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Depends on the team experience, morale, complexity of product, organization, and customers.

I also agree that a high-performing team tasked with a clear mission don't need more than a glorified secretary.

But if any of those start to fail then it starts degrading everything. Without decent managers, development/progress can collapse.

Decent managers can paper over the other deficiencies to a surprising degree.

Good software devs can also paper over deficiencies in the chain as well to a surprising degree.

Bad managers can be part of the problem too. Bad devs will obviously kill the whole thing.

And of course everyone in that chain has their own agendas, from selflessly devoted to the macro-organic corporation to machiavellis edging for any economic and power advantage.

Capitalism is supposedly about the free market, but organizations strangely don't align themselves to the basics of microeconomics. They are centrally planned top-down pyramids. Incentives will never properly align to maximize organizational productivity because of the totalitarian nature will reward those with power, not productivity.
Are they using hookahs to smoke their bologna?
> first thing I look for is the README. To my disappointment, it either doesn't exist at all, it's the default generated

Auto generated READMEs (and their handcrafted equivalents) are worse than useless. Not only are you wasting your time creating one (and giving yourself the sense of having accomplished something when you haven't) but the effect of a README creation is one-to-many, so consider that wasted time and then throw a multiplier on it. That's the cost of a dummy README. Don't create them, people.
It used to be called Startup News.

Given those pro-capitalist beginnings, the site has drifted relentlessly leftwards over time.
Jellyfin has full playlist support. AFAIK it keeps the playlists themselves as text files on the Jellyfin server that just reference the media files themselves, wherever they may be. Adding playlists to your Jellyfin server does not seem to add files onto your NAS, in my experience. That's just the default behavior, though. Could be that you could set it up to save the files to a folder in the NAS.
This attitude simply makes charging/not charging based on height or weight a factor on which airlines can compete for passengers.
Power Play: Big Tech’s Feud over Mobile App Tracking
Am I too conservative if I still believe that self driving cars will not be a thing?
Which insurance company will pay for a crash caused by a self driving car?
And now they also want an hourly fee for this?
I'm a tech culture reporter at Protocol and I'd love to talk to you about this, if you're down! I'm at akramer@protocol.com or @anna_c_kramer on Twitter, and happy to provide my Signal over email if that's preferred. Let me know if you'd be interested in chatting.
They still want their customers to be able to send emails to Russian servers. Having their servers straight up blocked would be annoying at best, disastrous for some users at worst.

Because email isn't like internet, the MXes connect directly and don't typically have intermediary relays.

If Russia decided to straight up block all fastmail MXes - Russian customers wouldn't be able to transmit anything between Russian hosted MXes and Fastmail. So their actions protect their functionality, more than their potential customers.
Failing to write documentation.
If that's the US Dept of Digital Services you're talking about, I think it was created by the Obama administration to resolve the rollout of the Affordable Care Act site where people can sign up for various plans. They see to do some cool stuff
If I remember well Intel did something similar with the i486sx - most were just i468DX with a faulty i487 coprocessor disabled.

Not sure how they did it. Probably burning the SX microcode after testing?
Are you missing any sheep?
The author made those claims in 2016. Posted the article to the comment above this one.
Won't turning js off make you one of the few people in the world that do this and hence easier to fingerprint?
Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently
I don't think narrow AI is really capable of much of that.

On the other hand if strong/general AI pops into existence we're at a singularity point anyway.
Building a culture of documentation starts from the top.

Today our 40 person org has 1,337 knowledge base articles (as of yesterday, a coincidence, and we probably have a different number today).

It started with myself (CEO) creating all of the initial documentation.

3 months after my first employee joined, I started holding her accountable to creating and updating documentation.

It's not a one time thing.

You can't say, "your job is to do documentation" once.

It's consistently talking about it.

It's scoping in documentation updates and refreshes into bi-weekly sprints and quarterly goals.

Once she was onboard, we began to hold everyone else in our organization accountable too.

Again, it's never a one time thing to get anyone bought it.

It needs to be constantly discussed and scoped.

Today, all of the managers are bought in.

Instead of me explaining the importance of documentation, it's our org's managers embodying and instilling the culture of documentation into everyone new.

They understand the value of having their reports check the KB first.

They understand the value of being able to link someone to a KB instead of repeating themselves.

They understand the value of being able to work more async.

They understand the value of not being a bottleneck for someone else.

I stopped spending much time creating documentation about 6 months ago - and the number of documents just keeps increasing.

Today, I'll push documentation forward for new position / roles.

I'm working on delegating finance - and spent a bunch of time putting together documentation on how to handle the company's money.

