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> Guix introduces abstractions, such as operating-system that has defined fields that make it clearer what structures are being built. NixOS, on the other hand, does not have such abstractions (or perhaps just not as well documented/discoverable).

NixOS had plenty of abstractions, so I don't quite understand this. All of NixOS is a compilation of abstractions for building an operating system environment. Could you elaborate on what abstractions are not present?

> Guix is tackling multiple fronts: a blob-free kernel, a non systemd init, mailing list development, bootstrapability, no non-free software, high standards for commit messages.

Except for the last one, all of these are noble achievements perhaps within a subset of an ecosystem, like Nix or Guix, but the deliberate and unwavering stapling of these goals to the ecosystem makes Guix unpalatable.
Well, in the Horizon Worlds metaverse, people have no legs at all.
I've heard of the horrors of being a moderator in all the social media sites. A local radio talk show host used to talk about the horrors his son had to deal with when myspace was a thing. It seems to be endemic to the business model.

Does hacker news have similar issues? Anyone know?
Iraq and Iran have massive domestic economies, and established tertiary education. I have no reason to believe graduates from Iraqi uni are any less capable than the Iranians who work with me, or who I know work in Engineering and Health fields all over Australia. There are good AF graduates too, but fewer. They have less resources to fund tertiary education.
Yeah I snapped my first pair, and now bought 2 refurbished off eBay. I was thinking of heat shrinking a piece of metal to strengthen.

> Meanwhile, Bose has completely exited the hearing aid sector.

Sounds like they sold or partnered with Lexie, so some hope:
https://lexiehearing.com/us/lexie-powered-by-bose-hearing-ai...
I prefer Kent Beck's version:

> Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast
It wasn't a hunt, more a mass slaughter
Hope your family can get out.
And/or add more thermal mass to the house.
The glucose monitors out on the market right now are **ing terrible anyway. They're regularly off by a huge amount compared to the readings you get from poking a fingertip. Getting really sick of being woken up in the middle of the night because my SO is about to die from low glucose, we check her finger, and it turns out she was completely fine. I'd personally be happy to try out a free market approach at this point
Worse. At least with waterfalls, you are starting from the end goal. In my experience, most Scrum is the worst of both worlds - you are kept on a rigid/bureaucratic process but are not allowed to think about the end state.

I recently had a kerfuffle with a manager when I brought up the idea of a novel solution to a time consuming problem and proposed doing a quick proof-of-concept. I was told not to work on anything until we have requirements.

"How will stakeholders know to submit requirements for something they don't know is possible?"

"Well, we can't to any work unless it is submitted for approval in an Agile way".
Agreed. Even if every other person on Earth is in the Metaverse, I'll still not be and continue insulting every last one of them for their idiocy.

Maybe we can make our own neo-luddite community, where people do real things with real objects.
So, couple things you should know about the Taliban…
Thanks. Oku looks interesting. I've been keeping my reading lists on Goodreads but I just don't like Goodreads. I just need some place that has a database of books where I can maintain various lists.
I obviously can't say for sure, but given the topic was the development of artificial resistance to vaccines, I would've thought the alternative they had in mind was natural resistance - i.e. getting infected naturally.
If you have good relations with your parents, you can grind away in their basement. For obvious reasons, many people cannot or do not want to take that approach
This is why the argument about "weak" hardware makes no sense. A GPU from 2008 is at least an order of magnitude worse in peak perf than a modern "weak" GPU.
Not to rain on the parade but we have an entire sub-section on the 'left' who idolizes Stalin and will defend even the worst Soviet atrocities. We call them 'tankies'
For engineers, the most immediate wins here are cutting build/test times with more power, removing new project setup, and reducing environment error rate and troubleshooting.

It also gives more visibility into environments which help SRE like teams resolve issues faster.

