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Isn't changing requirements one of the key principles of the Agile manifesto? If so, why do we want to dive so much into requirements that are likely to change anyways?

Who says all the requirements are likely to change anyway? That’s a whopping great hypothetical on which the entire premise rests, but YAGNI applies to development processes as much as to code!

Yes, requirements often evolve and we often start with some gaps or ambiguities in the spec. However, that’s a very different situation to having no detailed requirements at all. In one case, you know where you’re trying to go right now and can set a course that will take you there. Even if the destination is changed a bit during the voyage, you can adjust your course to compensate and still be heading in roughly the right direction. In the other case, you literally don’t know which way to start.

Moreover, jokes about skyscrapers turning into spaceships aside, the central requirements for a software project usually evolve relatively slowly. Business priorities or some of the details might change faster, but in most fields the underlying domain concepts and actors that the software models are going to be relatively stable.

Big pivots where you’re effectively trying to build a completely different product afterwards do happen. However, a team that pivots so often that it never really understands where it’s trying to get to before changing direction again won’t last long because it can never get far enough in any direction to deliver real value.
There are over a hundred thousand sheep farms in the US alone. That's 117 in 6 countries, what percentage of farms had bad practices and how were the ones that were audited chosen?

Given that this is PETA, I would not assume good faith here.

Finally, the original poster makes a universal claim about the nature of sheep farming, which your above anecdotes do nothing to support.
Anything specific would be inappropriate for this forum. But the broad answer is a chemicals distributor in China. I actually only utilize them for legal "nutritional" compounds, but others use them for pharmaceutical options, and those are independently tested frequently by a variety of stakeholders. Personally I really wish US citizens didn't feel forced to go outside of the quality protections of the FDA for their medical care.
Yes, usually around 3k charges before reaching 80% capacity, which is around 10 years.
WebGPU I think will help change a lot of this. Finally, portable code that is performant and runs virtually anywhere. It's the same reason web apps have taken off so much, or just the idea of deploying to and from web platforms, e.g. write in web and deploy to native.

I think WebGPU will be that universal language everyone speaks, and I think also that this will help get rid of Nvidia's monopoly on GPU compute.
I would suspect much more, they are responsible for things like map-reduce, containers, kubernetes, golang, android, Gmail, and so much more. Things billions of people use directly or indirectly every day
No worries, I just have to imagine the downvotes are coming from people who aren't familiar with orthopedics, otherwise I don't see why they'd downvote... but downvoting reduces visibility, so potentally-valuable content is seen by far fewer people. If something I said is incorrect, that's what you want to see happen, but if it's not, it's only hurting others. No skin off my back if I lose fake Internet points.
One thing to add in favor of user stories: they have very broad audience - basically every non-technical person will understand it, which is very useful if the domain is specific and you need an input from regular users.
How the Right and the Left Switched Sides on Big Business
Sounds like a nonsequitur, but still, to some extent wealth can afford you better health, in terms of time to exercise, pay for gym/golf/etc, going to the doctor, prepare/purchase more healthy food for yourself, buy equipment for physical hobbies, go to yoga/chiropractors/massage therapists…

What doors are you imagining wealth can close?
Is this mostly a US drug? I never heard about it in France.
I can't believe people love it so much without thinking about the actual source of their problem.
Two main reasons:

While it may not be as technically elegant as using lisp, it greatly increases the count of folks who can contribute and simplifies the code with a single language for both front and back.

Secondly, while, in general terms, JavaScript is not as performant as Java or C++, for asynchronous real time operations, such as mostly used by this application, the event loop in node, a layer over io_uring, is a highly highly efficient method to perform these.

In other words, we get to trade simplicity for raw performance to ease maintainability, and less complex code means less security risk and bugs. In fact, the bottleneck in this application for performance is not JavaScript but network link latency, and the browser and the hardware that runs on.
Obese people do not have enough muscle mass for 2/3 of their weight loss to be muscle
>Alabama invested heavily in training on the science of reading, then known as phonics, in the early 2000s, and scores rose.

