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This article is a pile of crap and no one should take it seriously.

> These methods often rely on cross-functional teams, where individuals with diverse skills work together to achieve project goals.

That is absolutely wrong. Scrum treats all developers as homogeneous. Any developer should be able to take on any story, and story points don’t change based on who is doing the story. There is nothing “cross-functional” about scrum, it is literally the opposite of that.

This article is jam packed with so many cliches that are popular with business writing that you would be forgiven in thinking that an LLM wrote it, things like “popular choice”, “making roles and responsibilities clear”, “high-quality work”, “ super adaptable”, “get excellent results”, “intuitive workflow”, “fast-paced nature”, “ finish high-quality projects”

> Our tool's "Sprint" feature allows work to be displayed on sprint boards

Ah, there it is, they’re selling something. But what are they selling?

> 'Earned Value Management' could be employed. It's a systematic project management process used to find variances in projects based on the comparison of work performed and work planned.

Look at the word “systematic”, they’re advertising that scrum teams can be compared to each other, despite the fact that the scrum guide says scrum teams cannot be compared to one another.

Leiga is selling project management software, but what they’re really selling is complacency to project managers. What this software will allow your boss to do is, instead of talk to you about your project, they can look at how many points you closed out in the last two weeks and then decide to throw you a pizza party or fire you. They’re selling socially acceptable complacency. They say to project managers, instead of doing your job, you can stay ignorant with our metrics, scale, and not work hard at all. That is a very compelling value proposition.
Oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years
Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
Dynamically-loaded context options (with any user-perceptible lag whatsoever) has to be one the greatest UX sins I can think of. Like apps stealing focus on startup (looking at you, Adobe!)
I expect that the UK will end up rejoining the EU on much worse terms than we had before. Sooner or later it'll happen.
Are there any channels that deal specifically with the America's Cup and learning about it and the boats? TIA
I wonder how much they pay. Reddit profits a lot from showing up on the top for many search queries. I very often do "whatever I'm looking for reddit" (for e.g. product reviews), since the reddit results often provide higher quality information than normal results.
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Do you have numbers to support it? If you mean import of hardware that do makes sense, but what about hardware that's already here? (I'm also Brazilian)

Looking at AWS site it explains that PIS/COFINS and ISS are charged, excerpt below:

"AWS SBL can issue an NFS-e to a Bra zilian customer only after receiving a valid Tax Registration Number ("TRN") (i.e., CPF/CNPJ). The relevant taxes applicable to AWS cloud services offered locally are the following: PIS and COFINS (9.25%, combined rate) and ISS (2.9%, charged by São Paulo municipality)."

https://aws.amazon.com/tax-help/Brazil/

This is below 15% which many countries do tax for cloud services.

I'm not saying that Brazilian taxes are really high, they are for hardware imports, but the taxes into the service itself does seem "fair".
But classic Mac OS stored “Desktop DB” and “Desktop DF” at the root of each mounted drive, IIRC.

It seems like a better solution.
This illustrates how SMS is an insecure and unnecessary vulnerability in 2FA.
I don't understand how you manage to do 300km only with gels. That would have been atrocious.

I did a similar ride a few years ago, I mixed gels, energy bars with bananas, nuts, sandwichs, nuts and pastries bought along the way.
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hey this is elan, author of this piece. thanks for sharing and for the discussion

for what it’s worth i do agree with the one or two comments here that say that the line “modularity is inversely correlated with expressiveness” is a bit reductive. i did have a long section of caveats but removed them because i felt like they confused the matter more. ironically i’m butting up against the expressive limits of the english language, its own modular technology :p

html of course is another shared protocol that is so flexible that it does allow for immense expressiveness even while it makes certain core decisions that limit (arguably helpfully) certain
forms of expression

squarespace would be the ur example to me of a frankenstein product whose exceptional modularity makes expressiveness a battle with the machine

which is all to say, i welcome more thoughts on this dynamic!

for those asking to see all 500 maps, i wish i could too! unfortunately as far as i can tell they haven’t been digitized. if you find them please (please please) let me know. happy to upload the higher res versions of the maps i do have later.
I doubt it. Politicians and voters will keep pointing the finger at Switzerland and Norway how they succeeded without the EU and that they can too.
Would have loved to hear why he made the move to Google considering that he became a Technical Fellow and very popular in the community
“Nothing happening” can be as impactful and meaningful as a scene full of action.

I personally like to know as little as possible about a movie before I watch it, aside from genre. I want to experience the story as the creators intended, and at times this includes being completely in the dark. The transition from “wtf is going on?” to understanding is where the payoff resides.

Every movie you watch is a gamble, even if you read the Wikipedia page first. And it is possible to get a general understanding of the reception of a movie without having to know anything about the plot itself.

