They may have entered the profession thinking they wouldn’t have to talk to people, but I just want to point out that this is not at all what the profession actually looks like. You have to constantly talk to people, to work out the requirements that the customer actually needs and exchange knowledge with your team mates. If someone is not a team player, that is the absolute quickest way to get thrown out.
You know what you can also carry inside a backpack? Bags. And inside those bags? Even more bags. Basically, you can carry infinite carrying capacity in your backpack! 🙃
Oh yeah, as a wise Adam Savage once said:
Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
That cow in the GIF is screwing around. But if it could have a chat with its cow friends about how that ball is flying and they could write that shit down – and they’d have stable enough of a food supply and no predators – then I 100% believe that they would continue screwing around + writing down, until they’ve figured out a rule for how that ball flies.
And from that point, they would start building trebuchets and take over the world. Cause that’s how things go, appparently…
I mean, I hope so. I’ve just seen this sentiment expressed so often, that cows must be nearly braindead, because you don’t hear them reciting Shakespeare while they’re chewing grass.
I believe, that’s a general herbivore survival strategy to not recite Shakespeare move much while they’re eating, so that they don’t draw attention from predators and conserve energy. At least, similar behaviour can also be seen in deer and bunnies.
But yeah, clearly they’re intelligent enough to have survived until we domesticated them, despite being a big hunk of meat.
They are not typically thought to plan, let alone solve problems. A new study suggests we may have underestimated them.
Never understood these views. Is it not planning, when cows predict where a predator is likely to appear again after it has disappeared behind some shrubs?
And is it not also problem solving in some way to run the hell away from predators?
In particular, the tool use category feels like we’re asking a fish to climb a tree. There’s only so much cows can achieve with tools, since they can only hold those tools with their mouths. They might be solving physics equations in their third stomach and we’re asking, if they’ve figured out how to bang two rocks together.
Like, no, I don’t either believe that they are solving physics equations, but you can throw a ball for them and they’ll correctly estimate where it’ll go and in what direction to kick it back:
Which I feel like it should count for more intelligence than being able to extend your reach with a stick.
Yeah, I met maybe 2½ in my lifetime.
Ah, in that case, I got poe’s-lawed. There’s just teenagers out there, who have not yet formed such a taste and assume others have not either, so may genuinely assume they’re just supposed to be the most physically beautiful and non-weird to rake in a boy-/girl-/enbyfriend. Well, and some of those teenagers even make it into adulthood without taste…
I blame romance movies and novels and such. It’s such utter bullshit, how the stereotypical storyline is that she rejects him at first and then he’s just really desperate persistent and then she eventually softens up and they’re married ever after.
Some women like that little dance of rejecting and the guy not giving up, but even then only if they think you’re cute beforehand.
But most women will just find that creepy and off-putting. They want to have a partner they actually find attractive themselves, not just any partner who finds them attractive enough to persist through humiliation.
Human beings can have tastes in their partners that go beyond a one-dimensional weird vs. attractive…
I think, I died from a cholesterol overdose just reading that comment, so that’s great.
Yeah, although with a proper store, you can at least still hope that they’ll return in the future or tell others about your store…
With that thick of a pillow, you’re gonna get neck pain for sure, so I hope they don’t have plans for tomorrow or any following days either…
Sorry, I meant a mop. Couldn’t think of the word and wanted to express that it should just be damp, not actually wet…
I can recommend wiping the floor regularly with a damp cloth. Removes a lot of the dust from the room, so that it can’t get kicked up and land in other places. And it’s relatively quick to do, especially since you don’t have to reach all the corners for that either.
You may want to add a bit of lemon acid to the water every few months or so, since the water will leave behind limescale when it dries, which will make your floor less shiny.
Well, it does just look like more of that reality, you can find outside. It’s kind of inherently boring.
Also has to be said that 2D vs. 3D is basically just different genres, because it affects gameplay so much. Someone who only plays 3D games misses out on a whole bunch of variety.
Yeah, I feel like humanity should’ve figured out sooner that reality does not have great gameplay… 🫠
Yeah, this is probably going to sound like a truism, but to avoid shitty Scrum, you need to resist management trying to alter the processes, but you should absolutely tweak the processes to account for the needs of the devs.
Basically, yet another reporting meeting does not help deliver the software faster. But more (or less) meetings for devs to sync what they’re working on, that can help, depending on your team’s specific needs.
Yeah, I guess, not hugely surprising after all, when the place is stocked like a jeweller’s shop…
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