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It's a mentality and culture difference. Manager-type people solve issues by having meetings, lots of meetings. Their work is accomplished in the meetings. The can have 7 meetings on the same day, each about a completely different subject and still manage to get something done.

Programming on the other hand requires uninterrupted blocks of time. Working on 7 projects on the same day just means you have 7 projects that didn't progress. Having to sit in a meeting every other hour means you're not getting anything done between meetings because context switching takes time.
The omega 3s are really important. Also reducing omega 6s so that the ratio of the 2 is better is important. At least in the US, people get way too much omega 6s and not nearly enough omega 3s.

We had one dog who had all kinds of problems. Hair falling out. Skin inflamed. Digestive problems. General inflamation. Vets had no clue.

So, we added fish oil based on some research, and all of those problems just went away. This is the dog where we made that discovery (for ourselves).

We've also boosted omega 3s and reduced omega 6s in our own diets, and that has had remarkable impact on health.
Everything in the reactor is blasted with enormous neutron flux, inducing radioactivity in everything.

A thousand tons of molten, radioactive lithium could easily ruin your day, if ever exposed to air.
It seems you are saying 'it's your own fault, we're not responsible, go away' to me.

I kindly remind you that the comment I was replied to is saying:
'In Russia, the default mode of answering any complaint is "it's your own fault, we're not responsible, go away"'.

The irony.
Notion is not bad: the killer feature is you can export so not locked in.
Oh, fractals thread and I have a couple of questions. Are fractal “features” enumerable? Finite?

By feature I mean in fractal zoom videos they pick some zoom path and it generates repeating shapes again and again until they switch to different path. How many repeating patterns there are?

Do fractals exist with an infinite number of features?

Do fractals exist where features cannot repeat in future zoom levels? Or at least that you barely could predict where a repeating part could be. Sort of a chaotic fractal.
waiting for twitter to change their ToS to include a line "if you announce an offer to buy twitter via twitter then that offer is considered a valid contract."
The article barely cares about that in the article. It's obsessed with unmasking identities of open source contributors.
> Many weak characters break that way. The trick is to make them choose their own deadline and fail. That way you take away the scapegoat "they set unrealistic deadlines" because the engineer digged their own grave.

IDK, but this seems just psychopathic?
Ok, we replaced a coal plant with solar panels.

What do we do at night?

Build storage for the solar plant? That's more expensive than a nuclear plant of the same capacity.

Build long range high voltage power lines? Again, more expensive than building a nuclear power plant of the same capacity.

People have been spoiled by the incredible energy ROI, portability and responsiveness of fossil fuels and think everything has the same capacity.

It doesn't.
> It seems that the smartest, most sincere, most dominant communists the world has ever seen... became capitalists.

Karl Marx said socialism would start in the most economically advanced country. Marx was just one member of the IWMA, which also included Bakunin, but Marx was remembered most. Thus Lenin's call to take over Russia surprised even the Bolsheviks initially. He maintained until his death that Russia was not the vanguard of worldwide socialist revolution - one reason the Comintern was formed.

China was even less in Marx's vision than China - the country was agricultural and essentially feudal, and the revolution was in the countryside led by peasants. Molotov called Mao Pugachev. Actually Mao realized Deng Xiaoping was a "capitalist roader" in 1962, and began working to sideline him in 1966, but Deng Xiaoping came to power after Mao died. Xi is very much in line with Deng Xiaoping. If you're saying Deng Xiaoping and his followers like Xi are capitalist readers then you're echoing what Mao realized in 1962 and expressed in 1966.
Are you sure that prepaid debit cards are in the best interests of the contractors?

Not entirely but most other options have hidden costs as well.
I suspect that the author has never actually worked in a flat organizations, it's been my experience that flat organizations have way, way more problems than "too many managers."
Make sure to deploy your micro services in Microsoft Azure AKS to improve the reliability on the long term, thanks to the included and frequent network issues.
My admiration for Mozilla and Apple grows every day /s
True, the problem lies somewhere else. Maybe the project should not exist at all if it's not manageable.

