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Standups hurt more than help. As someone who managed fully remote teams in the past, what worked very well for us is a set of rules around in-house built task management system (something like Jira could work too).

1) Aim to take 2-3 tasks, do not take more, take 1 if the task is large, but usually, it's a sign of an overblown story.

2) Every day at the end of the day, write a "current status" comment. These comments are visible in the master panel, and I could take action the next day to help developers resolve roadblocks, if the resolution is taking longer, they can work on other tasks they claimed.

This effectively eliminated the need for standups, the whole team could sync using task "current status" updates, and chime in with help or advice. I was able to see the progress and issues without forcing people into a mess of a video call, and everybody could still stick to their preferred schedules and have personal lives.
I don't understand how they are not actively engaging with the community. It's going to cost them every day this is not taken care of. Key people already left, more will leave, and the damage will still be here. Even if they come back to how it was before doesn't mean everybody will come back after that like nothing happened.
Yes, a 5' (1.5m) wide room is more a corridor than a room.

Only to give you a data point, in my country (Italy) norms require (since the '70's):

1) at least 9 sqm for a bedroom (for 1 person, 12 sqm for a double), rooms below 9 sqm in size can only be "studios" or "storage" or similar (at least officially)

2) at least 28 sqm total size to have the dignity of "flat" for 1 person or 38 sqm for 2 people (i.e. anything below 28 sqm cannot be registered as living space unit and while you can of course have two people living in a 28 sqm it is not "legal" , more generally, to be "legal", you need 28 sqm for the first person and additional 10 sqm for each other person resident in the house)

3) 2.70 m height for any room where people may stay for long periods of time (i.e. exception made for corridors, closets and bathrooms that must anyway be 2.40 m)

4) at least one bathroom of at least 4 sqm for each unit

5) a window or similar that must be at least 1/8th of the surface of the room (again excluded corridors, closets, bathrooms) for light and ventilation
I wonder where's AMD... did they omit it?
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We are looking for a seasoned Linux System Administrator to work in our headquarter on the Campus of the University of Grenoble, France (indefinite contract, after a probation period of 6 months). Reporting to the Head of the Computer Group for France (myself), the successful candidate will support server, desktop and laptop operating systems and system software. This position has tons of autonomy and the chance to truly define our infrastructure evolution. We deal with everything from embedded systems used to move the telescope to linux servers for data processing to monitoring applications etc. You will not get bored :-)

For more info, feel free to contact me at blanchet@iram.fr (mention that you saw this on HN).
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Dutch has the word "kut" for those sort of situations, it pretty much has the same role as "fuck" in english. (Though these days "fuck" is a perfectly well understood word in dutch too)

I'd be highly surprised if there are languages out there without such a universal word.
This is very good news. At least the FSF acknowledges the existence (!) of RMS and asserts its will to continue working together on the advancement of free software. For a moment, I was afraid that the FSF was going to un-person RMS.
Presumably they're referring to Datto's recovery process (i.e. recovering automatically from secondary or tertiary backups), as opposed to just the ZFS mirror.
That was before general purpose computers were largely displaced by just another consumer electronics gadget everyone calls the smartphone.

You were actually intended to be able to install an operating system and programs of your liking on PCs.
> The language can be a little awkward at first but that's a small molehill to die on.

It's my understanding that the issue is conflicting self expression. If in some circumstance the author feels something is awkward, are they allowed to make a judgement call?

And, as moderators, are they given the agency to also make judgement calls in how they moderate?

I guess you could call that a molehill, but I don't know why we need to put people out who feel otherwise. Seems like extending the same courtesy as using preferred pronouns, in a way.
I've worked in many teams that used standups, the general feeling was that they were utterly useless.

Except for management, as standups are a simple way of keeping psychological pressure on developers and squeezing every last bit out of them.

I even saw once a developer on his last day throwing the speaker's token (a teddy bear) to the trash can LOL!

Everyone on the teams I worked on seemed to think that standups where useless, this showed clearly through the team body language and tone in those meetings.

Its an interruption on your work just when you just got started in the morning, now you have to stop and go to a meeting.

What people are working on is usually unrelated and of no interest to each other, and if you need help you ask it anyway on the spot, there is no need to wait for the next standup for that.

It's hard to come up with different things to say on the meetings, as there aren't many things that have changed since yesterday.
This looks amazing, and I'd love to switch back to MS after having to switch to XPlane. However: no VR no buy.

No matter how many improvements they've made, VR + 13 year old FSX will be much more immersive and useful. It's insane that any sim developer would not even have VR on their post-launch road map. If running their engine at a sufficient framerate is an issue for VR, then it's insane that they didn't consider this from the ground up. Even 25 years ago VR was a consideration for flight sim developers (anyone remember EF2000 and the VFX1?).
Back when I was doing tech support at a school I'd be getting calls just to come over so it'd work. Oh well, at least it's an excuse to go for a walk and have a bit of a chit chat.
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> That person that just walks in or starts spamming you on slack takes more time altogether per instance than a single stand-up does. It takes you out of your process, you then have to pick that up again.

Walks in? Yes. That should be discouraged always.

Spamming on Slack? If that is a problem, you're doing Slack wrong. It's an asynchronous method of communication. Don't be buried in it or feel the need to respond to every message as it comes in. Check it during natural breaks or stopping points.

If something actually is urgent and requires your immediate attention, then they can break the above rule and walk up to your desk (or call you if you're remote).
Reddit goes through waves of the same kinds of issues.
Why was this comment was marked dead? I am "vouch"ing it for now because I have read Wang Enlin's story a long time ago, and though a cool story, I have doubts about this version of the story by the Independent to be a good representation.
While they are in a technical sense, it still feels different to use a compound word vs a sentence expressing the same idea.

Compare in english: bedtime vs time to go to bed.
I completely agree with this. Standups are pointless, you have just communicate anything that you need to communicate via chat. Standups in general are simply a pressuring mechanism.
> ... nonsensically-bureaucratic : I ...

Maybe you put a space before a colon, and the eagle-eyed moderator spotted it :-)

(English rarely has a space before a punctuation mark — except for a dash in British usage. Americans—I think—do this.)
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Yeah same here. Everywhere I've worked standups have been really beneficial and usually only last about 5 minutes. I think the issue here is maybe the team size and stand ups dragging on for too long?
My thought is that it's ok to deal with China as long as they play by our rules not their rules (such as censorship). If they see that they can still operate successfully under a system with freedom of speech, maybe they won't be so against it.

But yes, you do have to be careful not to let them become a large enough percentage of revenue that the company would be in danger if China started threatening to pull out.
Surprisingly google translate does a rather nice job on that word, It translates it to "disimprovement" which seems perfectly cromulent to me.
dev work didn't stopped 4 years ago, it's just not main priority anymore, and I'm blocked on two major things. (see below)

console "foo" print

would be the potion syntax, if console would exist as IO object. just compare to smalltalk, forth or ruby with smalltalk syntax.

print is not used as serialization method, and not used as pprint.
pprint would be the proper pretty-printing extension over print,
and dump is the default serializer.

I don't get the problem with "hello" print. It's not comparable to someObj.ToString().
The potion equivalent would rather be hello string vs hello dump vs hello pprint.
This has now been added to user profiles and posts.
due to problems with bootloader unlocking most devs prefer pixel or oneplus or poco phones. you can lose faith in lineageos - but it is not a company - just group of devs - trying to help each other in their time.
Stack exchange has had issues from the beginning with absolutely horrible people being mean aggressive and deflective, telling people they are idiots for not providing 110% of available information in their first answer. Moving to close questions as duplicates or irrelevant while the answer still hasn’t resolved anything. The site supported this because it helped promote their “one true answer high on google ranking”-value drive

It’s been an extremely toxic environment, which however was very useful for searching out answers to common questions after the fact.

Now not too long ago I thought from their public communication that they wanted to fix this, or at least make some serious headway towards reducing the toxicity and vile. But no. Instead they decided to hire the assholes and have them be assholes to the community moderators. This time over something as silly as the right to not always actively referring to people in gendered terms.
It seems that the latest South Park episode was once again timely.
What they did to her was wrong from my point of view, but it certainly was not 'based on pure hate'. Don't speak this exaggeration and nonsense. The person who fired her simply had no intention to spend time dealing with Monica's questions and chose the easy route of getting rid of what she perceived as a troublemaker.
The questions as presented strike me as something that is more suited in a 1-on-1:

> What did I work on yesterday?
> What am I working on today?
> What issues are blocking me?

At my job we have tickets on a physical board and we discuss them from right-to-left. There are magnets on the tickets with people's names on it and when you get to 'your' tickets you talk about what is happening with that ticket. This is a lot more concrete and relevant to the rest of the team.

