[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

That text is not devoid of merit. It's true that often when my coworkers are spending an unexpectedly large amount of time on a task, it's because they're getting sidetracked or being too stubborn to ask for help or, as the article describes, are way overthinking something.

But.

That's only generally a relatively minor problem; and the times when it's a major problem are rare.

What's a major, fundamental problem that regularly explodes in our faces is speed. Decision makers pushing for unmaintainable, barely functional crap under the excuse of pressing client deals and MVPs, and "go fast it's just a prototype I swear" that gets shipped straight to production and never gets cleaned up.

No, slowness is not the main thing you should be focusing on.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 88 points 3 months ago

Initial reaction: there's no way that's real

After reading the comments: what the fuck

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submitted 6 months ago by Eiri@lemmy.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

Crap steel?! What an opportunity. I just must give them all my bank details.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 89 points 8 months ago

Was something of value lost?

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 71 points 10 months ago

I don't get it

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 60 points 10 months ago

Where's that?

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago

It's one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don't get any ads, advertisers don't pay for your ad impression.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 117 points 1 year ago

Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but "stable" is certainly not the first word I'd use to describe it.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 year ago

What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.

"Between eight and 13 percent"

NO. If you're writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 year ago

The US has two parties: center-right and far right.

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submitted 1 year ago by Eiri@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 year ago

I used to get so angry at my dad for trying to pull that trick. I didn't expose his lie but man was I not cool with being dishonest to save a few bucks.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 year ago

It's got RGB. Man, it must do so much FPS (fabric per second).

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 year ago

The USB standards are just... Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.

But they won't do that, will they.

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submitted 1 year ago by Eiri@lemmy.ca to c/askscience@lemmy.world

Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

Could we safely do that with people?

I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

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I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.

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