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Is it me or does this sound like a Project Manager and not a Product Manager? Where is the discussion and negotiation with customers and engineering teams on specs/targets/requirements? Where is the roadmap alignment with strategy and marketing teams? Where is the discussion with research teams on future features? Product managers don't babysit engineering teams on their deliverables. Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.


>Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.

Despite this, so many individuals stick around and try to make scrum their entire personality. It's insufferable at times to be around folks who do not even want to talk about customers or the product specifics.


Does this formulation work?

You have 6 wooden blocks, each can be 1 of 6 colors. There will always be either (A) 3 blocks of the same color, or (B) 3 blocks of different colors.

Iterating through all possibilities:

6 of 1 color - case A

5 of 1 color, 1 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 2 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 3 of another - case A

3 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case A and B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 2 of yet another - case B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case B

2 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another, 1 of another another another - case B

all colors different - case B


Your formulation is not equivalent. The actual Ramsey theory formulation is something more like...you need to color, either red or blue, all of the edges of a fully connected graph of 6 elements (there are 15 such edges). No matter which coloring you choose (there are 2^15 of these), there will always be a "triangle" between three nodes where the entire triangle is either fully red, or fully blue. If you were to instead restrict yourself to a graph with 5 elements instead of 6, it's possible[1] to color the edges so there's no triangle where all the elements are the same.

As an exercise, try repeating your same argument for 5 colors/blocks, and note that it still works, when it shouldn't.

[1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RamseyTheory_K5_no_m...


I've learned to drink coffee only in the morning. If I drink coffee any time after 12PM, I'm not going to get much sleep that night. Therefore I have limited my coffee intake to medicinal purposes (i.e. as needed in order to stay awake).


Whatsapp now has an AI chat feature which includes chatbots such as relationship coach, travel expert, career coach


Joke's on you, we're into that:

Hongeo-hoe is a type of fermented fish dish from Korea's Jeolla province. Hongeo-hoe is made from skate and emits a very strong, characteristic ammonia-like odor

Skates (hongeo) are cartilaginous fish that excrete uric acid through the skin, rather than by urinating as other animals do. As they ferment, ammonia is produced, which helps preserve the flesh and gives the fish its distinctive, powerful odor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongeo-hoe


I know that some sharks and rays had a more or less strong pee taste. I personally dislike it. Skate is the only dish that I would classify as dog food grade. The line between tasty and nasty is very thin in those fishes and requires a skilled chef.

But I'm perfectly fine with the idea of some people loving the pee taste, or eating rotten shark meat, or urinating in other people's mouths while eating carp croquettes. As long as those people is not me, good for them. I'll pass. Thank you.

Feel free to eat this new discovered octopus before any other human and tell us about your experience. My bet is that will be memorable for all the wrong reasons

In any case, skate meat should be forbidden by conservation issues. Their populations are very fragile and on a sharp decline, and to eat this animals is very irresponsible.


I just wanted to say I thoroughly appreciate your contribution to this thread. Equal parts intellectually interesting and belly-laugh worthy


Wait, that can't be right, you must be talking about some particular species, they're everywhere in Briti-- oh. Common Skate is critically endangered.

It's also about £8.50 for 500g.

ffs. We are, collectively, utter morons aren't we?


At first read I thought the title was a secure password example along the lines of "correct horse battery staple":

https://xkcd.com/936/


Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.


I still see calculators being used by salesmen to show numbers and results of simple calculations. The most recent at a car dealership two days ago.


Have you heard of the women who would not date men using an Android phone, as well as the kids being pressured or excluded? In some social circles Apple devices are definitely status symbols.


Women don't date homeless men either. That doesn't make having a roof over your head a status symbol.


> Given the billion of dollars at stake and thousands of human-years of R&D needed, none of these companies are "winging it"

You'd be surprised. My personal knowledge of one major fab is that they have policies such as regular rotation of employees which make it difficult to maintain institutional knowledge. I have heard complaints from multiple people of their teammates and managers "winging it" to think it's isolated incidents.


Cynical thoughts along these lines occurred to me after I posted my comment, so no, I'm not surprised, just disappointed. Especially not after watching Intel slowly rot from the inside (good luck with your renovations, Mr. Gelsinger). My workmate at my last job (pre-COVID) knew someone who worked at Intel, and our discussions about the company tended to contain the phrase "Intel is fucked" an awful lot. This was around the time I bought a nice chunk of TSMC stock...


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