The only way to hire is to interview candidates and then see how they do in the 90-day probationary period. An in-person interview is the only way you are going to be able to get a feeling for how someone is going to integrate into your team anyway. As for picking who to interview, just select randomly amongst the applicants who look like they meet your experiential requirements.

This isn't exactly hard or particularly complicated. Entry-level positions mean you are already expecting someone to be coming in green and will need to learn your processes and what your business does. If they seem overly obsequious, obnoxious, annoying or whatever in the interview toss them out and interview the next one.

As redundant as a lying liberal.

For posterity's sake: My comment above was downvoted two days after I made it. Someone waited until they had mod points and then came back to downvote it. What a child.

My 2016 is probably worth about that. This Summer it had a max-charge that would yield about 60 miles of range. That really means about 50 miles of range since it's quite unsettling to drive them to zero-miles of range (turtle mode). My Leaf might be worth $5000 but I suspect it's closer to $3000 since it's lost so much utility. It lacks the active cooling the 2019 and beyond got, which means the battery degraded (a little) faster and probably has about 15% fewer charge cycles and less extreme weather use (esp cold).

It is a somewhat good car for an urbanite. It's a compact 4-seater and 60 miles gets most folks to and from work plus a store trip or two. So, the car isn't yet useless. However, that's part of my chief concern. The car is in great shape other than the battery, yet it's going to get junked way before 150k miles with (at least what is now at @85k total mileage) a well cared for interior/exterior and undercarriage/suspension/brakes.

Why? Because replacing the battery totals the car. Nissan wants $12,000 for a new 40KWH battery for it (both nearby dealers quoted it the same). It is one of the few EVs you have battery swap options for but they rely on hacking the firmware (99.9% of EVs use DRM to lock you out of battery replacement). Once hacked, all you can get in the US is a used battery pack usually around 70%-85% capacity. Shame, but it's a better situation than most EVs where it's the dealer's price or the junkyard.

I bought the car 5 years ago and at that time it had a max range of 80 miles. Now this winter I'm down to 50 miles. I cannot drive the car to work anymore (60 miles round trip). Train fare would be $10.50 a day, require two transfers, and take 1.6 hours. The drive is 45 minutes.

A failed New Zealand company (EV Enhanced) tried to make a replacement battery that sounded really interesting. It was probably the fact that tipped me into buying the car originally. However, they have never delivered them even in New Zealand, AFAIK and their estimated prices are also sky high, last I checked. There does seem to be a Chinese CATL based replacement battery but nobody imports it and installs in the Leaf domestically (shops only install used/junked batteries). They have a 62KWH version with prismatic NMC cells. As an assembled unit it's $11,000 plus $2200 in shipping and import fees. That'd put my 2016 at about 250 miles per charge.

At those prices I could buy a lot of other cars, included a newer used Leaf. Ranges and $/mile vs my ICE cars isn't even close. I've put 30k miles on the car I originally gave $7k for. It's likely worth $3k now, based on what I see others like mine go for on Craigslist. My Leaf has been non-optimal in most $ terms. It also wears out tires much faster than my ICEs even with proper rotation). However, I like it's low-end torque, comfortable interior, heated everything, decent stereo/bluetooth, 110v cables (slow but super cheap charging), solid (regenerative) brakes, and good handling. It would be nice to keep it going but I'll probably consign it to the local EV shop when it dips @35 miles/charge.

No, it's definitely not a rich person's car. However, it's also sub-optimal in some ways.

When you engage a bunch of Sierra Club and Aspen Institute kudo collectors to run your pickup truck business, these are the outcomes you get.

To be fair, it hasn't done it in a while after a few firmware updates. Probably too many complaints. It now bee lines across the open floor until it finds a wall, whereas before it would get almost halfway, get drunk and wander around, then I could see on the live map it suddenly decided it was inside the semi-nearby couch and from there it was hopeless until rescued and reset by human hands.

It still gets stuck in tight places. For some areas like the bed, I turned it 90 degrees and pushed it against the wall. For others like the gym I just marked as a no-go zone. I moved my wife's office boxes around so it can't get stuck in her storage area.

