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Is it me or does this sound like a Project Manager and not a Product Manager? Where is the discussion and negotiation with customers and engineering teams on specs/targets/requirements? Where is the roadmap alignment with strategy and marketing teams? Where is the discussion with research teams on future features? Product managers don't babysit engineering teams on their deliverables. Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.

Does this formulation work?

You have 6 wooden blocks, each can be 1 of 6 colors. There will always be either (A) 3 blocks of the same color, or (B) 3 blocks of different colors.

Iterating through all possibilities:

6 of 1 color - case A

5 of 1 color, 1 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 2 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 3 of another - case A

3 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case A and B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 2 of yet another - case B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case B

2 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another, 1 of another another another - case B

all colors different - case B

I've learned to drink coffee only in the morning. If I drink coffee any time after 12PM, I'm not going to get much sleep that night. Therefore I have limited my coffee intake to medicinal purposes (i.e. as needed in order to stay awake).

Whatsapp now has an AI chat feature which includes chatbots such as relationship coach, travel expert, career coach

Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.

I still see calculators being used by salesmen to show numbers and results of simple calculations. The most recent at a car dealership two days ago.

Have you heard of the women who would not date men using an Android phone, as well as the kids being pressured or excluded? In some social circles Apple devices are definitely status symbols.

> Given the billion of dollars at stake and thousands of human-years of R&D needed, none of these companies are "winging it"

You'd be surprised. My personal knowledge of one major fab is that they have policies such as regular rotation of employees which make it difficult to maintain institutional knowledge. I have heard complaints from multiple people of their teammates and managers "winging it" to think it's isolated incidents.

I remember having to realign my Commodore 1541 floppy drive, which involved a lot of banging sounds if I recall.

Are there people paying for Google's weather predictions?

Are cans not all lined with plastics nowadays and therefore a source of microplastics and endocrine disruptors?

I don't know how contrarian I am but I thought the movie was about an upside-down world where the women held all the power and the men were oppressed, and when the men tried to change things, the women reasserted their oppression as the rightful thing to do. To me, it's quite a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of feminism actually.

Many also apply to life at certain multinational conglomerates. Although I suppose the pay is better than PhD life.