This has been tried and tried again, and it never catches on. Computer interfaces that are completely detached from physical 3D space are just much more flexible and easy to use.

They also seem to think that continually spending money to do mundane things in a virtual world is not a problem for regular people who actually have to watch their spending.

If computer interaction benefited from being more ‘like reality’, then Microsoft Bob or any of the countless other attempts to create a reality- and/or 3D-based computer interface, would have caught on long ago.

Sums it up nicely 👍

Nornally first the capacitor and then the motor. The capacitor is there to absorb the power surge when the motor starts up.

They should be held accountable in a court of law.

And why do you think the US keeps playing this role in Europe? What possible motive could they have?

Paper Girls is pretty good too.

Definitely the former. The difference is not worth the price hike for me. I guess it’s like with really high performance cars. I appreciate that a Ferrari f40 is in a league of its own and truly extraordinary, I just can’t be bothered to spend that much money on it.

I guess it’s the same with many things. The difference between low quality and high quality is really noticeable and usually comes with a substantial cost. But the difference in cost between high (even exceptional) quality and top-tier truly one-of-a-kind is usually very high, and not worth it for me.

I can’t even remember, (very) expensive food is wasted on me. I enjoy a quality meal, but the top tier stuff just doesn’t make any exceptional or special impression with me. It’s just good food.

Left because I was doing three jobs as one person. They couldn’t hire a replacement with that job description (surprised Pikachu face). My new job wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be, so I got hired back in a properly defined job and that’s been working out fine.

Mark Felton did a 6 episode series on YT on how the alleged burnt bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun found by the soviets, are actually plants.

Not that Hitler survived the war or anything, they were just buried elsewhere nearby, probably in a civilian mass grave, to prevent the soviets from parading the real bodies around.

There are devices that will cool a drink (can of soda or a beer) to ‘ice cold’ ( I assume something like 5°) in 60 seconds. I guess this sort of answers your question? The full answer is probably not that it is technically impossible, but that the practical use is largely limited to drinks.

Found the sysadmin

Because I like small diagrams and schematics. Doing that in an app, especially on a phone, is tricky. And I find that structuring my thoughts on paper just works better than doing it digitally straight away.

De-escalate emotional tension. Don’t get personal. Don’t make sweeping statements or promises in the heat of the moment.

Belgium. Debit card most of the time. Covid was a turning point, as it popularized QR codes and this in turn led to more payments by payment apps. I rarely ever carry cash anymore.

A couple of things:

• commute time counts as work time
• no open plan landscape office
• no ‘clean desk’ policy but the ability to personalise your workplace
• dishwasher and general kitchen stuff not being a ‘shared responsibility’ but someone’s job.
• office being in a nice neighborhood with fun things to do after work or during lunch

My employer spent the past ~10 years de-personalising our offices, and now they wonder why people don’t like to hang out in their sterile ‘clean’ building.

We’re not there yet, imho, but Reddit definitely feels like damaged goods, and the atmosphere has gotten toxic and polarized. So I think we’re going to see a slow decline, unless they somehow get their community management back in order, but the recent comments by the CEO seem to suggest he sees the community as cattle, basically.

Does every issue need to be attached to an epic, though? A simple, well-described bug can be enough on its own, I think? You do need to regularly go through the backlog to re-order it, remove outdated tasks, combine duplicates, etc. for it not to become unwieldy.

My/our approach can be summed up as:

• if it’s code-related, however small, it goes in the backlog, with or without an epic, and it follows the normal flow of things. We have weekly reviews where we maintain the backlog, basically.
• if it’s not code-related, I personally have a markdown document, where I plan stuff day by day. It started out as a simple way to document the stuff I did so as to not forget anything in the daily standup. But now I routinely use it to jot things down a day in advance or in a special ‘must not forget’ section. It’s proven to be very useful in remembering those little things people ask you throughout the day without jumping on them right away. The bonus is I have a very detailed archive of everything I did spanning literally years by now.