Ah, so we did not talk about your post but about the ACs one ... so I'm not that Alzheimered as I feared.

Yes, we can agree that the word 'magnitude' has slightly different meanings, depending if other words like 'order' precede it.

Regarding english vs. german that is indeed a big problem, that is why I encourage you in any legal case regarding both languages to hire a professional interpreter (hint: the literal translation from german to english would not be interpreter but translator) e.g. words like eventually/eventuell and actually/aktuell have completely different meaning in those languages, you easy get tricked if you hear a 'similar' word.

The whole nation of the former 'German Democratic Republic' (east Germany, wtf, don't even know how they are called in english, shame on me) was based on this principle.

When you worked you had to fulfill a plan. A pre planned amount of workpieces had to be crafted e.g.

If you could manage to craft so many, you where payed a normal wage, if you crafted more you where 'over plan' and got extra bonuses.

Every year (or every 5) the heads of state responsible for the economy planned a new 5 years ahead plan, including the most mundane parts like simple screws: oh, and we will need 3million metal screws with diameter 3mm.

And every year inspectors would visit factories and 'measure' how quick the average factory worker could do his 'piece of work'.

All the workers looked really busy, but did not produce much. After a week of watching the inspector would write into his book what could be expected from this factory.

That was used to guide the planning committees in case new factories where needed.

Surprisingly the factory was 'over plan' nearly every year ... so the workers could farm in their bonuses.

Very strange feed back cycles, isn't it? The whole economy is planned on faked numbers of lazy workers, who work 'normally' when they work and farm in bonuses because they produce more than the planners actually had planned.
But nevertheless other parts of the economy (like car manufactories) can't produce more because the 'over plan' materials can not be transported ... or well, there is no 'market'! Hey we could use the screws you made! But there is no plan to have a truck ready to bring the screws to the factory ...

Astonishing how well the east german economy worked for nearly 50 years if you consider this, hm ... lying to yourself system?

Actually, I think the article is talking about something entirely different than reflexes or muscle memory. Exactly, that is what I tried to point out when people came up with muscle memory.
I've been experimenting with this "turn off your mind" thing the past few days, and I've been finding I can do some things I normally can't. For example, I can't walk a tight rope to save my life, but I tried clearing my mind of all thought, not even thinking about the task at hand, and just started walking... Made it half way down before I became aware again and fell on my ass. I can actually feel it happen when I do it right... It's like my body is doing the thinking.
That is something entirely different again. It is a little nit of zen, or at least what asians teach in martial arts, empty your mind and just 'do it', or as Joda said in one of the Star Wars Movies: 'there is no try'.

Sorry to double post this, you just seem like you might have some experience so I wanted to get your take on it. When should I use my conscious mind vs "going with the flow" (for lack of a better term)?
Actually I guess there is no rule. I heard 2 interviews about emergency plane landings, one was the pilot who watered his plane in the hudson recently the other one is decades old and I forgot to what it was related, it might be that guy who landed an airliner glider style on an abandoned air base in canada - which he accidentaly happened to know about.
I don't remember which of both said what. One did all the checks on the plane to get it down safely in 'automatic robot mode' talking to air traffic control about what is going on and shouting orders to his copilot ... so while one task was done 'in the flow' (not sure the term applies here) ofc his brain was not shut off but focusing on all the other stuff.
The other pilot was the complete opposite. He always announced to his copilot what he was about to do, asked him to watch for certain boundaries, double checked if he had not made a mistake and announced the next maneuver. He was more on 'flow mode' in the talk to his copilot but 100% focused on handling the plane.

I guess it depends on situation as well as on your capabilities? Or your 'special awareness' at that situation and depending on training/experience which applies to that situation? Most important is to avoid panic, calm down, like in your rope example. Visualize in your mind success. Then the steps to achieve success. Afterwards it is easyer to do the steps, regardless if you are full focused or do it in your subconscious.

PS: Aikido seems like an interesting style, I will have to check it out. One of my biggest weaknesses is an aversion to punching someone in the face lol.
That won't be a problem (except you are in a club of assholes). In Aikido there are no competitions (like in most old school martial arts). You practice in predetermined roles, one is the 'attacker' one is the 'defender', the defender is practicing the Aikido techniques, the attacker is practicing his attack. It is supposed that the attacker adjusts his power to the level of the defender, so the defender can successful practice the technique. That means if you are a beginner an I 'punch' you, I will stop before I hit you. The same is expected from you, especially if we practice with weapons :)
So actual hits and blue eyes or blue bruises on the body or even real injuries are extremely rare.

If you live close to a big city or in a big city and like to start indeed, send me a note (I really wonder why so many remember that I do Aikido :) )

I know most respectable Aikido masters, if not in person then at least in name and can certainly suggest a Dojo.

Regarding Aikido training, as a connection to your question above, I'm often very mentally involved into my practicing. The simple movements ofc. run subconscious, also the connecting of them. But as every master has his uniqueness during practicing of his uniqueness you watch him, yourself and what you do very intensively. At least I do so. And I believe that is the reason why I'm a very quick learner.

On the other hand when I'm simply practicing for myself, e.g. when I teach and move around and play with the students, I'm most of the time mentally not involved with Aikido at all. Either I think about nothing ... my way of meditation ... or about anything that comes to my mind, but not the actual moves.

