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> if everyone go to gym the whole society would become healthier.

going to the gym for exercise vs bodybuilding is different. I'm specifically talking about people doing bodybuilding or training for specific purpose without being a professional athlete, rather than regular exercise.

You're just asserting that one thing has benefits, while denying another thing has any benefits. All i'm saying is that your cultural bias is clouding your judgement because studying for tests is the same as bodybuilding - the person chose to do it, therefore it has benefits for themselves. And how do you know studying for tests don't raise intelligence? you at least get more knowledge.
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For consultancy, the hourly rate the customer is paying to the employer versus what actually lands on the bank account at the end of the month.

For product development, the price of licenses and support deals per month, correlated to the hourly cost of everyone on the office, and then what actually lands on the bank account at the end of the month.

As for how much money it costs me an FTE to play around something outside the planned roadmap, their monthly salary divided by the amount of hours they are supposed to be working per month, correlated with the time spent on said activity.

Actually I have been in a couple of projects, where instead of sprint points or hours, we actually had euros as ticket efforts.
I think the fuss about the daily scrum is a perfect example of what is wrong with many Agile transformations.

Often it seems that people talk about the 'micromanagement' and 'wasted time' as if they would not enjoy the daily. To me this is a warning, that something within the setup is not right. In general, micromanagement requires hierarchy, but I don't recall from the Scrum Guide [1] that a manager should be present or that directions should be given. So who is managing who?

If done right, there should be absolutely no reason why there should be negative emotions involved: The devs get together and talk about their work and the challenges they want to share. It is about fostering communication.

[1] https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#daily-scrum
Depends on your keyboard. All languages are made for keyboards of the english.

Worst character in this neighborhood is "~". It is AltGr+"~" followed by spacebar. It is same as "ã", but the "a" is replaced with " ". Takes always 3 tries to make it right.
Not quite. It modifies more than just the registry.
It's not unrealistic that there are political preferences in Turkey. However, I think that is hard to say. I certainly would not state it in the absolute. Sites that are not connected to the Ottomans, easily excavated and then visible to tourists are naturally rare in Istanbul.

But many of the sites are not Ottoman in origin, and are quite central to the cities archeological portfolio. On the other hand, artifacts (like the ships they discovered during tunnel excavations) are also on display. They are just several layers under the Ottoman Istanbul so when you find them, it's not going to be a whole site you can visit.

Another hint might be that if you go outside of Istanbul, there are a lot of Greek era sites (or even earlier sites) that are "the" highlight of the adjacent region or city. Assos, Ephesus, Troy, many things in Bodrum, Cappadocia and many more. Here, the problem is clearly money. Take Assos. They do what they can, and it's fully excavated. There just don't seem to be the resources to feature it in a more exciting fashion.

Finally, knowing people who are Turkish archeologists, I would say they care about the entire history of the place just as any other archeologist would.

In any case, I also hope there will be (and it seems at times that there is) more resources to excavate, understand and display all the historical sites found in Turkey.

To be clear, I am not Turkish, but I go there often.
The startup times are noticeably longer for anything non-native, and noticeable can turn into annoyance when it's an application you're unlikely to leave open all the time, like a registry editor.
That argument makes no sense.

Then again wasn't this the guy outing his customers to terrorists?
IMO, you’re not a cloud PaaS if you’re not 24x7.

The fact that Oracle cloud wasn’t already 24x7 tells me that they never really were a cloud PaaS, and probably still aren’t.
I was at OOPLSA 1998 where it was going viral. Participated in the early C2 wiki. Participated in some of the early "workshops" on this upstart rebel movement.

Raised in a christian tradition, and somewhat a student of history of christianity, I was fascinated by parallels that unfolded in months` time what took place over centuries in christianity.

5 years after the movement began, I found that it felt as watered down, abstracted, and diverse as christianity spent 2000 years becoming. I could bond with a fellow programmer as an "agilist" and at a very vague level, there was some abstract similarity (e.g as christianity might be to "be kind", agile might be to "be lightweight"). Everyone took the parts they wanted and formulated what fit for them. Which was/is both a good thing and a bad thing.
These two measures are probably ended up conflated because they're two ends of the same metric. "How many people need to be hit by a bus", which for simplicity I'll call the "bus factor", measures unusually high levels of resilience, but it doesn't go lower than 0 so it can't measure how fragile a fragile project is. "How many people are indispensable", which for simplicity I'll call "inverse bus factor", measures unusually low levels of resilience, but it doesn't meaningfully go below 0 so it can't measure how resilient a resilient project is. The thing is, a bus factor >= 2 necessarily indicates an inverse bus factor = 0 (if you need to hit two people with buses to take the project down then nobody is indispensable) while an inverse bus factor >= 1 necessarily indicates a bus factor = 1 (if anyone exists that is indispensable, then hitting exactly them with a bus takes the project down). In other words, bus factor = 1 and inverse bus factor = 1 could be viewed as being the same point in the middle of a line on which all projects fall, same way zero is the center between positive and negative numbers.
The pinephone is great, in fact I'm typing this comment from mine.

