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In my opinion the “problem” (what problem?) is not Agile but the mismatch between what tech companies want and what technical people usually want:

- tech companies want to push decent features live every 2 weeks (the usual sprint duration). They follow the mantra “move fast and break things”. Technical debt is fine for them as long as money flows. They want to beat their competitors. This makes totally sense from a business perspective, of course

- certain tech people (in my experience) don’t want to move fast and break things. They don’t want to break things, they want to produce products of quality, stable, with minimal defects... if that comes fast that’s fine, but usually it takes time to produce something of quality (at least for average developers—-I am one, and the vast majority of developers are). This makes sense from the point of view of someone who cares about their craft

That’s the mismatch. Companies love Agile (even if it’s done wrongly); tech employees usually hate the very notion of estimates, sprints (are we even in a rush?l, story points, etc.
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That doesn't help you when you're the one dressing the tables. Which forks do you put? in what order?

That doesn't help you with planning the meal. When do you bring the 7 courses and in what order? Was it 7 courses or something else for that ocassion, can't remember.

And yes I am that guy who had to host fine dining.
Before I forget, there is also multi-commander that uses the "filesystem approach":

http://multicommander.com/

http://multicommander.com/docs/browse-registry
Company towns aren't that rare. Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_City,_Pennsylvania
One hack in '99 is not bad really. Looks like you're doing a great job.

Don't forget that the whole DIY thing is also incredibly educational. People tend to forget that when weighing the pros and cons.

It's not always directly teaching useful skills for work as most companies will just want you to know how to talk to AWS. But general computing and security knowledge is always useful IMO.
>same way zero is the center between positive and negative numbers.

More like the way 1 is halfway between 0 and infinity. I think you're nearly there, and the answer to the dilemma is that fractional bus factors are possible. A bus factor of 0.5 means there are two indispensable people.

We might disambiguate the two conflicting definitions by renaming them with suitably inverse words - "redundancy" and "fragility" perhaps (though I suspect the latter is unneccesary). This is basically the terminology we use for RAID arrays and servers.
Indeed, and they do so willingness, because the Linux kernel is a detail completely hidden away to them.

The OS vendor can change the kernel being used, and those average users won't notice it all.

The only quality is being a free beer OS, that the OEM vendors can leech at will without bothering one second up-streaming their changes.

And when the community started to be too vocal about it, efforts to use MIT/BSD licensed alternatives were set in motion.

In a couple of years those router OSes, smart televisions, Android phones won't be using the Linux kernel any longer.
It’s part of your job to explain that to them. And you have to do it in business terms, that is, how it will impact budget and schedule for the project. And prepare for questions like “ok, you have convinced me that Kotlin is superior to Java, but you are the only one in the team with any Kotlin experience, and we have a rather hard deadline for this project in 9 months. Are you hundred percent sure that we will both manage to train the team and deliver in that timeframe? And you know Karl, who’s retiring in a few years, he doesn’t seem to be very eager to learn something new. And he’s a damn productive Java programmer.”
Zoom is the shittiest pile of dark patterns. I hate it.

But I can confirm that it works just fine in the browser on Linux.
>He claims he hasn’t spent any money since. It’s true, his friends have told me. No money at all.

This quote was kinda funny to me, because the online text doesn't convey any sarcasm or tone.

But considering he's actually just a mooch I sort of implied the tone of that comment to be quite snarky. "Yeah, no money at all, he won't spend a dime" - this guy's poor friend.
Some of these are clearly deliberate obfuscation. I need something to handle Queues, what should I use? Amazon SQS obviously. Oh cool, what’s that? It’s a Queue service! Oh great, why is called SQS? Simple Queue Service duh! Is there a more complex queuing service? No. There’s only SQS.

The acronym is totally useless, tells you nothing beyond it being for Queues and completely obfuscates what’s happening for anyone not in the eco system.
Counter-example that I took:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/25949441@N02/9377845729/

But yeah, I expect I’ll be seeing dead butterflies everywhere now.
I 'll wait for Amazon Town Services
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There is a browser extension for that.
The best thing to do with facebook is to ignore the feed altogether. Or even block it. Use search, and use subscriptions.
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A lot of Chinese students paying for full priced universities abroad is a long term strategic move by the family and/or family owned business backing them. That's why you can often see families paying for $50,000 USD/year high school abroad even. The plan is 1. start to develop a foothold overseas, 2. then move money over, 3. then get one family member with a foreign passport and 4. keep building a stronger base for emigration and large scale eventual shift of wealth. It's not equivalent to US private middle-class citizens paying for the same institutions.
The fundamental insight behind what became agile is that it isn't actually possible to have both a guaranteed delivery date and a guaranteed set of delivered features. The reality of software development just doesn't allow it.

