@sjvn nice 😅

i have a theory that humans when given too much workload are very capable of avoiding breaking point by finding shortcuts that noone except them will notice until it's too late.

Ergo more workload might test fine in most situations, but it's actually incredibly rubbish

@sjvn #ALT4you

Illustration of two cooked turkeys.

Left: turkey captioned "3 hours @ 300°F" looks perfectly roasted.

Center: "≠"

Right: turkey captioned "1 hour @ 900°F" is all black with smoke rising from it.

Image credit: "Alvin (@JustSomeDev)"

@sjvn My favourite version of this is:

"It takes nine months to make a baby. You can't do it in one month with nine women."

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If one glass of wine each day is healthy, you should be able to front-load your health regimen with 30 glasses on the first of each month.

(Of course, management wouldn't bother to find out that the link between moderate alcohol consumption and health has essentially been thrown out the window.)

@sjvn This is kind of an optimistic approach to how real projects are handled in the first place!

Most of those I have seen (or where I've dealt with the aftermaths of them) have been like: Whatever they say it will take, change that up to the next unit magnitude, then double the physical quantity and expect them to charge 10 times what they originally said.

So, they won't try to fry a chicken at 300° F for 3h. It will take them 6 days. (The applied heat will grow exponentially during that time: First they will start with close to no heat at all, and then crank it up at 5 days 23h to bloody-f-in Nuke! +1)

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If you want to go Gastro, you have to consider its temperature on entry.

@sjvn 😀 Reminds me of:

Relax, Candace. It's simple math. Instead of cooking it at 350 degrees for one hour, we could cook it for 5 minutes at...9,000 degrees! What could go wrong?"
— Stacy Hirano, in Phineas and Ferb

@sjvn ah, the Mythical Man Month. I think my career would have been far less lucrative if my project managers had absorbed Brooks’ advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth

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Even if that WAS the case, those aren't absolute temperatures, and you can't just divide/multiply them like that.

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In a similar vein. I had to have a conversation with a colonel in the air force about that same thing... what finally got through is when I said

"if you go out and get 9 women pregnant, you don't get a baby in a month. You still get to wait 9 months for that baby and all their siblings."

The silence on the other end of the phone was hilarious...The range safety officer chimed in and stated that he did not recommend trying to bypass the fixed test time "that way"...