It's more accurate to say that businesspeople consider research a waste in our quarter-by-quarter investment climate, since it generally doesn't lead to immediate gains.
And our current leadership considers research a threat, since science rarely supports conspiracy theorists or historical revisionism.
More charitably, America's current government has an unusually large concentration of business people. Interestingly, they were elected as a vote for change by a population of non business people who were tired of the economic marginalization they suffered when their government consisted largely of non business people not once but twice. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I would love to find Decaf cold brew, but it seems the only way is homemade. I do miss coffee after 20+ years. I grew up on “field engineering blend” where it poured like 40 weight motor oil.
Ditto on getting older sucks, but I’ve been told not getting older sucks worse.
Genuine non-Duplo, non-Megablocks real honest LEGO? Wow.
I've not seen it except by accident (wedged in something) in over a decade, the Goodwills I know all send it to the central area to be auctioned: https://shopgoodwill.com/
Exactly, it scary to wake up and see your yard full of “Free Gaza” supporters while a team of executives from Kiewit Construction are knocking at your door.
I fixed giving “napkin” or “rough estimate” times out. I roll a D6 for number of people, D12 for number of months, D20 for the day we will go to production ( not allowed to do installation during end of month). D% is used to say how accurate the estimate is. With the requester there, I pull them out, roll them, give the estimate.
I did have a VP in a meeting go “I don’t like that estimate.” I pushed the dice over and said “Ok, you roll”. Their hand got about 1/2 way before their brain caught on to what was happening and they pulled their hand back.
We normally agree on them writing a 2-3 page scope and I do an estimate based off the scope. Slow learners ask, How long to get the estimate, I look them dead in the eye and reach for the dice again saying “I’d like to see the scope beforehand but ....”
>The Dice Man is a 1971 novel by American novelist George Cockcroft, writing under the pen name "Luke Rhinehart".[1] The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a die.[2] Cockcroft describes the origin of the title idea variously in interviews, once recalling a college "quirk" he and friends used to decide "what they were going to do that night" based on a die-roll, or sometimes to decide between mildly mischievous pranks.
>The newest thing here is a flock of self-proclaimed “coin boys” who carry a quarter on hand at all times and constantly flip it. They have their entire personality revolve around coins, coin flips, and chance. When we went around doing an ice breaker, 4 or 5 of the kids said some variation of “I live by the coin and die by the coin” as their fact.
>Just about an hour ago, when I assigned the first assignment of the school year, one of the coin boys was bold enough to say “heads I do it, tails I don’t.” I told him if he flipped the coin he would be getting a call home on the first week of HS. He flipped it anyway and it came up heads (thank god for that at least).
>But then the other coin boy in that class flipped his coin and it came up tails. He said the coin has spoken and he’s not doing it. I say very well, enjoy your 0 and your call home— what a great way to start off the school year and your high school career.
When I'm told "I don't like that estimate" I take it as an invitation to negotiate (same as when you don't like a quote from a tradesman) and so counter with "OK, we may be able to shave x off of it if you give us y and z in addition to what we have now or if we cut w out of the scope".
And then a year later I’m the only one who can remember that the reason we are in the middle of a grotesque rewrite is that we got a promise from management that we could treat all X as Y and they didn’t keep their word because that was last year and this is now.
Why can’t you idiots figure out how to code?
I have told a few people that when we substituted their judgment for mine this became their problem. I really think I should have said it more often.
And here I thought I was the only one. This is great. Although, I don’t roll as many dice since I don’t estimate long projects. But now I do know what to do if ever needed.
I still like using Lua as my .ini file data source. I can use a wide range of inputs from numbers to tables. Parsing the file is easy, and getting it into another program is less work that trying to add a parser.
I use Bookfinder.com on a regular basis to find DRM free dead tree books. It searches across all of the big new/used book vendors and also the smaller “thrift store / Goodwill” book dealers (even eBay buy now) Sorts in New and Used groupings then by price.
But like the software “Quality, Cost, Delivery” triangle, the delivery is 99% by USPS media mail, so it’s 5-7 business days to get the book.
It would be interesting to see Bookshop to hookup with Bookfinder to give them another search method.
The value of grad students is often overlooked, they contribute so much and then later on advance the research even more.
Why does America look on research as a waste, when it has move everything so far?
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