@omgubuntu @cassidy I honestly prefer App Center. Store implies buying and consuming which is a different nuance. #bikeshedding

Randomly thinking about #bikeshedding when #programming the size if a #filesize #integer in a #FileFormat, though I guess it could be used for any #DataStructures in #ComputerScience.

If you know how big the largest number you're going to have to keep track of is, you can cut down on the size of the integer by choosing a number of bits that's just big enough to fit that... But there are ways you can get really screwy with this.

For example, you could choose a number that isn't the standard 8, 16, 32, 64 by going above that and using the extra bits as flags or something, like making it 24-bit and using the last 8 bits as another byte. Or you could lower the granularity, and multiply the value of whatever the number is to get bigger numbers at the expense of numbers not divisible by that.

The issue with thinking of this however is that we are talking a handful of bytes in what could be megabytes, so less than 0.1% of the byte size...

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Back from a road trip with an #EV. Convinced that the most important problem to solve to enable mass-adoption is the UX for charging.

Problems: Location, unreported malfunctions, crappy apps, mobile network drops, etc. So much unnecessary inertia. So much cognitive overload.

Work backward from: "Go here. Plug in. Wait a reasonable amount (rest/replenish), and go."

Early stages, yadda yadda. That excuse will run out soon. These are the real problems that need solving. Everything else is #bikeshedding.

If you really care about #birds, 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.

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.

#ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Bikeshedding

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQa0PPHfFz0&t=20s

When did #bikeshedding on Mastodon _about_ Mastodon become a lifestyle brand/choice?

#meta

I’m adding a bunch more sound FX and music to my text adventure web app, #GemWarrior.

Why? It’s not because it needs it, but it’s because I don’t want to figure out how to port in the actual world rooms and battle system from the original #rubygem. It’s annoying and not super stimulating.

So, #bikeshedding the audio it is, then.

A bike shed mostly constructed. Looks like they settled on a glass roof. University of Washington, Seattle main campus, behind Mary Gates Hall (formerly Physics, and my major's building). #bikeshed #bikeshedding

🚲💸Parkinson's law of triviality: The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the money involved.

#bikeshedding #meetings

Today's #productmanagement brain worm is bike-shedding. Is it manipulative to intentionally include trivial questions in order to divert unwanted attention?

Probably. I'm the worst 😈

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

#productmgmt #bikeshedding #triviality

I stared into the abyss and the abyss stared back, and lo it was my graveyard of unfinished projects.

Here's some #WednesdayWordplay (I just made that up) in the form of a #CodeHaiku I wrote last night while #BikeShedding (as I am wont to do).

#CodePoem #CodePoetry #Poem #Poetry #Haiku

Projects piling up.
Always fun to start one more.
Finish? Not so much.

Ok it's that time of the year: any fancy monospace font recommendations from the Fediverse?
#programming #typography #fonts #bikeshedding

Currently trying to decide if my #NixOS install is getting better or worse, and, although it's objectively better than it was, it's pretty much coming down to me being exceedingly indecisive when it comes to themes.

I guess the tl;dr is I'm #bikeshedding my install

Client meetings be like: lets plan out the next year; but also lets argue about the internal name of this one project for an hour with 40 people in the room.

#bikeshedding

Client meetings be like: lets plan out the next year; but also lets argue about the internal name of this one project for an hour with 40 people in the room.

#bikeshedding

#Bikeshedding is a #Manifestation problem.

The ridiculous importance of #fish is the #brexit version of what we in IT call #bikeshedding.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

Of course an invitation page is much more important than a working client. 🤔😁 #bikeshedding