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Many standards owe their origins to some development that few used initially. Again using power as an example, that's how we arrived at the common 110/220V voltage standards we see in use around the world.

Due to common or widespread usage, a facility outgrows its origins and or its patents expire. Thus its original developer is no longer in charge—or can no longer fully manage its ongoing development, which is the current situation with USB (remember it's happened thousands of times before). Governments, though their standards bodies, then step in to protect consumers, etc. by ensuring standards are maintained (weights & measures are a classic case).

We are now seeing the first instances of this intervention process with USB. Unfortunately, the association responsible for USB has not kept up with the times (this usually happens because members cannot agree and the lowest common denominator becomes the released standard).

To make matters worse, USB got off to a bad start, it was a dog of a 'standard' from the outset, for starters it was ridiculously slow, 12mbps if I recall, which was about a fifth the speed it ought to have been given the then state of hardware performance. I recall being at the trade show when it was released and laughing at how slow this 'toy' was, we all joked about it. The trouble is that as this ill-conceived standard started from such a low base that it's never caught up, every release has always been too slow. Moreover, the mechanical aspect of the standard has always been inadequate, USB plugs and sockets are mechanically flimsy and slipshod and of inadequate design.

Unfortunately, as USB has become the widespread standard and seeing that industry has not managed its development well, it's little wonder government has stepped in. What we're now seeing here is just another instance of a well worn pattern.

Edit: just to be clear, if the standard had been managed well then Apple would not be able to offer Apple-specific enhancements as they would not comply with the specification. If the standard falls under a government authority (which is often an ISO), then adhering to the standard is mandatory. The advantage of this is that it puts all manufacturers on a level playing field. If this were the situation here then it would be unlawful for Apple to offer nonstandard USB enhancements.
Streaming a Super Smash Bros. Melee Tournament on a Steam Deck
How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?
"This is within the expected range of the thermal limits of the envisaged mechanical design of the coils and also indicates a minimum of 98% coil-to-coil power transfer efficiency."

Key here is coil-to-coil, NOT total charging efficiency, let alone "better than wired." Worse, it was a stationary setup with a distance of 5 inches between coils, so adding asphalt, protection for the car's coil, etc. is just going to make it worse.
I appreciate the article but I worry that Scrum implemented too rigidly is the reason why it gets a bad reputation.

A lot of the arguments being made are really difficult to generalize and say "this works for every org!". One example:

> When that happens, instead of designing features by committee, which demands a significant amount of back-and-forth discussions, decisions happen locally, and thus are easier to make.

This works really well when the engineers themselves have all the knowledge+ability to tackle the problem. Smaller startups are perfect! and teams that are pure technical. But once a key portion of the requirements lives outside the team, this is no longer effective because then you're building without that feedback.

The danger is trying to measure things purely on developer velocity. I'm not saying kanban is wrong or scrum is wrong, just do what's best for your org by building what's important to your business.
Fallout isn't quite as good as Skyrim was at it, but that is what I loved from those games too.

Cyberpunk actually has a lot of good environmental storytelling moments just wandering the city, but they don't capitalize and turn them into self driven exploration, the stories don't go anywhere.

An example might be the homeless thief living under the underpass near North Oak, there are two story beats, you find the first note suggesting where they live, then you find the spot and there is a second note, and that's it.
I feel like it's because capitalism is incentivizing these corporations to turn your home into a battle-space.
Sensor fusion has nothing to do with scale. They are merely algorithms that combine multiple real time inputs into a single low level representation. This process remains the same whether you operate in San Francisco or worldwide. How they are interpreted is what differs from a Waymo to a Cruise to a Tesla. Waymo/Cruise get richer input they can feed into their downstream perception algorithms. Look at Waymo’s object detection benchmarks against Argoverse, KITTI and Waymo Open Dataset for their performance. They top most of them.

They don’t have scale yet for different reasons (adverse weather driving, long testing cycles, costly operations setup). “If they don’t have scale, that must mean sensor fusion doesn’t work” is quite a ridiculous argument.

If you think sensor fusion is not possible, then you must also believe Tesla’s attempts at re-integrating radar will not work and that they won’t achieve their stated goal of FSD.
I’ve fortunately never had to do Scrum other than an internship where I had no idea what was actually going on. We do almost exactly what you describe. We just take tasks off the board and we don’t have sprints.
100% agree. Efficiency will be far from perfect. The minimum ground clearance, the maximum loop sizes, and the added weight/drag from the power conversion systems will add to the inefficiency. Not to mention (although I'm about to) the enormous RFI such a system would generate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_interference
The argument of TFA is that starting with serverless and evolving away from it bit by bit as it is revealed to be necessary is a sound strategy most of the time. Whatever you may think of that argument, “I have been hired to optimize projects built using serverless and get them off of it” is not a rebuttal.
> Is democracy working out for Mexico?

