“Kexin Cai
~115 lbs, ~25 years old, 5.7 feet
Last seen 15 may 2024 with Biktrix white electric bike with fat tyres and front rack.
For any information that can help us find her please call Lebanon police dispatch at 603 448 1212”
Just a reminder that adding “young” (or “old”, for that matter) in a job ad is discriminatory. Why not write down something that the candidate can actually work on improving instead, and that has something to do with the job you’ll ask them to do?
How can I tell you… I enjoy it as much as having to brush my teeth after each meal or emptying the dishwasher..
do I wish I didn’t have to use it at all? YES
can I do without it at the moment? Unfortunately NO because for some reason our lives are governed by the ever-present but really, really small risk that someone might want to hack my work email..
@elduvelle
Duo is such a huge pain in the ass, I simply cant get into one of my work emails bc its pushes are tied to a phone that doesnt work anymore and IT has like a 7 month lead time to do anything
The idea of a Credit Card is the perfect example of how much the US loves adding completely unnecessary steps to a process.
Debit card: pay a bill by transferring money from your bank account to the person’s account - 1 step
Credit card: pay a bill by using credit from a company, waiting from them to actually transfer the money, transferring money from your bank account, waiting for that to actually proceed otherwise you have no more “credit” in your credit card - 4 steps.
Also, never go below your available credit otherwise you’ll have to pay horrible interest!
Other examples: American taxes, American healthcare, American pension, American voting system,…
I have met folks that refer to their credit limit as their “savings”. So basically debt is such a default idea that many people see it as normal and not a trap.
@elduvelle don't even get me started on the credit scores. I learned recently that using above 10% of your available credit impacts your score. What is the deal with that? You give me credit that I shouldn't use but it's still available? Just in case I fall in temptation, like some sort of capital god giving me free will and punishing for using it
#Zotero still asking $60 for 1 year of 6Gb… 😭 @zotero I love you all but it’s 2024 now, maybe you could either reduce the price or increase what we get for it? #ReferenceManager
@elduvelle@zotero $60/year for 6gb, no? I would pay $60/year for the privilege of being able to uh propose changes to the docs so that it was uh possible to develop for zotero so uh maybe we could have more storage backends supported since zotfile is no longer maintained (presumably since it's so difficult to develop/contribute to an extension since there is effectively no dev documentation)
@IceCubesApp why can’t I go back all the way in my notifications? I can see like back 7h and that’s it…
Edit: Ok, never mind, it’s probably just that I didn’t have internet access 😅
So the staff at #DartmouthCollege is apparently not allowed to tell individual students that they support the strike 🤔
Also, just in passing - I support the strike and all its demands, actually I think the demands are really not going far enough, did you known the PhD students are not even paid for the teaching they do??
At #DartmouthCollege we have our own protests… and overly exaggerated response from the authorities:
“At 1:30 a.m., the Hanover Police Department announced that 90 people were arrested during the protests. Individuals were arrested for “multiple offenses” — including criminal trespass and resisting arrest” 🤔
Here are some very interesting suggestions for having a good IT system in your lab (Github, Wiki, website, emails etc.). I’m sure the Mastodon crowd will love these:
Just a warning, though. When you build your lab, you will have a great IT system. It will be elegantly designed, and will be light-years ahead of your PI's structure. And you will wonder how they ever got along without it... until 25 years later, you realize your IT system is now a hodgepodge of duct tape and out-of-date systems that are not nearly as good as the new faculty are designing, and you will realize that updating it would require taking the entire system offline for more than a year and none of your postdocs would accept the new structure...
Of course, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do your best to set things up as carefully as you can when you start. Just a view from down the road. :)
TBH, I don't know. I think yearly review would be a good technique to try.
What I have done is added things over the years. It's not so hard when it's an entirely new thing. For example, we added a Wiki about a decade ago. That worked really well. I recently added checks to the lab database so that new stuff at least is in a consistent format... for a while. In my experience, the problem is less one of adding as much as deciding when to retire something or deciding whether it is worth fixing legacy structures.