The question "can you do it?" implies more than "can you maybe do it if you have infinite time and luck?" it implies "can you deliver on time?" and if you cannot then you should not take the project. The problem is that it's hard to hire engineers that are capable enough. Therefore we must make it work with the engineers we have and that means to push them harder than they are used to. If they succeed, then great.
I really think the push for hydrogen (highly impractical at scale) by the right wing press is part of fossil fuel industry attempts to spread fud around battery evs.
Yes, if God exists, is the creator, is all powerful, is good, is sane, then suffering must be of ultimate benefit, or an unavoidable consequence of for example free will. That said lot of suffering is man made.
I think the fact that you think this is pedantic rather than useful and relevant demonstrates that you don't realize what he's getting at, possibly because your definition of "information being available" is wrong; it would make type 1 thinking the same as type 2.
A small plastic tube sucking air in to lift a piece would also do well.
In the realm of NLP, there are some companies that offer a human in the loop service. So to the outside, they offer human quality results. And on the inside, they use their machine learning technology, supervised by humans. One way to do it, I guess, is to especially watch the results where the model is least confident. And of course, you feed back all of these corrections back into the model, so it becomes better over time.
Ward Cunningham's wiki at c2.com was a simple user editable wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

I don't know what all your linguistics analysis is trying to achieve other than disguise the fact that this isn't a wiki.
> The question "can you do it?" implies more than "can you maybe do it if you have infinite time and luck?" it implies "can you deliver on time?

Incorrect, it implies "can you do it in a reasonable time, that is as yet unknown and unknowable" - which might even be quite small, but no-one really knows, so committing to a fixed deadline is at best fooling yourself, and is more likely a trap.

> is that it's hard to hire engineers that are capable enough. Therefore we must make it work with the engineers we have and that means to push them harder than they are used to. If they succeed, then great.

I think that problem is that this is an intentionally deceptive, demented burnout-factory, and no decent engineer would want to work for you.
It's not bizarre to you to say 'Russia is vicious and vindictive with no equal', as if its a dog or psychopathic nutcase. As if an imagined fiction (government) can have some sort of inhuman motivations.

(You know governments aren't really alive, that they don't think or act, except in the way that they are manipulated to do so by those who hold the levers power, and then by those who follow their orders, right? Its nothing except an idea, really a manipulation..)

No, believing in 'Vindictive Russia' is perfectly normal, not bizarre at all.

But to you, it is bizarre that I point out that Zelensky has dodgy financial dealings, and that this might be a motivation for his actions. These dealings can be verified in the Panama papers and are not in dispute. This is not information with any merit to you, apparently.

And you appear to entirely ignore the point I make about the free press failing to report this information.

Is there any doubt that free press is actually a public relations/messaging tool again used by those holding the levers of power, rather than faithfully relaying salient information to provide us with a full picture? No, there is no doubt.
In general Switzerland seems like a nice place. I don't really agree that premarital assets should be split in a divorce. That doesn't seem like a fair thing if one party comes into it with significantly more.
You say it was a huge amount; the article says it was a small amount. Unfortunately neither of you states the amount, so it is hard for me to assess how big it was.
I'm a bit sceptical that the political controversy around Amazon is an accurate reflection of their desirability as an employer compared to other companies.
Point contextually not clear. "Be careful of sources?" That would be as generic as Cato's "Oh, and should I remind you that we should destroy Carthage".
Well, that's not so bad; they are equal on the real projective line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_projective_line. Making 1 = 2 is a bigger problem.
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Actually, the vast majority of LFP batteries are still perfectly fine and not in any need of recycling. There's indeed nothing to recycle yet. At least not a lot. And it will be some time before that starts changing.

Recycling of failing batteries and discarded cells that did not survive quality control in the factory is of course a thing. These don't end up in land fills. The materials inside them are way to valuable for that.
And those objections you refer to, I am quite sure that people like journalists would’ve had the same objections to machine learning transcription services just a few years back. Now, of course, they all use otter.ai and the like and cannot imagine ever going back to slow human transcriptionists.
"What makes engineers sad? Their boss(engineering managers, Directors, VP’s) do not know what they face on a day to day basis and does not know how to build something, whether it is a feature or architecting something from scratch."

If that's true, then it's probably mutual. Engineers typically do not realize that their manager's role is to manage people and process (which is a bit of a specialization in itself), and knowing how to build software is not necessary but definitely useful - mainly for questioning your engineers when they tell you something that sounds crazy.

If any engineers are under the impression that their job is harder or more important than management, sales, etc, they're being arrogant.

Coming from a former strong engineer who started a company and now manages people more than code.
Granted, speaking as someone running a very small shop, mostly freelance, I really think a lot of the ennui and sense of being overwhelmed or unsatisfied can be solved by just deploying constantly. Rather than get stuck in a review cycle I try to get every incremental change online as soon as it's done and minimally tested. That can be up to six live redeployments per day, especially when a new feature is in beta. It's however many redeployments are needed when something launches. I prefer a local test server and straight to production. When you get the third build of the day uploaded by 5pm, and hold your breath til 6pm without anything catastrophic happening, you can keep your phone on and go get some beer and fajitas. If you make it to 8pm and the company is still running, a deep sense of fulfillment sets in about a job well done. That feeling of the day's work being done just doesn't exist unless you break it up into tiny incremental updates.
Greenpeace gives no shit about Emperors having no clothes, so they've been pointing out the grave economic barriers to DT fusion, and also the implications of fusion for proliferation. And they're entirely right about that.
Seems the sales pitch here is dependent on the product failing before it has provided reasonable service for the cost. I've yet to have 1 of more than 50 laptops have a single component fail. And if it takes more than 5 years so what? Who wants to run 5+ year old hardware as their daily driver?
I'm more so saying that your mind presents to you a representation of reality, and if you take this representation at face value, you may have an inaccurate model.

