9point6 @ 9point6 @lemmy.world

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Of course it was

Oh phew

This is the update that'll break sync, right?

Sad times, but I guess I'm gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

Absolutely zero if I'm trying to sleep or only just waking up

Managed amounts if I'm watching a TV or using a computer

Any other time, let the light in, my plants need to eat

Monkey ball just makes me think of Nick Robinson now

Great game though

Also, whilst we're on the subject, cement lube is not safe for cement toys

Everything of value on Reddit was posted by people who have left

A lot of those people left for here

You know that thing scammers do where they set up a situation they'll use for blackmail later on?

Don't know why that just came to mind

Is it just me that sees double strikethroughs on the dollar symbol hilariously childish?

That's not optimism, it's the very real conclusion that Elon is the (miraculously unwitting) fall guy for all the bad shit they need done early on to facilitate everything else. They'll get to do the whole "we got rid of the bad eggs, we've tuned over a new leaf" thing that conservative politicians love to do when they kick out a fall guy.

This time next year he's going to be shouting on some fuckhead podcast about how he was used. I practically guarantee it.

Well that or Elon successfully manages to do what he thinks will happen and manages to take full control

I really should go and get checked, eh?

That's absurd

I kinda feel like heat would be wasted energy that could be used to ｇｒｏｗ

I think it's a punk bar themed around the late Motorhead frontman, but I only walked past it a couple of times

There's a Lemmy bar in Reykjavik

I wonder how many people are in the middle of that particular Venn diagram

Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me

Becomes?

Yes, silly engineers that don't like being held to unrealistic estimates and deadlines; typically the ones that arise at the start of a project where there are still who-knows-how-many unknowns to find.

Waterfall is the most effective tool for software engineering in a world where the whole world stops once you've planned and only starts again once the project has finished—i.e. a fictional world that doesn't exist. Literally every waterfall project I worked on back in the old days was derailed because something happened that wasn't planned for—because planning for everything up front is impossible and planning for anything more than a handful of eventualities is impractical.

Agile and subsequent methodology comes from realising that requirements will change and that you are better off accepting that fact at the time than having to face it once you're at the end of the current road.

Agile does not mean engineers talking continuously to the users, engineers are hired to do what they're good at: engineering. Understanding user requirements and turning that into a plan has always been product's job regardless of methodology, in agile and similar it's just spread out over the duration of the project, not front loaded. Agile isn't "make the engineers do every proficiency".

They did those starter sku users dirty

But yeah this was Microsoft's strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.

A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.

I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.