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“2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1” https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-... Overview of the AHAR reports, including data: https:/&#x
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And remember “we” is often you, the maintainers of the packages you rely on, the maintainers of the packages that they rely on, the maintainers of the packages that THEY rely on… All need to have lock-step agreement about what a “breaki
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The actual report: https://www.pymnts.com/study/reality-check-paycheck-to-paych...
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https://wg5-fortran.org/f2023.html
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Thanks for clarifying. I think this nails it: > Whether the "feedback" from those tests is taken into account determines whether you get bad design or not. Which to me was kind of the whole point of TDD in the first place; to l
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You asserted: > … TDD is a "design practice" but I find it to be completely wrongheaded. > The principle that tests that couple to low level code give you feedback about tightly coupled code is true but it does that because
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> As a process it works. It's just 2x easier to write behavioral tests first and thrash out a good design later under its harness. I think this “2x easier” only applies to developers who deeply understand how to design software. A v
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I’ll add that poor managers inadvertently create a third variant of these employees by expecting them to “take the initiative“ but then “raking them over the coals” when it doesn’t go smoothly. It can devolve into a very unproductive enviro
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> Some people flail and fret without explicit, procedural direction… Is this different from the “human command line” mode of operation that the grandparent mentioned?
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> This nonsense about "measuring outcomes rather than focusing on how the work is performed" is cope for incompetent leadership. So your assertion is that every leader who is not expert in literally every function performed in
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I’ve done exactly this for years now. I’m not sure if it actually reduces “blue light” enough to prevent me from triggering my brain’s “it’s daytime” mode, but I figure it’s at least allowing my pupils to stay more dilated (better night vis
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Even on a nuclear submarine, there is a ton of stuff that isn’t “the reactor and propulsion system”, and there are a lot of activities that must be managed, starting with extremely basic things like “Do we have sufficient food and water?”
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> … their stated purpose. The stated purpose being to assess shared values: > Values > Values are often not evaluated formally at all in the hiring process — yet shared values are essential for long-term success. Some questions sho
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Source for the article: “Younger workers want a 4-day workweek — and some would give up remote work or higher pay for it” https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/younger-workers-wa... > Close to 8 in 10 Gen X and
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Yes, cheap money literally means “profitable next year” becomes “profitable _someday_”. To people who have only been in the tech industry for the last decade this feels like “profits don’t matter” because it’s never been “someday” in their
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> How can you even manage that which you dont understand? Unless you’re an expert at literally everything, there is something in your life that you have to manage that you have no expertise in. The typical way these things are managed is
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> The issue with this philosophy is that it tends to lock in first generation design choices… I agree. A common approach to simple is “just start with the first thing that pops into your head and see how far you get.” I guess we could de
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Just to add some color to this… values come in from the DOM as strings or numbers or booleans. They go out over HTTP as strings. (These are approximations, I’m going from memory.) The question then becomes: Should I inspect the values or ju
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> Theseus is a safe-language OS, in which everything runs in a single address space (SAS) and single privilege level (SPL). This includes everything from low-level kernel components to higher-level OS services, drivers, libraries, and mo
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Theseus OS(github.com)
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Yep, forgot a zero.
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According to Bloomberg they had a headcount of 1500 at their peak, so assuming that USD 1000000 gets you 5 employees for a year, USD 26000000 would get you 1300 employees for a year. (That’s a lot of hand waving on my part but overall the a
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Actual headline: > Why the U.S. Government Has $5 Billion in Bitcoin Answer: > … Uncle Sam’s stash of some 200,000 bitcoin was seized from cybercriminals and darknet markets. It is primarily offline in encrypted, password-protected st
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> … single member districts… That single member can “cross the aisle” without being instantly dismissed from their party and loosing all speaking rights, which is why we have two party. This gives the representative more ability to repre
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> It does not, that I could tell, actually say the metrics work has revealed data the company is ignoring. I guess I wasn’t clear: The metrics work isn’t _revealing_ anything new, the data requested is what is produced. The fact that the
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That’s true from a top-down corporate perspective, but this blog post is addressing the perspective of an individual on the team, who is repeatedly told that the company really cares about data, and then can’t seem to understand why serious
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I read an interview with some aging rock star a few years ago, and the interviewer asked him if he thought that Rock and Roll was dead, and he said yes, because it no longer pisses off your parents when you listen to it. His response framed
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This is very clear and has no ads
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I would like a “allow notifications for the next n hours/days” setting.
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> ... maybe it isn't really what you love to do or your expertise... And that means that you would follow the author's advice and say "no" because you know in advance that it's not your area of expertise and not

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