I don't know you personally, but "most" people I encounter seem to draw no distinction between their model of reality and reality itself.

Consider:

> praising Charles Murray is more than a dog whistle.

What is the meaning of "is" (to be) in this context, in a literal/architectural sense? Does your "is" align with other people's? And where this a discrepancy, how skeptical of your take on it are you?

Possibly related:

https://i.redd.it/nbqixw27k5vy.jpg
- Manager: How long would it take to migrate from A to let's say B?

- Me: How would I know that?

- Manager: Just make an educated guess.

- Me: Maybe X months? I really don't know.

- Manager writes down X.

- Me makes a mental note to not trust Manager again...

Maybe it's better to have any plan than to have no plan, but having a plan based on known bad data can't be the solution.

Dear Managers, if your plan requires data that just isn't available, please take the time to ask yoursevles if you are micromanaging. Going with a less concrete plan is definitely better than going with a plan based on wrong assumptions! Maybe you are in a position where deadlines just make no sense and you need to be more agile?
Does it make sense to build nuclear reactors when the environment we are engineering for them to exist in is rapidly changing?

Fukushima showed us the drastic and long lasting consequences of one little design oversight and that was in an environment the reactors where engineered for.

Personally I can't answer this question with the limited knowledge that I have. It seems like a catch 22 type situation.
EDF has published a paper stating they can scale 80% down and then up again, every day, within 30min.

In practice, they have done something like 20% within an hour. It was early 2019, there was such a crazy wind that they had to reduce nuclear production also (after already reducing coal, gas etc. to the min).

I think what they really can do is somewhere in between.

sources, it was on l’energeek, but in French.
Fascinating. This is about people who have a strong desire to have a their own (perfecly functioning) limb amputated.

It concludes: “None of the patients regretted the surgery and a change for the better was seen in almost all areas of life”.
Here is another quote:

"Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself."
Can't tell if this comment is sarcasm or not.
> Hunter-gatherer cultures were also only ever one bad season away from starvation/famine

Huh? Famines, disease outbreaks and such were much more common at the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Hunter-gatherer bands were much safer from famine than early agricultural workers. This was true from the beginning, to the Irish famine in the UK 170 years ago. And insofar as epidemics - we are in at least one right now, if the monkey pox one doesn't get set to make two.

Insofar as general prosperity - the inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US is below what it was a half century ago. This also pre-dates the recent inflation and Covid. I don't see how wages falling over the past 50 years is some sort of general prosperity.
As someone from the Baltics, this is so out touch with reality that it's outright laughable.
I'm glad you said that this was at a government agency otherwise I would have been sure that we worked together in the same team, with the same person.

I worked together for a year with A. who is a "senior" engineer, some of the stuff that A. pulled was;

- Not being able to use GIT. At some point we decided that I would have to do all merges because he just wasn't capable of doing them.

- Editing the project using nano on a server because he couldn't figure out how to install GIT on his laptop. This included YAML files where he would manually count the indentation...

- Reviewing the old code in a pull-request, multiple times...

- Copying the requirements from project A to unrelated
project B because they're both Python projects so it should work?

- Claiming to be able to program in multiple languages, giving examples such as INI, YAML and JSON...

- Claiming expert knowledge in C++ and Java, I haven't seen him read or write a single line in all the time that we worked together.

- Sending endless questions over Slack about the most basic things that he could figure out himself (e.g did you look at that PR? When I had already approved and merged it or how do I change something using SQL?)

- In general just not getting anything done, there was one sprint in which he finished two tasks, one of which was changing a password in a text file

After a while he was made temporary lead and the following happend;

- Killed my CI/CD pipeline because "automation is dangerous", manual releases now routinely take over 12 hours...

- Introduced a rule that PRs now had to include screenshots of manual tests instead of us writing automated tests
- Lying to stakeholders about issues, literally: "we can just claim it was a bug in vendor X code, it will look better!"

- Proposing to re-review old PRs every two weeks, because PRs are like fine wine?

- Giving tasks to the team that made no sense. E.g a task to
clean-up old versions of software X that was upgraded using YUM on a Linux server. I tried to raise the point that the package already included a clean-up script. He got angry and didn't want to hear it, I chilled for a day and closed the ticket.

