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I read this on an article on HN (I don't recall exactly where), but it was a useful perspective on Agile.

Essentially it argued that when people "analyze" the effectiveness of Agile they often choose a "as-treated" approach instead of an "intent-to-treat" approach. That is wrong. If Agile is supposedly a treatment for for the ills of modern software development, and 95% of the teams trying to do agile are failing, then that isn't a problem with people thats a problem with agile and the agile manifesto. If Agile is so vague that almost noone team can get agreement to do the good parts, and instead they all just do scrum (which is deemed mostly bad) because only Scrum is detailed enough to follow, then again that's a strike against Agile.

This eliminates all of the No-True-Scottsman Agile issues. Agile should be judged by the amount of people trying to do Agile and failing. Otherwise it's not different than "abstinence only" contraception. Yes it works if you adhere to it, but majority of people fail to adhere to it. That's not a failure of people, that's a failure of the prescribed solution. A better solution is condoms.

Either make Agile prescriptive (which defeats the point of Agile), or declare Agile almost valueless. Until someone comes up with a flavor of Agile to counter Scrum, that actually follows the Agile Manifesto it's not worthwhile to discuss Agile.
It appears to not have done you any good.

Not only did you get significant details wrong, but when faced with criticism, you immediately do an appeal to authority.

Not a good look.
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This is great news. OSM might not have gotten as much public awareness like Wikipedia, but it deserves it. Having a global map data source, which isn't only freely available, but to which everyone can contribute, is a great piece of information infrastructure. The level of map details, especially off the roads open for car traffic, is excellent around the place where I live.

With Tesla pulling map information used for routing in the summon feature from OSM, this gives not only an overall incentive for Tesla owners to enhance the OSM database, but also gives them the ability to add the data they personally need, making the feature more useful in places which didn't have good data yet.

I wonder though, if Tesla could use the data collected by the vehicles in general to improve OSM. As Tesla seems to track special driving situations for building and enhancing the Autopilot features, they could also automatically detect wrong or missing map information, whenever a Tesla drives "off" the map. Based on that information, they could contribute to OSM a lot.
I was expecting to read a great Quora article but the author compared American speciality cheese to European supermarket fast serving cheese to prove that not everything made in Europe is superior.

What's next? Comparing an American ivy league university building to a newly built apartment somewhere in Brussels and prove that not everything is older in Europe?

Of course every place has all kind of extremes. I look down on West European cheese too because they don't have proper white cheese that is available in the Balkans and Turkey and when abroad I have to rely on low quality feta as a substitute and get depressed. That said, I am not going to claim that Balkans and Turkey have the best chease, it's just that the kind of the cheese I like is not available in western Europe in good quality and I am better of to stick with the local cheese(which is superior to the versions found in the Balkans and Turkey).

All those "country X is superior to the country Y" is inherently flawed unless you talk about specifics. Otherwise, all you do is some kind nationalistic masturbation.
You could argue though, that the post that gets a reply like that was itself Gish galloping. Somebody just took the time to try to address all the points.
Words are cheap.

They’re under investigation for possibly hiding recall and issuing OTA instead that surprised people with sudden range loss (https://www.businessinsider.com/nhtsa-investigating-tesla-up...)

They force customers to go over arbitration to fix yellowing entertainment screen on cars as young as few months. They tell people it’s normal wear and tear due to using cat in the sun (https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/yellow-screen-force-...)

Their service centers are over the capacity for years and cars can be stuck waiting for repairs and parts for months.
My understanding is they just wiped the slate clean. Returning the missing material was not required. But that's based on a radio report I don't remember well, so I could be wrong.
One of the small, but significant things I noticed about German apartments was the lipped 'bezel'[1], where the door and the frame fit snugly into each other and there is a rubber/plastic seal between the door and the frame. This is a big deal in an apartment, because it reduces noise, reduces drafts, and eliminates the need to heat more than one room at a time. Also, the door itself seems to be very solid, you'd have to hit it with quite some force to make a dent - none of this cardboard sandwiched between 2 slides of thin MDF nonsense. I'm not from the US, I've just noticed this in Germany coming from another European country with less quality interior finishings.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/InteriorDesign/comments/8ths03/germ...
Like, US street food being incredibly better or worse than EU?
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Classic cat and mouse moves.
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Pi-hole and Network level blockers should also see a rise.
Yeah, ROI (so not UK but similar in many respects) and I feel like the construction here is utter crap. Hell, houses are now being sold with 10 year structural warranties (rather short, that) because of a history of houses falling down because of pyrite. Nevermind that we always feel 20-30 years behind everyone else; god help you if you want a timber frame, or for that matter have a heritage building where the builders just slop cement on top of the walls (thus starting the destruction of the lime mortar).

