Hang in there. It turns out that the body metabolizes uranium like calcium, so eventually you’ll be tough enough for heavier metals.

That was almost c/linkedinlunatics material for a second. Well done.

I know there’s survivor bias out there for sure, but are bound to be tubes out there that are easily older than 50 doing just fine. Some of us might even witness 100-year-old sets in their lifetime.

IMO, it’s not just a business advantage, it’s a small-business advantage due to lack of bargaining power at small scale and the proportion of revenue (overhead) per employee. Big companies can bargain for better deals from insurance markets (bigger “risk pool”), and make way more per employee so it’s not as big a deal. So, it’s an tangible manifestation of “main street not wall street,” if you feel like turning talking points back around for folks.

What really gets me is that the compounds responsible for this hue in food are called “anthocyanins” which means “blue flower.” I can’t even.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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