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People sell projects for a fixed price? How does that work? You either overpay a ton of underpay right?

And how would you even say what a project will cost? Projects change all the time, and there is no way to know the entire scope beforehand unless it's really really small. Otherwise you're just lying.

Genuinely how does this work?

> We deal in time all the time, we know how long an hour is, a day, a week. We can remember "I did something like this before, it took me 2 weeks", not "it took me 13 points".

I really don't get this. Can you guys genuinely work 2 weeks on a feature without doing anything else?. No extra meetings, no dependencies, no incidents, no coworkers to help?

Something simple can take me 2 weeks or 2 days - it really depends on all the other stuff going on when I'm working. That's why imo it's so silly to estimate time unless you're tracking every minute you work on that specific thing and manage to seal yourself in a box away from distractions.

The thing I remember when estimating is. Huh, last time I touched this feature it went really smooth. Doesn't look like much work, adding a validator here and I've got an example right there. Factor in some testwork and I guess it's like 3 points?

> No manager can predictably translate story points into days, which they need in order to pitch to customers and manage their budgets.

Either you're a godlike estimator or you disappoint your manager A LOT. Who the hell are these people that can reliably say feature X will take me 8 weeks? Is that also not just an estimate? I'd rather wallow in the vagueness of points than get my ass reprimanded because I said something would take X weeks. If you're looking for absolute predictability you need factory line work.

I like podcasts, and honestly this podcast sounds like something I'd listen to but yeah. The article itself does not have any substance.

It's just when I pragmatically think about solutions to the very real problem of human trafficking, banning sex-work seems like the least effective thing to do. And what constitutes sex-work? Any sex where payment is involved? Any sex act outside of marriage?

Human trafficking is already illegal. Fund investigators and get rid of traffickers.

Empower sex-workers instead of banning the practice, because it will still happen but just more in the shadows. Bring it to the front and truly regulate it.

If you value freedom and equality you cannot be against sex-work. Being against sex-work means that police someone elses bodily autonomy. Human trafficking is a framework issue, not specific to sex-work.

This is going to be the most productive day ever

I always use (if the scenario is simple enough, which most are):

@Test

public void myTestMethod_Scenario_ShouldReturnThis() {....

It's also just silly to get stuck on little things for too long because of ego. I've done it, and honestly it still happens sometimes, but it's so freeing to not have to feel that pressure.

In one of my previous jobs I had a great relationship with one developer in particular. We've both seen great work from each other so knew we weren't just coasting but it took one of us to just say, hey dude any idea why this isn't building? I took one look and it was something obvious - easy fix and he could move on. That didn't make me feel like a genius, it just made me happy to know there was such trust. He knew I wouldn't judge him and since then the back and forth was super simple. Greatly improved both our work, since now it's also way simpler to ask eachother for input on other things.

Huh? When I make the screen smaller the layout adjusts perfectly

Serious question, and maybe this is ignorant because I do not have an academic background but: Are these people not just a vocal minority? And if so, who cares? It seems like the internet is always up in arms about woke-ism but I honestly don't notice much of it in my daily life. At work, sure there are rules and regulations, but they make sense.

Treat people with respect is always my default stance. If I make an assumption about someone and call them 'he' while they want to be called 'she' - that's fine. Tell me and I'll do that from now on. Don't see the big issue, and I don't think 99% of people who desire such things (e.g. trans people) will try to cancel you for making a mistake. It's always the extremists that put others in a bad daylight and that's a shame.

> Blackbox: Assigns negative connotations to the color black, racializing the term.

The way I think about something being 'blackbox' is neither positive or negative. It's just not knowing. Looking into a dark room and not seeing what mechanism is inside it, merely knowing there's a door with a key and something comes out of it when I open the door.

I think speech is important, but most of these seem generated by chatgpt.

You've also got changedetection.io ->(https://lemonade.changedetection.io/start), which can be selfhosted on a pi etc. I've used it myself to snipe the cheapest kimsufi server.

> second form had the X in the corner to dismiss it

Woah, I've never gotten that far. Tried to avoid all twitter links but if I did need to view one I'd just use nitter.

Is it just me or is 140mil not that much? Also telling that the 'flagbearer' of the Chinese semiconductor industry is a thief. This industry is moving way too fast to copy properly. Doing business with these guys basically excludes you from ever doing business with ASML. You'd be forever behind technologically.

No one gave a hoot about climate change decades ago. Russian gas is cheap. That's it. No idea what you're on about.

China is decades behind and will stay so because the industry is not standing still either.

The chip machines need maintenance which the Chinese cannot do themselves. They don't have the knowledge. They'd need ASML (European company) for that.

I don't think Europe has much of a choice. It's either sanctioning Russia and suffering ourselves, or allowing Ukraine to be taken with the horrors that come with that. If it would end there, maybe but still no, but it won't end there. Who is next on Russia's list?

What? Is the USA going to sell their chips to China? Because when Taiwan gets invaded the Fabs will be destroyed and/or made inoperable with no way to get them functional again.

Living up to their name

Yeah think he's Canadian

Now that the words have been uttered its become inevitable

Being born rich helps the odds somewhat

Yeah, at least Old School Runescape gets weekly updates. It's apparently bigger than something like Elder Scrolls Online. Community is also really active, with an open-source client (https://runelite.net) and one of the best game wiki's I've ever seen (https://osrs.wiki).

Fun fact, JaGex at some point decided they wanted to ban the RuneLite client, riots ensued, and now RuneLite is actually listed on the official website.

Why did you alter the title of the article?

Monero has to become fiat at some point right?

For twitter to me, it's not even about privacy - the regular frontend without being logged in is unusable. My instances are hosted publicly but I don't advertise them. I guess if people fancy it they are free to check it out, but would prefer it not to end up on any lists: https://midas.rocks/

I've got a Kia Proceed and I think it looks pretty damn nice, only downside is the rear window - kinda tiny - still doable though

Reading the article they focus on children and e-bike users. Can kinda understand it from that point, e-bikes can go abnormally fast and children are vulnerable. Would've expected the advice to also count for elderly people. I'm a 30 year old reasonably in-shape guy using a regular bike, chance that something happens to me on a bike is small and it's even smaller that I'd get really hurt by it.

It does it relatively OK with the daily mixes, but daily drive and top of the year don't. That's why I don't really get it, they already know fairly well what kids music is so let me just toggle it off?

So the solution is paying double so I can log out of my own account and into an account I created for my 2 year old so we can listen to a disney song? And when I want to listen to my own songs again then I have to log out of my kids account and back into my own?