That said, fair warning to anyone thinking about getting one: it's slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive / answer calls and texts for anything important (e.g. work).

Once they get the software worked out over the next few years though, it'll be the best thing out there. No ads, no bullshit, just a phone with a mainline linux distribution.
It's been on my mind with regard to excessive redundant use of continuous integration resources, and similarly during repeat pulls of bulky container images.

That's just my anecdotal experience though, and without supporting data. It'd be nice to see (and expose) more statistical data about energy usage.
I'm not making an argument against marijuana. I'm saying that "humans always consume in moderation" is an nonsensical argument for anything.
The old Microsoft (the new one is much better at this), you couldn't just go around sharing department knowledge, if you on lets say Visual Basic team wanted the deep knowledge for a Windows feature as means to product improvement, it was easier to have a neutral contractor somehow get hold of the information across departments, than asking directly as Microsoft employee.
https://archive.is/GaNxG
No. Perhaps for a hackathon.
This is true. Being agile is, and should be, an ever changing process. You are never done.

It’s like shaping a system of people. I think of it as 50% of the development endeavor at larger shops.

Retros are used to identify ”technical organization debt” starting to build up, in a way.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Winston Churchill
IN my experience, the same two or three people speak up in retrospectives… and no one else, ever.
My wife teaches on VIPkid so this sucks:

“ Among other things, they also ban the teaching of foreign curriculums, tighten scrutiny over the import of textbooks and forbid the hiring of foreign teachers outside of China -- a curb that could have severe consequences for startups like VIPKid that specialize in overseas tutors. The government also ordered local authorities to tighten approvals for companies providing training on extra-curricul

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/china-bans-school-cur...
Copyright © BloombergQuint”
Yes, pretty much this.
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Just like with Cable TV, right?
Identify country’s flag by drawing sketch (useful for the Olympics)
This is abstract enough to be mostly useless, but concrete enough to piss off everyone who has had success using certain tools. Even the mechanical engineering argument has the counterexample of equivalent but differebt pieces of CAD software used to design a bridge.

"You shouldn't like things" is an absolutely horrible piece of advice. Especially when presented vaguely... Especially when becoming productive in software involves displaying the grit of constantly solving small problems that arise day to day within the tools everyone uses.

Having a preference is a perfectly natural shortcut to productivity, and not a sign of poor engineering. There are dozens of other things we can improve as a community of software engineers which would actually make software better, faster, easier to debug, more maintanable.
Plus two people!
Very few. The meteor of Kabaa is an exception. Otherwise islamic cultures are known for destroying archeological sites (Buddha statues in Afghanistan, Palmyr) even of their own religion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic...).
Yeah, I honestly have not cared about how hard drives work in about 10 years since I built my last array. I have better things to do with my life than worry about this stuff. I just want to connect a drive, reformat/partition if necessary, and then go back to work. A single SSD now read/writes faster than a 16 drive array (got close in RAID0, but that's just dumb). Now, if SSDs could just get a decent volume size.
I'll give 2 examples.

One was a CEO who hadn't any technical background, but he knew what ICT could and could not do for his company.

One day we rewired all of our network, a massive weekend job. He was there, even if the only thing he could do was pulling network cables out of bags and straightening them. He saw who and what worked or not, he saw where we struggled even if he didn't understand a word of our technical mumbo jumbo.

I found out he was always there on the ground for every major operation in his company, not only ICT. The result was he knew the company inside out. Nobody ever tried bullshitting him. I still have massive respect for him, years later.

Then there is exhibit B, a manager from the 'you dont have to understand ICT to manage it' school. Everybody under him spends 3/4 of the time in meetings or filing useless forms. Nobody dares touching important things, so hard decisions get pushed in the future. It happens urgent work needs doing and the only person capable of doing it sits twiddling thumbs as the spreadsheet says maximum team capacity has already been reached. He redefined the words 'major incident' as there were to many under the old definition. His teams keep losing important members, everybody hates each other, work that should take 10 minutes takes months. But he always has a spreadsheet demonstrating it is not his fault.