- Expense policies

- Org software purchases

- Invoicing and payroll

- Phishing and security

- etc
An optic to replace space and its application towards ultra-thin imaging systems
In fact all the links to forums discussing this appear to have been wiped from Google and Bing. Perhaps this topic is off limits for now. I can still find the older articles talking about privacy concerns, but the forums where people were explaining how to disable it have vanished.
Just adding a link for myself: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript
Meanwhile in UX it is all about understanding the Other, the specifically Not Me, and creating products for a researched, understood and empathetically engaged many.
> it's more of a Nix docker image
Not via selective breeding. At least, not very successfully; there have been attempts, but fortunately most eugenicists let their “I wanna hurt the Inferior People™ – err, Not-People™” rule over actually doing eugenics properly, so we merely got atrocities. And even if they had, you can't get much eugenics done in a handful of generations; I'm not aware of any eugenics campaign longer than ten generations, and even the longest of those are mostly just slow-motion genocides.

In fact, we've mostly neutered evolutionary pressures on ourselves. In ten thousand years, this might be a minor problem, but we'll probably have figured out a way of doing genetic modification without being monsters by then.
Actually its been bred out with extreme prejudice. Any sheepdog that bites a sheep gets shot. No second chances. Its a part of the job that shepherds absolutely hate because these dogs are really close and highly valued family members. But its the only way.
> BMW will sell your on, not you.

It does not matter who sells the car. What matters is whether:

(the price of used car with heated seats that must be paid for) - (the money already made from renting out heated seats) > (price of a used car with heated seats that are free)

The identity of the seller does not alter this equation at all, nor can it flip a loss to a gain.
In some sense, yes. See https://www.econlib.org/archives/2005/07/the_economics_a.htm... and https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017/05/cruise_ships_an.htm...

I was suggesting that if you want to help workers, you need to give them access to better outside options.
I bet it wasn't wearing a crash helmet, either. I've seen so many people driving without one.
It's a business decision and I doubt that they made it lightly.
It helps that dogs have 39 pairs of chromosomes, which is more than most other mammals (humans have only 23). So it's relatively easy to selectively breed for certain desirable phenotypes without getting too many undesirable ones. Although the process isn't perfect so we still see a lot of inbreeding and genetic diseases in some purebreds.
> > This includes ICE cars made after 2018 that have ODB3 and send GPS, emission, speed and other data to 3rd parties.

> I googled for this and could find no info. Please give a reference for this claim.

I can't even seem to find any reference to odb 3 existing at all in the first place. So yeah any link would be very much appreciated
The Lost Message Of Carpe Diem – or reminding yourself about death
States Are Moving to Curb Public Health Powers Following Lockdown Carnage
I have a high drive Australian Shepherd. When he was 9 months old I took him to a sheep farm that trains herding dogs. To see him immediately switch from derpy puppy to full on herding mode as soon as he saw sheep was pretty amazing.
They've pretty much all moved to chip at this point, at least IME. It's the lack of PIN that confuses me. All the terminals have pin pads already, but whether they request the PIN is pretty spotty (seems to be bank card vs true credit card?).
Yes but this newfound demand for gold will be based entirely on a government regulation, making it artificial. If the market naturally desired enough gold to back every transaction, the price would skyrocket right now
> ... just create an S3 bucket with a short domain, configure it for static web hosting, and upload empty files which have the "Redirect" metadata property set to the destination URL. Voila!

Heavy “Dropbox is just cvs mounted over ssh, easy!” vibes over here.
Sure. I'll fire up a bash shell and type a few commands for you...
So for the first, I am explicitly describing managers in an agile, team lead style. But, yes. Managers, first and foremost, hire the team. Ideally from feedback, but ultimately the manager is responsible for the team's formation. But then the manager also has to help smooth out bumps along the way. Having someone objective who can help smooth out disagreements can be HUGE. Likewise someone who can give feedback to individuals; a large personality can be a huge asset to the team, but can also leave others feeling alienated; someone who can help carve out space for those others to speak up, and to help coach the person filling the room how to recognize that and also to carve out space for others, is immensely helpful. And maintenance includes progression, both for individuals and the team; devs are often focused on what they're working on, they're not evaluating how to get their work recognized, and more junior ones often aren't evaluating how to grow themselves. It also includes HR issues; having someone who can do the legwork for your Visa sponsorship, for instance, frees you to do real work. A good manager is basically the team's admin assistant as well.