Yes. The biggest problem we face here is cartel violence which isn't caused by democracy at all, but rather by political corruption, which is only possible due to an extreme power imbalance. If anything, we need more democracy, specifically more accountability against corruption.

Back when we were a "perfect dicatorship", government repression was even worse, as shown by the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, but this information was censored by the government and even today we don't have the full list of victims.

There's no reason to believe that going back to that system would make the country safer. On the contrary, the rules would most likely be allied with the cartels just like they are now but with no opposition to expose their abuses.

This, of course, creates a kind of dilemma: in a liberal democracy you are allowed to expose and criticize the flaws of the system while the alternatives limit the flow of that information, so you end up in this situation when people compare the idealized propaganda of a non-democratic regime with the hypercritical journalism of liberal democracies and conclude that the latter are worse.
Intelligence agencies probably do have these capabilities. There’s a massive difference between them having it and “some guy in China”. These kinds of things are pretty expensive and nobody is going to sell you the capability for $30, unless it’s just meant to be a carrier lock rather than a security feature.
It's both. It happens for both downvoted comments [0] and any text posts, regardless of voting score.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Verizon usually unlocks the bootloader for you after the phone's real cost has been covered by your monthly bills.
What you're describing has been my experience as well across multiple teams and workplaces.
Big fan of Rainbow's End from Vernor Vinge, it's take as a neat future reality was very interesting and feasible.
He and Buffett (among many others) have often talked about these misaligned incentives in the past. He is not sharing any novel insight here.
If there are no studies and you're implying that kratom is a big problem, so what are you basing that on?

There are many subreddits related to quitting various things. If that's your metric for “lives ruined" there are dozens of other things that have ruined dozens of times more lives.
Samsung: https://www.smartthings.com/
Wow that’s obnoxious.
But velocity of code written is not the same as velocity of value delivered.

In Scrum, estimation meetings usually result in follow-ups with stakeholders that can (and often do) radically change the stories themselves. Totally different code winds up getting delivered that increases actual value delivered, even if "lines of code written" slows.

That's the whole point of agile, to deliver value rather than code.
> Arguably native rendering wouldn't have antialiasing, because that would be downscaling

If you're unfamiliar with computer graphics it's unhelpful to try to nitpick and just end up being incorrect. Antialiasing is not downscaling, and less data is never going to beat more data for visual fidelity.
Given Apple is just inches away from becoming a chartered bank, & Buffet is one of their largest shareholders, I wonder if he wants this punishment also directed towards Apples way too?
Engineers != Software Developers

Considering the forum, it’s important to raise this distinction I think due to the lack of ethics and uniform professional standards in software.

The question remains…

Should a board of directors and other senior leaders be liable for software harms (eg. Breaches) caused by poor oversight, malfeasance or greed?
Customers as in people who buy Pixel phones? Why would Google try to lock those people into MDM?
Standards are fine, but do they need to be enforced with guns?
This is exactly how I feel. Then we talk about 'complexity points', explicitly not time, but then say only X of them fit into a two week fixed time window. So then overflow them (or pull new work in) as required as you say anyway, it's pointless?

Whatever the management benefit supposedly is, seems like it could be achieved with declaring current (not 'sprint'^) goals, and a filter for tickets done/progressed in a given date range?

(^Even the language is depressing: sprint, ticket, points, standup, sit down, keep moving, ...)
I'm surprised Amazon published what they did. AWS make a lot of money selling hyped up buzz word tech to incompetent companies.
Still, all of that pre-dated Silicon Valley. He was productive for several years during and after SV, so I'm sure he could be again.
Exactly. In order to make this work, you'd have to license "software engineers", and you'd need to pass laws requiring a signature from a licensed software engineer before shipping certain products.

And if a product fails in a significant way, you'd need to either revoke the engineer's license, or impose even more serious punishments.

Without appropriate legal structures, the best you can do is say, "No, that's a dangerous idea and I won't do it. You'd have to fire me first." Which I strongly encourage saying when appropriate. But it's not the same as a regulated industry with written best practices.

In the absence of more specific regulations, it's usually difficult to "pierce the corporate veil". The corporation itself has liability. The shareholders have limited liability. And sometimes corporate officers have personal liability for certain things.

At the same time, I don't think it makes sense to punish a junior programmer for writing buggy software. It's the corporation that should be creating processes which detect and prevent bugs.
It's inductive charging, instead of exposed rails it has poor efficiency
It really is just so bad for the industry.