Businesses don't "get things done" by operating as if they can have both. That's why projects fail, businesses cut corners, and then inevitably ship broken products or don't ship at all.

Most of the "agile methodologies" are nonsense dreamt up by borderline con artists attempting to sell their services. The fact that it's an either / or choice - and that nothing can get around that choice - is inherent in the nature of the work.
Mad Max III also described a post apocalyptic world powered by methane made from pig shit.

So it seems like a commonish theme.
Exactly. If you want to live without money, that should be doable, but this isn't it. You can live on a homestead in the middle of nowhere, grow your own crops, raise your own cattle, barter with neighbours and be completely self-sufficient without money. This guy just lets other spend money for him.
"be sure that the development will never stop and at some point it will be better than Android in every way. I would say in a year"

The current stage is pretty much unusable if you need a reliable phone.

So in one year already, it is supposed to be better than android in every way?

That is a very bold assumption.
I mean, would be nice, but I doubt it and would be happy if it gets stable enough to simply use it as a phone and chatdevice, without hickups.
Nothing like enjoying the power of 2012 GPU hardware in 2021.
> IIRC, Python 3 simplified things a good deal by removing "implicit" relative imports, but I'm a little foggy on exactly what that means.

Exactly that: in Python 3, if an import doesn’t start with a . it will always be absolute aka looked up from sys.path.

In python 2, it would try performing a relative import (so importing a sibling module) first.
There's a similar effect as Amdahl's law with these. Only after programmers come to their senses and opt to take care of that 70%, we get to the remaining part of the pie and its subdivisions, and can start thinking about the actually interesting part of engineering secure systems.

The overwhelming prevalence and impact of memory safety bugs has retared development of solutions for the remaining, nontrivial problems for many decades, by consuming so much of the attention.
What would Buffalo Bill think?
A man with sufficient free cash flow but no capital.
Regarding the sources: It's amazing how much of the Latin corpus still hasn't been translated to English. (I'm working on a much later set of NeoLatin translations) I've found there are great tools like OCR4all and alpheios.net — but there is a huge amount of specialized labor involved and virtually no funding.
I mean, what would you call it? It's basically a 'push/pop' interface with timeouts. Like, do you think 'Kafka' is more descriptive? Or Prometheus? Or any of the essentially randomly generated names that various projects and products choose?

By the standard of tech names SQS seems, relatively speaking, extremely descriptive.
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I've been reading about the Mill for many years now and was fascinated by many of their ideas. However, the more deeply I learn about the details of how CPUs and GPUs work, the more I'm convinced that we're not going to see the kind of paradigm shift that they're touting.

They have some cool ideas, but many are incompatible with existing software, e.g. all the memory protection stuff. Other ideas like how memory loads work could be integrated (and have been in place in GPUs for a long time, though not in CPUs) but still depend on compiler changes, which presumably they've done, but past experience with hardware projects that rely on compiler changes is that the compiler changes aren't performing well enough in practice. Or perhaps compilers improve so slowly that traditional architectures can easily absorb the ideas in time.

Another example is that Apple's M1 proves that wider frontends are possible in traditional architectures, as long as the instruction size is fixed. There's no particular reason to believe that the Mill would be inherently better at this than a traditional architecture.

If you have a lay person's interest in hardware architecture and haven't looked at their docs yet, do so. The ideas will likely tickle your brain in a good way -- they did for me. But don't expect much, if anything, from them in production.
> Good managers can be amazingly effective and well worth it.

Good Xs (where X = developers, managers, designers, etc.) can be amazingly effective and well worth it. This is obvious. The vast majority of managers out there are average, and so they are a necessary evil. Compare this to the situation: the vast majority of developers out there are average (I include myself in this group )... and this is fine, they are not seen as a “necessary evil”.
About Blender... I think the reason has more to do with the stagnation of animation/modelling tools since the monopoly of Autodesk has taken place. Maya seem to be getting more and more bloated throughout the years without any substantial features, while Blender's quickly gaining new ones while the whole program is being optimized and easier to use.
I see. But that's still only the first, "plannable" part. If the research (or algo design) led to the conclusion that component X needed a rewrite, would it require waiting half a month to get started? Maybe that makes sense if it's a larger thing (so that detailed planning would be worthwhile), but would you be required to drop it and do something else in the meantime even for smaller ones (say, a man-day of work)?
The population has to decrease in a gradual and manageable way. In demographic collapse we cannot support retirees. Unless we have a totally different economic model, but then we would not be in this in the forst place.
I keep hearing that this phone is not good for texting or calling. Can someone describe why? Is call quality poor? Are calls missed? etc.
A former colleague of mine, Dave Roscoe, has been working on this sort of thing for years -- those interested in going down this rabbit-hole might like to start here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Roscoe-3
19th century?

