darkmarx
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- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 4 hours ago:
Not at all, it was an explanation of the goal post, not moving it.
My assertion (goal post if you like): The first question is weird as the founding principles of the united states are vauge and vary depending on points of view.
My explanation (which was somehow construed as moving the goal post): The founding of the United States had conflicting goals, principles, intentions, and ideas; many of which are still debated today.
My conclusion: It would be difficult for the average person to give concrete examples of meeting those principles as the constitution is fluid and the most common thing people call a founding principle is “freedom.”
As far as the declaration of war part. “We hold these truths…” is from the Declaration of Independence. Where as “We the people…” is from the constitution. The former says all men are created equal. The latter says some men are only worth 3/5 of others. I mentioned it as another example of the contradictions in the founding of the country. So, if you are to answer a question about founding principles, which do you choose?
All this to say, the first question is meaningless unless the answer is just surface level.
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 1 day ago:
That’s from a declaration of war, not the principles of the government. At least use “We the People” as that’s the constitution. Even that isn’t the same as the founding principles as it has been amended. The first 10 coming soon after writing.
Small independent governments that come together in times of need or one centralized government that handles the needs of all states? Thirteen independent economies or one for all thirteen states? Religion? Guns? President for life? A large percentage of the population being counted as on 3/5 of a person? These are principles of the founding of the country, many are debated to this day. And you will find many who agree with each side. There is a large portion of the population that argue the government was founded on Christian values. So no, I don’t think most people can adequately explain the founding principles of the United States other than “ma freedum.”
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 1 day ago:
Number 1 is a little weird as most people wouldn’t be able to name many founding principles of the united states. It’s something that’s still debated. Hell, the founders weren’t even in agreement on it.
Number 2 is worded strangely, but isn’t too bad. It’s like asking how you made concrete improvements at your last employer and how you can utilize that with the new one.
Number 4 isn’t bad. It could be from any application at any company.
Number 3 is freaking bonkers. Think about applying for a job as a park photographer at Disney and being asked how you’ll help fulfill the CEO’s direction to make another Star Wars sequel. After being asked to name the priorities to begin with.
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 1 month ago:
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
- Comment on Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns... 2 months ago:
In the Stormlight books by Sanderson, society is split based on eye color; bright eyed vs dark eyed. Bright eyed people are called Brightness or Brightlord. Not exaclty the same as what you said, but it is an interesting society based on eye color.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
And that somehow makes it better?
- Comment on Can someone please tell me what the hell this is? 3 months ago:
My guess, and it is just a guess… it’s a storm water control system, possibly cut into the sewer line.
I’ve seen older houses where someone cut into the basmeny floor directly into a sewer line to put in a basement drain.
Based on you saying water was in there when it was raining, someone might have cut into the storm water mitigation line for a basement drain. Then someone tiled the floor and put a vent over the hole because that’s what they found that fits.
With older houses, a lot of times, the storm water system was tied directly into the main sewer. If that’s what this is, I’d be concerned about sewer gasses coming up from it.
Again, with only seeing one picture, it’s just a guess.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 4 months ago:
Continue reading.
Sodium Hydroxide, when exposed to Carbon Dioxide (already in the air), combines to become Sodium Carbinate.
NaOH + CO2 → Na2CO3 + H2O
Sodium Carbinate then reacts with water and more Carbon Dioxide to become Dodium Bicarbinate, which is baking soda.
Na2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 NaHCO3
Not only does a Sodium Oxyde fuel cell produce electricity, it takes CO2 out of the atmosphere.
From a physics and chemistry point of view, it’s pretty cool. I’m curious how well it scales though.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 5 months ago:
Ran into a bug on xbox. When making a potion the game crashed. After repeating it multiple times, I figured out that it only happened when mixing a stolen and non stollen ingredient. I have not retested since the last update.
Prior to the update, I could not create an enchanted item with a static effect at frostcrag spire. For example, a ring with nighteye. I could create one with detect life because it was a magnitude selector. This bug went away after the update.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 8 months ago:
“The government” is multiple agencies and departments. There is no single computer system, database, mainframe, or file store that the entire US goverment uses. There is no standard programming language used. There is no standard server configuration. Each agency is different. Each software project is different.
When someone says the government doesn’t use sql, they don’t know what they are talking about. It could be refering to the fact that many government systems are ancient mainframe applications that store everything in vsam. But it is patently false that the government doesn’t use sql. I’ve been on a number of government contracts over the years, spanning multiple agencies. MsSQL was used in all but one.
Furthermore, some people share SSNs, they are not unique. It’s a common misconception that they are, but anyone working on a government software learns this pretty quickly. The fact that it seems to be a big shock goes to show that he doesn’t know what he is doing and neither do the people reporting to him.
Not only is he failing to understand the technology, he is failing to understand the underlying data he is looking at.