OMFG, a German native speaker who was educated in German institutions "wrote" in their cover letter that they speak English fluently and are looking forward to improving their German language abilities through the German classes offered to employees.

Don't use LLMs for cover letters people!

@Ruhrnalist I'm not sure. I think that there aren't usually as many applicants, I spread the job ad pretty widely, and it was open longer than is usual. From the applications I've reviewed so far about 20% do not appear to be serious (e.g. they didn't submit a complete application).

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@VTDARKSIM The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund voted against the pay package (because they're not crazy?). Would be funny/well deserved if they sold their shares over this.

@sundogplanets Just to clarify one point - streetlights are usually found to be responsible for *less* than half of light emissions or skyglow. Here is a table from a paper we published: https://doi.org/10.26607/ijsl.v25i1.133

I also misremembered that there […]

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