Not ideal but it still does well enough on the 90% of the house it can reach. We have solid tile and wood floors, very few rugs or carpets anywhere so surface type isn't an issue but it will get baffled by a small bathroom rug. It's too thick to climb up but the robot is strong enough to push the rug around so it keeps recalculating the path and area shape. It can spend 10-15 minutes working its way out of a bathroom rug so I move those beforehand. The gym baffled it completely. It would drain battery to zero in there. Couldn't even find its way back to dock after almost an hour of bumping into everything at random.

  I know my review sounds horrible but it really isn't as long as one accepts the innate limits of such a device. But customer support really was horrible. Absolutely no excuse for them. I wasn't looking for a refund or freebie of any sort. Just help on the "getting lost in large spaces" problem. They started badly and got worse from there. CS is why I'd never buy again, not the device's limitations and issues.

$400 / 20 hours or so.

About $6-7 per hour.

Interesting.

Do you live in a city?

It's an S7 Max V.

The get lost problem happens when it crosses a large open space with no objects to check against. It can't cross featureless large spaces without often getting confused. Typically it will suddenly decide it is 10 feet over, often inside a couch or other furniture. This is a known problem on the forums and from support.

It also gets stuck in tight spaces where there's a single narrow path in and it would have to turn around to follow that same narrow path out. For example in one of the guest bedrooms the bed was about 18 inches from the wall. In theory it can fit down that path, turn around and come back but it can't. My wife's office has a small maze of cartons. Can't do that. Gym has random weights and equipment. Can't do that. One of the back doors has some tight spaces from furniture and other stuff. Sometimes can't do that but usually makes it.

But I do give it credit for being 99% successful going under the dining room table with 8 chairs plus table legs making an ugly and randomly arranged maze. It only got stuck there once. And it was kind of funny and not it's fault that it bumped into an oven grill that was temporarily precariously leaning against a kitchen wall which fell on it and it panicked and shut itself down.

It has a mop function but it isn't really mopping. I think of it as "making the floor slightly damp". It's better than nothing but I have done countless hours of mopping in my life and that's not mopping.

Overall, I am happy enough with it but support does suck and I imagine there will be better or at least as good for much less from other companies when it's dead.

If I knew then what I know now I would've got a much cheaper no name model, saved a bunch of money, had something almost as good and been less annoyed with the failures.

I had one of the earliest roombas back in the day. It ran around all day when no one was home, picked up a ton of dog fluff, but the random walk was terribly stupid. It was ok for its era. I'm shocked to read the latest models still do that. That's pretty crazy and explains why they'd lose buyers and go out of business.

I have a Roborock. It mostly does what it's supposed to although map editing sucks and it often gets lost and can't properly reset its position. It needs to be rescued pretty often which is a major fail.

The super fail is Roborock customer support. Always rude, always useless, sometimes actively hostile as if they find customers needing help annoying. Some of the worst CS I've ever experienced.

When it eventually dies I don't know yet what I'll replace it with but it won't be another Roborock.

More bullshit not based in reality. It must be difficult viewing the world through such a depressing lense.

Sure, it will get their attention. Then what? Apparently you think: "well then they'll change conditions to make parenting feasible." No, they won't. They'll just do what they've been doing: import 80 IQ third worlders, preferably under a visa regime that makes them compliant.

Among the "Related links" appearing on this stories page: "New Junior Developers Can't Actual Code."

No more fake-it-till-you-make-it eye-tee jerbs.

Also, what will India do? There aren't going to be positions for the hoards of $60k/year visa slaves and their "masters" degrees. There won't even be work for the remote ones: the language models are just as good, if not better, at copypasta "consultant" work as the remote Indians.

It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.

They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.

Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.

âoeWhite people invented racismâ- no. Go anywhere, literally anywhere else on earth and youâ(TM)ll find out that racism is much worse and no one is even bothering to fight it. The only thing that sets the West apart is its attempt to build real equality. What will really burn your grits is the fact that this attempt is based in a Christian anthropology. Other religions have enthusiastically embraced racism and discrimination.