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So far, though, it looks like the arrival of job bots is only making the problem worse. For starters, employers hate them. HR departments have no way of knowing which applications came from a human and which came from a machine.

My reaction is “sorry—not sorry.” For the past decade or more, applicants have had to contend with application management systems that will prevent your application from being seen by a human.

As with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrGuilt at 11:40 AM on May 7, 2024

I made the carbonara tonight folks. It was fantastic.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 5:32 PM on April 29, 2024

"So we will put in very little salt," as he is adding in three fistfuls of salt.

There's a lot of water in there, though. If you're not salting your pasta water at least that much you may as well not bother.

And man, carbonara is one of my favorite things and now I want to make it. Although I'll probably skip the grana and use pure pecorino because that's how I roll.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 6:09 AM on April 26, 2024

I would eat that. Oh yes I would.

Went to some place in Rome about 8 years ago, famous for its carbonara. Wasn't this place. Where we went, the atmosphere wasn't great, but the food was outstanding. I'd say it looked very similar to this, minus the fancy plate.

Great video. I love cooking videos where it's the chef doing their thing, simple production, showing the actual preparation. I loved that he was about to plate the pasta, then had a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by SoberHighland at 6:39 AM on April 26, 2024

Speaking of Carbonara.
posted to MetaFilter by indianbadger1 at 8:44 AM on April 26, 2024

I am very passionate about this dish. I would say pancetta is preferable to reg bacon, until you are ready for the guanciale splurge (very worth it!) mmmm Italy.
posted to MetaFilter by supermedusa at 10:58 AM on April 26, 2024

I just had to drop my kid off at a birthday party which just happened to be next door to an Italian market, so I picked up a nice hunk of guanciale. It’s Italian kismet!
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 3:08 PM on April 26, 2024

I like how the lead "warps" in. Good future vibes here.
posted to MeFi Music by ignignokt at 4:27 PM on April 24, 2024

I’m pretty sure this show permanently re-wired my sense of humor.
posted to MetaFilter by Doleful Creature at 10:25 PM on April 18, 2024

OH YEAH THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF
posted to MeFi Music by wellifyouinsist at 9:36 AM on April 19, 2024

I have been doing some similar stuff. This could use another voice, like a sax.
posted to MeFi Music by AppleSeed at 6:50 PM on April 7, 2024

Nice one. Great sounds!
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 3:09 AM on September 29, 2019

I bopped along the whole way through.
posted to MeFi Music by wellifyouinsist at 3:49 PM on January 4, 2024

Just to be pedantic: that sounds like an mbira rather than a marimba. Great song, though!
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display at 7:35 PM on August 15, 2023

Good vibes! I like the swells. And wow, that is a lot of triggering!
posted to MeFi Music by ignignokt at 6:28 PM on December 6, 2023

Lovely. Terrific guitar playing as well. Would be good music for driving somewhere scenic in summer.
posted to MeFi Music by thatwhichfalls at 4:36 PM on December 2, 2023

Gift cards/cash seem like they could be a hassle. Getting a head count, trusting someone to distribute them, etc. It also seems like it would cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, or you'll be getting everyone like $5?

It's ok to be casual in gifts like this. You can drop off cookies, cupcakes, donuts, fruit, coffee, etc and if people are off that day or don't want any it's fine, everyone else will finish them. This happened twice in the sandwich shop I worked at and... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by hermanubis at 11:40 PM on November 13, 2023

don't do a party or outing. There will always be folks who can't participate because of timing or health or whatever; the last thing you want is to give a gift that excludes some people. Gift cards are great.

I wanted to do something like this a few years ago, and I made fancy cookies for the staff at the store that had kept my family going during COVID... and it turned out that what with one thing or another, employees were just too busy during the working day, there... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fingersandtoes at 8:14 PM on November 13, 2023

What about buying a flat of some fancy coffee cans and some fancy non-caffeine drink and offering it up with a goofy “you guys are the best!” note signed by you?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by samthemander at 8:57 PM on November 13, 2023

Came in to say gift cards. Reach out to a manager at these places, get a headcount and buy them all gift cards. If you really want to get fancy, reach out to owners and say you want to sponsor a staff party or outing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vrakatar at 7:43 PM on November 13, 2023

Sunny and optimistic. Morning music.
posted to MeFi Music by thatwhichfalls at 7:53 PM on June 15, 2023

Whoa!
posted to MeFi Music by ageispolis at 9:09 AM on April 9, 2016

Agreeing with usonian, and adding that getting that human factor right also means this is still tight, and doesn't get muddy or start sounding like sneakers tumbling in a dryer (as many of my excursions into that same production experiment have turned into).

