Most teams I’ve been in would do a time boxed task (sometimes referred to as a spike) in those cases. Basically, you get a task with maybe 3 or 5 story points, and the goal is to either complete it or find out what it takes to do so. Then you make follow-up tasks for the next sprint. It’s worked pretty well for me in those cases with a lot of uncertainty.
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This is the Chase app. Mine is negative six digits due to the mortgage, and it doesn’t congratulate me. They do include Chase-issued credit cards and investment accounts, and try to encourage you to link your other accounts as well so it can include those and harvest your data.
It does not include the estimated value of your house, even though they included the mortgage.
TurboTax had a “race mode” one year, some kind of gimmick to show off that they made it faster to do your return or something?
After I submitted my tax return it gleefully announced “Congratulations! You completed your return faster than 0.0% of users!”
That’s not a given. A friend of mine worked on a weather forecast implemented in Fortran by people who were better at meteorology than programming, and some functions had thousands of parameters. The parameters for one of the calls (not the function definition) were actually supplied in a separate include file.
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Games@lemmy.world•World's Best-selling Video Game ConsolesEnglish
3·22 days agoI figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Unbothered. In its lane. Flourishing.
10·22 days agoFunny enough, Slackbot (or at least the current incarnation of it) is definitely based on an LLM. Although I suspect this screenshot is older, because when the current Slackbot gives bad responses it does so a lot more verbosely.
I’ve found it to usually work better than most AI, actually, at least if you ask it stuff like “which slack threads do I need to follow up on?” or other stuff it can work out based on your slack activity.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•My 2025 open source journey - what a year!English
4·22 days agoSorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•My 2025 open source journey - what a year!English
7·23 days agoHoly smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOGEnglish
4·25 days agoDepends. Employees can be forced to sell their shares. There are also other scenarios where shareholders are forced to sell for other reasons.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted Kanban board with good mobile supportEnglish
6·26 days agoPretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its ServersEnglish
133·1 month agoI hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but they did create React, as well as some other contributions.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can RemoveEnglish
92·1 month agoThey also love making their cars extremely complicated, so maybe it’s better if people need to do some research before taking apart something they can’t reassemble.
I was on a date with an Asian woman years ago, and she decided to order Chicken Fried Rice. I don’t remember what I ordered, but it was something less stereotypically “white”.
They gave me the fried rice, and a fork. We just laughed, traded dishes, and asked for another pair of chopsticks.
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Technology@lemmy.world•A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip CodeEnglish
28·2 months agoYou realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
Yeah, don’t try to hand-parse a raw PDF. You’re better off rendering it and running OCR on the image in most cases. Only exception I know of is if you generated it with LaTeX.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk AwayEnglish
10·2 months agoI have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every timeEnglish
4·4 months agoExcept if you’re calculating dates from a long time ago. It famously takes some liberties with leap years.
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Web Development@programming.dev•Can I connect an API to both mongoDB and a "mysql alternative"?
2·4 months agoStoring the data both places would severely limit the features you can use in each data store, and overcomplicate things. Just use one thing for now. You’ll be able to migrate later if you need to. Don’t over optimize at this point and just use what you most want to learn more about.
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Android@lemdro.id•GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sourcesEnglish
12·5 months agoI made a guess at their official reasoning for the policy. I made no comment about my own feelings or beliefs beyond that. And no, I don’t think that would stop anyone.
Do you have a better guess at why they’re doing this? Because I can’t think of another reason why they’d be sharing the patches but prohibiting disclosure of them.

Lots of things lead to increased risk of birth defects, like having children after the age of 30. I thought it was pretty well known that the risks associated with inbreeding drops off pretty sharply at the cousin level? At that point I think the appropriate reaction is social stigma, but not legal ramifications.