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Jul 1 06:34

@BradyGilg Do you have representative data on how common it is to feed everything through automated scoring systems?

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Jul 1 06:34

Let us continue this discussion in chat..

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Jul 1 06:34

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

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Jul 1 06:34

@Servaes Sounds like an unusual workplace. It makes sense to require employees to speak a language in common with their manager. I meant my "diversity is a plus" on the condition that the employees are meeting the job requirements, and almost all job postings I see require speaking either the language of the country or English or both. Hiring people who cannot talk to their manager or to each other, I don't know how such a workplace is supposed to work.

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Jul 1 06:34

@mdfst13 A bad job is better than no job. — unless it leads to burn-out and mental breakdown. A bad job experience contributed to a major depressive episode in someone I know. Some workplaces are outright abusive and not everyone may notice it in time to run away, or may be compelled by economics to remain in an abusive workplace.

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Jul 1 06:34

@Servaes All other things being equal, I can not think why diversity could ever be bad for a workplace. Workplaces need the experience of the old and the creativity of the young. This is particularly true of creative industries such as STEM or software development, where a diversity of skills and ideas is essential to create a good product. But even in a team of cleaners, employees can teach each other, but naturally not if all skillsets are identical. A workplace employing only 62-year-old males with identical and outdated views is moribund and may struggle to hire 25-year-old women.

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Jul 1 06:34

@Aubreal Dedication to diversity has a relation to the actual job. A diverse workplace is more attractive and more future-proof.

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Jun 10 07:52

Maybe they're in Greece and their Albanian phone doesn't work there.

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May 14 17:03

@JobHunter69 Strings of text can transmit information, but LLMs do not encode information, only the ability to generate text. The "information" it transmits is notoriously unreliable, and its ability to provide "sources" not fundamentally different from what classic search engines have been doing for decades. One can never trust the output of an LLM, so they are fundamentally unsuitable as a source of information, and always will be.

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May 14 17:03

@JobHunter69 They can search for resources that contain text similar to the text they have produced, and maybe those resources could be used as sources, but they cannot answer where they have found a particular piece of information (because they do not possess information; they just generate strings of text).

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May 14 17:03

Note that large language models such as ChatGPT are fundamentally unable to provide sources for their information.

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May 14 11:06

@Arno It is now... (in practice)

What on Earth?

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Mar 29 21:50

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Dec 16, 2024 18:34

I asked ChatGPT to generate an image from the METAR in xkcd.com/3024. The result is above.

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Dec 16, 2024 18:33

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Mar 18 02:45

Isn't the management company hired by an association owned by the community of flat owners (landlords or owner-occupiers)?

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Mar 12 22:23

@user13964273 In a geopolitical sense, the USA is no longer a "western" country, but has switched allegiance to Russia since the Trump/Musk regime took operational control of the federal government. As long as the Trump regime remains in control of the USA, the Putin regime will be happy to cooperate. In other words, Putin will be fine with American interests, but not with western interests.

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Mar 12 22:23

It obviously doesn't want to permit those assets to be taken over by Russia — Trump could promise Russia American support against Ukraine in exchange for access to resources after Russia takes over.

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Mar 8 15:36

@Evargalo Shaky yes, but this answer does present the Russian-American anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

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Jan 30 11:03

What is the citizenship or residency status of your husband? I suppose he has solely Pakistani citizenship — is this accurate?

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Jan 30 11:03

If you and your husband have not made any untruthful declarations, then you shouldn't have to face any consequences.

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Jan 30 11:03

@Traveller (So far) only refugees picked up at sea may end up in Albania.

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Jan 24 04:44

Many MDPI journals are not great, but I think it's exaggerated to classify them as predatory or disreputable.

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Jan 22 19:57

No matter who wins in the District Court, this will be appealed up the chain until it lands on the doorstep of the Supreme Court. — sounds like the lower courts are wasting their time, then?

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Jan 19 19:15

To add to the final paragraph: you could also cause a wildfire and cause a dozen fatalities and a billion dollar in damage. I would suggest bolding the "DO NOT USE WITH HIKING STOVE" and add it clearer to the top of the answer.

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Dec 13, 2024 21:41

@kaya3 That article starts with "If your CCTV system captures images of people outside the boundary of your private domestic property" (typical example: doorbell cameras). It doesn't seem to cover recordings inside the private domestic property.

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Nov 22, 2024 06:52

@JochenGlueck It is more time-consuming to clean a whiteboard after three days than after half an hour.

