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Looks like it, that's new! I tried Linear quite some time ago and it didn't "stick", I'll have to give it another shot.

Thanks for the tip!

Anybody know any other PM tools that do the auto sprint planning like Tracker does?

was living in a building owned by a corporate landlord until late last year. they took two years to fix a major roof leak and in the end only fixed it because i hired a lawyer.

on paper, corporate landlords should have better-maintained housing stock. in practice, i've never personally experienced it.

> We figured out that art is simple math. Engineering and law and planning not so much.

Simple math... but mostly a ton of existing human-generated art. Don't act like generative AI isn't standing on a lot of collective shoulders.

> Engineering and law and planning not so much.

Maybe OpenAI should have trained it on that first? Simple math, right?

And then when private equity comes in and buys an entire new development to turn all the units into rentals, what do we do then? Nothing?

> These investment companies are now beginning to purchase newly-built communities of hundreds of single-family homes and turning them into rental-only communities. Removing homes from the sale market and locking them behind rentals.

I always see takes about how the only solution out of a housing crisis is "building more housing" and not any sort of control or regulation over the accumulation of housing stock. But yeah, when even new construction is immediately snapped up... I mean, is there anything to do but regulate the buying side?

after the first two or three times i got asked to code-review something that another developer "didn't know how to write so just asked copilot/chatgpt/etc and it produced this, could you tell me if it's right?" i got pretty tired of it. obviously it's useless to ask questions about how the code was written because the person asking for the code review didn't actually write it and they don't have any answers about why it was written how it was.

especially on the back of the xz supply chain attack and, y'know, literally any security vulnerability that slipped through code review, i refuse to have unaccountable, unreviewed code in projects i work on.

somewhat recently, there was the case with air canada's LLM-based support bot making a false statement and then a judge forcing air canada to honour it. i think we're setting the stage for something like that happening with LLM-written code – it's going to be great for a while, everyone's going to be more productive, and then we'll all collectively find out that copilot spat out a heartbleed-level flaw in some common piece of software.

This is interesting but misses the real killer PT feature: closing the loop between velocity and planning:

1. Tasks have points 2. Sprints have duration 3. Points accomplished per sprint is velocity 4. Use the average velocity of the past few sprints to pull some number of tasks off the top of the backlog. Those are the tasks for the next sprint.

It makes sprint planning basically transparent. I just prioritise the backlog (sometimes lazily) and it keeps me pretty productive. It's almost gamification in a way, but not quite.

Rough. PT's "automatic" sprint planning and velocity measurement has always been a killer feature for me as a solo user. Even if the free plan isn't going away immediately, the writing's on the wall.

Anybody know of other task/project management software that has similar automatic velocity measurement and sprint planning functionality? It does so much for my productivity that I might just build something myself if there's nothing else around.

> The personal trainer type to me sounds a bit like a regimented-thinking military type. Every marine, or soldier of any kind is taught and tries to live the “look straight ahead” way.

nah, it's because looking straight ahead (or, when doing squats, slightly vertically above straight ahead) keeps the neck and upper back arched and supportive. looking down rounds it over.

OSC is basically a serialisation format with a few niceties bolted on for batching and scheduling messages. The massive unsolved problem is discovery – discovery both of endpoints (servers, devices) and messages that can be sent to said endpoints. There have been efforts to solve this over the years, but are largely vendor-specific.

MIDI has OS-level support for discovering endpoints/devices, and there's enough standardisation of supported controllers that things largely "just work".

When it comes to music, the meme at this point is that "discovery is the problem." There is already so much music being made by so many people that the difficult part is connecting listeners to music they enjoy. It's tiring to see endless takes of "finally! we don't need artists anymore! we can just stand on their shoulders by training models on their work and then generate our own art instead!"

There's already so much art being made. Why have so much joy in ignoring all of it and focusing on generative AI instead?

Furthermore, there's another work posted on that FB account that has the caption:

"While I'm concerned about the possible impact on society - especially on the jobs front, I cant help but grin as the edifice of human exceptionalism is shred apart with every passing day."

Is that you? Why the misanthropy? "edifice of human exceptionalism"? As it applies to... making music?

> The Pfizer-BioNTech version is different than the Comirnaty version.

How do they differ? Aren't they both tozinameran?

> Run your own node.

Which platforms are doing that? Any you can name offhand?

> You don't have to use their GUI.

Who's doing that?

> don't use Alchemy or Infura as your RPC endpoints?

