[Discussion] can we stop arguing about stopped until somebody posts a number
can we stop arguing about stopped until somebody posts a number. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
Fridge died in a heatwave and I lost three months of material. There was no clever lesson; I just had not thought about it.
Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage. Correcting it here was the most uncomfortable post I have made and the right one.
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.
Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.
Removed a judgemental comment. Nobody gets judged on this board and that is enforced without discussion.
Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything.
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.
Not convinced that was avoidable. Some of this is genuinely bad luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
Was there a point where the information was available and you did not look?
What would have caught it earliest?
On being wrong in public, which is the best thing that happens here.
Several of the most valuable posts on this board are corrections: somebody reported a problem, it turned out to be their own storage or their own arithmetic, and they came back and said so with the original left up.
That takes considerably more than being right did, and it is what keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy. A board of unretracted accusations is worthless within a year. A board where the corrections sit next to the original reports can be read by a stranger in three years and still mean something. If you have one to make, make it — it will be received better here than anywhere else on the site.
Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got fatigue I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.
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