What excites me (and many of our users) are the "micro-wins" that save time/let engineers do more. Some of these come from making workflows simpler (e.g. saving time switching context [branches/data/credentials]), improving device performance (e.g. being able to work longer unplugged), and device flexibility.
Contrary anecdote: My grandparents are over 90, but they're lifelong members of a religious community that considers music and dancing sinful.

Personally, I quite enjoy singing and music, but it seems strange that an attention-seeking activity would be correlated with longer life.
> Also, "Waterfall" never really existed.

That part is true.

> It was a straw man invented to sell this Agile bukkake.

That part is colorful, but retconning. A fellow named Royce coined the term in 1970 and used it as a strawman for common project iteration organization (V-model?) a the time.

I agree with most of the spirit of the rest of the parent's screed, though not with all the details.
Unless you live in an apartment.

And so many tout increased density living as being the solution to homelessness and house pricing, the walkable city etc etc. But who wants to actually live there?

I live in an apartment. I'd rather live in a standalone house thanks. Then I might get to jump on these opportunities too.
I recently used one to figure out where a stray cat that was dumped in our neighborhood had kittens. She showed up on our porch multiples times per day to eat, and let us hold her - so I put a collar on her with an AirTag.

An hour later I walked around the neighborhood with my iPhone in my hand until her position updated. She was under a fallen pine tree and very well hidden.

So... does anyone want some kittens? :)
That doesn't answer the question though, almost a non-sequiter.
I think what you just described is what the agile manifesto described. Valuing working code over tools and processes to paraphrase. Scrum and kanban are not agile. Because agile is not a process. Process is for people who can't accept accountability.
> or provide utility

You may not think it provides utility. If someone else is willing to pay for it – whatever 'it' is – then by definition they do.

I think people are bananas for spending $200k on a car when you can get the bus. But hey, not my money. You do you.
Keep in mind the Agile Manifesto was not a list of absolutes.

It was a list of values that accept waterfall practices, but with a preference to do things slightly differently.

https://agilemanifesto.org/

"That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."
It's been bizarre watching YouTube go from pirated content, to home movies, to relatively simple monetized original content, to hyper-optimized original content.

It's like a microcosm of the web's evolution.
I'm going to wait for actual careful human testing .... could be that 5% of the human (but not mouse) population have a variant of some critical metabolic path that this anti-body attacks .....

But yes, once we know it's safe sign me up too
The peak demand in the WECC is about 170,000 MW, so 675/17000060min/hr60s/min=14 seconds with of power.

While the time is interesting for context, it is more about reducing the magnitude of the peak when there are no other generators to bring online or transmission capacity is saturated than powering the entire load.
As I have taken on more senior roles I’ve learned how to estimate better and most of the time it’s just estimating much more time
India is breaking this dominance by government backed Rupay and UPI payment methods. Both have 0 MDR charges.

Rupay is a direct alternative to Visa and MasterCard. UPI is peer to peer payment system for any bank account linked with a phone and debit card.

So far government has been successfully in both of these endeavours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPay?wprov=sfla1

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/rup...
You are not alone. I found raindrop that meets my needs.
A friend of mine tagged the bag with an Airtag, knew where the bag was, and the Calgary police still didn't cooperate.

They didn't want to track down the bag and worse, told him they'd arrest him if he'd tried to steal / get the bag back.
Do you think having an airtag would have convinced the police to cooperate?
If not, what then?
Lots of insulation but probably crappy tenants leaving windows open. Also it is -20 outside.
The market here in OZ has segmented into five

1) people who come, pick out the eyes, underpay you and you still have to destroy the rest via the dump.

2) people who come, underpay you and take the lot to pick out the eyes.

3) charities who come, don't pay you anything, and you lose the problem.

4) shops who will, grudgingly, underpay you if you pick out what you think are the eyes, and bring them in.

