Topic: The Necro Wars (Read 355703 times)

silverspawn · « **Reply #1200 on:** April 27, 2021, 09:10:03 am »

If a tree falls in a forest with no-one there, does it still make a sound?

If a company is too incompetent to respond to emails, should you still work for them?

Awaclus · « **Reply #1201 on:** April 27, 2021, 09:44:10 am »

Quote from: silverspawn on April 27, 2021, 09:10:03 am

If a tree falls in a forest with no-one there, does it still make a sound?

If a company is too incompetent to respond to emails, should you still work for them?

Yes

Possibly not, but you should also make sure your e-mails are optimized to require the least amount of effort to read, understand, and respond to, and to make it as clear as possible as early as possible how little effort it takes and how the recipient can benefit from reading it and responding to it. It's possible they receive a ShiTton of e-mails, in which case they don't have the time to go through all of them very carefully, which is why they will prioritize the e-mails that are the easiest to handle.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1202 on:** April 27, 2021, 05:15:42 pm »

Well I sent the email in response to the email in which they offered me the position. It was basically saying, 'before I sign this, please answer me this {detailed question about my job}'

Awaclus · « **Reply #1203 on:** April 27, 2021, 06:32:20 pm »

Quote from: silverspawn on April 27, 2021, 05:15:42 pm

Well I sent the email in response to the email in which they offered me the position. It was basically saying, 'before I sign this, please answer me this {detailed question about my job}'

That makes it sound like the details aren't going to be too great.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1204 on:** April 27, 2021, 06:47:46 pm »

The upside is that it's a freelance job, so there's almost no commitment.

but yeah, it really does. and online reviews I've read for the company weren't too great, either.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1205 on:** April 27, 2021, 06:50:41 pm »

I was pretty amused at that line from their most recent email (which completely ignored what I was asking (but I assume it's an automatic or at least standard thing))

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If everything is clear, we recommend that you click on the “Accept” button at the end of the contract email.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1206 on:** April 28, 2021, 04:14:45 pm »

Step #1: lose stack against another player
Step #2: realize that player is a bot
Step #3: try to abuse the fact that it's a tight bot with a speculative allin on another table
Step #4: get called by Aces
Step #5: spike two perfect cards in a row to realize a backdoor straight draw
Step #6: profit. kind of.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1207 on:** April 28, 2021, 04:15:36 pm »

I wish I had realized that it's a bot one minute sooner because I missed the perfect situation to exploit it

silverspawn · « **Reply #1208 on:** April 28, 2021, 07:03:59 pm »

I predict about a 25% chance of the company reacting to my email tomorrow

silverspawn · « **Reply #1209 on:** April 28, 2021, 07:09:04 pm »

Someone should do a large scale study looking at the correlation between the median time that a person takes to respond to emails and their moral character.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1210 on:** April 29, 2021, 01:16:09 pm »

Quote from: silverspawn on April 28, 2021, 07:03:59 pm

I predict about a 25% chance of the company reacting to my email tomorrow

ok they actually did

silverspawn · « **Reply #1211 on:** April 30, 2021, 01:35:04 pm »

I think this may just be brilliant

silverspawn · « **Reply #1212 on:** May 05, 2021, 04:29:42 am »

happened to find this by googling

silverspawn · « **Reply #1213 on:** May 08, 2021, 09:37:42 am »

Quote from: silverspawn on April 19, 2021, 05:52:04 pm

I dropped a cup a few weeks ago. The handle broke and I've kept the four pieces on my desk. Now, my brain can't stop imagining what would happen if I swallowed one of them. I think it would probably kill me? It's genuinely distracting and disturbing.

If I stop posting, you know what happened

silverspawn · « **Reply #1214 on:** May 12, 2021, 12:12:42 pm »

what perverse sense of self worth must you have to play online tournaments with no price pool and read off all moves from an engine

silverspawn · « **Reply #1215 on:** May 12, 2021, 10:35:13 pm »

Quote from: silverspawn on May 12, 2021, 12:12:42 pm

what perverse sense of self worth must you have to play online tournaments with no price pool and read off all moves from an engine

and the account got banned within 12 hours of my report. Yay chess.com

silverspawn · « **Reply #1216 on:** May 28, 2021, 05:33:59 am »

silverspawn · « **Reply #1217 on:** May 30, 2021, 05:16:52 am »

Very surprised that the market thinks a 45% chance for Biden to be out early is reasonable. I'd have put it at ~5-10%.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1218 on:** May 31, 2021, 09:32:39 am »

I'm dismayed by how weak the correlation is between a paper's number of citations and my assessment of its quality. I was genuinely expecting it to be stronger.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1219 on:** June 14, 2021, 01:06:41 pm »

It's fine you can just jumpblock the big creature

silverspawn · « **Reply #1220 on:** June 14, 2021, 01:08:33 pm »

a 1/1 will do don't waste your big creatures you'll want to have a big board when you win next turn

silverspawn · « **Reply #1221 on:** June 17, 2021, 02:35:54 pm »

So there is this magic card that says when it comes into play, your opponent takes the top three cards of your library, separates them into two piles, one face-up and one face-down, and you choose one to take into your hand.

I've played this a bunch of times now, and at least one of out three times, my opponents separate the piles 3/0. And I'm so confused. I didn't think much of it the first time, but i think it happened four times now.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1222 on:** June 17, 2021, 02:53:51 pm »

and it happened again. I'm gonna say this was the fifth time.

silverspawn · « **Reply #1223 on:** June 17, 2021, 03:37:46 pm »

silverspawn · « **Reply #1224 on:** June 18, 2021, 09:30:12 am »

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