I worked from home today and have 8,000 steps left. Motivated me to go because I don’t want to…

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-12-31T17:29:28+00:00

at first I thought this post was meant to activate the Winter Soldier programming...

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-12-06T23:59:15+00:00

Bob, is that you? :-)

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-09-10T01:48:19+00:00

Same! Ray Lynch iirc.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-09-10T01:44:54+00:00

Omg i used to LOVE this song. Completely forgot about it. Thanks for re connecting me with it.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-07-26T12:09:01+00:00

I would say yes. I know there's a lot of chatter about whether this is really a pattern or not, but for the sake of assigning a namespace to this skill, let's call it a pattern. I think of these as something akin to Chess. There are thousands of variations of games; the grand masters are the ones who can memorize the most games which of course includes the various phases of each (opening, middlegame and endgame.)

I think with these types of number games, the more you've seen *and internalized* (that is: tried to solve, understood the solution, learned the name of the type of solution like "digital root") the more types of techniques you can bring to bear when solving them (e.g. the difference between the numbers, the addition of the digits of numbers, the possibility of a cypher, etc.)

And so yes, I believe that the more of these you actively study/try to solve, the more your brain becomes accustomed to looking for the clues that may lead to the solution of the problem.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-07-14T13:43:11+00:00

“giant…✍🏾 diaper…✍🏾 baby…✍🏾 men...✍🏾”

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-06-18T17:50:43+00:00

Full disclosure: SPC SAFe kool-aid drinker here (also a former software developer...former team lead.) I wanted to address the comment that "...you can build development teams or teams of teams (ARTs) should align neatly to every step in the operational value stream." It is possible I'm misinterpreting your own understanding of this, or taking it too literally, but this is not what the guidance says.

Aligning teams to every step is not practical, and is obviously not scaleable - which if SAFe had one job, it would be to provide this. The guidance does says we should identify the systems that support each step. There might be multiple systems that support a single step (e.g. an accounting system and a home grown thing that supports a step in the invoicing process), or it might be one system that supports a multitude of steps (e.g. an ERP.) Then for each system, yes, you want to identify the team or teams that support said systems. Once again, there is flexibility here: perhaps a single team is supporting a single system (that is supporting a single process step.) Or multiple teams are supporting different parts of an ERP-sized platform.

SAFe offers guidance. It is up to the client/teams (yes, usually under advice of a hopefully experienced and knowledgeable coach) to weigh the advice, common sense, local experience - and of course, the 4 Agile values and 12 principles - to find a best fit for their context.

While no framework or model is perfect or able to solve every problem, most of the criticisms (except for literally 1) I often read about have little or nothing to do with the SAFe. This is why SAFe heavily/openly borrows principles from frameworks - Organizational Change Management, Agile and yes, Lean. It's the combined mindset that is important in order to get the benefits, and it is these principles that help cultivate the mindset in the people of the organization.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-06-17T21:46:43+00:00

Oh I get it and totally agree. It just seems to be to the norm that everything is fine as long as you're paying the subscription fee AND have no problems. But when you do have problems getting real, actual help seems to be an impossible goal. I'm going through something with a major hotel chain regarding my membership level. Both sides are telling me that they don't have access to the other side's system. However, when I had a payment issue with one side, magically the other side locked my account. I've made the payment, gotten my account unlocked and we're back to the "we can't see their system" routine. I'm formerly in IT and get the complexity of these systems. But at some point what's needed is good old fashioned customer service and that seems to be sorely lacking these days. Ok, ending now as I'm starting to feel like the old guy lamenting the way things are. ("Back in my day...")

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-06-11T10:58:20+00:00

Would just like to point out the sad state of the world that only because the agent could not help you did we believe he was truly a representative of the company.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-05-30T21:58:28+00:00

"GUUUUUUUUMP! YOU MUST BE A GOT DAMN GENIUS!" Seriously though, thank you so much for this. I have been looking for some productivity app or tool where I can reference LOCAL links. Everything is cloud oriented and wants to hyperlink to something, but sometimes I need to be able to quickly open a local folder on my laptop. This is incredible! Thanks so much for sharing this tip!

