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Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger.

This is the worst. It permeates all kind of GUIs. Windows has this mini preview windows that pop up when you're hovering over the apps in the taskbar. Also if you accidentally hover over them, all the windows are minimized except the one previewed.

Microsoft has systematically terminated every single way of disabling this idiocy.

Using one Windows inside another (vbox) at work is causing me PTSD. I'm no proud of it, but I think I'd use physical violence if I could confront the culprit.

If you're an "influencer" you need engagement. You can live off a 10% easily. And you need retention. So keep the message heated.

These tools seem great because they are less sensitive than humans to the mess and lift us over the tedious work. But at the same time, they're giving us an excuse to not fix what needed to be fixed and, in doing so, they're adding more crap to the heap.

Maybe what we need is forcing the tools to build on a simpler base, so we can keep an understanding of the results.

Also, at least in Spain, some delivery companies are awful. I have a package delivered to a convenience store right now. They refuse to give it to me because I have no delivery key. The courier didn't send it to me. I try to get assistance in their web... and they ask me the key that I want them to give me. Nice, huh?

I asked for a refund to the shop. They have ghosted me in the chat, their return form doesn't work. Their email addresses are no-reply. The contact form doesn't work either. Now I need to wait until Monday to phone them.

I know the shop is legit. They're just woefully incompetent and don't know they are or think that's the way things work.

For cheap and not too expensive products, Amazon just works. No "but I went to your house and there was nobody there" bullshit. No questions return policy.

Individual productivity exists.

Maybe it's easier to measure groups' productivity? Probably.

"Business impact"? I don't think so, that later concept seems much more arbitrary. But feel free to look for the keys under the lamplight. If you choose that metrics, you're not going to retain many extra productive people anyway.

The old problem: judging the work of an expert is very difficult if you lack comparable expertise. I can give you advice, but I can't make you smart to accept it. How could you tell if I'm a genius or an overconfident asshole?

This is Government's version and it shows.

REE boss was put there by the ruling party. Still they try to paint REE as a private operator now. It's not. Like many other orgs, it's a mix of private and public capital, ultimately controled by the government.

It's suspected that the blackout was caused because she overruled technicians' opinion, looking for a solar % record.

Not "enough thermal power stations" carefully avoids mentioning nuclear, that they want to erradicate.

Private companies are requesting the records of CECOEL conversation to be published, some have leaked their logs. In one of those, REE technicians readily admit that oscilations are caused by not enough nuclear in the mix.

I'm not sure if depreciation is the same concept as we call amortización in my country: capital that counts as investment instead of expenses because you're expected to keep extracting value from it over the years, so you can't get a deduction for the whole expense when you first pay for it.

If that's what this is about, it's absurd not for the reason you say (salaries are not a bad proxy for value, since you expect the profit will be greater) but because you'll probably keep paying for maintenance and evolving the software.

IIRC Saturn has very low density, was it lower than water? (IOW it would float) so this would be even lighter.

That has been the default option for large historic periods, when organized religions were the main source of funds. I don't believe the author would appreciate being in that company.

This other guy was the author of the text book when I had to study that subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillo_Dorfles

The trick in this topic is how dissimilar to some vague canon should a story be to qualify for an answer to your question.

Would you say Alien is a good example?

Most of it?

I've seen how that mindset has ruined several companies. Not saying that you're wrong about that particular program that is, after all, free software replaced by other free software parts. But for business, it's lethal.

Joel Spolsky had a nice piece about it:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

That and Fire and Motion seem to be forgotten wisdom already:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

I feel old :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/vpu3fv/lockheed_s...

The rest are given names and nobody uses more than two. It was in the baptism record where all the saints of the days used to be added. I have a similar record with a dozen names, but only two given names in the civil record, of which I only use the first.

So it's still a problem. This seems like a looming PR battle.

I applied the same method when writting my long defunct blog. Nobody was really interested in my opinions, but my experience both positive and negative was somehow valuable.

At any given point, old applications are faster and current applications are slow, slowness being unevenly distributed: if you can pay extra for bigger memory and CPU, you get to use the fast lane.

Also consider that companies balance a number of factors: costs for themselves, time to market, features, what the competition offers. New, more powerful hardware is an opportunity for them to make sloppy software cheaper and first to launch.

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In this case, trying to apply TFA to my job is also impossible, since the article implies that I can unsubscribe from the dozens of notifications someone thought it was a good idea to CC the whole department. Thanks God for filters!

At home I do filter too, sometimes I've found useful stuff in 20 y.o. messages. Of course, YMMV.