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Great! Please let us know when cancer will be cured.

In other words, "I don't know" is sometimes a complete answer. I don't know. Period.

This is supposedly one of the main points of this religion (agile). Some things are unknowable. So you move ahead a bit, and reassess. If you are scrumming, that is usually 2-3 weeks, and don't get me started on that arbitrary limit. But, you try to move forward for a bit, learn something, and then that might

1) let you know enough to know how to estimate

2) give you some information on what not to try next (I tried a, b, and c, and they all failed)

3) give you guidance on what to work on next (d seems promising, I can flesh it out more and see if it still seems like a promising avenue).

You proceed on, and eventually get your hands around the problem, or the person writing checks decides this is not an economical search (because that is what this is, search on a multidimensional surface) and change/delete the requirement.

That's what agile is supposed to be, with a nod to the fact that yes, we can estimate writing a single database query or something fairly well, so in some cases estimates can be useful at this scale.

The bane of my existence is the endless pressure for estimates. I'm doing research; no one has done this stuff before. It is truly unknowable. If it was known it would be in a paper somewhere, and I would merely be implementing that paper. So I get told "break it down into smaller chunks", as if my 30 years of success didn't teach me how to break down problems. Thanks PM that has never coded or produced anything intellectually novel before! I'm surely being dumb and/or obstinate!

I got that written in my previous performance review, that I don't know how to plan and break down problems, because I flatly refuse to play this game. You get punished for trying for hard things. It's nonsense. "I don't know" cannot be changed by insisting on an estimate.
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Well here's the thing. Often I'm asked for my estimate in the same meeting I first see the story. I have no way of researching before giving an estimate.

> ... and then if PM/boss don't understand there is not much you can do but probably look for a better gig.

If only it were that simple.
You need to find better SEO people then :)

But I understand, there's a lot of snake-oil and "one weird trick to rank first" that brings a bad name to the SEO world.

I've seen people go on Fiverr and expect to find top-notch SEOs there.

There's more to SEO than just writing good content. There's a lot of technical stuff that can bite you and your awesome content will never rank.

Stuff like improving site structure, canonicals, learning to deal with multi-language versions of your content, implementing proper redirects, etc,etc is something that a good SEO should be able to fix and improve.
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Right, I understand your point completely, my wife is fully remote, and we are both pretty burrowed in where we live, so it would take some doing to get us to move. It seems to me though that all this talk about greater productivity is self-serving nonsense. Remote work is a loss for the employer, all else being equal, though it might very well be worth it at least in this market.
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"Undefined behavior" is a broad area which covers everything from defects in a program that make it crash, to documented language and library extensions (which real-world programs can hardly avoid using).
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So protestors wear yellow and white helmets?

Press wear a more heavily reinforced helmet w/ possible other colors? If True, thats so cool that they are organized enough to agree the protestors wear helmets!
I just use https://www.irccloud.com/ and it's the best of both wordls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
From my point of view that means it's either pay or people issues. Personally I don't like starting over on APIs etc.. if you ever switched from a company that has a foundation to one that doesn't you end up with employees that say things like - oh darn we actually had a really good X at company Y. At least they can start over and build with fewer mistakes, but hitting the same tasks again is often annoying.
You can hire people with lower salaries in countries with cheaper cost of living.

Instead of Americans in Silicon Valley who need huge salaries to pay their Bay Area mortgage.
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Or you could realize a sitting state senator in the chambers of their congress literally has no means of harming them besides their fists due to the security force of the state?
It might say people really wanted more than simply namespaces ;-)
Musk aside, starting a new EV company is worth up to $1.5 billion in federal tax credits + a few thousand per vehicle sold in state tax credits, so there is that.
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Aluminum foil is used on a bunch of spacecraft as well. The Voyager spacecrafts use aluminum foil bought at grocery stores (and then laid out in sheets and thorough scrubbed with bleach).
Well, just to illustrate, there is a private insurance company from Uk called Amariz, very famous in europe.
I asked to a proposal for my familly (2 adults/2 children).
And where i was asked around 40k euros/year in healthcare taxes, it will cost me around 7k at better level of coverage and service. But even if european law are allowing it, leaving state insurance company in favor of private in France expose individuals to justice harrassment...So most of business owner prefer to stay away from trouble and pay far biggest fee.
Most of the costs of a car are fixed once you own it. Wear and tears per mile is actually small. Insurance is the same for a car driven 7000 miles a year as one driven 30,000. there is a small discount for less than 7000 miles/year, but it is still fixed. Likewise the car payment doesn't change at all.