The number of times I will be in a conversation about a game I have played and someone will confidently say the game sucked because of XYZ. But if you ask if they ever played it, of course not. They got their opinion from YouTube.

And I get it games are not cheap (however I will argue that even shorter single player games on a cost per hour is still one of the cheapest sources of entertainment out there). It is almost as if gamers view gaming as a winner take all situations. But for some reason gamers keep contributing to it and we have sites like IGN that just keeps fanning it with their “console wars” and other crap.
Scrum is pushing stuff into a sprint. Kanban is pulling the highest priority stuff through - it's done when it's done.

Metrics/Analytics can be calculated when your done based on actual information, as opposed to the beginning when you're guessing, and likely to be held to your estimates.
You should try Bing chat. It provides citations for almost every assertion. Allowing you to get a quick summary/conclusion, which is also quickly verifiable if you want.
Can't say I disagree. I've had an iPad Pro since the new form-factor came out (2018 I think?). Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful device but it's just not that useful.

On the road its ok as a lifeline device, but no more useful than an iPhone.
In bed, it's awkward and needs constant holding to watch something.

To be honest, the BEST thing I've found it useful for is cooking... It's small, relatively risk-free of getting water in it. And the backlight stays on perpetually when you're mid-recipe.

Beyond that, Safari mobile SUCKS. Not having extensions is excruciating.

It's the device I want to love, but it's sat on the shelf 98% of its life. Which is why I haven't updated it. And it's such a shame. I even bought a keyboard case for it, which is again basically pointless.
Scrum does not provide accountability. It creates the illusion of accountability while creating artificial touch points that effectively become the only time anyone thinks about what's going on. At least that's how I've seen it operate in almost every instance I've ever worked with it.

Of course, the counter to that is that we're not doing scrum right. The question in my mind then is if I haven't seen a single team do Scrum correctly there's something wrong that makes the methodology so difficult it can't be applied ...
Not my experience, but I have a few kilopoints there already. A well researched question will stay and I am thankful to mods who keep low grade stuff to minimum.
For us, visibility isn’t an issue. I would say estimations are by far the biggest struggle we have in “doing Kanban”. Luckily, they’re not super important for us and I usually bubble up a very rough estimate in monthly reports to management, but in an org where they matter more, I can absolutely see why Scrum gets adopted the way it does.
I mean, not being able to unlock your Pixel 2 is a pretty legitimate concern.
Adding fossil carbon to the atmosphere seems like a pretty important one though.
The best use case IMO for iPad is sheet music.

Playing or sight reading is great on iPad, almost as good as paper.
Seems like you just described journalism in general, or do you think the economist is particularly bad in this regard?
I think productivity and self organisation follow most from the human habits. Tools come second.

I have recently switched to use Microsoft TODO which is sophisticated but I guess at the same time not to over the top.

I think I prefer checking the to-do list at regular intervals rather than have something interrupt me and tell me there’s something I need to do.
Nice Site I studied Materials Engineering - graduated some years ago now - back in the day we had a cdrom program we had to pay for a license key as undergrads to gain access to a material properties database - this site seems like a much more modern version.

As a top level category may want to add composites - I note wood was under Polymers but could not find CFRP, Fibreglass (GRP) etc. Also Graphene (I did my thesis on synthesizing this material so particular interest to me...)

If you could generate charts like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_selection#Ashby_plots for a selected list of materials that would be a useful feature.
I don’t think the mega corps invented any of their smart home stuff. They acquired small companies that made good products then tore them to shreds to mine data and sell advertising which is how they make money.
Background reading: Defining Kanban and Scrum (since the author skips over it in the article).

https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/kanban-vs-scrum
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Apple will never unlock your bootloader though?
I feel like the commentary on Stack Overflow answers is often as valuable as the answers themselves. I suspect that ChartGPT can't provide the extra details and nuance that SO does.
Also, at the risk of being contrarian to most of the comments I've read so far, I've never had a problem with people at SO, or SO itself.
They mostly don't invest in banks.
I think you need a 3090+ to have the right compatability, and you need to manually enable "Overdrive" raytracing mode in the settings.

I also went and tested the rain thing in the old psycho hybrid mode and yeah, that's hilarious. I have had weird "ghosting" with hybrid mode and this felt like the same thing but x100
How would you suggest they do that now?
> Safari mobile SUCKS. Not having extensions is excruciating.

Safari does have extensions. The problem is that they’re nowhere near Chrome’s in quantity, but userscripts and shortcuts are also available without limits.
I think the OP argues -- and I agree -- that Engineers and their Managers -- especially their Managers, given how decision making works in the Bay Area, should be punished too.

