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I'm English and "learnings" is one piece of corporate speak that really annoys me. It just means "lessons", for people apparently unaware that noun already exists. British corpo drones seem to need their verb/noun pairs to be identical like

action/action learnings/learning trainings/training asks/ask strategising/strategy

I gotta say, of all the corpo speak things, the whole verb/noun normalizing thing is maybe the least distasteful to me.

Not that I particularly like it, but compared to all the other stuff it at least seems tolerable. The penchant for deflecting questions and not answering directly, the weasel wording done to cover your ass, the use of words to mean something totally other than the word (e.g. "I take full responsibility" meaning "I will have no personal or professional repercussions"), etc. Some of it seems like it comes out of executive coaching, some of it definitely comes out of fear of lawsuits.

"In the end I did what I believed was right" meaning "I concede I did not do the right thing but accept no blame".

Mind you there are so many expressions like this and we British are masters of them, like "with the greatest of respect,", which conveys meaning slightly more severe than "you are a total fucking idiot and".

lettuce not forget strategerise/strategery

Logical conclusion of AI is to generate slop for slop feeds so why not own your own slop feed.

The Register's take on UK abuse of "state security" reasons to override cybersecurity protections.

Cos it's cool

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The field is final, not it’s contents. It’s not a ”final list” on that field, it’s a (mutable) list that is the final assignment of a field.

Mutability or immutability is part of the type not the field so you have 4 combinations in total

List<T> list;

final List<T> list;

final ImmutableList<T> list;

ImmutableList<T> list;

And that’s not even considering whether each T in the list is mutable or not.

Awk is butter

LinkedIn slop

Just forget stuff like a cool person

I'm storing this quote into my second brain right now. I'm heisenseriousjoking. Filing something away makes forgetting very cool indeed; I know I can look it up later.

Do you then actually look it up at the right time? I often don't. My anxiety increases with the number of uncompleted items on the list, until it eventually stops me from looking at the list ever again. Filing something away becomes a license to forget.

If your todo list is becoming too long that’s when you need to break it by project and calendar frames (today, tomorrow, this week, next week, this month, next months). It’s a presentation problem, that you can solve with a task manager or a planner.

My giant pile is my inbox. I refile each task in one of the above boxes when I’m reviewing it. And when I’m doing, only today boxes is important (up 10 items where only two only 3 or 5 are inportant)

Ah, well, isn’t a “to do” item, so no anxiety needed.

I’ve collected quotes for years: pretty fun to review from time to time.