5) customers who will whine at you directly on Amazon, Ebay, or Gumtree or Craigslist, if you sell direct, at what you think is a fair price, completely under costing your own time, effort, postage, unpaid, hijacked and lost sells. PS your tax status on this is moot. But, you can incur costs which exceed your profit. Plus, when do you pull the plug?

I've done, or had done to me, all of these. (partner ran a s/h bookshop in the early 90s, we had thousands of books before we downsized, we donated to flood victims and ultimately lifeline who do an annual university sale, but we kept back a box of 1st editions of some things for future risk-sell)

Tech books are almost universally worth less than you wish. They age out rapidly except for a very very very small cohort. If you can scan ISBN barcodes and write python you can probably find these from some simple scripting. Or, pay some intermediary who has written this as a product, and will become rich on $$$ from you, while you find the books are worth less than the $$$ you paid for the software.
> Worse even, 'agile' gets used as an excuse for project managers and architects not to document requirements or plan properly, even in situations where all the goals can be known ahead of time, because that's a lot of work.

What's the complaint? The higher ups have a scapegoat, so they're happy. And you can rejoice in it not being you or any of your friends!
The point of Agile is to give power to the team and also to use The Process to protect them from ad-hoc management interference during sprint.

10 The stakeholder says which features are the most important and gives the team a prioritised list.

20 The team goes through the list and determines how much work each will take. At this point the stakeholder might be asked to re-prioritise.

30 Team picks tasks from the top of the list for each sprint and shows the result to the stakeholder after the sprint in a demo.

GOTO 10

That's it.

If someone from outside the team has "a quick request" that needs to be done ASAP, the scrum master shows them the prioritised list and asks them what features should be dropped. If the someone is stupid enough to pick something, they can go wrestle with the stakeholder(s) of the deprioritised tasks about whose thing is more important.

The team doesn't see anything of said quick request, they can focus on their sprint.

If the stakeholder has any "quick requests" The Process says all work for the sprint is to be scrapped (no one really does it, but you don't tell that to the customer) and the sprint is restarted with the "quick request" included. In my 20 years in the business, zero customers have taken the "scrap the sprint" route.

But none of this will work unless an expensive enough consultant can convince the higher ups that it's a good idea. If they're not with the process, you get scrumfalls, 45 minute standups and other crap.
I review Posthog PRs occasionally. In addition to this, they’re also open source. Seems like a cool place.
"A dozen or so built-in global variables with various methods" is exactly what a standard library is. (Well, usually it's more than 'a dozen or so'.) Generally those variables are of the "package" type, but no such type exists in JavaScript.
I'm surprised it is so low. Our pack discharges at at least 10kw (max averaged by hour over the last two weeks; didn't look up specs). That means we're over 1/12,500th of the state wide pilot's footprint.

Apparently, (as of 2021) Tesla has only sold about 200,000 powerwalls globally, so I guess that sort of checks out.

Annoyingly, our batteries are set to minimize our bill, but didn't get the memo about the special rates today (they are not powerwalls). They stopped selling back to the grid just before 6pm, and are almost half full as I write this.

More annoyingly, every morning they aggressively charge themselves during the precommute CO2-intensive demand spike, since power is cheap then (due to a policy setting, they normally only charge from solar)

I wish I could forbid them from charging before 10am or that PG&E would fix their rates.
Scrum doesn't work unless the whole organisation implements it.
As your post illustrates credit cards are really a solution developped for the deficiencies in the US banking system

Disagree.

This is like saying "This illustrates that the US bankruptcy system is a solution for the deficiencies in the US credit industry".

What you see as a "deficiency" I see as "pro-consumer". As a credit card customer, I carry almost no risk of fraud. Why? Because my credit card company controls payment and will just reverse it if needed. They are also happy to keep retailers in line by holding them to contractual obligations.

It's a system I'd prefer than some direct payment from my bank where the risk of fraud and its resolution is entirely on me.
> The worst part about agile is it has become whatever each company wants it to be.

Actually, the point of agile is that it should become whatever the team needs it to be.

