We are starving and clearly haven't eaten in days⁠!

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“It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin (2005)

The stored energy in popsicle sticks triggered by a firecracker

Hello Fedizens!

@hacks4pancakes said:

"If you are wondering if you should offer them a gig even at a low rate outside America, for the love of Pete, do it now. There very well might not be a later for them, even to get a passport to leave." "Just offer the damn job." https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/113959970763765287

Challenge accepted.

We're a Vancouver, BC, Canada tech company. We are in crunch mode for a small production batch right now. We could use help until mid April, with a possibility of being hired permanently afterwards. Candidates would need to hit the ground rolling! As @hacks4pancakes suggests, we can offer to hire 2-3 instead of just 1 if we offer "a low rate."

There are two skillsets that could be useful, EE and software:

1) Electrical Engineer
👉 MUST have an EE degree and related experience (P.Eng is not required)
👉 SHOULD have experience with product bringup, procurement/BOM, prototype to production phase
👉 Ideally experience with automation, robotics, home appliances/electronics, or similar
👉 Ideally experience with fabrication processes
👉 Extra valuable: experience as product lead

2) Software person
👉 MUST have C++ and Python experience
👉 SHOULD have experience with ROS. basic electronics, soldering, actuators and sensors; good at root cause analysis
👉 Ideally handy with a soldering iron and basic electronics

We must fill the EE position to have the capacity to onboard a SW teammate.

All candidates:
👉 WILL be very hands on, literally
👉 MUST have good interpersonal skills. That is not coded language: neurodivergance is no problem, and our team is diverse. But the team is small, and additions will have to get along.
👉 Previous experience on a high functioning team is not strictly required, but is a major consideration.

You do NOT need to explain why you want to leave the USA. It's none of our business.

Why Canada? @transworldexpress wrote https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Why_Canada%3F which gives an OK idea of the safety here.

Why us? We're a startup with sales, in a beautiful seaside city facing the mountains. Longer term, we may have opportunities for remote work. There's no work visa or passport required. And we're hiring.

Why not? This isn't Silicon Valley, and while "a low rate" here is well over the national median, it's not luxurious. (As above, we're offering under local market rate so we can afford to make more than one offer.) The starting date is "ASAP" and the initial contract would finish in mid April. Being in production ramp-up, there is a need to be physically present.

For various hopefully obvious reasons I won't name us here.

➡️ How to apply
👉 If you are extremely well qualified, especially as an EE, please shoot a DM with a rough idea of why that's so.
👉 If you think you are qualified with reservations, please shoot a DM with a rough idea of why that's so.
👉 You do not initially need to submit a full resume or CV if you aren't comfortable, but we will ask for one before making any offer
👉 If you want to use E2EE, a public key follows

#FediHire #job #Engineering

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

— Alan Cooper

According to all known laws of DNS, there is no way a fedi instance could be hosted on an .ARPA domain.
Even if you get ahold of a domain like this, it should only be used for PTR records - right?

The instance, of course, federates anyway - because DNS doesn't care what humans think is impossible.

Do control towers have some magic subtitle technology not known to humankind because 20% of the time I just hear

muted: ckkssshzzz two .... Sshhkkcckkkk niner

And then the ATC is like "Thank you sir. I am so sorry to hear about you and your wife and I agree that warming temperatures are indeed negatively impacting the migratory patterns of many marine species."

Fun design is fun

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

its not speculative execution the CPU just gets bored from sitting around waiting on a conditional and starts stimming

# begin code injection
you.boost(this);

# lets see how many robot girls have arbitrary code execution

How did you get your gender?

This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting better

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

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