I know who gets the respect.
All 1-4% of them...

The insinuation that anyone who rises to the top of an organisation must be sociopathic is dillusional.

Yes, there is a higher incidence at the CEO level, traits that help you in a role also help you get there, go figure, but the idea all leaders are sociopaths is a huge stretch based off nothing but your own bias and distain for anyone high up in a power structure, that seems to be going around right now.
Another exciting PV company is basing their production in Germany.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/23/oxford-pv-completes-1...

Oxford PV is moving toward the initial stage of its production plans for its crystalline silicon heterojunction/perovskite tandem PV cells. The company’s initial 100 cell line, installed at a former CIGS solar module factory in the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, will produce 100 MW of the tandem cells – which may push efficiencies beyond 30% in the future
> This sounds soul-crushing and I hope never to work in such an environment.

It isn't.

Soul-crushing is doing "Agile" where the "scrum master" tells you how long each ticket will take, where the client is invisible and never involved, and where retro is 1 hour at the end of the sprint and focused on blame.
On a more fundamental level, it's very understandable that many people look at the state of the world and their conclusion is not: "oh man one thing we definitely need is more people". It's not like we'll run out anytime soon.

If you really want to boost childbirths, give people some hope for tomorrow that we have any capacity to deal with the most immediate existential threats and that their children won't be hunting cockroaches in some Mad Max world.
What I found interesting is that it doesn't use initramfs. Can someone elaborate on that? Is that something other distros should adopt?
In the notary laws I have read, they are clearly officers of the courts. They usually are not paid by the courts, but they have strict enforcement of what they do.
It's all about people not process, if you do not have the right people you are doomed.
I appreciate your answer and all of the other.
I ask the question to try to see out of my bubble, where I only see a small part of the iceberg.

I support your point of view that low-skilled jobs would be the most impacted. Being part of a large company, we are in a very safe position.

With automation, companies are in a grey zone.
Do they add more robots, so it improves the quality of life of workers while firing some/most of them, or do they prefer "social workers", doing repetitive tasks with no added value ? Which one is the most ethical ? Japan made the first choice, thanks to ageing population and absence of immigration to compensate.

I don't know the detail in USA, but the lack of social net / government-grants for unemployement does not help to secure a little bit.
In France, the social net is not the answer, as it has many problems.
Small businesses are closing because 1. They don't find employees (that converted to other jobs or prefer social grants or are completely unqualified), 2. Business is not restarting while government grants are shutting down, 3. They are sick of uncertaincy to open / close / protocols / etc.
The site name and the lack of any sheet music in view seem related.
Genuinely curious on what their proposed solution is if they have 10 candies in total and Alice has 3 candies more than Bob.
Indeed, that is why Agile has failed, the OP comment is a typical day on an "Agile" enterprise corporation.
I mean Blue America isn’t exactly Denmark. California is the richest and poorest state in the country.

Edit: I live in a very well run part of blue America. Strong focus on good governance. The local dems try very hard to distance themselves from national politics.
Set Godin gave the first definition of marketing that didn't feel totally icky to me.

I'm paraphrasing because he's put out so much material and restated his position so many times.

We have culture, a shared set of wordviews. Marketing is engaging with culture, purposefully trying to change it.

In effect homesteading a bit of culture.
"Customers don't know what they want": this is something Agile specifically tries to address by releasing often and adapting to change. This is a quick feedback loop: the customer can quickly see a product and the development can quickly adapt.

What was the 'standard' way to develop systems when the Agile Manifesto was written: the same as for building a bridge.

You gather and freeze requirements. You write a massive plan and plenty of specs. You code accordingly. You deliver.

Time to working software is long and a lot of the effort that goes into specs is wasted, especially for design specs.
I don't understand the responses in this thread. Does nobody want an OS with a permissions system where you can reliably control access to resources? Or strong app sandboxing by default to keep chrome from sniffing your files (allegedly, this is virus scanning)? There isn't any loss of freedom with those as long as your super user can modify it all - its a gain of freedom in that you can have some control over what your random proprietary programs are doing
Was one of the least soul-crushing and nicest experiences in professional software development.
What about snaps on Ubuntu? https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about...
For what it's worth, system-provided can be arbitrary and vary widely between systems.