For the second, of course they are. You have to take the two statements I made together. There is a spectrum; at one end are devs working on what they feel is important, but not knowing they're not working on what the business feels is important. At the other is the business deciding everything the devs do, oftentimes changing priorities every week. Having one person as a middleman there can be immensely helpful. That may look like a manager saying "Hey Bob. Jane has this need; work with her to understand and implement it", and handling everything off to a dev, but the point is that the manager, A. Gave Jane (and everyone else) one person to reach out to initially when it came to their needs of the team, B. Helped determine that Jane's need was a priority against all the other needs, and C. Gave Bob permission to ignore all other incoming requests and direct them back to the manager, to focus on Jane's need. That is not to say Bob is not reading and writing; it IS to say that Bob can benefit from someone keeping him from being interrupted by every person in the business with a need who thinks he might help.
Congrats on your sobriety. Any advice or insights on how you quit that you’d like to share for anyone struggling with addiction here?
> Sure, but would you really rather your dollars "lose value" as in they can purchase less and less goods and services over time?

Yes. Mostly, because of systemic effects on the broader economy I need to have functioning to earn a living, but also because of more direct personal benefits.

> How does that benefit you personally?

Because other than a small share in cash and the bank for liquidity, my assets aren’t dollar denominated, but my debts — which, while smaller than my total assets, are much larger than my dollar-denominated assets — are almost entirely dollar-denominated.
No, but all the ancient historians wrote about battles and kings, so we have that info all written up already. Very few of them wrote about the life of the average peasant, so to find out about that, one of the richest kind of archaeological sources are literal garbage dumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
> The Grain Weevil powered by JLI Robotics is a mobile robot that scurries across the top of the grain inside of a storage bin performing tasks that no human should ever do.

This felt like a particularly strong wording. Is it due to risk of drowning in grain? Or just an annoying task?
Those are separate concerns from the age/demographic ones I was addressing. I could see what you raise driving some difference in the rates of reporting to VAERS. I could not see it driving a difference of, say, zero "Death + Life Threatening" reports for influenza vaccines in 2020 versus 2,857 "Death + Life Threatening" reports for Covid vaccines in 2021 for the 18-59 age group.
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> The best managers make you feel like there is no manager.

Totally agree. This has been written before, many years ago. I'm sure it's possible to find references from other cultures and traditions as well:

"When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists."

http://thetaoteching.com/taoteching17.html
A bit off topic, and pardon my asking, I'm genuinely a bit fascinated to know how you came to buy what seems to be quite a specific vehicle, with the expectation that you would hate it?

If it was just cost and utility (i.e. "yeah it sucks, but I can do x,y,z.. with it") I suppose that makes sense, and I'm glad it turns out you enjoy it. It just seems like 4Runners specifically have quite an enthusiastic following, I'm quite interested to know why someone would seek out an old one who specifically was not stoked about it.
Yeah. It drives me nuts that in tech we pay more attention to processing power over things like response times and latency.

Who cares if you have hardware that’s 15% more powerful than last year if nothing has moved meaningfully in my actual experience.
> but without all the squiggly characters

I so liked the APL squiggly characters (mostly Greek letter based glyphs). Made for very succinct code. Combined with right-to-left precedence resulted in very low overhead to write and read code. Most people who complained about it APL as “write-only” seemed to be outside the community of serious APL programmers. Once you learned to read the language it was very easy to comprehend at regular reading speed...

In contrast NumPy seems absurdly wordy, and waiting for the completion menu in an IDE tends to derail my train of thought.

However I do tend to like NumPy for being APL-like, so it’s not a damning contrast as far as getting things done.
Well that has a prior on life even existing in the first place
The GDS is the model the US dept was modeled after [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service
Not my field but another seemingly plausible explanation, at least to me, exists. The common ancestor did have this gene and most other descendants lost the gene because it wasn’t needed and was selected against.
I’m from NorCal and this would be lost on me, save for the fact I’ve been living on Long Island the past 14 years and driving on the Southern State Parkway (1925) and the Meadowbrook Parkway (1924).

Though I’ve not been there, the Southern Boulevard Parkway (1904) in PA sounds like the real deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_State_Parkway?wprov=s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook_State_Parkway?wpro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Boulevard_Parkway?wpr...
Frill: On-Device Speech Representations Using TensorFlow-Lite
i know he settled on emby, but for anyone who uses Plex in a web browser, i created an extension that adds widescreen zoom, random sorting, a dynamic audio compressor, and links to movie trailers. its open source, check it out!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/enhance-o-tron-for-plex
I understand what you're saying, and had the article put it in similar terms I wouldn't take much issue with it. Instead the article took the tone of developer superiority vs. managerial incompetence & intransigence. Where, by implication if not direct statement, all failures are failures of management.

I don't like that management gets bashed so consistently, because it is a view blinded from the truth: good management isn't actually all that rare as this POV would make it seem: Good management is nearly invisible. It smooths over things, putting fewer roadblocks in workers ways, and thereby only gets noticed when there's a problem. And even the best managers will encounter problems, meaning people really only take note of management when there's something negative going on.

