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Serious Sam didn't come out until 2001. How did you play it in 1999?

I find the Hobbit and LOTR terribly boring. But these interpretations are fascinating and delightful.

I love this veiled (but true) insult. That is the core of my love-hate relationship with this site.

Before I make a change in residence or work, I have a plan for continuity of good habits.

Sign up for the new gym. Figure out where going will fit into my likely future schedule. Set an explicit period of lapse due to the effort of moving (or whatever life change is disrupting the norm).

Of course that is in an ideal situation. Sometimes you don't have enough notice for this (COVID stay-at-home threw me off).

I can have them delivered for very little premium. If my co-workers and I pool our orders we can reduce the impact of those deliveries (or rotating pickup), and have more choice about what snacks we get.

Donut and coffee clubs (and similar) in offices have worked this way forever.

Rail was a hugely impactful tool during the US Civil War.

I would guess that geography and the demographics of the American west are as much to blame as the relative lack of continental conflict in the rail era.

Yes. And easy. Though I would imagine not as common a practice as it was in the past.

> They shield you from product owners and stakeholders by meeting with them and giving you only the information you need

I've worked at a lot of places like this, and I'm continually surprised people enjoy it. For me, it always ends up having the telephone game problem. You spend a huge amount of time error-correcting.

How do folks scale it? Given the aforementioned error-correction process, the amount of time a manager spends facilitating that process caps with very few engineers.

We have gone another way and our engineering teams work with product managers and together they make decisions. The PM deals with gathering feedback from our analytics teams, end-users and clients, and summarizes that for the team.

We feel this gives a sense of ownership to individual engineers and allows them to make better decisions without a lot of back and forth communication funneled through a proxy. And it also means we don't need a dozen managers.

Good engineers are expensive and hard to find, and I'd say finding excellent managers is just as onerous.

What?

I can understand that absolute values aren't very meaningful, as they're probably missing a lot of necessary context. BMI is one metric that doesn't paint a clear picture on its own -- but no doctor would ever rely solely on it.

I can't understand dismissing most of medical science. Can you expand on that part of your statement?

How do you handle two separate onsites for people that have to travel to get to your office?

For about $100 every 10 years, I'd rather be safer than sorry.

Communication skills are as important as programming skills. It is a super power to be able to communicate clearly and appropriately for the circumstance/audience.

That is as much a technique problem as it is a fastener problem.

Use a torque driver if you can. And always bracket the bit with your fingers.

If you are straining, something is wrong.

I prefer safety post tuners. You can get accurate ones for cheap and string changes are super fast and easy. Usually enough winding to make for stable tuning.

I’ve found slightly over-tightening most locking tuners will break the string. Not a frequent occurrence for me, but frequent enough to bug me. Usually happens when I’m in a rush.

What's the problem with those questions?