When did the stop teaching that and why? I was thought that way in the 70s.
> “Imagine if someone attacked you after … you’d been starved for 24 hours – you wouldn’t have much of a fight.”

Actually, I would. 24 hours isn't that long. Adrenaline is a helluva drug.

Brutal video, though. Ugh.
That's why I wear my 'WWSSAT' wristband..

What Would Sabine Say About This?

She says there might be a chance...
> I'm curious about what "decades of UX research" improvements you are talking about

Here's the most important one of them: Don't surprise me. Blend in. Look and behave like other programs.

There are 50 applications on my system. Yours is one of them. If all other applications use 'Ctrl+C' for copying text, but your application uses 'y', then your application is the problem.
Low glycemic index carbs are available. I find I eat smaller portions and feel full for longer with low GI rice vs ordinary rice, for example.
For what it's worth, there's many people who agree with you, myself included. Modern society has created unnecessary work, stressors and pressures that are quite artificial. Everybody goes along without questioning it, at least not aloud.

I will admit that I am by nature someone who takes the alternative path. It's entirely possible that the world is working just fine and I am unable to adjust to it. However, I can't change my nature and have to find a different way to live, because there is no other option for me.
No one would have any use for an LLM trained on Elon's tweets.
The source of the problem is that animals are wired to eat as much food as possible as quickly as possible.
You can't blame half of the population for something that is deeply wired into our brain and bodies.
LOL, just name your stories accordingly and move "as a user I want to" part to description. Haven't you raised that easy-to-fix issue with your team members?
One of my doctors told me that many of his vegetarian patients were dying from heart disease due to the amount of starch in their diet. A starchy diet is relatively inexpensive and tasty but if you are not careful you can eat too much of it and quickly gain weight.

I suspect that this is the reason people are dying from heart disease in south Asia.
The history of 20/20 being considered normal is quite interesting, essentially it comes down to being simply what Herman Snellen defined as normal (on the plus side, he had a few years practice as an ophthalmologist before he invented his chart and it was based on standardizing several other charts in use, so it was based on a lot of experience; on the minus side, it was invented in the 1860s).

It’s been a while since I read up on it but my recollection is that the healthy eye in a young patient (“normal” in the sense of “lacking any deficiencies whatsoever”, not in the sense of “average”) should be around 20/12, with natural variation between 20/10 and 20/16, and 20/20 indicating (extremely minor) deficiencies. The theoretical perfect eye from an optical standpoint, something like if you were to grow an eye from the same materials as a real human eye but you could specify exact dimensions etc., is something like 20/7 (as in, you can’t get better optical resolution than that given the optical properties of our lenses and the distribution and size of our light receptor cells).

Eyes are extremely complicated structures that are either very sensitive to environmental conditions, or that the body is very willing to cut corners on given the slightest provocation, so few people get that “perfect” vision.

There is one very good reason for considering 20/20 to be “normal”, though - since it has been accepted as the standard for over 150 years, most of the human-designed environment has used it as a yardstick for designing visual elements such as roadsigns. The size and shape of roadsign lettering and their placement relative to the road feature they’re describing is all according to a standard that was worked out on the assumptions of (some multiple of) “normal” 20/20 vision, for instance. Likewise for just about every other thing you have to read. So it makes a lot of sense to use that as the threshold. In this sense perhaps it helps to read “normal vision” not as “a normal eye” or “the normal acuity among average healthy humans” but rather “the vision threshold needed to interact normally with the human world”.
NASA Picks Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Lander for Artemis V Mission
Haha I guess i was too dumb to see that! ;p :)
The Reason People Listen to Sad Songs
Yeah, you can exercise enough for weight loss. Ultramarathoning, the Tour de France, digging canals by hand.

