[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

By consuming very large amounts of informative media

[-] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 22 hours ago

If you wash a car it uses less fuel. Dirt makes cars less aerodynamic.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The big problem crop for water in California is almonds.

The big problem crop for water in Australia is cotton.

The big problem crop for water anywhere is not beef

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

If you live in a low humidity area you can cool with an evaporative cooler cheaper than with air con. Evaporative coolers consume quite a bit of water

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

How much of a prude must you be to think you need to censor the word tits?

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

If you want to accelerate a person to "fly high into the air" speed over a distance of a see saw's arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

Better not kill the groove, DJ

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

My workplace which now uses scaled agile used to be waterfall. We have an enormous system to take care of and there's loads of specialised knowledge, so we were pretty well siloed

So obviously when the sales people sold agile to the organisation they also sold the idea that a programmer is a programmer, designer a designer, tester a tester; no need for specialists, so in 2015 they spun up 50-odd agile teams in about six trains, one for each major system (where the used to be seven silos in one of those systems) grabbed one senior designer and programmer from each major project to put in an "expert" team

And told the rest of us we were working on the whole of our giant system. Where we had trouble understanding how part of it worked, we could talk to one of the experts

Now nine years later those experts have mostly retired, we have lost so much institutional knowledge and if someone runs into a wall you need to hope that someone wrote a knowledge transfer document or a wiki for that bit of the system

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

My pixel 1 was and is fine. Pixel 3 was an excellent phone. The only bad phone I recall from Google was the Nexus 5x which was made by LG

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I take it you missed the recent fourth integrated flight test, in which the ship soft landed on the ocean near Australia as planned and the booster soft landed on the ocean near the launch site as planned

Their failure in that flight was expected. They hoped thermal tiles sealing the hinge for the aerodynamic surfaces would seal those against plasma during reentry. They didn't. Had they, it would have been much cheaper than sealing those more thoroughly. The ship landed regardless of that failure

Disliking Musk is fair, but SpaceX is doing good stuff

[-] psud@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Actual real world right now giant rockets include

  • One that is being built under waterfall methodology. It has been being built for several years. That's the Blue Origin New Glen heavy lift reusable rocket

  • One that is being developed under an agile methodology, it flew as a subscale lander to test their engine and flight control, it has flown four full test flights, improving on each. That's SpaceX's Starship

We are yet to see either launch a payload to orbit

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are so many advances in game systems since the Palladium system I use, so I have stolen shamelessly to make combat last less than 1 game session rather than the two or three under standard rules

The universe is good, the rules are ancient

I do have a shelf of books though for Rifts, TMNT, after the bomb

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by psud@aussie.zone to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

When I refresh a post, all the comments I have hidden become unhidden

When I comment, all the comments I have hidden are unhidden

Please make remember hidden comments, ideally f forever, but at least for the session. The current state of hidden comments is frustrating

Reddit Enhancement Suite for example keeps hidden stuff hidden, and annotates the root hidden comments with a count of new unread comments above them

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