> it's probably a good thing that we have enough options to entertain ourselves in order to not having to take these gambles

Different people watch for different reasons. I personally think it’d be incredibly boring to stop making gambles on potentially interesting movies.
Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and Iron Age farmsteads in Shropshire
> Remember, consumers are using platform apps like Uber because they don't trust the drivers on the other side.

Oh, I thought it was because "push button to summon car" is, like, super convenient.
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Study: For every 1k Google Searches, only 360 go to the open web
Imagine the state of the floors.
How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age
+1 for Synology. bought it off an old gig when they were moving from NAS to SAN, and it's still solid. probably uses more power than I need though.

got a rsync script that pushes backups to Dropbox, though just "can't lose" docs and other things I want in the cloud.
true, tickles my brain in all kinds of funny ways
Yes, there actually isn't a way to explicitly hint branch predictors on modern CPUs.
Il Principe, by Macchiavelli
Don't think EU will let them back in.
No, I read most of it and they were actually sailing, not riding a wave, which is in fact a racing skill taught to sailors.
Basically SOVL and soulless. It's such a shame that Hong Kong has lost its vibrancy and freedom that made it unique when it was a British colony.
The document wasn’t for individuals. That’s quite the misunderstanding of basic history here.
I use *sh at home, and Powershell at work. Powershell has a lot of really cool and genuinely useful concepts. There's the obvious like piping objects instead of raw bytes, but there's also things like first class parameter validation, automatic array flattening, multi-threading, full .NET API interoperation, and more.

Unfortunately, it also has some real sore points for use as an interactive shell, and even some outright broken behavior. Some that I lament most frequently:

- Powershell has native tab-completion support, but the word-of-god dictated "Verb-Noun" command naming scheme means almost every command shares a common prefix with a slew of entirely unrelated commands, making tab-completion painful.

- Power shell has sparse built-in support for funtional style list manipulation or data structures beyond lists. There's a "map" command (%), but no reduce, zip, tail, etc. These feel like they'd fit in perfectly to the design of the language, but they're just missing. Also, pipes are lazy, but lists are always strict, which can cause friction.

- most operators are strangely named, such as "-eq" for ==, which hurts legibility.

- There're lots of unvoidable brackets, meaning you often need to jump around the line while writing out a command incrementally. For example, to get filenames, you either need to write `(Get-Item).Name` or `Get-Item | %{$_.Name}`. It'd be nice to have something like `Get-Item |. Name` as an option.

- It's impossible to pipe raw bytes between commands/executables; raw bytes are interpreted as strings. This means, for example, it's impossible to pipe a file to `patch`, because the contents will be decoded into strings, piped as strings, then re-encoded with line endings changed, which `patch` rightfully refuses to apply.

- Running Powershell scripts is disabled by default (WTF?)

By comparison, *sh's heavily favor interactive use. For example, you can put io redirections at the start or end of a line, tab-completion is often very good, it's often possible to avoid brackets (ex. with xargs), background/foreground job management, etc.

Overall, I often find Powershell more pleasant to use than *sh, especially when writing scripts. But for interactive use, I often wish Powershell was a little smarter and a little dumber at the same time.
I've always thought actually Brexit supported the left much more than the right.

I think we see that with two of Labour's key manifesto pledges would be either impossible or very difficult to do with EU/SM membership.

Firstly - VAT cannot be levied on private school fees under EU law. Potentially you could argue for some exemption but I think it would be very slow.

Secondly - Labour's idea of "nationalising" the UK railways is really at odds with EU policy. Netherlands has an ECJ case pending because they do not allow private operators to bid for at least parts of it. I think this could potentially be mitigated but it is really not the spirit or direction of travel of EU law.

I think it's also important to add while a lot of legislation wasn't repealed, a lot of EU legislation is not being added to UK statue books. I think the UK would want to take a very different path on AI regulation vs the EU for example, and had we stayed in would have been a huge point of contention.

There is a lot more nuance in this Brexit argument. While I certainly didn't support it, this does not mean everything the EU does is good, especially in tech. There is too much black and white thinking going on with it. I'd also add that EU growth has been exceptionally poor compared to the US. Something is going wrong in Europe as a whole; and I suspect poor quality overregulation by the EU on growth industries is a (potentially small) part of that picture.
Don't think UK can get a similar sweetheart deal as Switzerland has.
On the brightside, this narrative probably contributes to the potential death of the Conservative party today as a plurality of brexit voters are projected to abandon them for Reform.

Recent tweet from them:

> YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU: Only one party can save Britain from the corrupt establishment.

> Today, vote with your HEART and vote for what you TRULY believe in.
Hey Ben - the URL directs to https://sumble.com/orgs and requires creating an account to continue - is there another way to access your website?

Also, do you have links to the job posts?