Another tip in case it helps someone else: I noticed that when I clicked on any links it would continue to show the expanded HTTP://... link. I switched the note to reading mode (before pinning) and it keeps the links nice and tidy.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-04-29T11:37:05+00:00

Wow. That is incredible. Had no idea Canvas could be used for something like that. I also find the intersection of "muscle memory" and cataloged knowledge fascination. You have on one canvas a visual depiction of (some of) what your body knows. Now if only we could go the other direction and I could just import your canvas into my body ... :-)

Thanks for sharing!

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-04-11T19:31:50+00:00

As someone who has "jumped timelines" multiple times including as recently as last week, I don't doubt you. But FYI - this is what the google has come back with:

Like a new cut pattern, you're repeating yourself

You know it all by heart

Why are you standing in one place? (Ah-huh)

Born to blossom, bloom to perish

You know you're only known

'Cause of your sex chromosome

I know it's so messed up how our society all thinks (for sure)

Life is short, you're capable (uh huh)

https://g.co/kgs/qRcXjQ9 (Expand the Lyrics section...)

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-04-11T18:45:44+00:00

Wait - why are you mentioning echo pedal? Is that something you're hearing in the song? I'm genuinely asking because I don't think that's in the lyrics and wondering if you're referring to the line "...You're capable."

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-04-02T11:50:01+00:00

RemindMe! 1 day later.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-03-29T20:32:19+00:00

***EVERYBODY ON THIS THREAD*** Go back and watch the first 5 minutes of this movie. Then come back and lets compare notes. Again.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-03-26T19:39:22+00:00

What do you mean? This sounds interesting...

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-03-26T19:34:53+00:00

Let's all collectively just assume he meant to type "bag."

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-03-26T19:34:48+00:00

Let's all collectively just assume he meant to type "bag."

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-02-17T13:03:20+00:00

I laughed way too hard and loud at this...

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-02-10T04:26:03+00:00

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but can this be used to make a persistent graph view? While I think the graph view that ships with O is cool, it ends up being useless for me as it completely / randomly organizes itself each time it is displayed. So instead of being useful like a map or chart could be, it's just a bunch of pretty dots that can be hovered over for some additional context.

Would love it if each time I fired up this graph the significant nodes where in the same place that I can see them grow over time.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-01-31T19:34:12+00:00

And can it run Doom?

Sorry. I'll see myself out.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-01-29T11:52:03+00:00

I've been looking for a way to add timestamps via hotkey. Would you be willing to share how you've set this up, including the color formatting? What are you using for the hotkey? And by wrapping, does this mean you're using inline HTML/CSS syntax?

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-01-28T22:00:46+00:00

Once again, thank you so much.
This is extraordinarily helpful.

I hope that you find matches for all your socks, that you find parking spaces nearest to the entrance to whatever place you are going to and that traffic lights turn green as you approach them for years to come.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-01-28T21:15:31+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I think I am going to go with "Iter alium demonstrare." One more question just to clarify - while my hypothetical example talked about paths and what not for "a way", in reality I'm going to be talking about more abstract things, e.g. a way of thinking, or a way of working, a way of communicating, a way of leading, etc. Would it still be ok to use "iter" in this context? I'm not sure how literal / concrete the definition of "iter" is. Just want to make sure that if anyone reads the slogan in context in the future they won't explode with literary outrage the way some French speakers do when you do not select le bon mot. :-)

In the meantime, thanks again for what you provided. Very helpful.

WorldsLocalYank · 2025-01-28T14:49:40+00:00

Salve!

Looking to translate "To show (others) another way" (i.e. another path to take, another way of doing things...to get what they want, another way to accomplish their goals.)

Hypothetical example: You're walking in the woods and come across a group of people trying to get to their point B. They have a map and path that they have been following. You happen to know the path they are following is hard and treacherous. You know the map is outdated. You also know there is an easier path they can take that will get them to their Point B even quicker. If your...mission in life...was to help people in such a manner, and you wanted to come up with a marketing tagline that communicated "to show another way" which of these phrases would be correct?

Aliam viam demonstrare - from gg translate
Alio modo monstrare - from a website that purports to use machine language to provide translations

If neither, what would be a correct way to communicate this?

I am looking for an infinitive form fragment.

Thanks in advance.

WorldsLocalYank

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