No worries: those server chunks haven’t been explored yet. Give it time.

Seconded. That kind of humor is 100% on-brand for her.

This statement was crafted specifically to rile up the UK’s xenophobes, wasn’t it?

Ah, that explains why the article smells like an LLM wrote it.

I feel ya. Pass the ibuprofen.

That battle is perpetual. Lazy management sees a number that resembles a statistic, and try to use it as an easy metric for stuff it doesn’t represent. Points do aggregate into velocity, which is worth measuring. But on their own, points are a proxy for estimation in $SPRINT_LENGTH days. The way to manage up is to keep making it clear that the smallest unit of estimation in Agile is the sprint length; points are used to subdivide that but only to ensure that the sprint itself is not overloaded and thus an accurate estimate.

There are some cardinal sins within the annals of software development in the workplace. The relevant two here are:

• Do not build a scoreboard for productivity
• Do not equate keystrokes with effort or value rendered

These create perverse incentives that can really screw everything up, including creating permanent damage to company culture, products, and productivity. Anytime you see these things done, it’s because you have (or are) lazy-ass management.

Edit: I also just learned that this is an application of Goodhart’s Law.

Considering the price of RAM and GPUs right now, upcycling all manner of stuff is going to get real popular. Keep 'em coming. I love simple hacks like this.

I didn’t even think of the inside of the building. Every single last trade on that jobsite would be cursing the architect’s name.

Obligatory RRJ link. Warning: if you know any Japanese this might undo a lot of it.

That’s a gneiss pun.

So… does that mean that the whole “Epstein was a part of a global Mossad blackmail operation” thing now carries some weight?

How in the world could someone find the energy to…

inhaling cocaine

Ah, okay. Why is the answer always drugs?

On a related note: every search engine under the sun now has AI built in EXCEPT the one called “Ask Jeeves”. If any of them should have been 100% AI, it was this one. And instead, it fucking died in the middle of all this.

I see you. Not enough people are going to get this one.

[ins] gets used on some systems too.

I have one of their rice cookers. I didn’t know they made other stuff, thanks!

Indeed. I think it belongs here: c/shirtsthatgohard

It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.

Right here. I love my wired headphones.

There’s kind of a catch here that explains why wireless has taken off. A lot of people do not, for whatever reason, respect the integrity of the cable and the strain relief at either end. Wires are this artificial abomination, a means to an end, and something to be contended with rather than cared for. They’re stored as a tangled mess, and recovered and un-tangled in a stream of stressed movements and much swearing. The result is broken, bent, crimped, strained, and ultimately broken wires.

Instead, wires must be cared for in specific ways and that is a skill that just isn’t taught to everyone. It hurts my soul every time I notice this.