in general electronics do not require much in the way of user safety (Ofcourse I exclude power electronics and other high-energy systems) beyond how to properly use measurement devices.
Component safety, eg: the art of not killing your semiconductors is another beast entirely
Posted by
Cocktail on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:29AM
from the zdnet.com dept.
In Finland there are many roads that are extended and maintained as alternative "airfields", mainly for purposes of national defense but also as emergency landing sites for civilian craft
Posted by
Cocktail on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:38AM
from the boginjr.com dept.
Thanks for the reply! I'll send you a message once I come up with something palatable (no pun intended)
Heyo Kicks! Long time user, love it.
One feature would be nice, a possibility to change background colors and such. My eyes cant seem to adapt to the deep blue behind white and i get a headache from it sometimes
Wrong place to put in a ticket i know, but love the project!
What an intresting but sadly somewhat common story. Thanks for sharing!
Im a undergrad electronics student so basically a world apart, in terms of skill and department, but this is one of the reasons i do not wish to pursue academia and instead focus on intresting jobs
Same story here, i think i saw a deadline mentioned at tue bottom
Posted by
Cocktail on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:08AM
from the hackerone.com dept.
As to why there has been only papers stating potential harm, I believe that is due to the long term study cycle. When can a researcher positively conclude confirmed harm?
In humans, that could take a lifetime, maybe two.
Other animals must also be studied, but doing that can be much more difficult and resource intensive. Here thinking about marine life primarily.
Point being, everything thus far learned points to harm in the long term. Long term studies have only begun in the last 10-20years I believe, and could be that we will be waiting for further still
>Finland incidentally was a key ally for Hitler in his attack on the USSR.
Key ally how? Beyond diverting troops from the southern front to the finnish theater, how did finland contribute to the german war effort?
You also seem to forget that then leader marshall mannerheim refused to advance on key cities in the north, such as st. petersburg and petroskoi even though hitler was quite insistent.
Posted by
Cocktail on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:01AM
from the kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi dept.
There is something you seem to forget, that lost Japanese lives counted for anything in American eyes. 4 years of war, reports of war crimes and propaganda effectively demonized them and thus their value as humans deteriorated to wholly expendable in American war plans. The reason there was no invasion, was to save American lives as much as possible.
I would recommend reading into the firebombing campaing against the Japanese civilian population.
It was specifically aimed at maximizing civilian casualties, the same as burning of Dresden.
Something which would be interpeted as a war crime and terrorism today, wholly sanctioned by US military high command in the philippines at the time.
Regarding the water heater. Actually the more you heat something the more it also cools down. Unless you have beyond excellent insulation the coasting method will not do good for long.
The heater will release more heat the more it possesses and so it would be best to instead increase thermal mass than temparature.
Somebody correct me if im wrong
Using a cheapo radar gives a military target better "obvious" cover from electronical intelligence. As radars use active emmissions, they can be characterized and profiled. At range a civilian grade radar will not be fired upon in war without confirmation and in peace they can be used to hide your actual wartime radar capabilities and characteristics