Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Slippery slope (Score 2) 214

But you mentioned the person comes up behind you and passes you, so I have to assume you're in the left lane and said person passes on your right, which is unsafe and used to be illegal in some states.

Well passing on the right is still illegal here in Massachusetts but not on the highway. (It's legal to pass on the right on a divided road, illegal on undivided road.) I could also mention here in Mass the law on the highway is that the right most lane is the travel lane and the other lanes are passing lanes. Good luck getting anybody to obey that law.

Comment I'd rip on them for their hubris (Score 1) 71

I'm not sure what the name for this but it's just another case of "We got away with it before so it must be ok." I'd rip them on how stupid they were and how everybody told them it was a mistake but it seems similar to me to what happened to the Space Shuttle Challenger. The engineers told the managers it's not rated for temperatures that low and it's going to fail but the managers gave the go ahead because they figured they got away with it before so it must be ok.(The engineers ended up being right.)

Comment The smartest guy at the agile conference (Score 2) 235

Was the one that didnâ(TM)t want to call it agile. He wanted to call it conversational development. That describes it far better on how itâ(TM)s supposed to work. You have conversations where both sides talk and both listen. Not lectures where youâ(TM)re micromanaged into oblivion. (Yeah Ive seen âoeagileâ where I was micromanaged. That was not a good experience and it didnâ(TM)t even work)

Comment It's a bullshit statistic (Score 1) 97

It's usually true that parents can't expect their kids to live as old of an age as they do.(Which is what the original poster said) It's a round about way to say that parents are older than their kids and have kids. Or put another way, who do you think is more likely to live to be 81, a child who is currently one or his 80 year old grandfather? Just look up any actuary tables if you want to see this.(Older people have a higher probability of living to an older age than younger people precisely because they're older) Of course I've seen people give that stat to confuse people into thinking life expectancy is going down. (Admittedly it went down in the US due to opioid death but that's a bit of an exception.)

Comment Well corticosteroids (Score 1) 286

Like Dexamethasone and they're used to prevent a bad immune response such as inflammation or a cytokine storm. Basically they're used to get the immune system to not fight as hard and they tend to get used when people are really bad and it's a bigger worry that the immune response is worse than the disease. Looking at that guy he's taking anabolic steroids and no idea how they affect the disease course. (Although those steroids do cause heart issues which is bad for covid-19.)

Comment Re:Artificial sweeteners are safe (Score 1) 152

I'll go with what the Duelfer report said which was pretty much

Iraq didn't have them.

The reason they didn't have them was because Saddam got rid of them

The reason he got rid of them wasn't because he was a good guy. He simply thought the easiest way out of sanctions was to get rid of them but keep the ability and knowledge to build them. Then inspectors would find nothing and sign off on getting rid of the sanctions. Once that happen restart his programs and start making his fun stuff again. I am also under the impression you're supposed to replace your chemical weapons every so often anyway because being caustic also means you can't store them forever.

Comment The reason why us real coders sneer (Score 1) 283

The big problem I've seen is you have someone who starts down this road and quickly thinks "I'm awesome" and go from this low/no code stuff to things where it actually matters. What's worse is that they often have extreme confidence that they can convince people who don't know any better that they're awesome. Their stuff kind of works but behind the scenes it's not very well written and management doesn't give a shit. I've worked with people like this and they didn't get things like what's the difference between a list, array, or map. So they pick just one and always use that even if it doesn't make any sense. Or here's a good one, I'm awesome so I don't see any reason that I need source control so I won't use it.(Yes, that happened too.) When you have some one like that you just make for the exits as fast as you can because my experience is they make a complete mess and management won't say boo about it.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Ask not what A Group of Employees can do for you. But ask what can All Employees do for A Group of Employees." -- Mike Dennison

Working...