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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I have heard that Portland is such a mess because three factors hit at once: 1) the police stopped arresting for small possession, but no social services were funded to fill the gap for helping/making people get clean. Churches can onl
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
honestly I was just shooting for easy round numbers. "More than 43x the speed of sound" doesn't have the same ring to it. And besides, as we all know "technically correct is the best kind of correct!" :)
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
It's about 3.5 trillion NFL football fields away. 15km/s is about 33,000 mph - more than 10x the speed of sound, and faster than a bullet. Does that help? We are talking about distances that are so big, there is no comparison tha
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I don't dictate IDE choice on my teams, but projects definitely end up with a very convincing "happy path". 75% of the Dev market uses vscode anyway, so I never got resistance to that level. And once .devcontainer is revision
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Oh yes I know. But the split VSCode process is where a key part of the value lies for me. Not just that my entire toolchain is there, including tests, etc... we've had that for years with vagrant, for example. But also that the actual
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
My only complaint about vscode remote containers and codespaces is that they ruined me for every other IDE, especially in a team context. I can never go back to managing dependencies for every damn language/version on my local machine
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Oh my sweet summer child. There are plenty of enterprises still on RHEL 6, paying extra to keep patches coming. I bet there are still some on RHEL 5. Large, global companies. And of course there are many environments where software and hard
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I love that episode, too. I don't recall it ever being clear if the references were literal historical, mythical, or what. And anyway, when we make references to history we are necessarily using our mythologized, cultur-dependent versi
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
In the right company, i've taken to Darmok descriptions of the gif or meme I would use. The results have been... Spock on the bridge, his eyebrow raised. I wonder if this is damaging language or communication. A dog with coffee, its ho
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I have the same need... I use Nextcloud for many things (including photo upload) but I can't stand their photos app. I use photoprism for the photos app and I love it.
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
A great conductor once said to me, "I really like your new voice teacher, he really knows what he's doing. Not like your last voice teacher, he didn't know anything. Your first teacher was on the right path, too bad you didn&
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I can't believe there's no mention here of sailfishos.org, which runs great on Sony xperia devices and even runs android apps. It's Linux (Intel/Nokia Meego, specifically) with a proprietary UI. Would I prefer an OSS UI?
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Not EVERY company. Just the ones that don't understand how estimation works... and unfortunately in software, that's still a very very common case. In more established kinds of engineering it works differently... which gives me ho
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I think microsoft is the only large hyperscaler that seems to take this as more than a shallow PR push. Their goal is carbon zero by 2030 - not net zero, but actually removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they put in. They pay for
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Sounds like maybe your experience is with places that do this backwards? Velocity is a backwards looking measure. It doesn't commit your team to grind until that's done. We get as much done as we get done. We take a guess about ho
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Great response. Part of the point of estimating difficulty is exactly to reduce the one-sidedness evident in time estimations. Human brains are much more accurate and consistent with effort estimation than time. It's still very likely
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
How many has your team completed on average in the past sprints? It's not pretense. WTF should an engineer care about time? An engineer has to care about Done Right. It takes as long as it takes. A PM cares about time, and they can loo
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
No, they are not weeks, and the minute "we all know it" you are fucked. Engineers are not concerned with time. They are concerned with feature completeness and quality. They do not care how long a task takes, only that it is done
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
The problem in your story is a non technical boss making time estimates/demands. If that's gonna happen, the developers shouldn't bother with estimates at all because no one is listening. They can just go on missing the boss&
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
> The whole team was really just doing hours/days -> points mapping in their heads during estimation anyway. This is a common story. But because of the calculation step, your PM was still mapping estimated time units to actual ti
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Maybe you missed the part where I explain how PMs translate to time for business planning. Yes that is absolutely necessary. And yes it is an abstraction, which is the whole point. Human brains are extremely bad and inconsistent at estimati
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
I'm so happy to see someone who has actually read some of these studies on here. There are only 2 reasons to do the translation behind peoples' backs AFAIK: 1) also from kahneman et al we know that humans are bad at estimating tim
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
It's not rocket science, but I can't speak for how your teams have been doing it. I know there's a tremendous number of well meaning people who get certified in a rote method and only understand it as dogma. Doing this right
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
> Estimating in something other than hours still needs to be converted for hours in order to be useful Yes. Did you see the part of my comment where I explained how you do that? The fact that this is the most accurate estimation method i
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
There is lots of good advice here, but I'm always amazed that these articles miss the #1 improvement to estimates recommended and validated by scientific studies: do not estimate in units of time. Everything else here applies, but don&
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by ohthehugemanate 3y ago
Care to elaborate? Why do you blame enshittification instead of the macroeconomic factors that have caused everyone else's revenue growth to slow, too?
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by ohthehugemanate 4y ago
Interesting idea. A fund like the EFF , to take care of the targets of weaponized corporate copyright law? A safe place for the Aaron Schwartzes of the world, even if it's alongside the Bowsers. I'd pitch in.
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by ohthehugemanate 4y ago
Well that definitely makes him an asshole, but not a prison-and-then-life-of-crushing-debt asshole. Is copyright law really this fucked, that someone was extradited and made an example for selling a ransomware chip?
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by ohthehugemanate 4y ago
Anyone have more detail about the case against Bowser? Was it purely a DMCA copyright circumvention case? Did he sell pirated material? On the face of it the damages awarded is ridiculous for a private middle class individual. Reminds me of
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by ohthehugemanate 4y ago
I think you missed some nuance. I read it to mean that the Victorian models of motherhood and female-hood are magnified by the inability of (ethical) science to offer firm causal explanations for childhood outcomes. If there's a source

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