The OP's comments remind me of how much nicer everything seems on the continent, groceries included (though increasingly everyone shops at Aldi/Lidl anyway)
Because everything is bound to power and not to morals or law. The latter two are only sometimes and to a varying extent hurdles to the first.
This is true in every social and political climate. Socialism doesn't make it better (actually may make it worse IMO).

That's why I believe that the only correct individual motivator should be to be free and strong. And never rely on the government, banks and other parties that can and will make you dependent. Take on as little debt as you can. Pay as little tax as possible and/or move to countries where this is possible. Possess as big and as diverse investment portfolio as you can. Reside in countries where it's allowed to possess guns and do so. Make friends with like minded individuals. Yes, I am a libertarian.
I think there is something to this, but in my experience they just don't care. Their stuff is optimized for their own cultural values, which you perhaps expect to be more like your own than they are.

I have had American visitors marvel at the (German built) windows in my French home, calling them something you'd see on a space station. On the other hand they think I must be having money problems for not having a tumble dryer (only poor people hang their laundry to dry) or not having airco.
> Everything is super different and weird and kinda bad, and nobody seems to notice.

I have this a bit uneasy impression[1] that a really significant chunk of US is basically a developing country with bigger cars.

[1] Based only on visiting a few developing countries as well as a few states of US. Not on any statistics or data whatsoever.
My preference is to see what the NHS "Behind the Headlines" sites makes of such studies [1], rather than read press releases.

> The findings support general understanding that physical activity is good for health. However, this does not mean that running in itself is necessary as an activity. The comparison groups may have included a varied mix of those who were sedentary and those who took other forms of activity but just did not run.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/running-reduc...
I was working on this stuff back 1998 (LFReD). Had a prototype that used a cordless speaker phone or dial in and ask questions or make commands like "How tall is Mount Everest" or "Turn on the kettle". The main deal breaker were the inaccurate text to speech systems (90% if you were lucky?) like Dragon Dictate and others. Even a 90% accuracy rate was extremely frustrating. That's 1 out of every 10 words misunderstood "How tall is Count Everest?". Gives me shivers just thinking about it!

speech recognition tech has finally caught up. Yay! But the big big BIG issue is the amount of if/then rules required to do the simplest of 'virtual assistant' tasks. Back then, we pitched Disney to create an "Ask Mickey" bot that would be all knowing when it comes to anything Disney... trivia, history, tickets prices etc. Even with a relatively narrow scope, the man hours required to create and maintain these rules was not trivial, and that has not changed.

The average user expects, or demands rather, that these bots be 'all knowing'. I suspect 99% of Alexa and Google Home users have all but forsaken their appliance because of this. The only thing more frustrating to the user other than recognition, is the constant
"Hey Google, what is the distance to the moon divided by two"? "Dunno."
"Hey Alexa, what color do I get if I mix yellow and chartreuse together? "Dunno."

No one is ever going to write these rules, and there's billions of them...

You,"Alexa, how dangerous is it if I drive in a snow storm?"
Alexa,"What type of vehicle do you have?
You, "I drive a 2016 Ford F150 4x4 with winter tires."
Alexa, "I don't know what that is. But I can tell you about the price of Disney tickets!"
You, "OK. Alexa, what is the total price for a family of four with two adults and two children under the age of 10 on July 12th, 2020?"
Alexa "Dunno."
Agreed, but the potential is there even so, software can not wear out with use. (Corrupted flash notwithstanding.)
Well hello my dear Firefox

ms thought that ie will be at the top forever too
I've given up on Chrome a long time ago (using Firefox now), but I think the best way to block ads for good is to use Pi Hole as DNS. I've set it up a couple months ago at my home, plus a Wireguard tunnel so that all connections from my laptop and phones go through that DNS (with the added benefit of encrypting all my traffic over unsecured networks).
Well, the Ferengi in Star Trek don't seem to be using voice interfaces to their computers, and maybe perhaps there's a (in-universe) reason for that. Our civilization is much more like the Ferengi than anything else in Star Trek, so I'm not all too happy about how voice interfaces are turning out.
Have a look at British rule in India. You will understand the full horrors of colonialism.
America has a trade deficit of ~600 billion, which roughly equates to every American having $2,000 to spend buying stuff from overseas. Then on top of that there are all the services America exports.

If foreigners are willing to give Americans stuff for paper there is a real pressure for Americans not to bother making stuff and printing more paper instead. That probably influences a lot of the decisions behind American made consumer goods.

> The cheapest studio apartment in Western Europe or Japan ends up with better infrastructure than the $2M duplex in California.

I live a long way from California, but the first stop should always be to check the local tax code, financial incentives and regulations. Most countries I've been to end up having strange tax incentives that influence how much money gets spent on primary residences; and taxes can put a real dampener on what gets done. I speak mainly from experience in Australia where there are massive tax incentives for a person to spend money on their primary home.
> they get an IE6-sized kick in the teeth.

as in: people will continue to suffer for about a decade while good alternatives readily spring up but suffer slow adoption?
And we definitely have to help speed up this process
You don't even need to register to use localbitcoins, they only require KYC to put up a listing.
A lot of the issues may come down to whether management prioritize financial engineering / making huge bonuses / pleasing wall street vs making good vehicles. The same with Boeing - they used to be run by engineers who wanted to make great planes and then the shifted control to finance guys in Chicago who wanted to make big profits. You see the effect a bit with Tesla where I'm sure Musk would love to focus on quality but has to rush things out to make decent quarterly numbers or risk going bust by not getting ongoing financing.

The Japanese seem to have almost the opposite attitude to finance where they will keep putting money into loss making stuff for ages out of a kind of loyalty which may lead to it's own issues of course.
That’s all I ever think of when traveling, even to relatively poorer countries. The US doesn’t even seem to try to be a top tier country in anything that brings quality of life.
Unfortunately, all responses are consistent with the idea that the world gets destroyed on 28 February 2020.
most people are not using for "knowledge base" kind of questions. they are using it for typical google search usecases where the results are often returned in text ...or more preferably video.

in fact there is a cool Alexa-for-the-poor that works on phone calls in India (through a toll free number) powered by Google Assistant : https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-assis...

Voice is the most powerful UX that people in countries like India are using.
> The UX is awful

Wait, what UX does a fridge need? Mine just has a scroll wheel which goes from cool to cold.
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I was skeptic, so I looked at the related paper: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/09/25/bjsports-2018-...

It looks like a fairly good systematic review and meta-analysis. Their "Assessment of study and evidence quality" seems quite comprehensive, and they filtered out several studies affected by selection bias.

They mention the causation possibility:

> the association between running and mortality may partially be explained by assuming that sick participants (who are more likely to die) were less likely to participate in running.

Still, even if "running" isn't a direct cause for increase longevity, we can't rule out that more promotion of running would have positive effects (placebo effect, have unhealthy people use running as a keystone habit to build other healthy habits, etc).

What I'd love to see is more meta-analysis like this one for other sports. I believe that running is known for its orthopedic stress risks, and other sports like swimming might be seen to deliver the same positive effects as running, without the negative impacts.
That might be true indeed, i have not tested any heavy/graphic editing apps like Photoshop. Also i'm using the smaller 10'5 iPad pro, not the 12'9.

Playing a 1920x1080 video (6000 Kbps) works just fine, super smooth and no cpu spikes or whatever. However i just noticed when using the default Catalina wallpaper on the Desktop the iPad screen starts flickering. Weird.
My thoughts exactly.

Those of us “of a certain age” will remember that this is not new at all.

I can’t speculate on the reasons, but I agree about standard quality levels being higher in Japan and Western Europe; but so are costs.
Because I find that its style reduces code readability.
Not a huge secret that they have a 64-core Threadripper 3990x ready to go.

But also no hurry to release it, as even the 24 core wipes the floor with anything Intel has to offer.
Sounds like WeWork...

1600 employees. Billions raised. Big hype, but what actually shipped is similar to a three-year-old Hololens.

Do you have any specifics? Who were the friends-and-family hires at Magic Leap?
I live in Australia.

What are the tax incentives to spending money on my home?
American bread is particularly problematic as someone that moved from Europe. Until I found bread I liked I'd often joke that it was suitable for storage in a bomb shelter since it has an unnatural shelf-life and tastes like it.

After a tedious search, we wound up buying $2.60 "Sara Lee Artesano Style Bread" which is still less good than a 70c loaf of Hovis in the UK, and certainly less good than fresh made French bread (which in my opinion is world class). But it is very notable that it has a 7~10 shelf life, not one month like other supermarket breads, is actually soft, and not overly sweet.

It is kind of unfortunately that in the US basically passable bread is called "Artesano" and earns a price premium. Many living in the US haven't had the opportunity to try elsewhere to compare. The strangest thing about this is that you'd expect the US's bread to be much cheaper (given the quality reduction) but that wasn't at all my experience (in fact fresher bread in Europe was substantially cheaper than long-shelf-life-bagged bread in the US).
If there was, they could've communicated it clearly already a year ago. There is no reason to give Google the benefit of the doubt, since it's clear they're not trying to get it.

If this rolls out, I'm going to very loudly tell my friends to use Fox, and not stop.
This is something I have to think about too. Interested to know what kind of tools you're using, as this may influence how you collaborate with these teams.
There’s a Lidl opening nearby, soon (I live in New York).
> CR says Chrysler’s Pacifica was one that contributed to the drop in rankings thanks to the minivan’s infotainment and transmission issues.

