Confused Middle Aged Dad

@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @kibcol1049@mstdn.social apparently at one point UK was going to be fully metric by 1975. My 'conspiracy theory' is that we stopped selling petrol in gallons when the pounds per gallon number got too high for people to accept. Although of course we still use mpg. Heights and weights and temperatures in non metric are gradually disappearing, hospitals generally have stopped giving baby weights in pounds, which helps. Yards are used for rough distance communication interchangeably with metres

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt testosterone affects certain physical characteristics. It might enhance the chance of someone winning a physical fight or to "charge naked at the enemy". I am not sure it enhances the strategies and logistics required to adapt to the confusion and changing outcomes of a battle, let alone a war.

@StrawDog @Daojoan Marvin as an LLM chatbot. That would be something special

@AimeeMaroux if we reduce drivers, station office staff just down to the headline value of drives bus/train, sells tickets etc then they can look inefficient. If we realise that their value is hard to measure in an economic sense but means that women will actually feel like they can use the system, then we might value them and their contribution not just to the transport system but to a functioning society

@svavar@masto.svavar.com @Daojoan@mastodon.social Open plan offices! These encourage colleagues to interrupt and ask questions continually during the working day. I am available for questions at points during the day, and have specific longer sessions to deal with more in depth issues that those learning the job quite reasonably need to learn about. But people seem to have expectations of instant and always on answering.

@Natasha_Jay 2nd time today that I have felt a groan button is required

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I found some floppy disks in a cupboard at work to show the "young people"

@ABellingrodt interested as to how you would translate "ziel". It could be a variety of things in English (purpose, aim, destination). Is that slight ambiguity present in the German too? Edited to remove additional "in the" left over from my pre-posting edits.

@Edent@mastodon.social horrifying. But what is "legitimate interest" as distinct from other interest. I decline 'normal' cookies and then have to decline legitimate interest separately. The only legitimate interest I can ever think of might be the original website, and even then ...

@elCelio@mastodon.uno @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us didn't she, or her government, withdraw the patrol boat ?

@vicgrinberg is there anything it doesn't do compared to 'standard' Android smartphone?

@geekygirldawn continued: Google is often not your friend. Not all information is out there on the web. We do have internal documentation. Real projects and problems are not exams and there is not necessarily a single clear answer. Copy with pride (give credit) and improve, do not re-invent

@vicgrinberg so often emails can be used to exchange huge amounts of information without addressing the key question that needs answering. That can often be addressed in a couple of minutes of conversation

@workchronicles I have seen some Bobs who never seemed to get down to work until very late in the day then worked hard mostly after hours. However, I have also had to deal with the fall out from some apparently very "efficient" colleagues where it turned out, after they moved on or left, that they simply skipped major aspects of the tasks they had 'completed'. This has meant that others of us have had more to do making up for the skipped and undocumented work.

@Daojoan just because it can be quantified does not mean that it should be quantified. Is this another case of trying to make the measurable important? Or assuming that measurable things are a good proxy for important things (reading and thinking in this case)?

@petrillic@hachyderm.io "we'll just recruit them [experienced/senior engineers] from the market" "We expect them to be fully productive on day one" ... Something, something AI. No acknowledgement of range of experience, troubleshooting and all the 'softer skills' of communicating with co-workers, key partners and even just scoping work and clearly defining problems.

@Edent@mastodon.social thanks

@debiani386@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social not a trivial undertaking then. May also require mentoring and plenty of time. I also think that "free thinker" ought to be a retrospective (probably posthumous) label applied by others

@WilliamNB@social.vivaldi.net not just a daily groan worthy dad joke then