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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>The problem with knowing what <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bikeshedding</span></a> [1] and <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/PigeonChess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PigeonChess</span></a> [2] is, is that in your mind (or in my case in my paper notebook) you start to count how often they occur during a meeting and who is more prone to one or the other ;)</p><p>[1] <a href="https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedecisionlab.com/biases/bike</span><span class="invisible">shedding</span></a><br>[2] <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_c</span><span class="invisible">hess</span></a></p>
Tim Chase<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@brynet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>brynet</span></a></span> </p><p>Seems pretty reasonable, but I was confused by the choice of ENOTTY ("inappropriate ioctl for device") in the patch when EPERM, ENOENT, EACCES, or EINVAL feels more fitting to me. <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a></p><p>(FWIW, everywhere else in that patch uses ENOENT)</p>
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just small circles 🕊<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ReminderToSelf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReminderToSelf</span></a> 🤔</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ScaledAgile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaledAgile</span></a> is a useful *concept*. There is indeed such thing as 'vibrant scaled agile' in good organization structure plus culture. Something unique and tailored necessarily. And optimized, chiseled in better shape, maintained well.</p><p>Then there is <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ScaledAgile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaledAgile</span></a> the name. Here a sad story to tell. Whole flocks of developers adore <a href="https://social.coop/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a> names and play <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/flamewars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flamewars</span></a>. Blind for the *essence* and rationale of the underlying concept, they reject it based on the name.</p>
TimjanDidIt<p>It's not <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a> ... What's the term for the following? </p><p>"Should we do X or Y"<br>"X"<br>"X is not an option. We'll do Y"<br>("So why asking in the first place?")</p>
:mastodon: Mike Amundsen<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s obsession w/ renaming the Gulf of Mexico &amp; annexing neighboring countries are instances of the "Law of triviality"</p><p>world issues are too complex so he focuses on trivial things upon which everyone can have an opinion.</p><p><a href="https://b.mamund.com/4hc7tXT" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">b.mamund.com/4hc7tXT</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BikeShedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikeShedding</span></a></p>
Peter Makholm<p>There is just one Grade I listed bike shed in England. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p><p>Now, you might ask yourself, did <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a> occur during construction of this shed?</p><p>Yes indeed....</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_College_Bicycle_Store" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cathe</span><span class="invisible">rine%27s_College_Bicycle_Store</span></a></p>
yschaeff<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@alexband" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alexband</span></a></span> I love the human output. Having not worked on DNS for some years I lost the ability to immediately recognize 172800 as 2 days however. So as a human I would not mind to see '2 days' or '48 hours'. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a></p>
dorotaC<p>The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> : unreliable CI and insignificant <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>style</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a> .</p><p>Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.</p><p>Hint: give everyone a freaking <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linter</span></a> that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nitpicking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nitpicking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/contributing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contributing</span></a></p>
Hightail Entertainment<p>Bike Shedding and Yak Shaving: The dynamic duo that might just trip you up on your filmmaking journey. In this post, we talk about what they are, and how indie filmmakers can steer clear of distractions to stay focused on their cinematic dreams.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.hightailentertainment.com/blog/bike-shedding-and-yak-shaving-how-filmmakers-can-avoid-these-two-oddly-named-but-dangerous-pitfalls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hightailentertainment.com/blog</span><span class="invisible">/bike-shedding-and-yak-shaving-how-filmmakers-can-avoid-these-two-oddly-named-but-dangerous-pitfalls</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Films</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Filmmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Filmmaker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Filmmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Filmmakers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FilmDirector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmDirector</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Director" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Director</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FilmProducer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmProducer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Producer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Producer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YakShaving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YakShaving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BikeShedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikeShedding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProjectManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectManagement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProjectManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectManager</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Operations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Operations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Productivity</span></a></p>
Carl GayBIKE-SHEDDING
matzipan<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://floss.social/@omgubuntu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>omgubuntu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cassidy</span></a></span> I honestly prefer App Center. Store implies buying and consuming which is a different nuance. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a></p>
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🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann<p>If you really care about <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a>, keep your cat in, make sure windows are visible to birds, use less cards and lorries, ... and then, four orders of magnitude less effective: make sure wind turbines are bird safe.</p><p>Whenever the local anti-wind-turbine group claims they're worried about birds, ask them if they have a cat, use architecture or have a car.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Renewables</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bikeshedding</span></a></p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQa0PPHfFz0&amp;t=20s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=XQa0PPHfFz</span><span class="invisible">0&amp;t=20s</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen (has moved) :xfce:<p>When did <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a> on Mastodon _about_ Mastodon become a lifestyle brand/choice?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a></p>
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rbino<p>Ok it's that time of the year: any fancy monospace font recommendations from the Fediverse?<br><a href="https://patavium.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://patavium.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typography</span></a> <a href="https://patavium.social/tags/fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fonts</span></a> <a href="https://patavium.social/tags/bikeshedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikeshedding</span></a></p>