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unfamiliar with chess.com but correspondence chess(day/move) and rapid (game 30+0) should fall under two different rating classifications. Having different ratings between them is to be expected.

And while people tend to make __better moves__ in slower time controls, their rapid/blitz ratings are usually higher than standard ratings.


interesting to see in the replies such incredible pearl clutching on behalf of the poor, poor businesses whenever unionization gets brought up. brain folds lighting up like a fireworks show just to combat the idea of [checks scroll] uhh not exploiting workers.


Reframing someone's disagreement as them "struggling with something" is incredibly patronizing and condescending and dirty conversational pool.


No it's not. It's a validation of the fact that something is so frustrating they are quitting over it.

The idea that it is patronizing or condescending makes zero sense to me. It's a factual description.


Its framing the issue as something that should be fixed by a change in the mentality of Marsf, not by rolling back the changes.


No it's not. Where are you getting that? It's framing that there is an actual struggle, which is the acknowledgement that it's something they can work on resolving. Rolling back changes might be the answer.

I honestly don't understand where you're getting this cynical interpretation from. It's not in the words.


Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation edge case. unless you want to go full kyube but we're not putting that on the table.


Well, it would be a step backward in the right direction to go with spelling it 'kube' and pronouncing it 'koob'. That would hew to the original Greek. We'd also bring cybernetic back closer to kubernetes. And circle to kuklos. (Side note: It's another spelling "error" that we use 'y' in English to transliterate the Greek upsilon, which looks like 'Y' when capitalized, but is really a better match to 'u'. Hence, hyper and hypo instead of huper and hupo (like super and sub).)


kyube or kyoob would definitely be the way to go.

It's funny you use "tube" as an example though, as in my British accent I pronounce that as "chube", whereas I believe many Americans would use a "t" sound for that word. Not sure how you settle on a spelling in those cases.


Regional variations are available! I think the BBC would have had it pronounced tyoob. And don't Americans pronounce it "subway"?


In the north of England it is still commonly 'tyoob'.


Most Americans sadly never get to ride one anyway.


No but they do eat at them.


Why would it? "u" generally doesn't follow this pattern in English after "k" any more so than it does after "c".

That aside, what you describe is a distinction between yod-dropping and lack thereof, and whether and where it happens is highly dialect dependent.


This is an issue because vowel letters/digraphs are much more inconsistent than consonant letters/digraphs.


I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind.

It hits me every summer like clockwork tbh - leaving a nicely typed 2 minutes notice on my VP's desk and just taking my chances as a traveling beach bum. Akin to wanderlust, I'm filled with the urge to just go off into the unknown.

In my heart of hearts I know I'm a soft city boy though. I wouldn't last a week.


You would adapt rapidly.

I was fired from a city job.

Started hitchiking and living outside. Eventually worked on a fishing boat in the Bering Sea, worked the oil fields in the Dakotas, fought in a civil war in another country, hiked state-long parts of the PCT, hung out with tree-dwelling hippies in the doug-fir forests etc.

I would live that life again in a heartbeat if I didn't have a child to support, which was pretty much the end of my adventures. If you're single you can pretty much work day labor 25% of the year and have plenty enough to live inna-woods. The reason why most 'homeless' people seem so miserable is they are too mentally ill or drug ridden to do some fairly basic things to make their lives living outside 100x better; if you are sober and able bodied and able-minded it is a cakewalk.


You have any write ups? Sounds like quite the interesting life


Kinda but kinda not.

I'd agree that 75% you speak of is generally hostile to the mere concept of PMs, but that's usually from a misapplication of PMs as proxy-bosses for absentee product owners/directors who don't want to talk to nerds - flow interruptions, beancounting perceived as useless, pointless ceremonies, even more pointless(er) meetings etc, and the further defiling of the definition of "agile".

But a deep conceptual product and roadmap understanding that helps one steer Claude Code is invaluable for both devs and PMs, and I don't think most of that 75% would begrudge that quality in a PM


I think you shouldn't presume to know better than the author what they meant.


having known dozens of friends, family, roommates, coworkers etc both before and after they started them. The two biggest telltale signs -

1. tendency to produce - out of no necessity whatsoever, mind - walls of text. walls of speech will happen too but not everyone rambles.

2. Obnoxiously confident that they're fundamentally correct about whatever position they happen to be holding during a conversation with you. No matter how subjective or inconsequential. Even if they end up changing it an hour later. Challenging them on it gets you more of #1.


Pretty much spot on! It is frustrating to talk with these when they never admit they are wrong. They find new levels of abstractions to deal with your simpler counterarguments and it is a never ending deal unless you admit they were right.


Many people like to write in order to develop and explore their understanding of a topic. Writing lets you spend a lot of time playing around with whatever idea you're trying to understand, and sharing this writing invites others to challenge your assumptions.

When you're uncertain about a topic, you can explore it by writing a lot about said topic. Ideally, when you've finished exploring and studying a topic, you should be able to write a much more condensed / synthesized version.


I mean, I know the effects of adderall/ritalin and it's plausible, what I'm asking is whether if gp knows that for a fact or deduces from what is known.


I call this “diarrhea of the mind”. It’s what happens when you hear a steady stream of bullshit from someone’s mouth. It definitely tracks with substance abuse of “uppers”, aka meth, blow, hell even caffeine!



well now i finally have a good blog name for the blog i'll never start.


What if we're just not onboard with the premise that campers/squatters need to be pandered to in the first place?


What, and force people to work in rooms (so-called "offices") specifically set up to work in? No.


well, using larger denominations helps.


I think you could tell if the bill was purple (Swiss franc [1]) instead of green in the movies...

[1] https://www.snb.ch/.imaging/flex/jcr:778b68b3-1344-4872-93d7...


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