at my work place we call them "Agile Champions" now
Ironic considering I've yet to see one of those be able to sprint 100 meters
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It's been 2 months. Certianly not a worthwhile time horizon to judge this investment over.
The apartment I bought 3.5 years ago is worth less than when I purchased. But buying an apartment if you plan to sell after 3.5 years is nuts. I'm confident it'll be worth more than I bough 7 or so years from now.
Also, 3.5 years ago, interest rates were significantly lower. I hadn't taken the opportunity to buy when I did, getting into the market would cost me much more and my eventual returns would be much lower.
The apartment you bought also actually exists and you live in it (or somebody else does, same point). This isn't really the case with this investment
TremendousJudge commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
I’ve been using Linux distros daily for >10years now, and I only get more confident that I made the right choice.
Pretty much the only things I miss out on are Microsoft Office and Photoshop. Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux these days with Steam+Proton.
Is there any video production software that runs on Linux well nowadays?
Back when smartphones were not a thing yet, I had some new Nokia model that I kept in a little fabric 'bag' that I got with my Minidisc-player. I remember being laughed at by some friends. Years later everybody uses some kind of case for their smartphone, and I go by some personal policy to keep the bare smartphone in my pocket. I don't know why I tell this, maybe because I sometimes feel like a trendsetter.
I also used to have a bare phone policy, but I had to change it after everybody decided to start making the damn things out of fragile glass. Yeah plastic screens are uglier but they don't crack
The algorithm doesn't push anyone. It just gives you what it thinks you want. If Google decided what was true and then used the algorithm to remove what isn't true, that would be pushing things. Google isn't and shouldn't be the ministry of truth.
"what it thinks you want" is doing a lot of work here. why would it "think" that you want to be pushed into an echo chamber divorced from reality instead of something else? why would it give you exactly what you "want" instead of something aligned with some other value?
i'm sure most people reacted like you in focus groups. I dont know how many times they said "its our most durable phone" and "its so strong" etc. Got to be a way to directly counter this first impression.
That's so weird, they're implying that it's more durable than the thicker iPhone 17
TremendousJudge commented on I miss using em dashes bassi.li/articles/i-miss-... · Posted by u/Mikajis
Essays are still useful — they just need to be written by hand in exam conditions. No more take-homes.
yeah but writing an essay over the course of a week and over the course of two hours are entirely different experiences -- and the first one is the one that's usually useful in post-graduate life
I’ve been using git for remote collaboration music production for 5 years. We sometimes use branches as well when we are working in let’s two ideas for a bass line. We’ve not really had any issues other than that we need git lfs.
The workflow is based on having the same software, ableton and plugins are largely mirrored.
We communicate over FaceTime which is good enough to assess ideas. When then record track for track and build the songs that way.
How do you handle merging different branches?
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AI is a change management problem.
Using it well requires a competent team, working together with trust and transparency, to build processes that are designed to effectively balance human guidance/expertise with what LLM's are good at. Small teams are doing very big things with it.
Most organizations, especially large organizations, are so far away from a healthy culture that AI is amplifying the impact of that toxicity.
Executives who interpret "Story Points" as "how much time is that going to take" are asking why everything isn't half a point now. They're so far removed from the process of building maintainable and effective software that they're simply looking for AI to serve as a simple pass through to the bottom line.
The recent study showing that 95% of AI pilots failed to deliver ROI is a case study in the ineffectiveness of modern management to actually do their jobs.
> Executives who interpret "Story Points" as "how much time is that going to take"
aside, but I have yet to meet a single person (dev, qa, pm, exec) who doesn't do this.
Singapore is a business masquerading as a country. While it is technically democratic, in practice there are some barriers preventing truly free and fair elections. That being said, the leaders in Singapore are not corrupt and truly do focus on what's best for the country. As a result decisions are made quickly, for the greater good, and are not politically driven. The leadership have the latitude to make decisions that they believe will make the country better. Sometimes these decisions don't have a lot of public support (because people are naturally more short-sighted) but, because of the political system, they don't need to rely on public support.
In the case of Singapore, I think this dynamic has led to a compounding effect of good decisions that have put the country in such a strong place today. You see this similarly with Norway's oil fund; it was likely unpopular initially to reinvest so much money into savings, but today it's paying off where they have a $2T savings account, from which they can withdraw up to 3% annually ($60B) for the needs of Norway.
I don't see why this would lead the country to being well organized. All the big businesses I've seen are very inefficient and disorganized internally, where decisions are made slowly, mostly to benefit the decisionmaker's little princedom inside the company.