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> This of course only works if you actually stick to what the stand-up is meant for.

This is my big problem with agile, scrum, and friends. It's like communism; it only works if you "do it correctly." Russia? China? Cuba? Yea, they didn't do it right, but if it's done right, it's really really great.

I have only ever read about agile and scrum being done correctly. Obviously, I'm just one person, and my experience is limited, but at every company have I ever worked at or consulted for, the practice of agile and scrum is very different than what I read about.

I have experienced the less than 10 minute standup maybe a dozen times ever. Not that there is usually much to talk about. "Yesterday I worked on on X. Today I will keep working on X."

But somehow enough people in one place just seems to create so much friction. There's always a tangent. A: "By the way, how long do you think until we finish X?" B: "I don't know. Kind of depends on Y and Z. I never did Y before." C: "Oh, I did Y before, it's easy, you'll have no difficulties" and on and on.

I can see two possibilities:

1) My experiences have been not been representative of the industry as a whole. On the whole, agile and scrum work well and are executed properly at most companies, but I've just had some bad luck.

2) My experiences are representative. In this case, agile/scrum is so difficult for the average company to pull off, that it's kind of a rare occurrence.

The fact that angst-ridden articles like this one are such a regular occurrence on HN kind of makes me suspect that it's #2, not #1.

I'm just an engineer, so project management is not my area of expertise, but my layman's opinion is that an actually good project management system should "fail gracefully," as it were. You shouldn't need a 1 in 1000 level PM to pull this stuff off.
That's my point developers have absolutely no interest in chipping in to improve transportation infrastructure to support their developments. They are trying to skate by pirating off the already existing ones.

Worse it sounds like in Seattle they're trying appropriate precious public space as well.
Probably would be a better idea to run Mojave in a VM like virtual box.
Danke!

I just realized that my post could be interpreted as suggesting that I personally had immigrated to the U.S. from Germany. In fact, my grandfather did. But the two-syllable interpretation has affected every subsequent generation.
R&D Startup?
Has anyone started a start-up with no idea just yet? Just a process of discovery, R&D style; and a budget where one would put a finite amount of money, let's say $1,000 (or $10,000) and a finite amount of time, let's say a week (or 1 month) and then see which project creates enough positive results to be developed farther; and then - at the same time - continue till 100 projects have been tested.
Many people here talk about "cancel culture" which is in fact a fake culture that is completely artificially generated via paid actors, like some on this list of signatures. Most of the people taking part in the character assasination plot against Stallman running right now work in fact for Saleaforce, IBM or some other FAANG type of organization. You can look it up by yourself.

Stallman is a very eccentric person which makes him the perfect target for a devide and conquer operation in order to take ownership of the (hobbyist) FOSS movement.

Also ycombinator seems to have an agenda in this too, offing every post about Stallman from the frontpage. Never trust anything you get for free (like this site) except it came from Stallman, I guess.
If most people operated rationally, it would be correct to disregard slippery slope arguments as fallacies when analyzing the spread of ideas in society. However, most people do not operate rationally most of the time -- they use rough heuristics and perceived social signaling of others to arrive at (usually irrational) conclusions about most issues.

Empirically, slippery slopes have always been an extremely common way change is driven in mass social thinking. This has been formalized as the "Overton window": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Sure, no worries. I am happy to answer questions.

This is a complex question. Some things are clear, some are less so. Basically in the Christian Greek scriptures I believe this is only mentioned once: https://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/study-bible/books/a...

Here is more info: https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/bible-about-...

Our feelings are that blood is sacred, and once it leaves the body it should return to the ground. Basically, blood is life, and life belongs to Jehovah.

Cloning blood would be wrong because its misusing something that has specific guidelines around its use. If you could clone the blood without like actually drawing blood from someone for the procedure, I guess that would be OK. This is weird and I am not totally sure.

We would not be OK with storing our own blood for future use, as this would be a kind of usage, and is contrary to the instructions to pour it out. And this would also be considered consumption/not abstaining.

As I think about this, though, it makes me think about using blood in the contexts of blood testing. Hmm.

Anyway I mean the scriptures give some instructions and we are doing our best to extrapolate to other situations. Things aren't always cut and dry. We just do our best to understand.
Yeah, no. I've handled parts of Whirlwind[1], a vacuum tube machine from just post-WWII, and the gap from that to a C-64 or any other circa-1980 machine is just too great. They were using discrete wiring, resistors and wires soldered to the bases of the vacuum tubes. The Whirlwind was the first machine to use core memory, and the 4K core memory unit is a box about the size of a phone booth. I don't know if PCBs existed before 1950 but if they did, they were certainly single-sided.