Thanks!
Even worse... Sounds like phone number is irrelevant, yet they collect it.
Ha, I always rely on the submit button to redirect me to the entry in case the URL was already posted earlier. But for each CVE the URL is different, which is the whole point of course.

Thanks for pointing this out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
Thanks for taking the time to clarify my confusion.

It's not that there is "little variance left to explain", but actually that (no matter what) there will always be too much variance left to be explained, when the response is Bernoulli-distributed and the parameter is not too far from 0.5 (i.e., the data generating process is like flipping a slightly loaded coin).

If you use the expected value to predict the Bernoulli variable, you will always be somewhat wrong (0.45 and 0.55 are both far from 0 and from 1, which are the only possible responses).

If you use a binary response to predict, you will quite often be very wrong, even if you are right on average, and even if your prediction is to generate Bernoulli-distributed samples from the exact same distribution (i.e., you know exactly how the coin is loaded/biased and you can exactly replicate its data generation process).

So... yeah... no "paradox" ;)
During Covid I got back into chess, after about a 20 year break, and I got my butt handed to me, for the life of me could not enter the middle game in an equal position, at least often enough. I found myself struggling in uphill battles, especially in 10 minute games. I finally had to learn openings if i was going to make any progress, after watching way too much infotainment on youtube, I cracked some books and did some Chess.com tutorials.

I then create my own local web app to let me make annotations for positions, about 8 months ago I showed it to some of my chess friends that i play with in real life, and they all liked it, and encouraged me to share it. So I took my crappy web app and worked my ass off on it for 8 months and built Pinsandgambits.com, this is more of a portfolio piece/hobby project, there is no incentive for profit.

anyway I would appreciate constructive feedback, my aim is to create something very approachable to understand openings, a tool that i would use and aimed at elo 500 to 1000.

not only am I looking for content feedback, I'm also looking for bugs, I made some piss poor decisions, like use SVG's rather than PNG's for the pieces, but that's the next bug I'm working on.
I agree Dawkins shouldn't be talking about theology in general as he obviously hasn't studied it. He is fine to great in explaining the evolutionary evidence why young earth creationism is wrong, but is out of his depth when discussing the bigger picture. That doesn't make him an idiot.
A shell is not a thing by itself. It's only as good as it integrates with the rest of the system.

So, the experience of PowerShell on Windows is unbeatable... on Windows. It's easily beaten on any other system.
PowerShell is very comfortable in interactive mode.

For scripting, I don't get it. It's not designed to be a simple text-based glue like the bourne shell is, so it feels weird in many places (quoting, escaping, even more than sh is). It's very good for glueing Windows stuff though, like .NET libraries and so on.
Automating Meridian DSP5000 Speaker Activation for One-Click Audio Bliss
Yes, daily, as a virtual screen for my Macbook using a BLE mouse and keyboard paired to the Macbook not the AVP. Then I supplement the Mac with the occasional AVP side app using fingers and eye gaze control.

If only the AVP ran MacOS natively on the M2. Somewhat ironic that I have to park an M1 Macbook on a table next to my AVP, screen open so I can unlock it (requirement for the screen pairing).

I’m considering putting my Mac Studio into ‘never screen lock’ and then using a long range Logitech dongle for the wireless keyboard and mouse so I can use my AVP without an opened Macbook by my side all the time.

A big bonus for me was VisionOS 2 added lower latency screen mirroring (and I think foviated rendering of the mirrored screen). Prior to that I had to use a developer strap with a second usb cable to the Macbook to get no noticeable latency on the screen and cursor.
The ESP32 has two I2S peripherals, so 4 channels with afaik a max resolution of 32 bit. I suppose you can run them off a common clock, but I‘m not sure.

Do you need analog inputs? This board has two input channels and two output channels via on-board DAC / ADC.
There are two ways to resolve the paradox

1. if you insist on using the r-squared (i.e., a linear regression measure), then properly center and normalize your data, and model what you actually predict: the difference between the baseline (0.5) and the probability to vote for party 0 or party 1. If you model the outcomes as 0/1 without this, then you are using a model made for gaussian variables on what should be a logistic regression
2. if you can live with something that more accurately captures the idea of "explanatory power", you can use a GLM (logistic link function), do a logistic regression, and then use the log odds or another measure.

In both cases, the variance explained by the state that you are in is 1, because of course it is, that's how the thought experiment is constructed - p(vote for party 1)=0.5+ \delta(state).

"Paradoxes" like this are often interesting in the sense that they point to the math being the wrong math or you using it wrong, but instead people tend to assume that they are obviously understanding things correctly so it must be some weird property of the world (which then sometimes is used to construct some faulty conclusions as in some of the cited papers)
"you could actually hear it die! the 'click of death' "

"sure, grandpa, drives make noise [rolls eyes]"
One of the immediately likely things after the election is for Labour to rejoin various eurpean standards things, like on Chemicals, accepting the EU rules with no direct say in them, just like Norway and Switzerland.

