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  • This! The point of automation is rarely saving time. The point of automation is increasing quality.

    It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.

    Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).

    I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be

    1. what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
    2. what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
    3. what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?

    Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.

    Why the *3? The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂

    Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear








  • It’s quite a speculation. Democrats haven’t lost (or won) any 2024 election yet.

    That said, let’s try to think how elections are “stolen”. First of all, i define stolen as irregularities in counting votes. People voting twice or on behalf of someone else is unheard in the…human history (why? Because it’s hard, a villain needs to find, one by one, millions of votes for making any meaningful impact on elections)

    For counting irregularities it takes two things (1) that the primary system for counting is corrupted and (2) control mechanisms are corrupted and/or ineffective.

    Only incumbent can influence (1) because only incumbent has power at the time of election while (2) is even more complex and, by design, neither incumbent (nor opposition parties) have full control of control mechanisms. So, realistically, only incumbent may have a chance to corrupt the system. In 2020, indeed, incumbent (Trump) tried to influence the counting system and failed because of the control mechanisms (e.g. state officials, even republican state officials, refused to comply because they knew their internal control mechanisms would not have allowed them).

    Now in 2024 the incumbent is democrats so, if anything, only republicans may speculate irregularities.

    But anyone can say anything. I may say that i am billionaire but not for this reason the bank must give me 1B$ cash. I have to demonstrate to be billionaire.

    So, to recap, in 2024 onoy republican can reasonably accuse of irregularities and, in that case, they must demonstrate that there were these irregularities.









  • Hardly a stupid manages to become a bishop… it’s like saying a stupid becomes Senior Vice President of a huge corporation. It just doesn’t happen “accidentally”.

    What it is more likely is that he was in the conservative side of the church (pope Benedict nominated him). When a “progressive”, (relatively) young and healthy as Francis went on power he realised that he couldn’t become any more senior in the church (before retiring in 10years) so he tried to accumulate as many “donations” as possible from the most gullible people in his neighbourhood (MAGA supporters). He just did what trump does: be an anti establishment (while well inside the establishment)

    I am 100% sure this dude will not die in poverty



  • Picking skin is a symptom of something much deeper (and possibly darker).

    The fact that you want to get rid of it is great but as someone mentioned you need help.

    I would suggest reading “The body keeps the score” it may give a glimpse of the issue… But you need a professional

    Good luck dear internet stranger and remember that you are lovable and loved