It only takes ten or twelve hours of high-output exercise per day. Everyone's got that time to spare, right?
Autocompleting my console.log statements with uncanny accuracy is already worth $10 a month to me.

It's hit or miss so I'm not surprised to hear from someone who sees more misses than hits. But when it works well I feel this rush of gratitude that I don't need to type everything out.
Thank you kindly, this is such a good list i want to see if i can add it to our projects README.
There are a few ways in which the system is self-correcting, though not in a clean or happy-path way.

First there's just the fact that when a significant percentage of a population is unable to participate in an economy in a meaningful way the economy falls apart from within. What's the point in controlling the "means of production" when almost nobody can afford what you produce because they are not generating value within that economy? This is something that the industrial era capitalists (who were generally terrible people, don't read this as me trying to make heroes of them) understood enough to deal with in some proactive ways but which for whatever reason we seem to be mostly blind to currently as we rush toward another inflection point for modern capitalism.

Secondly, there's the reality that when a significant percentage of the population is becoming unhoused and starving there will be revolt and those owning the means of production will be violently eliminated by any means necessary (absent some sort of collective agreement to keep the majority comfortable). Large masses of people wanting for basic necessities for themselves and their families don't just disappear through the cracks like they do on a smaller scale when a relatively small number of have-nots (relative to the whole of the economy) are easy for society to marginalize and ignore.

So it is really in everyone's interest (even the interest of the increasingly consolidated group with the 'means of production') that we figure this stuff out moving forward and sooner rather than later. I'm not confident we will do so before widescale bad outcomes for everyone begin to occur, but when the system begins to become unbalanced enough to start shearing itself apart nobody will be unscathed, so it's rather silly that we aren't already working on real solutions.
I actually didn’t know it was still alive! TIL.
I would love to see the code for this, do you have it open source?
> Sentry's open source codebase before it went proprietary

What do you mean? Sentry is still open source and you can self host it.
Yes it's still true. The example I have in mind is chess.com and lichess.org.
> The price is the price, until you go to pay and if the shopkeeper sees you pull out a credit card, would adjust the total to include a 1.5% surcharge (Visa or Mastercard, and you'll likely be turned away if you pull out a different card like Amex).

That's not required in AU, btw, it's optional. It's up to the merchant.
What about for web servers? What's the default nginx version installed?
But the average vim user is jumping to new instances often, so if he has to reconfigure it everywhere he might as well install a different editor with a config.
Isn't it easier to just have solar panels on the roof and an actual battery pack for the house?

Though, I suppose this is more of a challenge thing
It should be called sustainable productivity. The 4 day (4-10's are ok) work week would be a nice start. It's hopefully moving in that direction.
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It's not a global policy. It's regional.
Congrats -- many people cannot do that, and would like to be able to.
One problem of delaying the coding is that it takes 5 minutes to dream up requirements that could take a millennia to complete. Coding is often the hard part actually, especially in some of the large slow moving corporations where coding is often delayed by lots of requirements brainstorming.
If they do the 16c I will be first in line. A programmer's calculator indeed.
What other restrictions are you referring to? This SO post seems to cover how to change headers (including Referrer) in Chrome API: https://stackoverflow.com/q/30999159/11173996

There is also Chromium which you can build and patch if you really need low level changes to the browser not achievable from JS, but nothing immediately comes to mind to necessitate that.
On the contrary: GLP1 agonists show broad health benefits across the board.

Check this 24-month clinical trial with >3000 participants[0]. It showed improvements in rates of:

- Cardiovascular death

- Non-fatal Myocardial Infarction

- Non-fatal Stroke

- Revascularisation

- HbA1c

- Fasting Plasma Glucose

- Body Weight

- Lipid Profile ( total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides)

- Urinary Albumin to Creatinine Ratio

- Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

- "overall health related quality of life namely bodily pain, general health, mental component summary, mental health, physical component summary, physical functioning, role-emotional, role-physical, social functioning and vitality." (each of these categories were "quantitatively" measured using a calibrated questionnaire - - and they all showed a dose-response relationship -- 1.0mg semaglutide made a bigger improvement than 0.5 mg, vs. two different placebos)

0: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01720446?term...
According to teachers, they hate teaching phonics because their method is better because they invented it.