This smells more of medieval style feudalism.
Unless the exposure is kept up, all this will go by they wayside by the end of first grade.
This guy is a monk.
So that's how they got invented the first time, huh.

Well, if he teaches others what he know and they emulate him, while the general populace tolerate and support them, a new ascetic movement would be made easily.

Still, my heart is with his estranged SO and their children. Ascetics can't support others that well after all.
> Oh my... it is not overselling. It is dealing with people like children they are. People reverted to the point where you can't have merit-based discussion about vaccines in public, and so simplifying the message is IMO the right strategy.
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> The point is, vaccines work and the more people vaccinate the less will die and all other finer points are less important.

Repeating a point over and over, based on falsehoods, hasn't worked out very well either here or in global warming.

At some point, people notice you're lying. The conclusion might be correct, but if you get caught lying along the way, you undermine your case.

People didn't "revert." Years of this kind of oversimplification and "dealing with people like children they are" led to this ignorance. And in a rapidly-evolving situation like COVID19, this ignorance sometimes ends up biting you just months later. In my community, vaccine efficacy is well below 70%. People don't believe that since we've had months of messaging.

Yes, I do think we would have higher vaccination rates if we stopped patronizing people, and started educating them.

No time like the present to start.
Everyone is easy to replace.
I disagree. AR mobile games have been around for a few years and VR first hit the market 2 decades before AR. If anything, VR has been a harder technology to break through. Which, in my personal opinion, is because it’s more likely to make people feel sick plus is less of a social tech.
Though according to that article the actual Ford plants have been closed for years.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255642
He won't be living on much then.

And that is only if you consider throwing food in the trash charity.
And, worth mentioning that the situation is far worse for Sanskrit and other Indian languages, where thousands of unknown texts are literally moulding away in temple basements. I personally think it is tragic to lose cultural legacy like that.
Most Linux users use GNOME or KDE, which are easy to use and far more customisable than Win10.

If you want to branch out to less popular DEs then of course you should be prepared for it being less polished, but does any Linux newbie really expect dozens of super polished DEs?
The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!".
> I don’t think so

But the fact you don't disagree with yourself doesn't mean other people don't disagree with you.
> They were developers, programmers, scientists, and engineers. They were still slingin’ code* and working with their stakeholders to solve problems. This is important.

Utter nonsense. They were consultants looking to sell consulting services. Just in the next paragraph:

> Many of these people already had a methodology they had created and/or were proselytizing.
I live in New York and I think it's pretty livable. The massive subway and bus lines allow you to save thousands of dollars on rent by living a 40 minute commute from Manhattan away. This ends up with a comparable rent per square foot to Philadelphia.

I've only ever visited San Francisco once but from what I've read, it's surprising to see SF end up on multiple lists of highest quality of life cities in the US with no other US city listed.

Are these studies just biased to the wealthiest cities rather than something like the quality of life of the average or majority resident?
Ah, the Streacom DB4... what a piece of art!

For a while I was pondering whether to invest in a completely silent home server using the DB4, but it would have meant that I would need to go all-in with solid-state storage, which would get a bit pricey for a 4 Tb RAID10 array :(
What's in a name? Really, is "Amazon Virtual Servers" much better than "Elastic Compute" ? Maybe slightly. But at the end of the day you have to go look at it and see wtf that means no matter what, and the 'elastic' verbiage is fairly consistent across AWS products.

IAM is similarly not that bad - Identity Access Management pretty much tells me what it is.

When we have a field where things are named in extremely unclear ways - kubernetes, docker, kafka, prometheus, etc etc etc - these really don't seem that bad by comparison.
Delta Chat [1] is a good example of such an interface spanning all devices and platforms. Works suprisingly well!

[1] https://github.com/deltachat
Alpine is amazing. One of the best distros I've ever used by far. So good for desktop, so good for servers, so easy to use and install, amazing package manager.
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I think the bigger problem is exponentials, rates of change, and control systems.

Right now, we lock down when numbers get high, and open up when numbers get low.

There's about a month lag between actions and hopsitalizations, so we act on month-old data. We don't look at rates-of-growth. This results in a roller-coaster.