Maybe it's because I've had all three types that articles like this put me on the defensive. I've seen bad management, I've seen invisible management that generally makes my life easier in ways I only notice because I've had bad managers, and I've had at least one manager that was so good that they not only made my life easier, they made me much more effective at my job.

Rising through the ranks is also no guarantee of success: management is a skill, and it does not always overlap with being good at the jobs you manage. All that does is make sure the manager understands the work, not actually understand how to manage a group/department/division etc., Which is a different skillet. I'm not a manager, despite opportunities, precisely because I understand that fact, my own preferences, and my own limitations.

It's also important to remember that "bad management" is frequently not monolithic. There may be very good managers throughout an organization, but one bad mid-high level manager makes them all look bad when even after they fight back against something,they lose the fight and their job is still to implement it. No different than an excellent developer forced to write something useless/bad/inefficient. Is the developer a bad developer? There are some fights like that-- won or lost-- that I've only found out about long afterwards, because again: good management is often invisible.
> An investment property still has people living in it?

Investment properties don't always turn into occupied rentals; sometimes they turn into vacation/secondary homes, airbnbs, &ct. They can also end up vacant if the dwelling is being used purely as an investment vehicle or if the landlord is uninterested in lowering rent in response to market forces, although it's hard (for me, a lay person who doesn't want to spend more than a couple minutes googling) to know if those are significant quantities of homes or just a rounding error.

>I've never heard of investors lobbying against social housing (in the UK at least).

I don't know how UK politics works, but in the US, large investment banks and lobbying groups pour huge amounts of money into our political system, and individual investors also happen to be voters. For example, the last CA ballot measure which would've improved housing justice somewhat (2020's prop 21) saw heavily-financed opposition from landlord associations.

>Forcing investors and developers to provide "affordable housing" arguably makes the problem worse. I.e. it makes it harder to make a profit and therefore disincentivises building new homes.

I don't really have opinions about whether you should force developers to provide affordable housing in new developments, since I think trying to wield market forces to fix social problems has a poor track record in general. If you (well, the government, civil society, whatever) want to incentivize building new affordable homes, you should just build them yourself.
What happened in 1981 that bent and smoothed the curve?
Perhaps a use for blockchain technology - persistent storage of shortened URLs.
The comment is referring to the predecessor in the UK, the GDS.
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10 units per acre is 1 house per 5k sqft lot--this is plainly single family detached housing. No one in that zoning is having parking issues. When you start talking about 35duc then you start having parking issues--but at 35duc, you're totally within the realm of being able to justify more frequent bus service for a town with 200k+ people. But if you're in a small town with very progressive density allowances like that, then the solution is simple: improve zoning to encourage more neighborhood commercial. No need to worry about transit in that case.
yeah, especially in 'getting use' to something. if regular air all of a sudden started smelling like roses, it would be immediately noticeable, but it probably wouldn't be long before we couldn't smell anything different about the air. That has lots of implications on neuron firing, for example, people could have feelings of their significant other, sex, happiness, etc all of a sudden smelling this rosy air.
Depending on your location, if "woke" is where you're going to, empathically not.

Around these here parts, the term means many many things, and it involves anything from anti-vaccination & homeopathy and far further medical fringes (Crystals and essential oils for everything up to and including cancer or covid etc), through vast conspiracy theories up to and including Illuminati and Templars and Masons and everything else, impractical and frequently random / fashionable food choices and restrictions, and so on and so worth. "Sensitive", "Aware", "Liberal" or "Emotionally Intelligent" are not part of local definition of "Woke" anymore. In general, "Woke" and "Science/Fact-oriented" are fairly mutually exclusive here - while that's an unfair generalization, that's exactly the problem - the term has diffused and has a lot of negative in addition to perhaps some positive meanings; but mostly it's used by any given fanatical group to indicate their superiority compared to its antonym, "Sheeple".

If you meant a different word, noting it explicitly would be helpful :)
If I was EA first thing would be to open source the Frostbite engine today, kills that one. Games are more the engine.
*But its the only way."

Are these dogs unsuitable as pets (for non-farming households)?
Can you elaborate on how current customers are using it? Any fun / funny insights that were discovered thanks to your product that helped them in meaningful ways?

Congrats on the launch! Looks like an interesting (and more human) approach.
It's important to note that that's "high" inflation, not inflation period. Low inflation also has a negative impact on the poor, while benefiting the wealthy, and for many years at this point inflation has been considered quite low. It is likely a major factor on the increase in inequality seen over the same time frame.