So now ask somebody really smart in that technology, like say Jay Forrester[2] who had just finished inventing core memory, to analyze this magic beige plastic box. He could probably recognize that the PCB provided connectivity between parts, but what are the parts, these little flat plastic tiles? I don't think it would be possible to work out from first principles what the functional contents of a DRAM chip is, let alone the CPU. Even if they x-rayed it, supposing they had x-ray tech with enough resolution to resolve a chip, how could they figure out that those little blobs are transistors? Transistors hadn't been invented!

I think they'd have to concede this is "sufficiently advanced" tech, in Arthur Clarke's phrase, to be indistinguishable from magic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind_I

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
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May be some people don't agree with your stance on that matter.
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My Mi Note Pro was indeed from gearbest...
> The point is that it's all money that you just got right now.

That's less true if you have hyperinflation, but at normal inflation rates ignoring inflation across the tax year is a pragmatic simplification with modest effect for gains that aren't long-term in nature (which may not exactly coincide with all income not subject to favorable taxation as LTCG.)
grizzly bear vocalizations: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/grizzlysound...

pretty disappointed that no owl recordings were posted..
I’m not being serious.

Apple is tying itself in knots trying to tread a line here, and it just makes them look pathetic. They seem to want to be seen as a shining light in terms of human progress and human rights, but that ends as soon as they hit their Chinese market.
> Sorry, the average American are direct beneficiaries of the atrocities of the past

This is true for most humans alive in nearly all nation-states today. At some point in the linear chain of humanity that allows my existence today, atrocities were committed. Whether an ancient ancestor strangling a potential threat with their bare hands, or the nation-state I was born in acquiring land through militaristic expansion.
This is really helpful!

I find RSA really simple to understand, but ECC has always seemed a lot harded to grok - I think I finally get it!
> not just reverse engineering but assurance that chips are manufactured according to design

This, combined with stuff like RISC-V is very good news and big progress towards making a secure (read backdoor-free) hardware platform.

Gotta love the Swiss !
You can install macOS (this also works for Catalina) on an external hard drive (I recommend an SSD if possible). This runs at native speed and you can use it to test/try anything without touching the internal disk.
There allegedly was one, but I can't find any info on it. Given the relative simplicity of a Z80 compared to newer CPU designs, it should be relatively "easy" to harden it.

There was definitely a rad-hardened version of the 8085 (similar to the 8080, and therefore to the Z80), which was used on the Sojourner rover (among various other NASA and ESA spacecraft). Seems like RISC processors were more common for this, though (looks like most relatively-recent NASA spacecraft - including pretty much all of NASA's Mars landers after Sojourner - use(d) rad-hardened POWER CPUs, e.g. the RAD6000 and RAD750).
Lanes are actually under construction now from around the locks (where the west half of the burke terminated for 20 years) to 24th ave. (To be clear, I am in full agreement with you.)
Depends on your tolerance for cold weather. I was planning a camping trip in October a couple of years ago and ended up not doing it because while I could have managed, I wasn't really prepared to deal with sub-freezing high temperatures and it ultimately didn't sound like much fun anyway. On the flip side, I've heard that Yellowstone is one of those places that is so popular that it's overrun with tourists to the point of no longer being fun during the peak season. I think the best time to go is therefore either very early in the spring or very late in the fall when it's cool, but not miserably cold.
True, but irrelevant: there are very few delivery trucks in the scheme of things, if that is your only use for roads a dirt track is good enough. 4 wheel drive and a winch are a must of course to get around on them. Some of the particularly bad one would be paved - though more as a bridge over streams.

Remember I carefully excluded everything except delivery from roads - this is horribly unrealistic. You can call it a strawman.
Where does that glue come from and how good is it for humans/the environment?
Bingo - the whole idea of any meetings before lunch is absurd. Your brain does 90% of its best thinking between wake up and lunch... why waste that on meetings? Sorry for the sidebar... I’m loving this thread. I’ve been telling my wife for years that daily huddles are a scam that manipulative management types do “to maintain momentum” or the appearance of it at least.
Things have not changed much. Cardiopulmonary bypass is considered OK, as well as other devices that might be considered as extensions. An individual might still choose to not accept such treatment.
From what we know about how the emoji blocking was implemented for mainland China, I doubt it's a benign feature just being misused:
https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x34.html

Notably, the code specifically looks for the "CN" locale, and calls "removeEmoji".
Came here to say exactly this.