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Nov 21, 2024 05:43

I had initially overlooked that the question was already tagged with three specific countries, so the whole Northern/Eastern Europe phrasing could have been avoided.

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Nov 21, 2024 05:43

@user111403 Nine countries formerly under Communist Party regimes are not Slavic-speaking (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Albania, Kosovo, former East Germany), and there's a pretty strong cultural difference between, say, Albania and Estonia. The Communist Party era had a powerful influence on economy and culture, but not one that defines everything forever after.

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Nov 21, 2024 05:43

@Relaxed The geographic centre of Europe is in Lithuania, but if you want to count Magdeburg and Koper as East but Thessaloniki and Lappeenranta as West, welcome to 1988... It's true that other definitions exist, but "anywhere that used to be run by a communist party between 1945 and 1989" seems a not very useful definition to use in 2024. As if card payment acceptance changes when crossing from Berlin-Friedrichshain to Berlin-Kreuzberg or between Hessen and Thüringen…

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Nov 21, 2024 05:43

@jcaron Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova. That's 50% of Europe already by area. If we include the Baltic states we do have Schengen countries in Eastern Europe, but I would argue Lithuania has more cultural affinity with Poland than with Russia or Belarus.

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Nov 21, 2024 05:43

There are no Schengen Countries in Eastern Europe.

The Pod Bay

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Nov 19, 2024 12:51

Cleanroom, Chinese style :)

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Nov 19, 2024 12:51

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Nov 18, 2024 20:21

@NuclearHoagie Hmm, so in scenario of the OP, management might wake up and, realising the importance of the role, hire two replacements, and then get rid of OP.

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Nov 18, 2024 20:21

It's rare that a single employee is so critical that they can ask for many times their normal salary — are you sure? Although I agree that bus factor 1 is poor business, I have the impression this is not so uncommon.

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Nov 15, 2024 07:05

OP explained in a comment that they have had a Russian passport since 2023.

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Nov 13, 2024 09:15

Anti-Roadblock #1 — what's how Medvedev became President of Russia.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@NoDataDumpNoContribution Russia did get away with annexing Crimea. Of course, it would be nice if everybody everywhere were nice to each other, but reality is different. What I'm saying is to consider the secondary Realpolitik effects of actions considering the world we live in. Would Russia have invaded Georgia and Ukraine if the USA and NATO had stayed out of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.? Impossible to know for sure, but asking the question does not excuse bullies. We cannot change the past and now is too late, what's done is done.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@haxor789 Perhaps "ultimately led" is the wrong phrasing, but the worsening relations are an important contributing factor, in the same way that no history of the prelude to World War II is complete without covering the Versailles Treaty. Provoking a bully does not excuse bullying, but depending on circumstances, it might still be wise to not provoke the bully.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@phoog Sorry, yes, it certainly did. Should have been "first time since WW II".

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@user13964273 The history leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is beyond the scope of this question. (Personally, I do think the 1999 illegal NATO bombing of Yugoslavia is a major contributing factor to worsening relations that ultimately led to Russia invading Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, but that is not what this question is about.)

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@JoeW The implication by the Bundeswehr statement would seem to be that those missiles cannot be used to attack Russia unless Russia attacks NATO first — or could NATO attack Russia as an intervention in the Russia-Ukraine war, like how they attacked Yugoslavia as an intervention in the Yugoslavia/Serbia-Kosovo war? Not talking about the political likelihood, but the Bundeswehr claim that doing so would be impossible due to how NATO is structured.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@JoeW True, but not relevant. NATO intervened in a war to which NATO was previously not a party, nor was any NATO member state. There are many atrocities around the world where self-declared police officers could morally justify intervention without a UN mandate. That doesn't make such intervention legal according to UN or NATO rules.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

I have edited the question to focus more on the substance and less on the person saying it.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@264champagnebottlesonice Moreover, considering this is posted on bundeswehr.org, we can interpret it as an official statement from the German armed forces. An official statement from the German armed forces on the nature of NATO should be in-topic on Politics.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@264champagnebottlesonice He might be obscure, but is the only person quoted in the official Bundeswehr statement to a politically controversial decision to station those missiles in Germany.

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Nov 12, 2024 09:43

@user13964273 In 1999, NATO as an alliance did attack Yugoslavia. Those were bombings under NATO command, not bombings by individual NATO member states. It was the first time since 1939 that Germany attacked another country.