It's like programmers deciding to write a 3d game in Java instead of the known and functional method of c++.
> ultimately our work is about thinking and fundamentally it requires that each individual doing the work understands what needs to be done.

Usually the individuals doing the work do understand that, but it is really hard to properly divide work and describe requirements. Why people try do divide it in even smaller tasks which increases this kind of complicated creative-writing work is beyond me.

> We realised that waterfalls that start with months of requirements capture followed by months of BDUF aren’t a great idea.

What we should have realized by now is that we never did waterfall right because it's inventor Winston Royce required it to be done TWICE for each project. Two iterations.

What this world needs is Atlassian hiring a number of work psychologists and theorists and have them streamline JIRA based on their learnings. Not in a UX "I want to create a story"-story sort of way. But in a "How do I deal with 50 tickets that are vastly different in quality?" sort of way.

They should answer questions like: "How can we make it so that the user always immediately knows whether to put this text in JIRA or confluence"?

Then Microsoft needs to hire the same people and improve text creation in outlook.
I had no idea he'd done that well. I was in one of his classes back in the 1980s, before he did all this.
Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
At which retail point of sale?
I'm a former alcoholic. I quit cold turkey years ago.

Had a drug problem before that. Cold turkey as well.

While I agree with you somewhat, I too don't like the narrative, I also realize that some people actually can't do that. Some people are faster, some smarter, some stronger, and some of us are better at sticking to a resolution. Everyone has things they're good at and things they struggle at despite the effort. Gotta find what works for you personally.
Couldn’t agree more. Although I never suffered from obesity, I’ve lived a generally unhealthy lifestyle for most of my life. Slowly I’ve gotten my diet in order - not perfect, but a lot better.
I haven’t had a smoke for three days, and frankly, it was easier to quit than I thought. I still get the impulse to go buy a pack, but I hold out and 20 minutes later that intrusive thought is gone.

I don’t believe a pill would do much, in the end I needed to change
If you're interested - not pushing an agenda. Here's what worked for this weird dude to not drink and stay fit.

I used to lift and be real fit till about 40. Like bulky-lean looking, bench 400 10x with a 6pack. Had a lot to do with being on the road for work all over the world, and you sit at the gym at the hotel for an hour every night because of nothing else to do, and there are girls there also on business who you'll never see again. I drank A Lot, ate anything I wanted, and did lots of blo on weekends.

It was getting out of control, so I did months of google-foo, went to a pharmacy in eastern europe, got like a thousand 150mg disulfiram pills under the counter for fifty bucks, and took one pill every morning for 2 years. You don't drink, you can't drink or you die, you forget drinking exists and after a couple of months don't even think about it, yet still do all the same stuff you used to - like dancing and clubs if that's your thing. And it's even more fun. There were no side effects.

Then things changed with age, testosterone went to crap, joints hurt. I got married and settled down. Can't work out too much now - just a couple of hours per week, and no heavy weights. Within 2 years I couldn't fit into my clothes and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

I realized I don't eat because I'm hungry, but because it keeps away sadness. So I changed my diet so I could eat however much I want. I now have a 4-pack instead of 6, fit into my pants, and eat however much I want.

I cut out fat completely. No oil when I cook besides a light spray on the frying pan. No nuts. Tuna - not salmon. Real expensive lean filet if I want cow in my mouth. Only white meat from birds. All the pasta, rice, and potatoes I want, but zero sugar added to anything. Lots of splenda and sweet n low. Fat free fairlife milk (lactose filtered out = less sugar calories). I eat normal sized meals.