I don't see the issue: that is part of being an Engineer: lives and livelihood of people depend on your work "working." That is how it works in all Engineering fields. Somehow in software engineering we give the title and forget the responsibility.

On the other hand, in a lot of jobs, engineers are overruled and treated as monkey typists, so...

Example: At Boeing, Engineers were overruled on 737 Max, and passengers paid the price. Time someone pays for that, in this case FAA included.

tl;dr: "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering," # Steve Jobs (note: Rubicon is VP for him)

(See https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference....)

[Edit: P.S. Some of us gave a professional oath and take it pretty seriously. We should not hold our peers to lower standards.]
watched these as a kid, and was highly impacted for some reason by the "yep" aliens over much other sesame street content I believe because they were sort of dropped into a random situation and had to suss out how everything worked.
Is this better than Pixel’s process? Seems like it’s basically the same thing since you need to send them your device details over the internet?
Seriously I wish /proc was available as a tree of JSON documents as opposed to all these different ad hoc plain text formats. It would make using /proc a lot easier and more reliable
Are there really people who haven't seen it? Sad face :(
> Every team I've worked on that has switched from Kanban to Scrum has slowed down and never regained the previous velocity.

As an engineer on a team using scrum, this is my favorite part.
It’s a terrible thought, and no disrespect is intended, but a large football stadium holds roughly 100,000 people. So a million people is about 10 large football stadiums. That seems like a reasonable way to comprehend the size and the amount of loss.
haha, we started by following the scrum rules,
some folks didn't think it is the way to go, sadly not everyone spoke out,
because PM/PO thought it is useful from their perspective...

fortunately, over time, no sub team continued the way, it has mutated back to the kanban style more or less...
This goes back to my original post. Is this “doing Kanban” or is this just another process using a Kanban board?
This but unironically. Now the spies ultimately have to answer to my vote.
Why do you estimate when using a kanban? You might look at an item and break it down for simplicity. You also might go in with a goal of 'one card per member per day' or something similar. But nothing should be fixed to an estimate. If something is delayed, it should show up stuck in a lane. Respond as needed.
Those same problems still happen in Scrum and it's very hard to get out of duplication hell once the backlog gets sufficiently large. I personally think Scrum is theoretically great if done right and with smart people, but that is rarely the case.
Here's an example of a share page: https://www.videotowords.com/share/clhe5fvxd0000jx08uo9o3ebo
Doing kanban right sure is better than doing scrum wrong.
sounds like a good business idea

reddit discussion chains for chatgpt conversations
To be honest I have never seen this materialize. Usually you get some input from product management, the devs estimate it and then do it. I have never seen feedback from estimation to requirements.
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I broadly work in decision making under uncertainty - so a bit of control theory, a bit of optimization, a bit of machine learning, and AI planning (MDPs, POMDPs).

I definitely don't do math say at the level of a math grad student, but I do fair bit of proofs, mostly using concepts from real analysis and functional analysis. I'd say GPT4 does pretty good sometimes (this is mostly me testing to see how well it works, I don't have a particular use case). I use Github copilot (I believe it uses GPT-3?) to write my latex documents and it works really well at predicting the equations I am writing and saves a lot of time!
I like the analogy of using a kanban for managing work to playing poker.

It takes 10 minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master.
> > I hate everything about iPadOS

> Does this person ever look at reviews

Forget reviews, the iPad has been out for 13 years and the capabilities haven’t changed much since then. You’d have to have lived under a rock to not know what it can and can’t do. Did they have an android phone?
> If we can do it for compliance officers, why not for CEOs?

CEOs are hired to be the public face of the company. The board who hires the CEO doesn't want the face of their company being a criminal, and in the U.S. corporate boards overwhelmingly dictate the law books. That's how capitalism works.
I said 'arguably' for a reason, not out of ignorance. Parts of the pipeline are still per-pixel, and parts are effectively rendering at a higher resolution.

> less data is never going to beat more data for visual fidelity

It has less data but better processing. That can look better sometimes.

Except it doesn't strictly have less data. It has multiple frames and other information to work with.
If I am being generous, Scrum is for service teams, which can benefit from some of Scrum to temper unreasonable requests of senior stakeholders by providing a social contract on what is going to be worked on. More autonomous teams don't need it.
my intuition matches yours (and luu's) but that isn't the same kind of conclusive refutation as luu's generic input latency arguments https://danluu.com/input-lag/

i mean it isn't going to convince anyone who says they 'have never once had a problem with typing latency'