• 0 Posts
  • 22 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle
  • HamsterRage@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIt's a choice
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 months ago

    You’re not going to split hairs out of this one. Trying to say that these are not Evangelicals because no true Evangelical would do this is pretty much the "No True Scotsman " evasion. When people say, “Evangelicals”, this is exactly the group to which they are referring.

    The one or two “True Evangelicals” in the US can consider themselves exempt from this thread.








  • HamsterRage@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNew tech discovered
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    5 months ago

    I think it’s a bit more than that. I think that the idea is that you simplify the problem so that the rubber duck could understand it. Or at least reformulate it in order to communicate it clearly.

    It’s the simplification, reformulation or reorganisation that helps to get the breakthrough.

    Just thinking out loud isn’t quite the same thing.



  • Many, many years ago I used to have two Wyse50 terminals, running split screens each with two parts. I did a lot of support on remote systems (via modem!) and I would have a session on a customer system, source code and running on our test system and internal stuff. I didn’t have space for a third terminal.

    At another job I had an office with a “U” shaped desk. I would spread printouts across half the “U” and swivel around between the computer and the printouts.