- Insisting that production password would be encrypted on disk (granted, not the worst idea!) just to proceed with then storing the plain-text password on Confluence (where it was accessible to the whole company) and in GIT :)

- Killing our database replica's because: "they were misconfigured, someone linked them to the production database. That's very dangerous!"

I documented and raised these issues with my manager who didn't want to address them because: "it would be bad for A. motivation". I said screw this, I can't work like this and stopped working with him on that specific project. Productivity dropped 80%.

He's currently scheduled for a promotion to "tech-lead" at the end of the year. I've left that place, some places are just not worth saving.
Their field involved exactly zero need for economic analysis.

Naval reactor "engineering laboratory technicians" (SMAGs) are reputed among submariners as habitual liars. Strange but true.
I’m curious: You don’t think that being continuously exposed to government propaganda and threatened with jail/fines for dissenting opinions will increase the frequency of “shitty people”?
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It astounds me how some companies will let months of work sit in an unmerged PR and then sometimes decide they don't even want it. Not only is it a massive waste of resources, its shit for the person who built it, and also sucks if you actually do have to merge it and resolve months of merge conflicts.
The consequences from pushing more carbon out are worse than one nuclear plant failure
My point is that you brought a cherry-picked subculture to the discussion of the 'culture-wide thing' and after that lied that the conversation was about 'Russian subcultures or culture'.

I don't think you can 'address' it in any way except for not doing such things in the future.
True. The setup kinda requires that you need two cars in the first place.
The NYT piece has a thesis which this author doesn't really engage with. To simplify, the Times says that Haiti agreed to pay a huge fee to France to indemnify it for having lost a profitable colony. The debt was then transferred to private markets: Haiti took out loans to pay France from French bankers who then conducted predatory repayment practices.

This article seems to try to hand wave the "double debt," as the NYT calls it, away but that seems irresponsible. The two reasons given don't make a lot of sense either:

(1) Debt payments were small. It seems likely that the government was negotiating the lenders into the smallest payments possible, so this isn't a surprise. This only meant that Haiti was in debt longer and paid out more. Besides, it seems like the relevant consideration should be the economic effect of the payment on government policy, rather than the size of the payment on a balance sheet. A poor country should be hurt more by having to pay out a small fraction of GDP than a rich one.

(2) Economic divergence with DR happened after debt was paid. So what? Economic impacts have many reasons to lag behind the factors which cause them, especially here where the argument seems to be that destruction of natural resources is an underlying cause.
This article could be a parody with how shockingly naive it is.

The purpose of work is to solve business problems, not personal amusement and self-actualization. Business problems exist in the real world and have significant constraints. Many people will be much happier if they understood this.
> But you won't convince me of that if you try to prove me wrong on semantics
> (...)
> On average, a house is considered to last 100 years in Germany.

First please define what you mean by "last" so that we share the same semantics and then provide a source on this. And if you mean that a building will have been destroyed and rebuild after 100 years on average then I doubt this claim - after making such a strong claim I think it's up to you to provide evidence.

> I quoted specific numbers on the housing stock which are consistent with that claim

Are you referring to https://www.bauprofessor.de/wirtschaftliche-nutzungsdauer-ge... ? Because if you do, then again, you misunderstand what they are talking about. Also, don't forget that average house-ages are misleading due to WW2 where a lot of old houses got destroyed. So you can't e.g. just take the average age of existing houses, that doesn't work.

> And of course the insulation is not "for free", but the additional costs are usually worth it.

Look, I agree with you - but the way you said it before is so exaggerated and easy to misunderstand that it's no wonder that you are getting these kind of responses. This is a very emotional topic and it's good to try to adjust the language accordingly.

> I also mentioned that many people decide irrationally because they do not want the work associated with planning and ordering the maintenance to be performed.

It's easy to call someone irrational - but why do you think they don't want this work to be performed. How comes? I doubt that you assume they want the planet to die, so what do you think are their reasons?
There is another consideration that people on YouTube ignore, but Apple doesn't.

You don't want the underside of the computer to reach substantially over 40deg for a considerable amount of time. This is because some people put their laptop on their lap and if it is too hot, it starts slowly cooking the leg. This has happened before, and thus nowadays, all new computers make sure the underside doesn't exceed 40deg for longer periods.

So I wouldn't be surprised if the people on YouTube traded performance for on-lap-safety. Apple can't, for obvious reasons.
We could solve that problem pretty easily by just not relying on cars.
France had been ruled by kings, and before that, the Roman Empire for thousands of years, and then one day we had a revolution and became freedom-loving leftists. Same can happen in Russia -indeed, same DID happen in Russia, until the USSR turned into a totalitarian state under Stalin.

Also, the US can totally have a multi-party system if they reform their electoral system. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law