At a previous company we went from person to person and they'd discuss what they were working on. This always struck me as a strictly personal accounting of their previous work day and I had a feeling that people felt like they had to boast or exaggerate what they were working on. It never felt relevant or interesting.
I completely disagree. Yes, you can word it less directly by saying "Please Read the Manual", but there's really no better answer to a low-effort "do my work for me" question. Those have become more and more common, just putting the question title into Google often serves up another question that solves that exact problem, but people don't even bother using a search engine - they go directly to asking others to do the thinking for them, then complain when they are given a solution that they can't just plug into the client project they are working on.
Not OP, but just a guess: you can use tags in your email (add `normal-email+tag-here@domain.org`) and it should go to the same location. If you host your own mail or have your own domain with an… M record? I don’t know—then you can easily create as many emails as you want and forward them to other accounts.
Quick, can we make a business out of that?
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Sadly that doesn't surprise me. :(
Agree, but I suppose I meant more in terms of optimizing performance by making use of idle 2080TI RT cores. Volumetric cloud lighting as OP said, cabin reflections, water perhaps..

I'll take anything that would mean the community doesn't need to keep modifying .CFG parameters to get an extra few FPS
" cannot build new single detacted"

so... don't? Plenty of other types of home.

(Nevermind that we're accepting the idea we don't have room at face value)
I don't know laws in the US, but we definitely own the apartments and people can't randomly walk in for 'inspections'.
Unfortunately RISC V is decades away from getting anywhere close to Intel's x86 business, if ever. Currently it's nibbling away at the toes of the low end of the ARM market.

Even getting up to the level of competing with the mid ARM market will take huge investment. That is of course possible, but to do it RISC V will need to be backed by a very well funded body along the lines of the Linux Foundation, with strong support from big industry players. The sort of support that ARM already has. Until and unless that happens, I'm afraid it will stay a niche low end option.
Agreed. Keep them short and focused. We use ours to review new PRs for the day and new requests that have come in from other parts of the company, in addition to covering blockers.

The PRs cover the “what did you do?” questions while getting eyeballs reviewing the work and for larger PRs we will schedule something. Keeps things moving well.

The inbound requests reviews keep us from having to have backlog estimating meetings as often since we are keeping up with it as they arrive.

If the time isn’t useful, find a way to make it useful.
> Life expectancy at birth isn't relevant to a 79 year old, though. The UK's life tables say a 79 year old male can expect to live another 9 years

This is one of my favorite examples when I have to teach statistics! (the other two being Monty Hall and the observation than outliers in a normal distribution depend mostly on the variance, and are essentially independent of the mean).
I don't know how anyone can follow a recipe which use "cup" as a unit of measurement.
Why are you not using Google's Rich Snippets for individual recipes? It will not only help to get more traffic but also to rank better.
I'm baffled to see how governments are able to synchronize, send a crystal clear message and take action when it serves their interests.
Yes, only the control API is implemented for now.
What's merit? Who defines, what the merit is?

The majority definitely couldn't judge merits, since avg Joe knows nothing about surgery or economics.

The institutions couldn't regulate themselves as well, since this leads to corruption, where the most politically active are getting to the top and starting to regulate on the loyalty basis. We need external checks and balances for institutions as well.

We can't have a meritocracy without an external authoritative voice judging, what's the merit. Hence any meritocracy or even technocracy applied is ended up being a authoritarian, ineffective corrupted mess. We had this in soviet union, we had this in china.

The idea that people should be judged by merits and the best scientists, academics, writers should be at the top ended in soviet union with the distortion of the very notion of merits and values: careerists got to the top and ruled out actual smart people, turning institutions into corrupted mess.
It's not a strawman. If you oppose my statement that the Jakuza probably liked using normal telephones without fear of the police listening (on what logic exactly), you do seem do advocate totally outlawing surveillance, don't you?

And if you really don't think surveillance should be completely outlawed, as it was in Japan for a time, then you don't have any basis for disagreeing with me.
This is just not realistic, a standup of 7 or eight people will take minimum 15 to 20 minutes, from the moment that you leave your desk to the moment you get back.

Some standups go off track, and if you count everything you are looking at close to a third of a morning per week or so.
Have only read parts of that, but describing attributes to human nature mostly fails to do so and attaches them to the author instead.

No, not everything is political. From that perspective you could substitute the term politics with "battle for share", which can be political, but doesn't encompass the whole set of politics. You can even generalize that further and it gets more primitive along the way:

"Every day is a battle for survival"

Of course it is political play to attach attributes to groups and then highlighting fault lines. But it is the most primitive form of what many people call politics.

