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plausibilities | 6 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”

Anecdotally, the comfort of tailored/fitted apparel can vary based on your body composition.

This is as someone who used to weigh around 255 and now weighs around 170.

The more fit you are, the more comfy fitted/tailored apparel tends to be.

If you are atypically shaped due to various fat deposits, tailored clothing becomes more difficult to get just right in order to not pinch/restrict you in all the wrong places.

plausibilities | 6 years ago | on: Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long

Handyman Contractor mentality vs Civil Engineer mentality in a nutshell

Unfortunately not everyone cares about resilience and certain performance thresholds when it comes to construction, especially when budgets become involved.

Some customers will are happy to cheap out for a hack-job remodel in the hopes that they can flip their home and run off before the bagholder realizes they got a lemon.

plausibilities | 6 years ago | on: U.S. Web Design System 2.0

This. Accessibility should ideally take into account different levels of information processing abilities. While some of us are happy to sacrifice what we feel is a negligible amount of visual context for visual aesthetic, others may need that extra context and cannot afford such a luxury.

plausibilities | 6 years ago | on: Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle

Pair programming and mobbing are tools which may be appropriate for some situations.

Unfortunately when tool use is mandated without applying critical thinking, it often results in a great deal of waste. Mandated collaboration is also very susceptible to abuse as it typically provides an additional layer of obfuscation to shield low performing leechers.

High school group projects dialed up to 11.

plausibilities | 7 years ago | on: OpenDroneMap – Simple Images into 3D

One of its dependencies, OpenSfM, does a lot of the heavy lifting with regard to generating things like HOG descriptors (since SIFT = $IFT)

That project used to have a bug with their multithreading implementation where if your photo sets got too big children threads would terminate but fail to get reaped and your heap size would just continue to grow until things kaboomed at the SfM phase.

Not entirely their fault though as it stemmed from a deeper issue with Python stdlib's pool implementation.

Back then, with certain photosets I would literally run OOM on my homelab which was equipped with 128 GB DDR4

Should be fixed by now though.

You wouldn't happen to work for a small MPLS based startup would you?

plausibilities | 7 years ago | on: Junior Developer Koans

bingo

well, you _can_, but IME having a reference monolith to excavate will likely net you significantly more reliable, holistic, and consistent requirements/specifications information than whatever the fuck comes out of the product guy/gal's mouth

plausibilities | 7 years ago | on: Junior Developer Koans

Message:

You/we lack the proper (production runtime) environment conducive to practicing and learning this particular technique.

plausibilities | 7 years ago | on: Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)

Reminds me of that dude who made a rather impressive amount of money posting classified ads on how to make money where the "secret methodology" being sold turned out to be a set of guidelines which simply instructed the buyer to follow suit.
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