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by lotophage 4y ago
Absolutely. I find it far more accurate and when it's not, it's better to underpromise and overdeliver than to overpromise and underdeliver.
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by lotophage 4y ago
One of the most common mismatches between estimation and execution that I have encountered I phrase, "You never anticipate the unanticipated". During estimation people are generally optimistic and estimate assuming that they will
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by lotophage 4y ago
I look forward to a future that includes a "rap-battle Turing test".
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by lotophage 4y ago
During freezes there's often exceptions for teams who've lost people, especially for critical roles. i.e. you can't increase count but you can keep it the same.
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by lotophage 4y ago
An article in The Atlantic about it recently too: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/reclaim...
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by lotophage 4y ago
Came to mention this! That is one of my all-time favourite TED talks. If nothing else, it's a fascinating story told well.
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by lotophage 4y ago
There is some overlap here with a recent article in The Atlantic article that makes the case for delaying the start of school for boys: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/boys-de...
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by lotophage 4y ago
Ayahuasca told you to stop taking Ayahuasca?
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by lotophage 4y ago
> More disconcerting, it seems that anyone who posts about this issue on reddit gets downvoted and teamed up against by established Reddit accounts, that I have to imagine are owned by Stripe. These account have some established reddit h
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by lotophage 4y ago
Imagine the constant thwack! sounds of birds flying into the glass.
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by lotophage 4y ago
Electronic tags have been around for a long time elsewhere in the world. Qantas Q tags have been around since 2011, for example.
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by lotophage 4y ago
Someone noticed similar on /r/dalle2 the other day: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/w25vr0
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by lotophage 4y ago
Is all breast milk made equal? Is it not possible that some mothers milk is deficient for some reason (diet, genetics, health issues etc)? It's not usually tested after a child is born.
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by lotophage 4y ago
> The case alleges that the attacks on them are caused by “the toxic-male culture at Uber … What happened was horrible, but that claim seems like a bit of a stretch. Assuming that Uber did have this culture, would changing the corporate
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by lotophage 4y ago
I don't doubt that the belief has always existed somewhere; tribes with barely any outside contact, for example. I suspected that the belief was once reserved for a few eccentric crackpots and didn't have the momentum to be a move
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by lotophage 4y ago
Absolutely true, but there somehow seems different quality to them. The myths of old seemed to be little factoids that were not easy to verify and were taken at face value, then just spread until they became "common knowledge". Th
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by lotophage 4y ago
It's amazing to think how common these sorts of myths used to be before the internet. If you heard something like this and wanted to challenge it, you would have to get on the bus and spend a couple of hours at the library and return w
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by lotophage 4y ago
I'd hate to be on call for that!
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by lotophage 4y ago
My thoughts were along this line too. The village children spent one summer having a daily frog catching competition then chucked them in the pit at the end of each day. Hundreds of years later it's an archeological mystery.
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by lotophage 4y ago
You needed an Amiga to play Dactyl Nightmare back in the day,IIRC.
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by lotophage 4y ago
This haiku is deep You will 'get it' in the end Might take you ten k years though
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by lotophage 4y ago
Language itself will likely evolve to be almost indistinguishable from its present form. You may preserve the words but the meanings may drift or be lost. People have to be "taught" how to pronounce Shakespeare and how to understa
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by lotophage 4y ago
Does everything require an overly simplistic supply and demand explanation? It is by design a prestige development that hopes to attract high worth foreigners. If they start pricing it so that locals can afford it, the value will tank becau
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by lotophage 4y ago
I assume that they have to be reheated at the destination city before delivery. They may even be cooked there. In Australia several years ago you could get "freshly baked" French croissants from the supermarket. They were actually
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by lotophage 4y ago
That's horrible
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by lotophage 4y ago
Yeah, I've heard that much of the recycling campaigns from the late 80s were actually spearheaded by the plastics industry in what was ultimately a successful attempt to shift blame from the producers to the consumers.
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by lotophage 5y ago
The goal is not to "get kids to do chores" per se, but to raise adults who are self sufficient and self reliant. "Chores" is a bit of a loaded word because I think a lot of people associate it with dread and a sort of lo
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by lotophage 5y ago
> Discord is like Slack, but for people with no jobs. Glad that I was reading this on my phone when I blasted coffee out of my mouth laughing. Could have been a more difficult and potentially costlier cleanup if I was reading that on my
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by lotophage 5y ago
I agree. I'd be more inclined to call something like that an idiom .
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by lotophage 5y ago
Office Space

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