The IRS has to come up with a fair number that translates all those fixed costs into per/mile. It is a good financial number, but worthless for this discussion.
I totally agree with you but also confirm my point. You're talking about CNN and Fox as if they were typical news providers. Fox News never was a real news channel, and CNN only for a brief period of time during Golf War 1 and briefly thereafter. Both of them have never been great for getting news. These US TV channels are media entertainment companies.
Sounds like the target of the threat, Qasim Rashid, had a little trouble getting Twitter to act: "Twitter ultimately suspended the account", but it seems to have taken a large number of reports. "... the threat was preceded by at least a year of unhinged attacks against other politicians and public figures, peppered with oblique references to right-wing internet conspiracy theories."

It seems that Pizzagate was among those theories, but it's hard to tell if "The Storm"/Qanon was part of it. I'm actually kind of surprised that Qanon wasn't part of it. Those folks really seem to want death penalties, even though nobody's been charged with the kind of crimes Qanon seems to think are pervasive.
I've solved this by not panicking about software someone else owns. Worked out OK so far. They can fix their processes and expectations (I'll help!) to get more value out of me, or choose not to. Not my problem. Environment gets too toxic, well, see ya, and good luck (you'll need it).
>I feel as you should be able to provide an estimate even if it something that you have not completely done before. One should spend some time to gauge how much of this new thing is really "new" and what parts should be easy to figure out. Then, try to look at resources about those unknown parts, and that should allow to provide a rough estimate.

This isn't personal, just a comment on a way of thinking that is not uncommon: each of those sentences are insane and not based in reality. You may "feel" these things are possible, but that's about as far as it goes. "Just look up all the unknown stuff." OK.
I can't get past the paywall to read the original Population Explosion paper that Gott uses, but the dumpster fire premise seems to comes from the assumption of tragedy-of-the-commons-style environmental degradation. The Wikipedia on Ehrlich offers the following comment:

> When is an area overpopulated? When its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources (or converting renewable resources into nonrenewable ones) and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. In short, if the long-term carrying capacity of an area is clearly being degraded by its current human occupants, that area is overpopulated.

I agree with you that it is questionable set of assumptions, though I think when considering some of issues humanity is facing in the realm of climate change and water shortages, it's not an entirely untenable hypothesis.
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Feels unlikely. Does China really want to sent troops into Hong Kong? Trump is not a civic minded person, but I imagine such an action would not play well towards their current PR and economic troubles for trade deals.

It also creates a genuine likelihood of raising anti Chinese sentiment and increasing the threat of violent resistance.
Huh, your Dev setup does sound like mine. Which BSD would you recommend? Open seems closest to my "ideal OS".
He was a VP for a big tech co in Seattle, and was getting $300-400 a site so this was more about knowing the restaurant community and doing a hobby not some elaborate tax scheme.

You can dodge more taxes in Seattle driving down to Portland to buy a MacBook.
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true, I was confusing ownership cost vs manufacturing cost.
Yes. I work on compilers and data structures can make or break the case for implementing several optimizations.
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> Non-technical scientists

How can you have a ‘non-technical scientist’? All science is inherently technical.

Are you using ‘technical’ as a short-hand for ‘can program’? Stop doing that - programming is not the only technology.
Does this really need to be trolled into a Mac-PC flamewar? MagSafe was popular (and widely recognized as a good feature even by PC users) because people use laptops in crowded places, have pets and kids, etc.

Nobody is saying that USB-C doesn't have strengths but this was a feature which many people felt valuable for valid reasons. It's also annoying to lose since it'd be an easy change to fix by putting the safety release on the charger so you'd have the same protection in the most common configuration.
I think this is one of the most realistic responses here.

I think it's in most party's self-interest to keep playing the "agile panacea" game.

1. Salesman sells something that doesn't exist, pats self on back

2. Engineers asked to build integration/features on arbitrary timeline

3. Doesn't happen, everybody unhappy

4. Scapegoat needed. Says we didn't agile right. Project Manager hired / Deck of Fibonacci cards bought.

5. Go back to 1
Envoy's xDS APIs work with snapshots of configuration data that are compiled externally and sent to Envoy.

HAProxy's API looks like more of a transactional RPC API and HAProxy manages the configuration internally.
Which is pretty normal most places in the US and at least Western Europe unless maybe parking is especially expensive at the destination. Even so, if two of us go from the Boston area to NYC it’s almost certainly cheaper to drive although I almost always take the train because it’s a lot more pleasant. With a family the train would be a relatively expensive alternative.
I'd guess it is the opposite. Some people like startups because nothing is defined, everything is new.

