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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Debugging pretty much any multithreaded application..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, just throw all the unknowns into a the error term at the end of the equation and call it a day. All models are wrong, but some are close enough.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

This shook me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's when you've been working on a project for a year and decide to throw it out and try something completely different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Clair Patterson, his lead levels wildly inconsistent, "'Duck soup', my ass"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWHqgffYEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1hBxnpjDEE

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Quantum physics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I go outside. Sometimes it rains. The two are somewhat correlated.:-)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you are improving consistency by doing the same thing over and over then you are practicing.

In that case the difference is in chance to succeed, not really a different intended outcome which is what the saying is trying to get at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Gathering statistics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

opening pokemon cards or loot boxes 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Me measuring anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Meta: I asked a lot of people the same question and they've all given different answers. Fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Playing Warframe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I go to work every day and keep getting paid. Can you milk me, Greg?