When I had my Ni-Dan and my San-Dan examinations I had a plan for the parts where 'free techniques/the defender can do what he wants' asked. So my brain was very focused on that plan (which technique in which order), but I did not think about the techniques themselves.

When I did Yon-Dan I had no plan (actually I believed the plans I had made the examinations before would still be present). But not only did hundreds of people watch, many of them where high ranked Aikido-Ka themselves. So I was more afraid to make a mistake than to be 'boring' and doing three times the same technique in a row.

Anyway, at that examination all my mind was on: do the right thing at the right time. The 'flow' thing I had in the previous examinations was not there ... it was exactly the opposite you would expect if some one does so long Aikido as I do.

But Yon-Dan is something like the sound barrier in Aikido, in laymen terms the equivalent of a professor at an university.

Most others I talked to had the same experience during the Yon-Dan examination. Their mind was glowing and burning :)

Well when the weapons part started, that is the final five mins, I finally was in a flow state.

In eclipse all that information is stored in the .classpath.xml file (not sure if it starts with a `dotâ)

Yeah, local hardcoded bullshit is a pain. I remember a case where a developer had hardcoded IP addresses in his host file.
Integration tests ran well against long forgotten still running test systems, but they never ran on the test bed.
Took some serious threatening with the baseball bat till he stopped that habit ...

Astonishing how backyard the USA in some aspects are.
And also astonishing how retarded the democratic system is where every 'power' believes it can hinder any other 'power' by counter voting etc.

In germany something like this would simply be impossible. If a community or a federal state allocates funds for some program to an organization (a health care institution or street worker program), in wide aspects such an organization can spend the money how ever they want (as long as it is for the agreed goal).

If a politician would come up in public and say something like: clean needles for drug addicts are a waste of money, the first question would be: how do you know? The second would be: how much do we spend on it? The third is: what does it save us?

However we are in a complete different situation, as typical drug users _have_ health insurance, even if it is payed by welfare programs, and in the rare cases where they have none, hospitals and the general health system are obliged to treat them anyway. So in our case we have hard numbers how much it is worth to the general public to avoid every single infection.

And yes, Hepatitis is a nasty thing, and really expensive to treat. A friend of mine got 10 years Intereferon, that was 20 years ago, interferon costed a fortune then.

I just checked dosage and costs, if I'm not mistaken it still costs about 8500 Euro per year! If your 5 cents peer needle is right and someone uses 10 per day that is a saving of 8000 Euros, more even ...

We did not talk about magnitudes, we talked about orders of magnitudes.

I don't know why you wanted to bring that topic up :) So I corrected your previous post and pointed out that our parent was wrong with the orders of magnitudes ...

So, why do you bring up this topic? A sudden urge to educate strangers? Then perhaps tell me something I don't know?

Or don't we have a common parent and it was you I answered to? Then simply make your posts more clear :) instead of trying to weasel yourself out: " oh I never said 'order of' magnitude I only said magnitude ... " oops, did you? And that should make any sense to you? Only saying magnitude makes it even more wrong ... at least in german, or did you mean: "the measurement was off by a vastness from the expected result?" I mean: does that make sense in english?

Also I'm pretty sure the original post said a magnitude, where the 'a' is a synonym for 'one' ... not sure if you had the word 'order' in it ... and to lazy to travel up the parent chain to check something so mundane.

Another claim no one can proof or disproof without a time machine :) and the will to manipulate time.

So you believe a company like amazon had been founded and made profitable in such a short time if their software where based on ... what exactly is the alternative to Java in your eyes?

With what did you replace it? Don't tell me: with another, better Java application :) then then you would contradict yourself :)

What is wrong with you?

I did not claim anything. I assumed you would do that on you own code as you did not imply in any way you would not.

We all know that the US is a third world country with a first world army.
Does not change the fact that an Ebola victim in an isolated cell in a hospital is no thread to the general public :D

So, how does more than one person work on such a 'SSIS' project.

Sounds it is impossible. So why would anyone use such a 'thing'?

How do you do version control?

Um, I already did. No, you did not, you only implied it and clarified it now in this post :D

What exactly is meant with 'needle exchange'!? the fact that drug abusers exchange needles amoung each others, or something different?
And if the first is the case, how can anyone be 'wrong' about it?

On what part I where wrong?
Sorry ... it is late. If you believe I'm wrong point out where.
Since I'm separated from my previous GF I refuse to attempt to read the mind of one who tries to discuss with me: speak out what you want to say or leave it. I don't try to figure what 'message' you might have behind, besides your words. Particular not over the internet in my second hand language.

The OP, did not say that people 'don't know what the tool' does. He complained they can not accomplish the same thing the tool does, without the tool.

You still don't know what a straw man is? No problem, the accusation that one is using this fallacy is an US phenomenon only anyway ... ah, well it is something to keep my boat floating?

If I would need something keeping me a float, I would rather follow the Inka and use reed than some "straw".

Your challenge, btw is a straw man, I believe, as we where talking about the OP ... and my parent. Actually I answered to my parent and you brought back in the OP ... which is ... shit, don't remember what fallacy that is, also a straw man perhaps .. who knows.

So, both my parent as well as my OP considered abolishing tools.

So perhaps you should focus a bit more and only answer to what actually got written?

Unfortunately this is common, so I hear.
Luckily I never had to work with such guys ... hm, there was that guy who used "commit and overwrite" in Eclipse/SVN ... because he did not get the team aspect during his University time ...