If you are going to inject overt bias into your articles and turn every piece into political argument fuel then don't call yourself a journalist.
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Are you sure they don't just disagree with your use of the word sovereign? I find it a strange way to describe the ROC and Taiwan.

Without a clear territory under exclusive control, recognition from other governments, or independence from the mainland, what's so sovereign about it?
Curious, anyone in Hong Kong, what do some of the various flavors of Android do?
Ah so it is OK then? No, those people should be paid for their time too.
I wonder if the 40+ layer NAND chips would give a problem for this technique.
Yes. Not sure why that's a strange concept…

Taxing assets instead of income doesn't magically make investments worthless.
Re: acoustic isolation - having recently dealt w acoustics/concrete (laying a floor in a concrete apartment), I found out there’s not necessarily “concrete in general” so acoustic (and other) properties can vary from concrete to concrete.
So, statistics. Allow me to fabricate a few number using some well known ballparking methods.

In November of 2010, 4,600 people contributed to GNU.

If we follow the 1-9-90 rule of speaking out, for every 1 woman who went to the authorities, 9 women have spoken out publicly, and, 90 others have not. I'm aware of 6-7 who have gone public with their accusations, and none who went to the authorities. As such, it seems safe (if likely excessive) to say that less than 100 women have been actively harassed via awkward romantic advances over the last 20 years.

So, in this scenario, not even 2% of the contributors from one month were harassed by Stallman. If we consider GNU to be on par with other software projects and say that about 30% of the total contributors for that month were women, then about 7% of the woman contributors from one month were harassed by Stallman over 20 years.

It's still too high a number, but it's not exactly a vast majority.
I've committed to just maintaining an "offline" mac for CS6 as on my 2016 Mac running Mojave I have _weird_ problems with visual artifacting using CS6.

I'm actually sad because I wanted to find a replacement that had:

- layers
- Good text engine
- good magic wand

I use Photoshop/Illustrator for very basic collage style works and those are the tools I need.

I was excited to try gimp, but it was slow enough on this Mac that I gave up. Inkscape is on the list, but my hopes are low.
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Oh god, I suspect this may be a tad too political for Hacker News. And I apologise if that's the case.

But after hearing the StackOverflow stuff about that mod getting fired for pronouns, complaints about identity politics in companies like Google, and people getting their lives ruined over Twitter jokes, I thought I may as well post it anyway.

The people pushing this stuff are bullies, and like most bullies, are depending on people not fighting back/not cowing to their demands. By not giving in, most will back off eventually.

Same goes for a lot of these companies using dodgy DCMA notices and takedowns on YouTube. Most of them will not go forward with an actual lawsuit against a self hosted site or publication, since they know they legally don't have a leg to stand on. They just rely on the system being broken and take advantage of it.

Tell these people you won't do what they want, and most of these issues will go away.
Non-nullable references with C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0
OSX VMs are so slowwww in a virtual environment though. I’ve tried doing it several times in parallels and they just crawl. Unless I’m doing something wrong.
Facebook just published a blog about moving petabytes per hour. I read it, I find the design interesting. I don't need it. But if I do, it's good to know that it's possible, that someone has solved, to have a reference and to possibly use their tool if it's free. So relax, I for one welcome whatever folks are working on out there. If it's true, we can learn from it and apply it in order domains too.
Thanks, I wasn't clear on what that vector f*x was. So the noise function is mapping pattern values to coordinates, and the SBM function is combining/layering its patterns calculated with different powers at different scales.

Still on the face of it that advice "the choice of noise function doesn't matter much" is tricky, considering "white noise" is mentioned in the intro which takes no coordinates, but white noise walks of different scales can be combined I think to produce a non-white noise walk.

Besides this combining in a loop the same kind of noise/texture with different power over different scales, I would be interested in also varying the kinds of texture that are layered into different scales.
Any chance the Sidecar feature can make it to PC/Windows? I've been using Duet but it's kinda flaky.
> What's it take for an engineer in the US to actually do something like this?

According to the book "Bullshit Jobs" [1] there are quite some people around the world -especially in FIRE and IT- who (partly) perform useless or downright harmful jobs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
> In my experience, just about anything beats R when it comes to cleaning dirty data.

> I used to resent R, it was shoved upon me as a strange tool that promised to replace Python, but failed miserably.

well I'm glad the author found a way to make R work for their purposes, but this just reeks of inexperience with R..
probably not, the RTX 2060 is in competition with AMD's 5700 and 5700XT (with the RTX 2060 Super).

