You know? I literally figured that out a minute before I saw your reply. And I rolled my eyes at myself.

That makes sense. Silly me

Cheers

Ideally your estimates would just be complexity points. And those estimates would go on on the stories in Jira/Azure Dev Ops / wherever

And honestly the team should meet up and discuss the estimates

I don’t understand your statement. The Mythical Man Month teaches exactly that lesson of more bodies != Faster in many cases.

How long to build the site with 1 full stack dev? 1.5 years.

How long with an existing high performance team of 5? 2 months.

How long if you hire 4 plus the one original (all qualified)? 1 to 1.5 years.

How long if we hire 30 full stack devs? Maybe never.

Good ones are pretty rare and good program managers are even rarer.

What they should do, and what most actually do, are different things.

Project managers must be great with humans and communication. If they are not, then they just can’t be effective.

If the timing is critical then the only reasonable solution is to cut scope and features until it fits.

The triangle isn’t a rubbery floppy thing, it is iron!

Geez… Project managers are forbidden from making work estimates- they only get to collect them.

They don’t get to argue estimates either. They can ask questions to gain understanding but the estimates are the estimates.

Wearing an architect or chief engineer hat is sometimes more fun because you get to call bullshit on dumb estimates like “4 to 5 weeks to model a table with 7 fields, with 2 of them being PK, FK” like GTFO we can model it in the next 5 minutes if I talk slowly.

The NSA knows absolutely anything about absolutely anyone it wants to know.

Do you use a cellphone? Use a smart TV? Roku? Android play? Apple anything?

I mean…the question now is what specifically do you want to protect and from whom?

I’m not judging the want, just pointing out the reality of the want.

I recently saw it reported that Crypto was 2% of US electric use.

That’s a whole lot of wasted processing, silicon, heat and energy.

Not anymore.Age.

When I was a kid I hated going to the city art museum because all the humidity and temperature control devices emitted this awful high frequency noise that made me nauseated.

I can’t hear the “mosquito” pitch noise emitters used to deter teenage loitering in some cities anymore. I kept that longer than I thought I would.

Oof ouch owie

Class action lawsuit for contract violations

I replaced the small wood stove with a king sized stove. If you can spare the space a bigger wood box is fantastic. If you live with mixed, rarely artic, then I recommend the Blaze King. The catalytic burn and the thermostat are great.
If you deal with artic weather then I think Quadrafire might be the way to go. The fire has stayed smouldering for days. Very little smoke, mostly steam seen when the catalytic burner is going.

One negative comment on the Blaze King is that if you have the thermostat on max high, and get a roaring fire going before you turn the thermostat down, the draw can force the intake to stay open. I would add a butterfly valve to the intake or a damper on the exhaust if I did it again. When I need to redo the chimney next I will do both, with maybe a remote little helper fan to assist with getting the fire started.

I did that once and just chucked a pot of water into the firebox to cool it down. I had so much fuel in there letting it cook off would have been ridiculous but probably not dangerous. Probably.

If it’s more just for emergencies and power outages then I would say a little battery Bank and a pellet stove would be the way to go

The urban residents don’t have any electric backup. The wealthy do, but if you live in the Portland Metro area, don’t have natural gas heat, and the power goes out? Fairly fucked.

I live rurally and we got super super lucky to not lose power, but we were going to be fine if we did.

This is the coldest it’s been here ina long long time. Other parts of the country would mock the severity, but this kind of weather is rare here.

Portland Gas Electric raised residential rates 17% for 2024. Thankfully all that extra revenue is going towards making the grid far more reliable /S

Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.

Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10

Next level

Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don’t know

Next level

Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family

Next level

Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family

…

I’m Happy to see more competition for jira. Jira has been around for 20 years but honestly it looks and acts the same as it did 20 years ago, except slower if you had the sense to provision it well on bare metal back then. The jira in the cloud experience at many companies has been less than stellar.

Nah.FBI tricked criminals into using a network they could monitor.

I was wrong. More like 10 seconds

NoteGPT says:

Summary🔍 The FBI ran the largest criminal social network, resulting in worldwide takedowns of criminal syndicates involved in drug trafficking and other illicit activities. #### Highlights- 💻 ExpressVPN is a trusted VPN service that protects your IP address and hides your online activities from prying sources.- 🌐 End-to-end encryption ensures secure messaging between individuals, but it can be used for both good and bad purposes.- 🕵️‍♂️ The FBI created a company called Anom and sold encrypted devices to criminals, infiltrating over 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries.- 📲 Anom’s smartphones, with military-grade encryption, were promoted as a safe and confidential platform by criminal influencers worldwide.- 🚀 Criminals unknowingly sent encrypted messages that were also forwarded to an FBI server, resulting in the cataloging of 27 million incriminating messages.- 🚓 The operation led to 800 arrests, seizure of tons of drugs, firearms, and millions of dollars in currencies, along with dismantling 50 drug labs.- ⚠️ The FBI’s sting operation showcased the dangers and limitations of encrypted platforms being used by criminals for illegal activities.

I bet a LLM AI could summarize it down to half a minute of reading

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