A good technique to help w this is "affective labeling" (sorry, citation needed, I think I got it from one of Anne Laure Le Cunff's typically awesome newsletters/posts). Set a 5m timer, start writing words that describe your emotions and don't stop writing for even 2s till the 5m are up.
As an aside, I miss the slashdot ability to optionally assign a property to a vote. It would be neat to have some sort of indicator in addition to the greying out of downvoted or flagged comments to show specific types of upvotes. This has obviously proven to be the better system overall, but it has its pluses. Too bad it also had a bunch of swastikas and 4-Chan-esque trolls.
I'm not sure I agree this has proven to be the better system.
Slashdot had, for many years, fairly insightful commentary with that system. The fact that it has since become less insightful is, I think, less a reflection on the voting system in comments and more on people moving from the site wholesale for various other reasons.
I don’t mean the more effective voting system — I mean the more effective system overall. I don’t really think that’s controversial. As I said, I like the Slashdot voting system
{elite universities} produce {elite university} graduates
is of course tautological
but this
elite universities produce university graduates who are elite (meaning better than others)
is debatable.
Most people who say "elite universities produce elite university graduates" mean the second and then don't provide any especially great arguments for the opinion.
Mostly agreed, but (maybe orthogonal) IME, popular CI/CD vendors like TeamCity* can make even basic things like shell script execution problematic.
* TC offers sh, full stop. If you want to script something that depends on bash, it's a PITA and you end up with a kludge to run bash in sh in docker in docker.
Your "docker in docker" comment makes me wonder if you're conflating the image that you are using, that just happens to be run by TeamCity, versus some inherent limitation of TC. I believe a boatload of the Hashicorp images ship with dash, or busybox or worse, and practically anything named "slim" or "alpine" similarly
reminiscent of TV ads selling fantasies of complete happiness and ultimate dream lifestyle, all kinds of beautiful imagery and moving music... and the ad ends, and still no idea what the product is or how it's differentiated.
Yeah, I don't understand why the standard advice is what it is. Are most adults that stupidly naive to not realize that benefits are just lies? No company is actually able to predict how and how much their product can benefit their customers. Only customers themselves can predict that, and to do it, they need to know the actual things the product does, i.e. the features, which also happen to be the only objective things the company can say.
And yes, in many cases, the buyer may not know enough to correctly evaluate the features - but such buyer should be aware that, in such situation, they're even less able to tell if the benefits listed are realistic, or just blatant lies. Buying by benefits is stupid - the smart thing is to find someone who understands the features and ask them for advice.
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