We ought to take whatever measures we need to keep R0<1.
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Actually that doggysticker website would probably do well as a collection of NFTs on Ethereum.
Yes, thank you. I thought there exist other SNES cartridges that help you make music, and this one`s better. But I guess the alternative is "program the chip". Which is definitely much more difficult.
There was a video on YouTube I watched years ago about how enthusiast brands will always betray its core user base. It was talking about One Plus and Essential. But I believe it applies to businesses in general. How will a company like this become mainstream? I hope something like this succeeds in the long-term but the way I see it most people don't want the hassle of worrying about how to repair their laptop or phone. This also stifles any major efforts taken towards the right to repair.
Great, but it seems to be quite 'experimental' (and buggy) rather than production ready for people wishing to switch from Android to the Pinephone.

Just saying it is 'There' doesn't really tell us how well it actually runs on it. To quote the grandparent comment mentioning the word 'seamlessly' as the requirement.
> those hallowed commandments are, frankly, ill-defined bollocks.

I wish I could upvote this more.
Great now I am going to be checking every picture of butterflies that I see
I'm all for shitting on the JS ecosystem, but honestly there haven't been any noticeable shifts whatsoever in its ecosystem for at least 6 or 7 years now.

Both React and Vue.js are now older than jQuery was when both were released. Same for Babel and Webpack. Typescript is older than all of these. SASS/SCSS also older than Typescript. Those are the only things you see in 99% of the frontend job descriptions out there.

If anything, frontend is kinda boring, and it can be argued that some of those tools above need some disruption.
Maybe, maybe not.

A buffer-overflow is a hack, but so was markdown at first.
Sorry, but none of that in any way resembles my understanding of how DNA and the brain work.
Monocypher[0], unironically. Though it's not header-only (it's a single C file and a separate header), but it's easy enough to merge the two. It even beats your licensing requirements (CC-0 or BSD 2-clause dual-license).

[0] https://monocypher.org/
> have productive discussions, share pictures, invite each other to parties, and not make the world darker?

You are fighting against the very core of human nature. Some of us like to keep it nice and good, some of us just want to watch the world burn. No software is going to fix this.
Great writeup. For someone so meticulous it's surprising that Gb/Tb is used where GB/TB is meant. Reading the X1 Nano review seems like that is consistent.
Americans complaining about TV teaching their kids foreign accents... Payback's a b***, eh? ;)
Yeah, I'm much more impressed with Scott & Helen Nearing, who did basically that: http://goodlife.org
There's an installer now, but what drives me away from using it is it's heavy dependence on systemd utils by default. Of course there's forks that fix it, of course you can do things differently, but yeah. There's distros that offer better with less, and are simpler to set up.
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> Can you not capture your screen manually and make it available to your browser as a generic web cam?

I could but I didn't anticipate that issue with larger meetings and it caught me by surprise

My understanding is that the web cam also uses different compression, leading to issues with readability

> Last time I used it they were engaging in website trickery. You had to click the link to download (and maybe do something else) before it would present you with the "join from browser" link.

Tried that since I've already heard about these dark patterns, but wasn't able to. It's easier and more intuitive to add a local account on windows.
The difference between having money to fly first class, and having a staff that manages for private plane, helicopters and yachts to avoid traffic or lines at airports etc, is an example of how wealth isolates people from inconvenience.
> It's a term that summarizes many of the complex properties you mentioned.

Ok, then would you be so kind to show how to compute these properties from this single term?
why do you find it off-putting?
https://millcomputing.com/patents/
Yes, the kids are missing a lot of school.
Is that the right question? Does a company have to become mainstream?
> I don't think they'd agree with you

I think that’s mostly due to them being different from the thing they are used to, not because they’re inferior.

I’d be more interested in what people going in the other direction (e.g. from LibreOffice to MS Office) would say.
My math is shallow at best but... 1∪2 would become just 2 with integers represented as sets in certain foundational theories, right?
> > “you want to tax the working class American to pay for healthcare for the rich?

This is where America should have answered "Yup, you betcha!" Because, you'd be taxing the rich even more, but since they'd also benefit from it, they'd have much less grounds to protest against it.

In places like Sweden, billionaires receive the same universal child benefit as everyone else, largely for this exact reason.
This smacks of a dysfunctional work environment, to be honest, and I don't think scrums are the problem.
Wealth is when you feel free in your head. When feel comfortable with your doings. And when you are surrounded by good people.
I know how it is to have a very good income. It makes life very pleasant the first years, but you get used to it. And money can and to some degree in my case destroy a lot of things. For example exchanging a family for a new girl. Partying with the richest and forgetting your old friends.
The trick is to stay conversative and don't fall for the cool VIP life.
Just so long as he doesn't teach too many others - this sort of thing doesn't scale well.
Prince Charles’ experimental city
Are cargo drones the future of logistics?
Of course, it's published on Jacobin.
What if the discharge rate versus cost plot is mostly flat?