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I realize this opinion is likely to be unpopular, but this industry wastes so much time and energy on such irrelevant things.
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Interesting how almost everyone goes for a 4-4-0 style train with the American-style balloon smokestack. It's funny that this is called "wild west" because it's rather anachronistic for that design. In the 1870s and onward, railroads are buying 4-6-0 trains instead of 4-4-0 trains. And the balloon shape is a feature of wood-burning locomotives (which produce a lot more embers and sparks than coal does). The Great Pla…
I know very little about the 1800s outside of European warfare. Was railway technology really advancing so rapidly in the United States that missing the mark by a mere 20 years and a few hundred miles counts as an anachronism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_system_of_manufacturi...
I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.
I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?
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Different groups working on different projects, lack of communication and global company vision or even internal competition leads to wasting money producing the same thing multiple times. Basically the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, at the company level.
You could actually end up wasting more money if you get "alignment". Thats why things take a shit ton of time for the most part.
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Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.
Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?
To an extent it's come true in a small subset. But discovery is the hard part. Right now discovery leads you to social media pages full of, for the most part, a low budget substitute for air.
Along those lines, horse emojis judged by a horse enthusiast: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l...