Every single "downgrade" I read about is either infotainment or transmission or both.

Except Honda, which apparently has shit locks on it's kid hauler.

I'm a bit skeptical of consumer reports after actually reading it. My car, a Subaru WRX is given low marks for "stiff ride and constant engine noise", which I think re reason why people buy WRXs, not avoid them.
You can set a temperature on a thermostatic shower head and you just adjust the flow of water. Most newer bathrooms have thermostatic shower heads in Europe. But even the old ones with hot + cold valves allow you to not only set the temperature but also the flow.

I think most US showers have just a single faucet where you can control the temperature but not the pressure/flow. You always have to go from cold to hot (it looks like this: https://www.americanstandard-us.com/-/media/sites/asus/image...)
My comment wasn't about whether it's wrong or not to kill animals - I absolutely prefer than an amimal's death is witnessed by those who will profit from it. It's the case where, particularly in the sheltered west, we have people who happily eat meat and yet would not kill the animal themselves to do so, and would save a cute animal from suffering if given the opportunity when they see it, but do nothing to stop suffering from happen when they cannot see it.

As you say, it is the purpose of the industrial machine to hide these horrors from us. But it's shameful for those who ignore that it exists and still profit from it.
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The concepts of "better" and "suffering" are a matter of opinion, as you have agreed. I eat meat because that is acceptable to me and also because supermarkets still sell it. Who am I to claim what people objectively should and should not do? Not even Buddha did that.

What I am trying to get at when referring to other people also not eating meat is: Are you really motivated by a moral cause, or are you taking the easy route, signalling away your guilt like many of the western middle class on this forum and elsewhere?

Does your choice not to eat meat and prevent animal suffering, not really just mirror a realisation that you yourself are at the wrong end of the hierarchy?
Is there a better alternative than democracy?

Perhaps no cooperation, every country for itself. That seems like a sure fire way to constantly lose to bigger blocs of countries at every turn.

Single ruler is another obvious but seems like an unfavourable outcome.
You've got a point about GMO-fobia in Europe, but it's a tangential problem.
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Staticheck is an awesome tool. I've used it quite a bit and (shameless plug) tried to build a codeclimate engine[1] for it a while back.

I remember trying to integrate it with code climate's tooling but for some reason or another I didn't manage to.

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Well I mean, it's some invasion when it starts because Parliament sends you a letter saying "Hey come invade us, and we'll give you the crown". I mean, who's in charge? Is a country just its prince?
It highly depends on where in Europe you go. If you are using German discount stores as the yardstick for Europe for example, it's a very low bar. The dairy quality is crap, and a lot of the meat doesn't taste great. Carre Four by comparison in Italy or France is in another universe.
or maybe, just maybe, you want a macho to run into the wrong direction, you want somebody insanely self-convinced jump into smoke and fire, to drag your unconcious body to safety- and poltical correctness does not improve that situation, and ultimatly endangers people by discouraging a culture of self-disregard and recklessness.

You cant order mamoth steak, from a civilized guy who finds it insane to jump on 1 t animal with a sharpend stick. And yes, that sort of insanity inverses mate-selection pressure and creates what some would call a "rape" culture- throw yourself at them while they are still around.

This was one of humanitys success recipes. And as soon as there will be risky environments are back (martian desserts, oort-cloud) it will be again. Sorry, that this sub-component of the species does not appeal to you. Guess, accepting this is out of the question.
> I would also like to see data on walking. For example people who walk regularly more than x kilometers daily (those who go to work by foot) and so on. Do other activities like the elliptical have the same benefit? I shouldn't run for any prolonged period because of ankle issues, but I can happily ride the elliptical for 30-45 minutes. I suppose the answer is yes...

I've been doing all sorts of cardio machines and fitness experiments, and I personally consider elliptical a meaningful sport activity (although low-effort for my personal conditioning).

Walking is very low effort overall on the body musculature and cardiovascular conditioning.

In the big picture, my biggest critique to walking is that it's associated to a checklist mindset: "I've done my 1 hour walk for today and I'm done", while doing "real" physical activities implies a different attitude - as you wrote, "people who run do other things beneficial for their health".

Entering the anecdata field, I've found that my body seems to have a threshold for metabolic stimulation - with 5-times/week low-effort 20-minutes runs (+2 weight sessions), I struggle to get to low bodyfat percentages; I need higher effort and slightly longer sessions.

While this is a strictly individual sample, I think finding one's own impact of different activity on their body is the foundation for real effect. Maybe walking works for a handful of people on earth :-)
It’s so hard to get a proper vegetable conveniently in the US, while in Japan you can get it at a 7-11.
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