overcast5348 @ overcast5348 @lemmy.world

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...because people don't accept that it's wrong? Or some other reason?

In a former workplace, we had a process that was close enough to what's recommended in the blog, and it worked well. Really well even, there were hardly any ego clashes, everyone would negotiate a consensus and we had "spike" tasks in our sprints so that we can take the time to think about and research complex problems.

And then the fire nation attacked...

A director left the firm and they hired someone from Amazon. He said that we should have a "bias for action", and got rid of this process, and a lot of other stuff we had going for ourselves using other such catch phrases.

Getting him as a director was probably the worst thing to happen as we were under pressure to deliver stuff quickly all the time, and we'd then have to rework most of the shit because of missed requirements, or tools used not being insufficient for the task at hand etc. He was okay with it though, because "we delivered (shit) quickly", and "our efficiency went up as indicated by the team velocity charts".

Pretty much the entire team had left the company in ~1.5 years, and customer satisfaction metrics were in the gutter when I left.

I don't know if he misunderstood "bias for action" and implemented it badly or if that's genuinely how people at Amazon operate, but I won't even think of joining AWS. Fuck that noise.

I'm happy to report that the number is cyclists is increasing every year with the addition of more bike lanes and a growing network of bikeshare stations. :)

I live in Toronto, and I don't have a car. I use buses and subways for most of my commute in winter. Along with these options, I use bikeshare (public bicycle rentals) in every other season. There are people who bike even in winter but I'm nowhere close to that hardcore.

I've spent maybe $250 on uber in urgent/lazy situations in the last one year - that would've been a monthly auto insurance payment.

I waited for a bus for around 20 minutes in -18°C a few weeks back. The biggest problem was that I had overdressed so I started sweating and had to unzip a layer.

An important fact that people who have only ever lived in suburbs miss is that you don't have to commute thaaat far thaaat often when you live in walkable cities. My cousin who lives in a suburb, drives for ~20 minutes to get to the closest big box store. I have 5 options for groceries in a 1 km radius and one of them is just one block over. So, I don't even need a bus for groceries, let alone a car. We have seniors who definitely shouldn't be driving walking around with grocery carts on the sidewalks. So, reducing car dependency improves mobility - not the opposite.

Tittles are the little dots above i and j, that's why you weren't autocorrected. You're looking for "title" though.

Monkeys paw = you get what you asked for but it takes a nasty path to get there. Example from the OG story, the parents ask for money, then their son dies, and they get the insurance money.

Genie = chooses to ignore the spirit of the wish and gives you something that technically meets the criteria. Ex: you ask for a "hot chick", and get a boiling hot baby chicken.

You can try to work around the genie's trickery with more and more precise wording till there isn't any ambiguity. The monkey will fuck you over anyway, because fuck you, that's why.

99.99% of the comments on r/monkeyspaw are just granting wishes like they're genies and not like they're a monkey's paw, and it rubs me the wrong way.

The trilogy of songs by The Lonely Island ft. Justin Timberlake.

Oh wow, thanks for the tip, I did not know that! I was able to reach the "connect as guest" button by trying to login without entering a username/password.

That was pretty much all I was looking for. Maybe the option could be presented in an earlier screen along with the sign up and log in options too help others discover the functionality?

I'm good though, thanks!

Thanks!

In case you're taking feature requests: It would be great if there was an option to view any instance without having to actually create an account.

Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄

Click clink

ELI5 of certificates:

The "s" in "https" in urls like "https://wikipedia.com" stands for "Secure".

When you connect to Wikipedia's computer to read something, how do you know if the content you get back is what they actually sent and wasn't altered by your friendly neighborhood hacker?

Wikipedia can "sign" the content before sending it you. They also give you a certificate telling you how they have a particular signature which has been verified by someone else whom you already trust, and how long this particular signature is valid for.

If a hacker tries to alter the document returned by Wikipedia, they wouldn't be able to sign the document correctly. If they tried to give a certificate with a different signature too, you would catch it because they wouldn't be able to fake the verification of the "someone you trust" so you'd catch the fake certificate.

Browsers handle all this stuff for us. If it detects something fishy, it'll just show an error along the lines of "could not verify certificate". In some cases, it's genuinely an issue where you/the website is under attack and you may get a virus.

In some other cases though, it's an issue of the certificate expiring and the guys at Wikipedia not being proactive about getting a new signature and certificate. If you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that you're just dealing with a lazy developer and not a malicious hacker, you can tell your browser to ignore whatever issue it detected and show you the content that was returned by Wikipedia.

Thanks for attending my TEDx talk.

ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada): ಶಂಖದಿಂದ ಬಂದ್ರೇನೇ ತೀರ್ಥ - shankadinda bandrene teertha.

Literally: it's holy water only if it comes from a conch.

Meaning: people are only going to take things seriously if a specific person says it.

Example scenario: you tell a friend that a cab to go somewhere costs X amount, but they don't believe you and check with a different friend and then accept that it's going to cost them X.

You'd then say this idiom to tease them since you gave them the same water (information) but it wasn't holy water since you weren't a conch (someone they trust/have faith in).

How poor are the people here that you're getting downvoted and even got a "shut up" for this comment? It's really not a stretch to call a $60k expense a "once in a lifetime" expense.

How many people drive around in 80k vehicles that they "upgrade" every few years? How many people spend absolutely ridiculous amounts of money on designer brands, perfumes, watches, and shit? Sure, 60k is a lot of money for most people, but there's a large number of people (at least in the western countries, in absolute numbers, not %) that could easily afford to spend 60k on something every 5-10 years if it fancies them, and an even larger number of people who could afford to spend 60k on something once in a lifetime.

Thanks!

What's the extension for nice backgrounds on new tabs?

It's not as bad as Google yet, but I find myself getting terrible or no results quite a few times.

Ex: if I'm looking for a niche blog post from example.com, just entering the keywords doesn't return the right result, if anything at all. I have to add "site:example.com" and the right link shows up on top.

It's kinda amusing when this happens, but I keep using ddg anyway because bing and Google had the same issue for the same keywords when I ran into the issue.

This guy S_20xxxxxxx has a holier than thou comment ranting about the "assholes from reddit being pieces of shit on lemmy", ironically, on a thread about people being aggressive on lemmy.

A few hours later, he replies to some comments of mine - every single one of them makes him sound more unhinged than the last.

I went through his comment history and his comments swing between these two extremes of being preachy and being unhinged. I decided that blocking him and moving on was better for my sanity than continuing to engage.

There's no point in engaging with such people, do what's best for you, and move on. Cheers! :)

Are you completely incapable of communicating without resorting to personal attacks?

Do you know how many scams happen because it's ridiculously easy for anyone to edit the "knowledge" panel? I'd rather click an extra button and get the real number from the business' own website than trust whatever is on Google.

"You're not this obtuse are you?" -- uncalled for, but, I guess you are who you are. So, you do you, buddy.