2070 Super is on another level targeted towards 1440p and entry level 4K gaming.
True, but jamming wouldnt be necessary.

Confirmation bias hacks work by preventing the target from even looking for the signal. Or worse.
Yep, Native Instruments (on that list) sent out an explicit email saying not to update: https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
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In that framework you are giving up something of infinite value for something of finite value, which is irrational.
Unless you have a very powerful host system running macOS in a VM is painfully slow. On a 2019 MacBook Air with 16GB or RAM running a virtualized macOS is crawling to render the Finder window.
It's in the Mac App Store for me, but not as the marquee product at the moment.
Eye of the beholder, brother. Poster asked for feedback. I thought I was being economical.
Ah, so it's seven months old already.
He is no longer the sole occupant of that house.
If that chart is accurate it seems that Canadian cities across the board are building more high-rises. I wonder why.
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It is possible that the facilities at an engineering level was already there and initially born out of facilitating more harmonious initiatives - for example - "we need the facility to change a country flag in other countries as" this country is looking at changing their flag and want to trial it in their own country/This country wants to celebrate gay pride with a ribbon upon their flag, though they don't want that flag appearing in these countries that they do trade with but they still have laws against such open tolerance of gender freedom... Or many such possibilities. So a group of engineers, happy with the motives, brought forth the option to do this and all packaged up for the point and click management to use.

That is extremely viable how this could of played out in a tech firm. From there, such actions are in management hands. Management have a predisposition towards company loyalty and head nodding over morals and ethics - not all obviously, just from my experience - more inclined over engineers. When you have such a facility, then if management misuse it, is that the engineers fault all the time?

Let's not presume shame upon some engineer(s) who may of done such a change for other morally good reasons only to see their work abused for something they would never of intended their work to be used for. Then imagine that person reading presumptions that it was coded solely for this in mind and the hate bestowed upon them, with them already feeling bad about such abuse (as they will probably see it) and perversion of their good intentioned work.
I think my wife and I have a toaster from when we first got married. It'll be 13 years this month. It's probably a 2009 or 2010 model, so really only about a decade or a little less old.
I just want to add another angle. Apple, as well as other tech companies, have many employees in China, and a lot of non-Chinese employees that travel to China regularly. Many of these changes are demanded by the PRC government and not abiding by those might risk imprisonment for those employees.

Disclaimer: I work for Apple, but I don't work on iOS.
If the nicest thing we can say about a leader of an organization is that most women were not harassed by him because they didn't get to meet him, then maybe it's time to look for a leader who is, you know, capable of actually meeting people without creeping them out.
What about collecting cosmic background radiation and converting it to one-time pad bits?
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FWIW `scan()` is going to be much faster if you are just reading doubles from standard input than `as.numeric(readLines())`.
As a reminder, a bunch of ludicrous accusations on Stallman[0] is what this is about.

[0] https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
I actually wonder if CLT/wood would perform better than steel during an all-out fire in terms of the structural integrity, at least for an initial period of time.

The steel structure would more likely survive in-tact, but the wood structure could guarantee a certain minimum bound in terms of evacuation time available to occupants (which might be superior to steel).

From my very novice perspective, I feel like wood does not attenuate in structural integrity as its temperature rises (at least not in the same way as steel), and it seems it would also absorb and conduct heat much more slowly than steel.

On the other hand, I feel that once a wood-based structure gets hit with a big enough fire, the entire building is guaranteed to be lost due to how hard it could be to fully extinguish the fire (e.g. if the steel in a skyscraper could burn openly, what would that be like?).

I did find this related paper which may be of interest to HN:
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2012/fpl_2012_kukay001...
Honestly, the 32-bit support shouldn't have been removed. It should have been split off into a separate package like the XQuartz project, as some of us still use 32-bit applications daily.

Very disturbing that one of the biggest companies around can't keep 32-bit support, at least in some capacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalypt...
I haven't heard of the Singapore project before, that is impressive indeed.

I think the proper way to solve a problem should be smart charging, where the car chooses the cheapest energy through out the day, making much finer decision than a consumer ever could. And grid should be (it usually is) managed in such a way that lowest price corresponds to highest % of clean energy.

We could take this even further: usually the grid responds to demand and predict demand based on past patterns, but we could have a protocol for IoT devices and cars to request power they will need in the future, and ask the grid for the best time to draw power in the next X hour window.