> [Labour Chancellor] Reeves said she does not think “anyone voted Leave because they were not happy that chemicals regulations were the same across Europe”,
No, these are all cruisers rather than racers. There's a mix of sailing and lifestyle, but then for a lot of them it's hard to just film the sailing because there's only so much sailing you can actually do when you live on your boat.
The hidden 'eagle's nest' city that Alexander the Great couldn't conquer
Oddly, it's not nearly the disaster I anticipated. It looks like an ordinary weak economy, the kind you get from time to time.

It's certainly a disaster compared to "we hold all the cards", said by a fraud and many were convinced by that fraud. I hope they are coming to understand that relative nightmare and turn out the fraudsters for a very long time.

At the end of that time I suspect they'll find themselves mostly not-as-well-off-as-they-could-be, rather than actually poverty stricken and isolated. It'll be the kind of thing economists point to on charts, but not really easy to see in the various economic noise.

I hope it's no worse than that. And maybe, just maybe, that somebody somewhere learned something.
Huh, I thought he was on there. I will try to get round to adding him.
Using a temperature system built around water to measure air temperature. I mean I can use it but the range of fahrenheit is more useful.

What we really need is a combination of the two. Something that measures air temperature and water content because 68F at 5% humidity is a lot different than the same temp at 40%>
Surely you acknowledge what a giant, wide, grey line of a no-man’s-land you just painted.
Bringing life into fiction books with engaging audio
Controlled atmosphere storage? Probably a bit extreme for your average ZX Spectrum though.
Huge firework displays for July 4th in US, but the nation's air quality suffers
My very first was Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos. Way over my head in 7th(?) grade but my first intro to math beyond pre-algebra stuff.

Lately I've enjoyed, but did not finish, the Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng, on category theory. And there was a differential geometry book whose name I have forgotten but whose exercises I really enjoyed, because I could do them in my head while riding the bus, just by thinking about them.

I'm not particularly well read on mathematics (had a lot of math in college, hardly any since) but I would like to circle back to reading more at some point.
I am not British, but as an outsider looking in it was very obvious that they were shooting themselves in the foot by distancing their closest trading partners.

At the time of the vote I remember a conversation with a friend's wife, who is British. I simply asked her opinion. The response I got was so caustic and vitriolic. She was very much supportive of the separation, but had no real reason other than "the foreigners are taking jobs from those born in the UK".

She was fully convinced and pissed that I even asked because it clearly meant that I was challenging their rights and freedoms.

It was then that I knew it was not only a bad decision economically, but that it was being made out of irrational thinking and not logical decision making.
I am all for the "western" side, where the speaker has to provide the understanding, motivation and entertainment, especially in the modern day where information is easily accessible. It doesn't mean that no effort should be expected of listeners, more like unnecessary effort should be minimized.

An example of unnecessary effort would be using a foreign language listeners have no particular interest in learning. Personally, I would rather have my math class in a language I am at least fluent it, so that I can focus my attention on the math and not on the language. I also like my teach when they have an understanding of the psychology of learning, so that I can learn more effectively. Entertainment and motivation is part of it. It is spoon-feeding, but that's also how you get people to focus on the heart of the matter.

At higher levels, it becomes less of a consideration, not because it is unimportant, but because at high level, knowledge itself becomes scarce, so you'd be lucky to find someone who really knows his stuff, even if he isn't the best at making it easy for people to understand. So the listen can spare some effort as it is the only way to get that knowledge.

In the old days, knowledge in general was scarce so it made sense to tip the balance in favor of the speaker as you'd be lucky to have a knowledgeable speaker at all. But now, almost everything is a few clicks away on the internet, and the entire point of having a speaker is to present the information is an easily digestible manner. If you want to go "the hard way" you can do it by yourself, papers, textbooks, etc... are everywhere on almost every subject at almost every level, even more so if you embrace piracy.

As for painting, or meaningful art in general, it is also part of the artist job to guide the viewer, not just dump a random idea on canvas, this is just lazy (on the part of the artist). Leave some clues leading to the big idea. Think like a puzzle. Puzzles are designed to be challenging, but they also involve guiding the player so that in the end, they can solve a more difficult challenge than they would have been able to with no help.

Another thing to consider is that in a speaker-listener relationship, there are usually more listeners than there are speakers, so it is more efficient to have the speaker spend the effort being understood than having the listeners spend it understanding.
The economic impacts of short-term rentals in Los Angeles (2022) [pdf]
Not sure I understand your argument - from a customer perspective why is the service worse, and why do you believe that it has BECOME worse?
Great talk! This is an excellent intro into the state of WebXR