Also, scrum is an agile methodology, not a separate thing.
Oh ta, yeah I meant china, CCP.
I have learned to love the grind. The grind/business part gives me the resources to paint or do the things that I like. But this is personal, I don't have a universal solution.

All of my colleagues (at the company) share the same mentality, we all work for money/resources.
Most of us don't use any form of enthusiasm or emotional projection on a business task. We use a craftsmanship approach towards a product building. We strive to produce quality. It sounds banal, but it's true, and it works for us.
Iran is very much a different story. Grievance is largely held by the ruling classes and not the broader population. With the right leadership in place I could totally imagine a future where Iran is a trusted/respected member of the international community and a strong global trade partner.

As I said before, I know very little about Iraq.
> mostly students

Aka nothing to lose. Having family and job would be considered having things to lose. Also let’s not consider students “educated”, they will be if they then build a career and actually practice their knowledge. Any clown can get a degree.
I've often wondered if other viruses (below) could possibly mutate into a more dangerous form. Perhaps there is a reason why they cannot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virus_species
Costa Rica does not have a military (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Force_of_Costa_Rica) and yet there are still assets.
Enphase batteries support this too. (I suspect all brands do.)
AFAIK, writing evolved as a way to keep track of business transactions as did money and credit systems.

So, I expect writing to follow agriculture and some urbanization when a large population trades with each other.
There is power line carrier signal used between substations and generators on a line but expensive high voltage wave traps are required and you get about 14bits of bandwidth. The applications I’ve done if your bit drops out and health is still good then you have to disconnect.

Transmission lines often run fiber too, but used to still use a whole fiber to transmit 8 bits, or serial at 9600 baud
I like the blog post and I'm happy for the author, truly. But Guix doesn't sit well with me, and I rarely see this discussed:

The Guix zealotry will be their undoing, and frankly this is where Nix shines. I can use Nix at work, at home, with family, with vendors, with binary blobs, on macOS. The community tries very hard to help.

With Guix, sure, there's stuff like nonguix, but take a gander at this from the nonguix readme:

> Please do NOT promote this repository on any official Guix communication channels, such as their mailing lists or IRC channel, even in response to support requests! This is to show respect for the Guix project’s strict policy against recommending nonfree software, and to avoid any unnecessary hostility.

Guix has truly noble goals (in classic GNU fashion) but they're ultimately misguided. Yes sure it's great that it's pure and reproducible and whatever else but if I can't get stuff done with it it's useless. Actually useless.

The standard encouraged response to "Hi I'm a new Guix user and I was wondering how I can run steam?" is roughly equivalent to "Go fuck yourself" and I'm just amazed by that.

If Guix ever becomes mainstream, it will be in spite of their efforts.

In the meantime, I'm betting on Nix.
Relevant parts of the PDF

Unfair contract terms contained in some of Fujifilm’s small business contracts

Following action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and a
settlement being reached with Fujifilm, on [date] the Federal Court of Australia, by consent,
found that a number of our agreements with small business customers contain unfair
contract terms. This means that those terms are void and cannot be enforced by us.

The types of terms which have been declared unfair and void include the following:

* Automatic renewal terms: permit Fujifilm to renew the contract for a further period
unless customers cancel the contract a certain number of days before the end of the
contract term.

* Disproportionate termination terms: allows Fujifilm to terminate the contract in a
significantly wider range of circumstances than those which allow the customer to
terminate the contract, if any.

* Liability limitation terms: limit Fujifilm’s liability or require the customer to
indemnify Fujifilm without corresponding rights for the customer.

* Termination payment terms: require customers to pay extensive exit fees to Fujifilm
in the event the contract is terminated, including certain charges which Fujifilm can
set unilaterally.

* Unfair payment terms: require customers to pay Fujifilm for software licensed
pursuant to the agreement irrespective of whether Fujifilm has delivered the software
and, when goods are purchased, to pay the purchase price prior to delivery.