Having the option to build something you liked is better than being forced to use what is already used 'because it exists'.
I don't understand the sheer bone-headed stubbornness of Japanese whaling, given that nobody even likes or eats whale. Who is pushing so hard for this, in the face of international condemnation? And why? Don't tell me it's "traditional" - modern whale hunting bears no resemblance to its "traditional" roots. Do people really care so much about seeing whale on shop shelves, even though they don't actually care to eat it? Is it a childish backlash against being told what to do? What is it?
It saddens me that Enercon does not get a grip internationally and just relies on EMEA. Their products are of extreme high quality and they are almost completely vertically integrated. It seems our german subsidiaries have poisoned their competitiveness...
"Except for the literal billions of computers which will need replacing and trillions of lines of code you're going to need to rewrite, sure."

If anything, it's the computers that would have the easiest time of things. Time is already so random and janky that on the whole the computing world has dealt with it reasonably well. It would "just" mean one more entry for every timezone in the Olson timezone DB, and that's a lot of the work right there.

However, by the same token, if you want to get a sense of just how impossible this is going to be to get anyone to agree to from the political side, a read through the comments in the timezone DB can be constructive, such as: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe

It'll really show you what anyone who thinks they can convince the whole world to change is up against.
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Metaphysical subjects like this are mostly a matter of taste, but I can't resist pointing out there are bias and errors in this.

> the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths or magic.

Religion is excluded from all this "enchantment" talk. I don't know if it is because of the personal belief of the author, or because it would hurt most of the American readers. E.g. Christians generally believe in miracles and saints, or at least they believe that some kind of omnipotent spirit watches over them. Isn't that the most common form of magic?

> Chasing the domination of nature, humans began to dominate each other. [...] led toward the objectification of humanity; the concentration camps and Gulag followed.

This is absurd. When Tamerlan destroyed cities and killed hundreds of thousands of people, there was no desire of dominating Nature, nor "enchantment". Three thousand years ago, Assurbanipal organized large scale transfers of populations, and he claimed he tortured civilians routinely. Many "enlightened" religious wars led to huge atrocities, where the opposite side was treated worse than cattle. And of course, slavery and "sub-human races" are an old invention totally unrelated to the domination of Nature. Modern tools led to powerful acts, but "objectification of humanity" is nothing new.

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> I had thought most of the systems code inside Google would be golang by now.

Google has gazillions of lines of system code already built. Why rewrite everything in go? There is so much other stuff to do. All rewriting achieves is add additional risk because the new code isn't battle tested.
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Just remember: 200m is one furlong.

Re: water, a pint's a pound the whole world 'round.
Yeah, it was just strange to see the police marching on the streets like that.
I don't mean reindexing, I mean "hiding from the index" ("Remove URLs" in GSC). It works instantly, but only for a limited time, after which it will re-appear in the index if you haven't gotten it out of the index (via 410, noindex or disallow). Since these other ways don't always work, if you're unlucky and want it to stay gone, you need to hide it again (and again and again). I've had clients that were hacked and had spammy content injected into their site and it took (literally!) years for that to get removed (we tried combinations of 404, 410, noindex and disallow).
As a fellow lover of the Windows Phone I went through your pain a few years ago and have lived in both the iPhone and Android ecosystems. I found it was the little things not mentioned here that made me stick with Android.

- My android displays the time and temp when docked. I never found a way to do that on iPhone.

- My android shows that I have texts/mails/etc. waiting without me having to touch it or pick it up to see.

- My android has a back button. It is always there and always in the same place.

- Widgets are nice (and mentioned elsewhere) but I love that my phonetop is not cluttered with icons, just useful info.

Usability wise apple is stuck in their own version of 10 years ago. Android is the better choice of the two. But I still weep for the loss of live tiles and the app menu.
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I really hope Hong Kong gains independence from China. They do not want to be part of that regime. Hong Kong currently participates in some United Nations committees, but is not recognized as a country.

Have there been any political leaders in Hong Kong who have publicly opposed returning to China or who have requested recognition by other UN member States?
It is unlikely that significant optimization will happen outside of companies payong for it to happen, most of the tinkerers that do this type of optimization for fun are working on projects like Armbian, as a $15 SBC is a more useful target than a piece of big iron.