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Dejected Warp Core

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  • AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?

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  • That battle is perpetual. Lazy management sees a number that resembles a statistic, and try to use it as an easy metric for stuff it doesn't represent. Points do aggregate into velocity, which is worth measuring. But on their own, points are a proxy for estimation in $SPRINT_LENGTH days. The way to manage up is to keep making it clear that the smallest unit of estimation in Agile is the sprint length; points are used to subdivide that but only to ensure that the sprint itself is not overloaded and thus an accurate estimate.

  • AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?

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  • There are some cardinal sins within the annals of software development in the workplace. The relevant two here are:

    • Do not build a scoreboard for productivity
    • Do not equate keystrokes with effort or value rendered

    These create perverse incentives that can really screw everything up, including creating permanent damage to company culture, products, and productivity. Anytime you see these things done, it's because you have (or are) lazy-ass management.

    Edit: I also just learned that this is an application of Goodhart's Law.

  • xkcd #3284: Geology Building

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  • I didn't even think of the inside of the building. Every single last trade on that jobsite would be cursing the architect's name.

  • xkcd #3284: Geology Building

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  • xkcd #3284: Geology Building

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  • That's a gneiss pun.

  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

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  • On a related note: every search engine under the sun now has AI built in EXCEPT the one called "Ask Jeeves". If any of them should have been 100% AI, it was this one. And instead, it fucking died in the middle of all this.

  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

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  • I see you. Not enough people are going to get this one.

  • Why is it always the left one?

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  • Right here. I love my wired headphones.

    There's kind of a catch here that explains why wireless has taken off. A lot of people do not, for whatever reason, respect the integrity of the cable and the strain relief at either end. Wires are this artificial abomination, a means to an end, and something to be contended with rather than cared for. They're stored as a tangled mess, and recovered and un-tangled in a stream of stressed movements and much swearing. The result is broken, bent, crimped, strained, and ultimately broken wires.

    Instead, wires must be cared for in specific ways and that is a skill that just isn't taught to everyone. It hurts my soul every time I notice this.

  • Trump hid in catering cart to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat – reports

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  • He's unlikely to go in a way that's publicly verifiable. IMO, that keeps the martyr door chalked wide open. Don't get me wrong: I really don't want to be right about that.

  • What YouTubers have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to?

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  • What I love about this video is not that he pulled it off (more or less), but that it helps illustrate just how hard it is to use atmospheric carbon for just about anything.

  • What YouTubers have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to?

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  • I started watching CEE out of curiosity, but damn, it's a good channel. Our host is just low-key charismatic, and wastes no time getting into laying out the problem, customer requirements, and how we're going to fix things. Then the big machines are put to work, which is just a treat to watch. Wrap it all up with a brisk but informative narrative style, and an adorable tank of a dog that helps break up the content, and it really is a good watch. Dare I say a comfy watch at that.

  • What YouTubers have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to?

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  • This old Tony is also a gateway drug into machining YT:

    • Blondiehacks
    • Inheritance Machining
    • ABOM
    • Not An Engineer

  • SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels

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  • Of course they're not using them: have you seen what Telsa charges for their solar tiles? Tesla can't afford that.

  • What loot would you drop upon defeat?

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  • Not exactly a farm-able loot table, but here's what taking down a warp core gets you:

    • Antimatter
    • Coolant
    • Dilithium crystals
    • Isolinear chips
    • Fusion chamber schematic

    Warp core also deals 5,000,000 damage in a 10km radius, upon death. So you get to enjoy those spoils for about a femtosecond.

  • The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN

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  • Correlation == Causation?

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FLORIDA hurt itself in
its confusion.

  • The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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  • IDK, but it does make sense?

    For business that were in on the grift, and/or just gouging customers "because tariffs", it absolutely made sense.

  • The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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  • What good would giving 250 million people each $640 do?

    You say that, but something a lot like that already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008

    Most taxpayers below the income limit received a rebate of at least $300 per person ($600 for married couples filing jointly). Eligible taxpayers received, along with their individual payment, $300 per dependent child under the age of 17. The payment was equal to the payer's net income tax liability, but could not exceed $600 (for a single person) or $1200 (married couple filing jointly)

    Most everyone I knew spent it on HDTVs. Economic stimulus indeed.

  • The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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  • Did you have fun this weekend?

    Naw. I took too much of the good stuff and I wound up seeing god again. Ruined a perfectly good trip. It was awful.