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I'm outlining this because I'm lazy today. We are much more aware of sound that we think. The first time this became clear to me in my own life, was when I saw a great horned owl for the first time. I saw it sitting, not far from, on top of a telephone pole. It flew away, and I had this incredible spooky feeling, or feeling of unreality. I then realized that it was because there was no audible sound. Every other time I'd seen a bird that size flying away, there was a subtle sound that was just missing. This might also explain why various people's have referred to owls as being spirits. Our sensitivity to differences in timing is incredibly small, possibly less than six mircoseconds, and our precise short term audio memory could be as long as 20s. Audio quality in networked systems (Human hearing) When humans are observing other people, they tend to fall in sync with each other. (This is facilitated by mirror neurons.) If a person is following another person, or watch...

The idea that a chump who bankrupted a casino could outmaneuver the country that invented the term "checkmate" was always profoundly stupid... - Comment from CamperBob2 on hacker news  

" Amnesty through ignorance begets incompetence as a standard"

 The first time I heard the term Trunk Based Development was in relation to Google's development process, but I'd used it for several years at Google. Over the years I've noticed a misunderstanding about Trunk Based Development. Some users of Git seem to believe that it means committing directly to trunk. This misunderstanding has to do with Google's source code control system, Piper. Piper is a descendent of Perforce. Perforce has the concept of a changelist. A changelist is a group of files that will be committed together as an atomic unit. When you develop with Piper, you group your modified files into a changelist, and then you send the changelist out for review. Once your changelist passes review, it gets committed. Here's where the misconception comes in. The documents describing Trunk Based Development explicitly states that the process doesn't use branches, but branches are a different concept in Piper, and they are distinct from changelists. Git uses br...

 They haven't seen the light, they're just choking on the smoke.

 Quote of the day: "bombing a founding myth is more likely to consecrate it than to dissolve it." - Yonatan Touval

 Quote of the day:  “ Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.” From  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886926000620?via%3Dihub#