Galxeagle

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by Galxeagle 4y ago
We moved to a somewhat set release cadence and then instead of discussing timeline estimates with clients, we discussed release scoping and what was in the next release(s). It had a helpful effect of abstracting the development team and hel
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
In addition to other comments saying to add reasoning, I’m a big fan of the ‘MoSCoW’ method (must/should/could/would) to remove ambiguity around if things are a question vs a command vs a thought. ‘You must do x’ sets a clear
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
One limitation I’ve seen on this is that the same mechanism can’t remove carbon dioxide, so this is limited to supplemental oxygen in like a surgery or emergency scenario vs a long-term alternative to say a tracheotomy.
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
Recognized that procrastination was often a form of emotional soothing - got stressed thinking about starting a task, and promising that I'd start it 'tomorrow' removed that immediate threat. Which worked until the stress of
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
I'm not a transit or budget costing expert, but I understand that trending increase around 2008 to be around warranty ("All vehicles... were off warranty coverage by 2010, explaining why costs rose over the five years"). re:
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
Overhead wires take a lot of maintenance - point of reference, Vancouver BC's transit authority reported maintenance costs per km were actually higher for their electric trolleys than both their diesel and CNG buses. And having lived w
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by Galxeagle 4y ago
One of the first things I do on new computers is download a macro software (i.e AutoHotkey(1)) to remap troublesome keys on normal keyboards. The quick list I have going on this particular laptop: a) numlock always off(on?) b) remap right
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
If it makes her feel better, professional pilots make the same mistake! https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/air-canada-pilot-misto...
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
I’ve actually raised with a security executive in my large consulting firm - the biggest blocker is apparently that requirements like frequent forced password changes are written in to many contracts signed with clients as boilerplate ‘we p
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
There can be interesting impacts on orbiting satellites - mostly gravity irregularities just add stationkeeping work, but they can sometime be leveraged to alter a satellite’s orbital inclination (a plane change). For Lunar orbit they’re ev
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
One really fascinating aspect of sonar that leads to risks/collisions like this, is that there are ‘blind spots’ in the ocean. Because sound waves pass differently through water of different temperature and salinity and both of those c
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
RE: the circle maintenance effort, I’m finding that people are using group chats (in messenger, WhatsApp, etc) as a solution to the pain points Circles set out to solve. For example, I’ve now been added to a chat with all my extended family
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
And just to defend top-down orgs a bit, the corollary is that because different teams might make different decisions, flat/bottom-up organizations tend to be less standardized - more flexible at the cost of some chaos. A tendency for l
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
Also not an engineer but watching a real-world example of that thought process was fascinating during NASA and SpaceX's design process for Dragon Capsule, that contained a requirement that the capsule needed to have a statistical proba
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by Galxeagle 5y ago
I second this notion - other comments here are saying micromanagement is a symptom of a trust shortfall (which can be true), but where I’ve seen it most is managers who aren’t as adept at communicating direction or feedback and fall back to
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by Galxeagle 6y ago
I'm surprised to see such an optimistic outlook for UIPath; Microsoft has started encroaching on the space with their Power Automate platform and their desktop automation flows. They use similar-looking UIs (I believe it's Windows
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by Galxeagle 6y ago
Not the parent commenter, but I've also spent time this space. UIPath and other RPA tools interact with applications in the same way as Selenium, but also provide all the features that make it a 'platform' that enterprise IT