I don’t know much about lol or fighting games but the starcraft pro scene exploded after a gambling/match fixing scandal back in 2010! The first wave absolutely had this problem
Solution is extremely simple, fly the candidate out for an in-person interview. A one-time plane ticket is a tiny expense compared to paying for the company to be a fully in-office operation, or paying a fraudster's salary.
Onsite interviews were a normal practice just a few years ago.
This depends on your size and activity level. The last time I dieted, I was losing a pound a week on 2700 calories. 1400 would have been a severe crash diet.
The article you linked says that Chiquita was extorted into illegally paying money to a Colombian death squad, who also murdered people, and were ordered to pay restitution to the victims' families. It doesn't say that they paid the death squad to murder people on Chiquita's behalf.
My family leaves me alone when I'm on a call, but feels free to interrupt if I'm quietly working. Sometimes, I enjoy the company, so I don't want to tell them to never do this, but I also sometimes need focus time. The sounds of a call provide an audible signal that This Is Don't Interrupt Dad Time.
In other words, for at least some people, it's not pretending to work so they can slack off, it's pretending to be in a meeting so they can actually work.
I imagine that in-office workers with disruptive coworkers might want to do something similar.
> It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day
This is a “tell me you don’t homeschool without telling me you don’t homeschool”
No homeschooling family I ever met has set hours, and most spend far less time than that daily. Schoolwork takes a lot less time when you cut out the crowd control, distractions, “pledging allegiance” and other nonsense
Amazing to see M-A posted here. Spent way too many hours in my youth scouring the internet for things I could add and correct. I still have an ancient account with full edit access, frequently make changes on behalf of people in my local scene because "request a change" as become fairly unresponsive on account on the insane size of the site.
I still remember when they got to 10k bands. I think this must have been around 2003-2004. And people were speculating about whether there where another 10k metal bands in the world. Crazy.
It uses a lot of the same "hostile architecture" techniques that public spaces use to keep homeless people out. There's literally nowhere you can get comfortable, unless you want to lay on the ground in the middle of traffic.
I am American and my children's school has exactly this rule (phones confiscated during the day). My kids report that most of their peers simply ignore the rule and keep their phone with them, and that this is so common the school has given up on enforcement.
Probably not, martial arts classes that are marketed as self defense or exercise rather than as training for combat sports get a significant number of women
I'm currently working in an MLOps engineer role at a mid sized company. I agree with that article that most of what I do is plain old software engineering. I don't think I'm interchangeable with any other backend dev though, because ML expertise really does come in handy here. I think the thing that makes it a bit specialized is that we are providing tools to allow our data scientists to self-serve model deployment and monitoring, but they by and large not expert web programmers. So we need to anticipate the kind of mistakes they're likely to make and provide opinionated tools that guide them into building sane software in the specific context of our company's technology. As well as direct support as needed.
We evaluated several commercial MLops tools and ended up going with generic tools that we already use, instead of something new that's branded for MLops. I.e. postgres + snowflake instead of a commercial feature store -- model deployment, monitoring, and alerting on the same platform as the rest of the company's applications -- etc. When we tried "ML" tools, they took so much work to adapt to our use cases that they really added no value.
For what it's worth, I have a counter-anecdote: all the women I know who are into witch stuff are married with children and several of them are self employed doing arts & crafts kind of stuff.