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Apple’s position would then be: great battery life unless you need to run old intel software.

“Demand for oil was also largely unchanged in 2018 (-0.3%). Within that total, demand for diesel and petrol both saw annual declines of around 1%, whereas aviation fuel was up 2%.“

BTW, the article uses the acronym IPC without explaining it. It stands for Instructions Per Cycle. CPUs can and do execute multiple instructions per clock cycle so this is just a measure of how many.

The study includes a total of 14 dreams of which 3 are the author’s.

I’ll take it with a grain of salt.

- Overcomplicated both in design and implementation

- Not especially interesting or novel

Unless I'm missing something?

Note this part of the Better Worlds project: https://www.theverge.com/better-worlds

Any thoughts on this installation method?

    iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

Con: Government has access to a great tool for identifying people.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf

This is great! Lots of nostalgia.

No sprints.

No stand-ups.

No prioritized backlog.

No sprint planning.

No sprint reviews.

There is a product owner, who is a BA, but I never speak to her. She's on a different floor.

If I want to work on something, I literally have to ask the other developers if anyone has anything they need done.

When I joined the team, we had a project manager who would create tasks in jira and assign them to individuals. When the task was finished, we assigned them back to the PM so he could assign them to a tester. The tasks were already broken down from user stories so I would often get "implement REST service for X" and someone else would get "implement web page for X".

We have a new project manager who doesn't like agile. He is currently "resetting" the project by forcing the business to write a complete set of detailed requirements. They have until June 30 to finish that. In the meantime, the team will continue in a kind of limbo of "agile" but the PM has already committed the team to completing the project by Dec 31st even though the requirements won't be finished until Jun 30th. The budget is also fixed.

I've asked the team why we don't do any of the agile things. Normally you'd at least get cargo cult stand-ups. They said they don't see the value in it. They've all been working on the project for 2+ years so they know what needs to be done. I pointed out that it makes it impossible for me to participate in the project in any meaningful way since I'm reduced to begging for work. They don't see a problem with that. "Just ask".

Because it's "agile" there is no up-to-date technical documentation. So to get anything done (once I have work to do) involves finding out who in the team knows what I need to know and interrupting them. The guy who knows the most is a terrible communicator. "Just ask".

I have an interview at another place on Friday. I think people will be genuinely surprised when I tell them I'm leaving.

I would contribute:

  xmlstarlet   Manipulate xml documents         http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
  jq           Manipulate json documents        https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
  screen       Terminal multiplexer (like tmux) https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
  imagemagick  Manipulate images                https://www.imagemagick.org/
  ffmpeg       Manipulate video                 https://www.ffmpeg.org/
  gifski       Create high-quality gifs         https://gif.ski/

Any calculation or data that client could send to your server could equally be calculated or sent by a hacked copy running in an insecure environment.

l-forms of amino acids tend to be tasteless, whereas d-forms tend to taste sweet.[7] Spearmint leaves contain the l-enantiomer of the chemical carvone or R-(−)-carvone and caraway seeds contain the d-enantiomer or S-(+)-carvone.[10] These smell different to most people because our olfactory receptors are chiral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)#In_bioch...