Moreover, in the Python world a distinction is made between "software that runs your system" and "software that you use for development"; maybe Rust people think similarly.
Except most customers only pay when it goes live, or reaches major milestones, and then you are out of budget, struggling to find another parallel project to somehow keep the team in place, before management states it is time to move on.
> negative emotions involved

Because the daily standup can only be X minutes, someone always gets cut off, causing negative emotions.
Waymo has great teleportations and mediocre self driving. Their driverless is a far cry from self driving. I’d sure love to see some stats on % of maneuvers an operator has to take over and ratio of remote technicians to drivers.
I started following battery tech at the turn of the century and this was old behavior even then.

Battery prototypes are the moral equivalent of announcing you've found a new chemical that kills tumors - in vitro.

Back then the advice from others watching battery technology? If their tech is 10 years ahead of the current state of the art, then either it will take them 10 years to produce it or they will produce it sooner by sacrificing capacity for safety/manufacturing concerns.

Another important thing to remember in any discussion about power - there is almost always a substantial premium paid for portability. If someone is feeding you PR about a stationary power system and comparing it to any household-name portable system, then you should smile and nod and keep track of your wallet as you back away slowly. They are the snake in the grass your ancestors warned you about.
Hi! I'm the author of this article. Thanks for posting it.

I've been programming in Python for quite a while but didn't really understand how the import system works: what modules and packages are exactly; what relative imports are relative to; what's in sys.path and so on. My goal with this post was to answer all these questions.

I welcome your feedback and questions. Thanks!
You are right about metal-air batteries, but IIRC hydrogen-air ideal efficiency is still significantly lower than the ideal efficiency for carbon-air (using fuel cells with solid carbon) or metal-air batteries.

You are also right about synthetic hydrocarbons. The extra hydrocarbon synthesis step lowers the total efficiency, compared with using hydrogen.

Nevertheless, the lower efficiency is more than compensated by the simpler methods used for storage and handling, which require much less expensive materials and a much lower volume and total mass.

The benefits of using hydrocarbons for long-term energy storage have been amply demonstrated by the living beings that have been using this method for billions of years, many of which can easily achieve an autonomy of months without eating, while doing activities that would make a present-time robot using batteries inoperational after a few hours at most.
The biggest problem I have with agile is the absoluteness of its proponents. “There is no other truth than agile, and if you don’t agree you’re old/immoral/…”.

It’s the sad combination of not being open to test other approaches and condemnation of people questioning it.
Turkish culture is filled with traditions that predate Islam and have, what Turks like to call, "Shamanic" origin. The divide may even be more stark, because while they are common, they are in some way counter to fundamentalist views (which, to be fair, are not common there as they are in some Arab countries).

One way to approach the topic might be to watch "The Gift" on Netflix and realize that the book was written by a woman who practices (quite successfully, too) these Shamanic ideas. Then, the context would be that these sorts of stories and myths are extremely popular in Turkey (which is why the book was a hit) and that they live - in an uneasy, unspoken relationship - side by side with Islamic teachings that are culturally from a very different origin.
Another option is to look at Sufism and its capricious relationship with official, state sponsored Islam. Many Turks I know like to view themselves as heavily inspired by Sufism.

Not sure if I am qualified to explicate on traditions in detail, but my feeling is your intuition holds quite true, at least in Turkey. Many little things, from reading coffee, to marriage rituals, to protection against "evil eyes" and spirits, personification of devils and angels, things that are bad luck and generally most "Islamic" things that you find are unique to Turkey compared to Arab countries - are probably things that predate Islam.
Not the original author of the comment but I share the preference. I hold my phone often by the sides; the edge of my palm is a bit higher than the edge of my phone and is not supporting it from below.
A bit like this but without the assistive strap and my fingers actually wrap around the phone a bit more: https://images.app.goo.gl/oxvXQRVBg38oTjnH6

My hands are somewhat skinny so the meat of my hand doesn't interfere but I think my phone case also has to do with this.
My grip seems rare, I couldn't find images of it.

I can't use my pinky as a hard stop always, because if I do it for long enough, I'd get some pain in my joints.

I switch between grips depending on what I do. My texting grip is the one people usually have and I switch to it by pushing my phone with my body to guide it down my palm.
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Reading this, there seems to be an assumption that your perceived purpose is to achieve happiness.

There is a school of thought that one’s purpose is not to do anything but live.

Where life contains both periods of happiness and despair. That both are important, though there are an infinite set of emotional positions to experience and that all of them are valuable, even if some are unsettling or uncomfortable.

I used to have preconceptions of not just achieving happiness as a purpose but which things specifically I needed to accomplish to be happy.

Several years ago a friend introduced me to philosophy offered by the mystic Sadguru.

Some of his work has had great influence on me. You may appreciate some of what he has to say: https://youtu.be/vQ7ZvPghdy8