I feel sorry for 1990s people doing my job. When they moved a paper process to a highly automated IT solution they halved our workforce. When we do the same we get people moved to more valuable work
Government IT is rewarding but is also so dependent on political processes.
I recall when I last heard that girls did better at maths in school than boys, I recalled the amount of effort that had been employed to better teach maths to girls to address historical biases and thought, "I guess now they need to work out how to teach it to boys if they really are trying for equality"
But I don't think they were trying for equality
I'm not studying social sciences anymore so haven't seen anything more recent than the early 2000s but I can't imagine much study has been funded to improve boys education beyond general improvement to education
I think the difference is just that girls are typically less prone to slacking off than boys, more focused on success. But that's less true now than it was, girls are now as unfocused as boys.
I think the difficulty girls had was entirely due to them being told it took a male brain to do well.
This is all about Australian schools, I presume in more misogynist places girls are still told they're bad at maths because they're girls
I'm loving work from home. The ability to do whatever during dull meetings, work through lunch on something interesting because you had lunch during the all staff meeting
Have the radio on even
I can't count the number of coffees I've made during stand-up
We also do SAFe, I think they buy it for the name. We're reasonably agile except we don't choose our work, our input on feature sizing is ignored, we get told off for failing to deliver on time, we're not encouraged to demo work to business
At least we do have scrum masters and sometimes product owners and work vaguely to sprints
Test is the least agile as they have an 80 page document on how to document testing and it's impossible for them to have admin done in time to actually start testing until sprint 2. Since we went to using Git, build is unlikely to finish anything quickly as the automated unit tests are time consuming
I have been a scrum master and it's almost fun in that role to try to make a team more agile
My different printer does that when it takes a break from printing to disconnect any stringy plastic, for example when it moves to check the print adhered correctly. Mine behaves better when I cancel. I can prevent that behaviour by turning off "AI check file"
Sadly I got around to looking up decay chains and the isotope of lead that is at the bottom of the chain containing [plutonium 243](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_plutonium] ends at lead 207 which is only 22% of the lead on Earth, so you're unlikely to get anything instantly dangerous. Though if your lead came from an ancient natural reactor your chances are much better
Not in my town. We're not allowed in the general lane without a good reason if there's a bike lane (indicated by signs, painted lanes with bike symbols in them aren't necessarily bike lanes, painted or separated lanes with start and end signs are bike lanes)
One route I ride is incredibly scenic, at one point there's a really nice view over the local lake (the local lake at the city end rather than the less scenic lake at my suburban end of the ride) I'm always torn between stopping and soaking in the view, or enjoying a descent about as steep as any built after 1990, zigzagging down at up to your aerodynamic limit which is enormous fun
I ride a recumbent, which is good for me, people notice the weird bike, bad for the people ahead of me since cars tend to drift a bit as they keep watching me after they've passed me
Cui bono? The executives who approved the deal will make bank on their stock options
It's never good for a company to have unprofitable decisions made by people for whom the decision is profitable