Then, I have fruit and berries, and I eat as much of that as I want. I'm stuffing my face the whole day. Today, I had a pint of blueberries, 5 medium apples, 2 mangoes, and a pound of grapes.

Speaking of gastrointestinal issues, my poo is now soft and gentle, and smells delicious.
I have an LFP battery from EcoFlow, and now I am more worried about the inverter or BMS failing before the battery cells. End of useful life really isn't until 50% battery capacity, which could 30 years out.
Modelling mobs as actors can make it extremely difficult to build a fully featured MUD, especially if you want to implement a scripting language that lets builders make them do cool things. You probably want something more coarse grained.
I am taking Contrave to lose weight. Lost 30 lbs in 4 months. It is a drug that's composed of an anti-depressant and an opioid antagonist. Together they have a synergistic effect that represses binging envy and cuts appetite.

It also has a repressive effect on drinking and smoke, to my great surprise. And it also has had an effect on my addiction to video games.

Drugs companies get a lot of slack (most of the time deserving) but sometimes they create miracles pills.
Huh, I remember downloading it for free.
The wild fluctuations in exchange rate and having a terminal for a currency nobody uses are a dramatically bigger risk than 0.3c - and yes, your counter-party risk is a non-issue in legacy finance.
Its not a law designed for billionaires, but rather reflects that people often choose to have kids based on their current and expected future station in life; pulling the plug on that isnt a choice we generally respect.

Raising wealthy kids to be respectable citizens is something many rich people manage to do, but you likely need to be an involved parent to get good results.

(agree with your general points)
why can't I actually run both Linux and Windows and OSX all at once without some bad virtualization container inside one overarching OS? Like, can't Intel manage that with chipset and CPU logic?

Sounds like what you want is a LPAR or proper type 1 hypervisor, which despite everyone claiming to be type 1 none of them really are. And this is largely caused by the various device HW standards on the PC not natively supporting virtualization (or like nvidia charging extra for SRIOV functionality on their GPUs). So what happens is that all these hypervisors need something like VirtIo or hypervisor emulation of devices (ex e1000/ne2000, sb16, etc) to provide generic storage/networking/display/input devices on top of devices which don't themselves provide any virtualization support. Which in PC land is pretty much everything that doesn't support SRIOV. Which in turn means that a heavyweight OS +driver stack is required to manage the HW.

So, you could build a PC based LPAR hypervisor. It would just be limited to the SRIOV capable devices, or plugging in piles of adapters, each one uniquely bound to a single partition. Ex: https://www.hitachi.com/rev/pdf/2012/r2012_02_104.pdf
"Quantum gravity" doesn't even exist as a coherently defined theory yet, there are numerous incomplete models full of flaws, none of which accurately model physics or make predictions well enough to be useful. It certainly isn't in the same weight class of provable science (as in we already build technology that depends on it, and wouldn't work if it wasn't valid) as quantum mechanics, despite sharing the word "quantum."
For example, without having to move my hand, my thumbs can reach Esc, Tab, Backspace, and Enter as well as having to push space. That's a benefit from the thumbs being able to hit 2-3 keys each.

I think that's much nicer than having to move the hand or stretch with the pinky in order to hit backspace.

Whereas with the standard keyboard layout, you can't keep your hands rested on home row & reach those keys.
I switched from Qwerty (40wpm) to workman (80wpm after a year) but ultimately I returned to Qwerty and now I'm again on 50wpm. It's not good at all and feels stupid compared to workman but I don't want to type using my two index fingers when I'm using systems other than my own.
It felt stupid that I had to type using my two fingers with less than 20wpm speed whenever I was typing on someone else's machine.
Only solution seems to be learning two keyboard at the same time but now I think I have already forgotten workman (When I returned to Qwerty I could only type with 20wpm speed while my previous speed was well above 40)
Was. for, "modern" things (libs, framework, etc) intercept these bog standard bits with their "magic" rebuilding to maybe 70% of what already worked.