terramauthe's comments

Wait until people find out this is true of separatist movements in every country.

I use LLMs to find items for me all the time and it's great. I still have to use my human capacities for consideration and kindness as well as my deep understanding for the people in my life who I care about to suggest what gift I might want to get them. I still need to care. The people in my life have very specific needs and finding the right vendor for a gift involves a lot of searching and reading. Not to mention navigating the brilliant tariffs that have recently made shopping such a joy. LLM tools turn this 3-5h process into a 5 minute exploration.

I'm glad to see this being made mainstream. Hopefully nobody imagines that this will let them care less about people in their lives, since we need a lot more people to care about each other in my opinion.

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I turned it on, and now geolocation works. That's how it's related.

They added a feature to enable better geolocation (if you want).

In the Starlink app: Settings > Advanced > Debug Data > Starlink Location > Allow access on local network.

This allows local devices to use the Starlink lat/long that dishy uses for satellite targeting.

I would argue that it is post-ironic, especially in the context of Tom Sachs's body of work. #nuance

Why did the title of this link get changed?

I'm sorry that has been your experience with agile. That doesn't sound very good. In my experience, if agile rituals take more than three hours per 2-week sprint, something is not aligned with the team or the project. Maybe the necessary skills aren't there. Maybe the team doesn't trust each other. Perhaps the project plan is not aligned with business goals, etc. None of these problems can be solved by adding more agile rituals.

How I prefer to run it:

- 1h per week alternating between estimating and planning

- (optional) 1h per sprint for backlog refinement

I like to keep two sprints worth of work in the backlog. More than that, the spec will change too much, and you will re-estimate. When a project has just started, or the requirements have become understood differently, to get four weeks of backlog work may require additional refinement. I typically do the bulk of this refinement myself (as a tech lead), and I try to avoid asking the team to have any extra meetings beyond what I mentioned above.

It can be good to have retros sometimes, but it's better to have a team that feels safe to share and discuss issues constructively without a mediator.

I'd also like to advocate for 1:1s. We are all humans and social organisms. Ideally, these 1:1s are 80% unrelated to a work task.

Rad! Thanks!

This is kinda what I was hoping there would be - some secret trick haha :)

Great tip! Thanks :)

Thank you!

Legitimate question: why do people find this interesting and/or why is it relevant to the trial?

This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote - although he was talking about technology, it seems appropriate here also :)

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Dystopian maybe, but think of the great ROI.

well... when they start doing all their flights on electric engines in 2022 I guess we'll see if it makes sense... did you read my link?

The arguments presented here are logically sound and I agree that we won't be replacing a Boeing 747 with electrical. I also agree there are a lot of companies (not just electric planes) fleecing investors for money for products they have no idea whether or not they can build but claiming they absolutely can; but taking risk is baked into the idea of investing and is why profit is justifiable for investors so I think this is a moot point.

That being said, I absolutely think we will see EV planes in short haul -- and short haul flights are a HUGE source of emissions. This is good.

Here's a link -- local seaplane company is moving it's fleet to EV planes and has been flying test flights for almost a year: https://www.harbourair.com/harbour-air-magnix-and-h55-partne...

why else would it exist? :)

As others have said, our entire way of thinking is predicated on lack. Or, as it was said by The Watchowski Sisters in The Matrix:

> Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

The claims on nuclear fission being just around the corner are wildly exaggerated. Sabine Hossenfelder has a great video [1] on this topic. I want fusion to be real too, but focussing on small scale fission and solar is probably a better idea.

[1] - https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY