“What’s this in your holster?”

“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”

Just how he likes it

Shepherd Pre 👀

Thanks for the response, didn’t expect that.

Since you’re interested in feedback, there are a couple of usability things.

1. It doesn’t say anywhere what the objective of the game is. That might seem obvious, but I wasn’t immediately sure if I was supposed to define the slang, or if the word shown was the definition and I had to find slang which meant that! So I think you need to be clear on the goal.

2. I wasn’t sure whether my answer had to be a single word, or a phrase. It’s interesting that you say you changed your mind on this (and I agree, because phrases are definitely too hard to guess). And looking again it does say ‘phrase’ in ‘how to play’ (and in the answer section whwm you finish) but that’s not true now if it’s only ever a single word.

I’d definitely suggest making the first sentence of ‘How To Play’ be the objective. Like “Guess the meaning of the slang phrase. The answer is a single word.”

We should all aspire to be more like children.

No.

My personal rule is that I do not consume any media where I have to see or hear adverts.

When I’m in someone else’s car that’s an exception and they can listen to whatever they want, it’s their car. But if I’m driving? Absolutely not.

Those are all valid points, and in your scenario I am sure that’s a good choice for you :)

You may have interpreted I was making the argument that in the long-term, being open is a smarter decision financially - but I didn’t mean to imply that. As you point out, it’s often quite the opposite.

My dislike for closed systems isn’t because I was bitten in the ass financially by them; it’s because I was bitten in the ass ideologically.

Open may sometimes cost more, but I am fortunately able and willing to pay it for the privilege of knowing that what is mine is mine, forever and always, with no terms attached.

First time seeing this game today and I don’t think it will become a favourite.

Some slang words do map pretty well to common words, but many are pretty multi-faceted and fit a lexical space not occupied by single other words, so matching them is frustratingly inaccurate.

Yesterday’s “mood” for example.

Thanks for the correction.

Regardless, an impartial third party does it, and that’s the key part in making you less likely to be scammed.

Yes it will.

When you sell your house “normally” through a real estate company it is the real-estate company who acts as an intermediary in the transaction. They collect money from the buyer, then pay you, and the transaction completes.

The real estate agent takes a cut for their services, but there is less potential for fraud than if the buyer sends you money direct. The real estate company has a vested interest in making sure the sale goes through properly, because they won’t get their cut otherwise.

And if you could afford private legal counsel you wouldn’t be considering selling to this kind of scummy service in the first place.

They know exactly who their “customers” are.

No lowball offers, I know what I have.

Boobs like PS1 Lara Croft

What kind of major project is this where you’re days behind and nobody has noticed or asked about it? That means either there’s a lot of trust in you, or it’s perhaps not as critical to other people as it seems to you. If it’s the latter, you might have a pleasant surprise and find there is more time on the table.

Regardless of all that, the only thing you can do is to be honest and let your boss know what’s up.

For future projects, even if you aren’t asked for updates I’d still suggest giving them honestly. Even if you’re behind - no in fact, especially if you are behind.

Admitting you’re behind might feel bad, but it’s also sharing responsibility. If your boss knows the project is behind then they also have to help do something about it, be that reprioritising or finding help or extending - and if they can’t do that then they’re also failing at being a competent boss.

When it comes to open tech, I really think we need to change our way of thinking.

We have a habit or comparing the price of alternatives against the market leader (in this case Kindle) and assessing value on that basis, while at the same time forgetting that Amazon claws back a huge amount of profit after the point of sale on books - specifically because of their closed ecosystem. The monopoly allows them to subsidise the device.

If we are buying open devices which aren’t locked down, the companies selling those devices have to actually make all their profit up-front on the device itself, and so it’s naturally going to feel comparatively more expensive.

We have to remind ourselves, if we value freedom we need to be prepared to pay a premium for it.

Same. I enjoyed my kindle devices but I have in time been taught the lesson - do not participate in closed ecosystems.

If you don’t control it, then you don’t own it.

There’s nowhere convenient. As you correctly identified, AI has pushed the price of drives through the roof.

Your only real chance is to find a one-off on auction sites from someone who hasn’t noticed what’s going on or what the current market is asking for drives.

You might still be able to find bargains in charity stuff or on Marketplace sites etc but these are unlikely to be sufficient capacity for NAS builds unless you get super lucky.

There isn’t a single right answer to that and I’m not going to suggest there is.

How any organisation operates, be that public or private, is down to the culture of the organisation, and culture comes from people, process, motivation, legislation, and a whole bunch of factors.

If an organisation has a clear mission, is held organisationally accountable in appropriate ways to that mission and makes people feel professionally enriched and valuable, it will attract competent people. And importantly, an organisation full of competent and principled individuals will attract other competent individuals.

On the flip side, if an organisation is subject to decades of mismanagement, has very poor oversight, doesn’t reward people for being good at their jobs and in fact rewards the wrong behaviours then exactly the opposite will happen. People who are competent at what they do will either leave or be crushed down, while those who know how to play the bootlicking game will be raised up, and this type of organisation again becomes self-perpetuating.

None of this happens overnight, in either direction. Failure can take years or decades, and so can the reverse.

In a sane world, by ability and competence

I do love these. I appreciate the reminder that although time changes, the fundamentals of our human experience often stays very much the same.

If the ancient Greeks had comics, I’m sure there would be some about not letting the boss catch you slacking.