So: you are good at accompanying yourself and coordinating it all without a clicktrack. Well done!
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display at 8:33 PM on August 4, 2016

The drums sound great and it does feel like it has that 'human factor' that programmed drums can lack. Really nice guitar playing, too.
posted to MeFi Music by usonian at 4:59 PM on August 3, 2016

Peace-bringing and thoughtful. Really centering. I too am sorry about Meghan.
posted to MeFi Music by BlackPebble at 8:03 AM on March 30, 2016

Love that bass sound! Really enjoying this.
posted to MeFi Music by cincinnatus c at 8:34 AM on May 24, 2023

The one thing that always got me about the Church of Satan is that you can't be a member if you're a felon. So if you have any actual real deal bad impulses, you gotta be a Christian.
posted to MetaFilter by kingdead at 9:05 AM on May 20, 2023

I really want to hear a Mountain Goats' song titled "I’m the only Satanist on Martha’s Vineyard."
posted to MetaFilter by heyitsgogi at 9:01 AM on May 20, 2023

I dig it. It's like the backing tracks for a Thomas Dolby b-side.
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 5:58 AM on May 12, 2023

Isn't it amazing how a synth patch can conjure up a very specific time? This sounds very Lyle Mays early 80s to me.
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 6:16 AM on May 12, 2023

on the one hand, trademark is a complicated form of IP and the public generally automatically assumes it’s the same as copyright, leading a whole lot of people to leap immediately to the intuitive wrong conclusion

on the other hand, this feels like the sort of case that the band could win by simply going up to the judge and saying: come on
posted to MetaFilter by DoctorFedora at 4:58 AM on April 16, 2023

Feels Businessfunk, in a good way!
posted to MeFi Music by ignignokt at 8:50 AM on March 27, 2023

Love the moments like at 2:32, where everything swells and fades in this cool way.
posted to MeFi Music by Corduroy at 10:15 AM on November 25, 2020

Those chords have pumped me up to do some kind of freeze frame jump! This is good times.
posted to MeFi Music by ignignokt at 11:07 AM on March 17, 2023

McSweeney's has always specialized in a very distinctive style of "satire" – so oblique, so bone-dry that there is no "tell", no punchline, no discernible difference from a mundane straight take.

I'm still not convinced that this is intended as satire.

If it is, then it's terribly ineffective. This has happened on MetaFilter before: someone posts a McSweeney's link, and the entire thread immediately gets... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by escape from the potato planet at 8:37 AM on March 12, 2023

Dahl wasn’t Shakespeare and these are not timeless works of art:

Just as a data point, as an occasional amateur dramaturge (amaturge?) for my local Shakespeare company, I just want to mention that Shakespeare gets edited/"censored" all the time.

For instance, there's a line Benedick has in Much Ado About Nothing: "If I do not love her, I am a Jew". No one ever hears it because it gets cut for very obvious reasons.
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Bad Example at 6:17 AM on March 12, 2023

A list of the logical fallacies, non-sequiturs, and just plain factual errors in this text would likely be longer than the text itself. There's probably a well-reasoned, coherent argument to be made against making changes to published books in general, and against the changes made to Dahl's book specifically, but this is neither of those, this is just an angry, bad rant.
posted to MetaFilter by Joakim Ziegler at 4:37 AM on March 12, 2023

Really lovely vibe - well done, CarrotAdventure!
posted to MeFi Music by nthdegx at 5:45 AM on March 2, 2023

Fantastic businessfunk vibe! I'd hit the demo button on this keyboard all day.
posted to MeFi Music by ignignokt at 7:13 PM on February 25, 2023

Nice. This reminds me of the song Ain’t It A Shame, by The B-52’s
posted to MeFi Music by gt2 at 12:58 AM on January 22, 2023

Good music.
posted to MeFi Music by feroz at 7:32 AM on April 26, 2020

Toe-tapping good!
posted to MeFi Music by mpark at 8:26 AM on February 6, 2021

This is lovely.
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 5:51 PM on July 8, 2022

The tyranny of 6 unelected extremists appointed by a minority of voters funded by a handful of warped oligarchs. Supremists delenda est.
posted to MetaFilter by anecdotal_grand_theory at 7:25 AM on June 24, 2022

Cool. Definite low-key Jan Hammer vibes
posted to MeFi Music by srednivashtar at 12:54 PM on May 11, 2022

Did the 5 children with the rings to summon Tyson get weaker or what happened for his powers to wane?
posted to MetaFilter by GoblinHoney at 2:58 PM on March 15, 2022

This is so cool!
posted to MeFi Music by mpark at 10:55 PM on January 29, 2022

Very nice! I had to look up SLG-100. Silent guitar, eh? Interesting.

Anyway, kudos on the song. Gonna listen again now.
posted to MeFi Music by mpark at 1:28 PM on January 27, 2022

I like this. Very chill and that bass has a really nice growl to it!
posted to MeFi Music by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:45 PM on December 16, 2021

So I finally downloaded the F1 race and watched it on the plane yesterday. It was a spectacular race. Some thoughts:

Re: Radio negotiation
This is not new, just the visibility of it is. In days of old, the sporting director of each team would be running back and forth to the race control tower (later on with a cellphone in hand) until radios made direct comms so easy. Masi 'negotiating' with Horner at the previous race was a bit of stage management I am not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brockles at 6:21 AM on December 14, 2021