My manager once accused me of overinflating my (granted, very conservative) estimates just to be able to pull off a Scotty and be early in 10% of the time.
My manager once accused me of overinflating my (granted, very conservative) estimates just to be able to pull off a Scotty and be early in 10% of the time.
Teach this to your manager: At the beginning of a task, uncertainty is highest. Under no circumstances should you give an estimate in ‘man-hours’. Even days is too precise. The first estimate should be in months or years (of course depending on the size of the project). Then, as your insight into the project grows, you refine that to months, then weeks, later days. A vague estimate with a lower and a higher bound is way more useful to your manager than a ridiculously ‘precise’ but highly speculative number.
This lesson was brought to you by either “Code Complete 2” or “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnel, and by my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.
duh? One is a completely passive ‘experience’, while the other is more akin to a hobby: You perform an action, gain a skill and overcome obstacles that become more and more difficult.
This is my googled understanding, take with a grain of salt:
Batteries contain of lots of individual cells. If you short-circuit one cell, you generate lots of energy (from the short-circuit), and start a chemical reaction (fire) that does produce its own oxygen. Once that cell has lost all its charge, the reaction would stop, but until then the fire has compromised neighboring cells, which start the process all over again.
Water won’t stop the first broken cell from discharging, but it can bring the battery down to a temperature where the fire is too cold to sustain itself. It contains the damage to the cells that are affected already and prevents more cells from igniting. This is how you stop a battery fire.
The car gets put into a tank for several days to allow the broken battery cells to discharge safely, without overheating and causing another fire.
It is common practice to submerge EVs in water for several days in Germany, too. Remember that there is no elemental lithium (which would react with water) in batteries. As with every fire, the goal is to cool down the battery, so the fire doesn’t have enough energy to burn further. Unfortunately I only found German sources to back this up.
You must have exceptionally competent first-level support.
“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
I, for one, am in favor of volume limits. Too many times ambulances get stuck behind cars whose drivers simply cannot hear the siren.
A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.
Are all public clocks in the US digital clocks? Off the top of my head, I can tell you 4 locations within walking distance that have analog clocks, one of them being the train station.
Aww. I confused “communities” for “instances” when I read the title. Thanks for pointing it out.
Your data quality is questionable. You list only 2 communities for feddit.org. Lemmy Explorer has 148. I doubt that they’re all ‘suspicious’. And if they are, then that flag is itself suspicious.
Please avoid any and all situations in which you might have the chance of handling any kind of categorized data, for the sake of all of us.
While we’re giving advice on good reads, I foudn “Code Complete” to be much more useful than “The Pragmatic Programmer” (also about 10x the size).
You could only not mark a review as helpful. You couldn’t provide context if the reviewer didn’t allow comments.
There are no inherent “rules” to language, either, but when you don’t followthemthingsgetmessyandyou’reannoyingforeveryoneelese.
Thank you for linking the blog posts. They are a really good deterrent from Clean Code. I once thought I’d read it, but Fowler’s advice really is stupid.
In case you’re wondering why I replied three times: “Do one thing” :)
PEBKAC: Problem exists between keyboard and chair – The acronym I’m used to.