didn't give it much thought but couldn't you eventually run schools and universities on a percentage of student income tax (and remove all other sources) combined with a periodic questionnaire (for life) how [?????] one thinks their education was.

probably a bad idea but it gets me to ponder long term measurements

This assumes that schools are run purely for the future profitable careers of students. If you were a dean deciding what to invest in, would you ever give the teaching school more money? Would the medical school ever train another tropical disease specialist?

i wonder, is that specialist suppose to not make money their entire career? I think actually good education would allow them to do all kinds of things.

I do feel the raw idea is bad then added the survey to measure [????] say quality of life kind of things. If a school produces somewhat useful people who are really happy it seems to merit more funding. The economy may die if everyone has a good life

> i wonder, is that specialist suppose to not make money their entire career? I think actually good education would allow them to do all kinds of things.

School teachers and tropical disease specialists both make money, but they often make less money than others with similar educations. If a school is judged on future earnings it will optimize around that, and the predictable outcome to such an incentive is that programs that lead to lower paying careers will suffer.

from what i understand beds are really expensive where with beds we mean nurses and with expensive we mean profitable.

our architects love building the house before making the drawings. i imagine we will probably figure it out eventually when the feature set can be strictly defined.

(maybe you eventually want a bath tub and a toilet in each room? maybe not?)

I've got architectural plans for my house. Parts of them are useful, but most of it isn't because the house doesn't match the plans. The details on the plans for the parts that match aren't trustworthy, because of all the parts that don't match. This is a relatively new construction, with minimal remodeling; it's just as they were building, they decided to do something else, and not update the drawings.

This is different than commercial work where in addition to the original plans, you also get as-builts, which can be expected to be accurate, and are expected to be updated.

If you only want to document once, it makes sense to do it once the thing is built, rather than before, because there's a good chance the actual thing will be different than the plan. If you will update it, it might make sense to start documentation before the thing is built.

Of course, if you never get around to writing documentation, it never needs to be updated.

I wouldn't call it "love," more than "necessity."

It really depends on the nature of the project, but UI design often requires a lot of "Paving the Bare Spots"[0]. It's really just too damn complex and counter-intuitive (or too intuitive) to catch in Requirements.

Software allows us to iterate this incredibly quickly. Hardware design also does it, but at a much slower pace, and a much greater cost.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/the-road-most-traveled-by/#pavi...

writing great documentation is extremely hard. sometimes it is so well done you only notice it in how fast and easy you progress. the funniest opposite was documentation i wrote myself but turned out to complicated for the future self. i kept thinking, what is this guy on about?? it assumed the reader knew all kinds of things i didn't and it made effort to explain the obvious.

the fun of that study is that the pigeon behavior they think is to get food is superstition it self.

If the goal is one thing there might be nice side effects but they are never the goal. The moment the goal can be accomplished better by getting rid of the nice things the nice things should be disposed of.

For a while we had people creating nice products that also happened to make very good money. Most things arguably start out trying to make something good.

Im getting a picture of a horse pulling a cart up hill. When at good height to keep moving you don't need the horse anymore?

There is stuff you cant talk about everywhere. if it finds its way into the dataset something has to be done. The scope and what it is of course varies wildly.

we've seen aircrafts drop out of the sky and also vanish

don't word it like that! it should be a punishment that sufficiently discourages repetition

I really eat a lot. When my gf cooked more and the potato meat ratio changed from 1:3 to 3:1 I immediately started to grow fat. I had her adjust it to 1:1 and started eating lots of sausages and chicken legs between meals. 500g to a kg per day worth of extra food. My body fat declined rapidly.