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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> It will be so cheap that once you are done, you can just toss is out. Oh no, that’s just… why? At least with a paper book you can give it away, sell it to a book reseller, or put it in one of those little lending library boxes people p
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I’m not sure the comment fields are considered by media organizations or public figures… like, at all. I remember talking to a journalist about a series they were working on, they said the feedback they’ve gotten has been overwhelmingly pos
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I’m really curious about this. I did find one 2022 article about producing edible fats from petroleum [1]. It does cite two articles from the ‘60s one about building acids from petroleum, and building long chains of fat from biological sour
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Not OP, but orgs that scale usually rely on metrics. It's metrics that are easier to measure, not the one that measure system performance (i.e. lines of code written per day, points closed per sprint) that get selected. Then management
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> Researchers are hard at work trying to find ways to test the CCC+TL model. It’s not a scientific theory unless it’s testable. I’m going to withhold judgement on this and take it for what it is: an interesting idea, and nothing more.
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I don’t think we’re going to solve climate change, we’re just not moving in that direction, like you said there’s unwillingness. Going anti-climate is not going to foster democracy though, the people who are working to end democracy are als
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do is make a batch of SAO style circuit boards with a CO2 sensor hooked up to a 7-segment display and hand them out to people at conferences. This would give people a way to witness ambient CO2 levels
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
There isn’t anything in the agile manifesto on how to do anything . It’s a statement of preferences and values. Business demands process for people in functions to follow. Scrum outlines meetings for programmers to attend, and specific pro
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Waterfall is a straw man, early descriptions by Royce were written specifically to criticize it. Waterfall is mentioned in relation to agile to sing agiles praises. No serious developer will claim to use waterfall. There are however, a suit
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Although that happened over 50 years ago, and we can’t make the same exact designs, the physics is the same and well understood. Technology has evolved, and has given us more tools. Similar cultures can be made again that support that kind
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
She said that there has been no research on measuring the value of information relative to other information and that the way priorities are set are by the squeakiest most senior person. In 2024 I can say this has not changed one bit. Even
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I work in the defense industry as an engineer, for one of the larger defense companies, a few thoughts on this: - The defense industry is ripe for disruption, defense contractors are very top-heavy, siloed, and bureaucratic, and incredibly
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
It would be a smart, albeit self serving political move for VR headset makers to be advocating for carbon pricing to make their offerings more competitive with that of the travel industry.
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Using a user gitignore file works if you’re responsible for your development environment. This does not work for other developers who are not responsible for their development environment. The first place to catch errant build files and art
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
It does help. It sounds like there are a lot of areas where agile can be modified to fit the work being done. Unfortunately I can implement absolutely zero of your ideas because every single one of them requires leadership to change how the
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is all well and good if you’re working on applications, which to be fair is most software. I have yet to see a systematized agile approach that works for building infrastructure, things like utilities and system software. Software that
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The story I read are that ESOPs are an alternative to unionization, it allows founders to cash out, it aligns incentives towards long term growth of a company and this has shown better performance in tough economic times. The barriers are t
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This article spells out the incentive structure that leads to low-status men underperforming. > Some of the jobs he can get don’t pay enough to give him the self-respect he feels he needs, and others require him to get along with unpleas
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is similar to the 4+1 views concept. I’ve never seen modeling tools widely used. When it’s attempted it’s always a top-down initiative that always addresses management concerns, but always creates more risk for developers without gener
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This article shows, in many examples, Goodheart’s law and Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy. You can’t make a hierarchical organization achieve outcomes people outside of the organization see as valuable through incentives because they ca
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
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 treat
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Let’s adjust the orbits of comets to collide with Mars and focus large solar mirrors at Lagrange points to reflect light to heat the planet.
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is really bad for the US response to climate change. 5 years ago, the thinking went, if you cannot get bi-partisan consensus on the problem, perhaps you could get consensus on the solutions. Then use renewable energy to deliver economi
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> FICO prohibits not only validating different models against FICO scores, but even displaying FICO scores next to non-FICO scores. The problem is that your competition is engaged in anti-competitive practices. Any bank can make an under
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Two weeks ago a large oil refinery in Irbil (northern Iraq) caught on fire, injuring 14 people with burns and smoke inhalation [1]. This is regrettable. I feel sorry for the people, and their families, who have been injured and killed in th
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
From an economic perspective, the problem with pyrolysis waste-to-energy is that it takes more energy to use the process than it produces [1]. This is a process that is harmful to communities around the plants, harmful to the environment, a
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Data breach insurance is not helping. Using weak passwords, leaving credentials where others can see them and downloading infected files can all lead to compromised data. Data breach insurance is specifically designed to protect a company i
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Ask HN: How to turn off x86 Pipelining
9 points by vegetablepotpie 2y ago|11 comments
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
To expand on that, with small and midsized cities, daily cost of transit rides vs. gas is on parity. Of course this does not include maintenance, insurance, and depreciation, of owning and driving a vehicle, but most people only encounter t
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Pseudopotential(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vegetablepotpie 2y ago|0 comments

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