In short, I just find it hard to believe the average Jew is especially ignorant, heartless, or selfish. That to me sounds like actual antisemitism.

ETA: I can’t speak for American Jews but most of the Jews I know are either older and just anti-bibi or younger and openly anti-Zionist. This is in New York for context.

The particle physics jokes are getting out of hand

This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?

Thank you!

Just a heads up that if you want to host full local models, you may want to try LM Studio or vMLX with models straight from hugging-face. Ollama is popular but they privilege their proprietary cloud MCP services and won’t even let you download web-enabled models unless you agree to use their API, which defeats your on-prem threat model.

Can’t we all just… get along?

Miss texting from my pocket while maintaining eye contact.

Concur with diagnosis. My condolences.

Thanks!

Those who have no sense of history have neither eyes nor ears. -Someone

Towing large things. That’s the only true unmet edge case I know of. Perhaps because it crosses over into commercial semi-ev territory.

God damn. You win potluck.

It’s an extremely common small business pattern across North America. The “CEO” is usually the owner, evidenced here by absorption of non-fiduciary (unnecessary) liability of roles elevation. Only a handful of hires are traditionally qualified for their roles by education or experience. These few are usually found in client-facing roles and usually at least partially compensated by stake. Most employees are budget hires working well outside the usual expectations of their title.

Employer abusiveness in these shops goes mostly unchecked. Wanting someone who can “grow with the company” with clearly no intent to grow them (i.e., no mentor, no reporting senior to justify the title “junior”) is code for a lot of things including this. Part of why these companies only prefer to hire younger or underqualified people is because they don’t want anyone who knows what they’re worth, how things are done better elsewhere, who might expose management incompetence, or who are simply less likely to accept abuse (because even if management hasn’t rationalized it totally, they do not intend to change).

On the other hand, the subtle upside to lack of training and oversight is the opportunity for self-directed (and thus potentially much higher value) up-skilling and continued job-hunting, for those inclined.

So companies like these are viable, but crucibles, and for most should only be considered a last resort.

Respect that. They’re lucky to have you.

I should have also mentioned:

1. At these shops are also plenty of over-qualified people for whom compensation was secondary to flexibility, work-life balance, autonomy, or what have you.
2. More importantly, they’re popular foot-ins for people new to the field or stepping-stones for those in career transition. (Especially during hiring droughts like this, I suspect.) Consequently, these places are where I had the privilege of meeting many brilliant, diamond-in-the-rough types on their way up.

Best of luck ✊

Hell yeah I’m back in Lisbon

Their genetics have sacrificed nearly every aspect of basic resiliency for maximum speed on the plains. Most of the work caring for horses is keeping them from accidentally killing themselves. Full disclosure: I worked as a stable hand as a child in exchange for riding lessons. Will never ever own a horse.

Classic anecdote of the missing proof for Shizuo Kakutani’s lemma.