And since it doesn't accomplish anything productive, many people have the need to remove politics from platforms like SE, because they just see it as a distraction to the topic at hand and is pitting people against each other. Pronouns do that, most of the gender discussion does that and now we have also started a new discussions about racism that won't net positive results.

All because some people crave some validation? Maybe that is not always the case, but it seems that people wanted a conflict and that is what they got.
I'm using a Xiaomi A2 Lite. The cheapest one I think (160€) and so far I am ok with it. To my eyes, this is like the only phone I see it has Android One OEM installed, and nothing on top of it. I am no expert, but this is how I've chose when buying a phone. Should I be concerned? Privacy became important to me (I've quit all social media) and I am setting up every single privacy feature I can. I'm also considering moving to Apple since they offer more layers of privacy than Android One.
One time pads just push the problem to the random number generator (which has to be 100% perfect, free from correlations and bias). How exactly does one prove that their hardware RNG is uncorreleated? e.g. what you thought was RF noise could actually contain the theme tune to Barney the dinosaur. The most provable way we have to generate random numbers of the quality necessary is to generate them using... cryptographic ciphers.
apparently Waze is a Mossad front...
> A daily standup, if done well and short

That's the rub, though. Despite best intentions, sometimes things just go off into the weeds. It happens more often than I'd like, and it's happened on every team I've ever been on, at every company I've ever worked at. Sure, you can say, "well you're doing it wrong", but that's not helpful. Process should support how the team works, not define how the team works.

> helps one to focus on what's important

If you need to refocus someone every day, you've made a bad hire.

> sets the tone for the day

That's my job. I know what I'm supposed to be working on, and set my own tone.

> and unites the team as a tribe

Ugh, gross. We're not a "tribe", "family", whatever.

We're a team of co-workers working on a variety of tasks, who are not children and can be trusted to communicate adequately with the rest of the team, and honor our commitments. If you have someone on the team for whom that's not the case, again: you made a bad hire. Don't punish the rest of the team because you have someone who can't do their job.

I get that some people get off track sometimes. It happens, even to the most senior of people. The solution to that is called management. Regular 1:1s, making sure your team keeps their tickets updated, and getting regular (individual, asynchronous, as-needed) status updates. If someone is having an off day, or an off week, that should be addressed individually, not by preemptively assuming the worst of everyone on the team and instituting a daily standup.
None of the things you listed make any sence.

And we are in a thread about tiny house downgrades, if you realised.
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> What people are working on is usually unrelated and of no interest to each other

I think this is the key difference between teams that like stand-ups and teams that don't. In the teams I've worked in, our work was highly relevant to one another, so knowing daily where everyone was with their tasks is usually interesting to everyone.
> I've had this feeling that the industry likes to treat development teams like a bunch of idiot teenagers.

The infantilisation of developers seems to be common in larger organisations. It's extremely tiring.
Race, gender and age enjoy stronger legal and social position as protected classes than economic standing, political orientation, or education does.

As a result one way to fight for justice for the economically disadvantaged is to make use of the racial correlation.

The fact that an issue disproportional impacts the poor and as a result disproportionally impacts people of particular races can also contribute to race-specific second order effects. For example, evidence strongly suggests that some race are treated particularly harshly by the judicial system in the US, leading to increased rates of convictions and harsher sentences-- so having backdoored phones is quite possibly a double whammy, causing additional harm that another population with the same devices wouldn't experience.

Ideally we'd also protect the economically disadvantaged from things like this without needing to reference a particular subset of victims, but when someone advocates for the welfare of others they do it in the world we actually live in, not the world that we would ideally have.
Generally speaking, Android One devices cannot ship with malware, even invisible, because Google has to inspect the software. In any case, a manufacturer COULD put malware after Google approves the software, but they would certainly lose Android One license, and possibly the ability to get ANY phone certified as Google Play compatible, EVER. So, they won't do it, no matter the incentives and possible revenue in stealing user data.
Price is low because there is unused power.

Many powerplants run thought the night because they cannot be turned on and off. The most polluting time to use the grid is during peak demand in the evening, when every powerplant has to be brought online, even the most polluting ones.

Northern Europe relies on Wind, not Solar for renewable energy. Yes, we are integratingg powergrid, but you can't pull 100 GW from Spain to UK. Yhat would require absolutely monstrous infrastructure.

What your assertion for night time charging based on?