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A nap.

As an IT-worker, it’s not uncommon to test technology and scrap it due to bad results or unfit implementation. Usually this isn’t considered a waste, since there are a lot of things to learn in the process.

However, this one system which was designed for testing applications was a bit different. From the day we were told about it, basically every developer knew that this would be unfit. However the customers were firm on that it should be implemented. I’m not sure if it was because of the looks of the sales person or if it was a genuine incompetense that the decission was landed, but I felt a bit too junior to stand up against it. So about a month of work with 2 developers went down on something that every other developer knew would be scrapped. 2 devs at ~$100/hour, 4 weeks of 40 hours, so roughly $32,000.

The lesson was that I need to be more direct and firm when things like that is decided.

True. It was an expensive lesson, but not expensive for me.

For conversations which include interested parts as recipients, it’s good to reply to all to ensure they get all the updates. But this goes for smaller groups. If you go beyond 7-10 recipients, it might be time to ask if everyone really wants this or if some other communication format would be preferrable (chat group or meeting).

A laptop in 2007. I don’t remember the details. I believe it had 2GB RAM, since that was the main metric for bragging about computational power back then.

I still haven’t found Waldo

Fly me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra

Simple, yet very recognizable melody. Easy to whistle, but could also be extended to a whole orchestra with vocals.

A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.

That trolley problem is intense: would you direct the trolley onto a track as driving_crooner described or let the trolley run on an empty track?

It doesn’t take a ton of mental capacity, but even though I have a good education in math, I still find myself doing the heuristics of assuming that larger digits means larger number. Using fractions for comparing sizes can flip these heuristics. And I think a lot of people are like me, and also that they won’t spend a lot of time reading each item on the menu.

Where I’m from, burger sizes are just given in amount of grams, which makes it a lot easier to compare.