* Unilateral variation terms: permit Fujifilm to unilaterally vary some terms of the
contract including the charges and terms contained in documents other than the signed
contract.
Are you in the US? Donate them to a library and take it off your taxes.
Talking about the total apartment price, not a monthly installment.

Yes most of the city is rent controlled, this is a ten year old rental contract. Rent is about 600€ and apartment I estimate would be 500-600k. Could also be more though, I'm not exactly up to date.
Mine is about 4 years old but same experience. Cheap to refill and works every time, even with Linux.
Anybody ever heard "we don't plan that would be waterfall, we are an agile shop". It was at that point I knew it was over at my last gig.
Even the name is boring. It sounds like a fictional generic game in a show or a movie. (Sort of like "Mythic Quest.")
You're not wrong, I just can't figure out where. From a purely jobs standpoint, SV is an engineer's paradise. Yes, I know remote work is a thing.
If you use TLS on the subdomains, they may all be the public Certificate Transparency logs.
Evolution is climbing mount improbable. And natural selection (even in the face of in this case intelligently designed selectors) funnels organisms into potential dead ends which they can’t evolve out of - they’ve gone up the ‘north face’ and in order to reach fitness in the face of their selectors, they actually need to be on a completely different mountain.

An antibody that dead ends all current evolutionary trends for an organism means that they can’t evolve out of the dead end natural selection has funnelled it down.

So no, this isn’t a ‘might make it worse’, this is a ‘end of covid’ agent.

That’s if the antigenic trigger can be made into a vaccine. More likely what the research is describing is that it is now possible to make a monoclonal antibody that can work as an infusion and is active against all known and future possible variants with the same efficacy.
I know Palestinians and Jordanians and probably Palestinians masquerading as Jordanians, who are examples of how you can work it out, once things calm down. Iraq won't be at war with itself forever, Kurdistan aside, (and its not like there aren't heaps of smart enterprises in Turkey, they sell world-class drones...)
I know how you feel but the best thing to do is to recycle them. I had a bunch of them --10 years old plus. I tried to sell them, donate them or give them away to people I thought might be interested in them. No luck, they have no value.

You have a truck load full of books so bite the bullet and hire someone to take them away.
Without IPR restrictions, most of manufacturing can be quickly scaled up in places outside China. Also remember, India is nuclear power and understand Mutually Assured Destruction working between India and China.
Looks like his not-a-journalist just tries to sell his book.
It doesn't work very well, because of the latency in the BT chain. An effective solution needs to use the two mics in each AirPod and the internal AirPod DSP.
In what ways do you see it as being strong?
What makes the SDM845 more power efficient than the SoC in PPP (RK3399s?)?
If you have a large project, you break it down into smaller parts. If you know what needs to be done, throw it in the backlog, give it a broad estimate, sort it, and you have an estimate for about how long it will take. If you have unknowns, make resolving them a task. If you need things from the business, give them tasks.

> It's not practical to build a business this way, what happens when one team pulls priority and a different one next week?

Someone has to own the project, and have the final say on priority. If the project is at risk due to shifting priorities, you need to escalate this to them for a final decision.

> You can get around this if someone (such as a manager/PM/lead) converts the sprint process back to a practical roadmap/design. However not involving the sprint team in this process merely robs them of autonomy.

If you have everything in your backlog, you can judge velocity to come up with an estimated timeline given all of the assumption at the current state. This isn’t a promise, it’s an estimate. When the business shows up to sprint planning and sprinkles around new ideas for high priority tasks, you always remind them that this means deprioritizing other tasks which will affect timeline.

> what happens when a multi-sprint project becomes a multi-year forever project?

Yes, at the end of the project you will likely have done something very different than what you originally put in your backlog, because the business will have changed their minds 100 times. This is the point! The point is to track close to building what they want, not to build what they wanted 8 months ago.