Who's doing that?

> It could just as easily be "This isn't decentralized! Let me fix that!"

Write the post, then. I'd read it.

you're free to come discuss it in #lobsters on liberachat :)

Yeah, and humanity used to believe in miasma theory too. Fauci being wrong and then correcting himself later is a good thing, actually.

You seem to be misunderstanding me here. When I say "asymptomatic transmission," I am referring to whether or not a person is displaying/experiencing symptoms at the time of transmission.

"Presymptomatic transmission" is asymptomatic transmission. Whether the infection itself becomes symptomatic later (which, as you've referenced, the research strongly suggests will happen) is of no relevance to the discussion.

Right, there are retirement/pension investments for Dutch/EU nationals which she is not eligible for because of her status as a US person (in the eyes of the SEC).

So, long story short, she's ineligible for investing as a US national unless she jumps through hoops to maintain a US address and appears to reside in the US. Meanwhile, she's ineligible for investing as a Dutch national because EU brokers won't deal with US nationals. Limbo.

Note that I said "asymptomatic spread", not "asymptomatic infection" – i.e. a host spreading SARS-CoV-2 without experiencing or showing symptoms from the active infection. Whether the host goes on to experience symptoms from said infection at some point in the future isn't what I was referring to.

> There are evolutionary pressures on viruses that tend to weaken them over time.

Those evolutionary pressures relate to transmissibility. Basically, a virus that kills its host before it can spread doesn't spread very far at all.

SARS-CoV-2's defining feature of asymptomatic spread decouples this and so far hasn't led to weakening – indeed, Delta is both substantially more transmissible and more likely to cause severe disease and death.

Well, where the evidence is "in vitro, but not in vivo."

Derek Lowe has a response: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/new-antibody-depen...

The jury is still out on whether we even need a first booster.

Previous corona profiles? The article was written before the vaccines were widely available, so the only people who had received them were in the clinical trials.

A year is absolutely long enough. To quote Derek Lowe in the "From the Pipeline" article:

"We have hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated to produce antibodies against the non-Delta coronavirus protein domains and are who are now being exposed to the Delta variant. To reiterate, there is (to the best of my knowledge) no evidence whatsoever of ADE in this situation. In fact, we see the opposite: people who have been vaccinated are far less likely to become infected with the Delta variant, and if they become infected, they are far less likely to experience severe disease. These trends have been seen over and over in different populations, and they are the exact opposite of what you would see if ADE were operating. If the mechanism proposed by Yahi et al. were happening in the real world, then we should see higher Delta infection rates among vaccinated people, with more severe disease. We are not. We are seeing the reverse. The vaccines simply to not appear to be causing ADE, no matter how many reasons one might be able to spin for them to do so."

Just get the vaccine.

That article was published on 4th December, 2020. Have the concerns expressed therein borne out in the 10 month interim?

> As far as "belief" goes, you're the one on the side of belief here.

No.

We don't understand why COVID hits some people harder than others. We don't understand why some people end up with "long COVID" sequelae and some don't. I don't particularly want to roll those dice from immunological naivety.

The vaccines were free. The biggest risk I would have faced was myocarditis, and the risk even for that is higher from a COVID infection than from the mRNA vaccines.

Furthermore, getting vaccinated means that we all get back to a place where COVID is less of a big deal societally. While the data does show that vaccinated individuals can transmit Delta, it shows that they do so for a shorter period of time, and anything we can shave off of R0 is a good thing. Perfect, enemy of good, etc.

Getting vaccinated was close to no skin off my back. I had a sore arm for a few days. The payoff is that I reduce the (admittedly small) risk I did have, and I'm part of the herd boxing COVID in.

What's the downside?

I live healthy. I built a home gym at the start of lockdown and have continued to train powerlifting and Olympic WL both throughout. I get my cardio in, I eat well. I didn't lose weight in the past year – I gained muscle, and my numbers are the best they've ever been.

I got both Pfizer/BNT shots as soon as I could, and I'll get the boosters as soon as I can too.

The belief that healthy living alone is enough to stymie a virus that we still understand relatively poorly is foolhardy. It's in the same category as juice cleanses and homeopathy as far as I'm concerned.

Just happened to #zig as well: https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1397388932367601665

In soft/firm/hard real-time, we can't use mutexes at all. Lock/wait-free is our bread and butter.

> Deal with it!

We, your users, do deal with it. Constantly. Usually, we deal with it by waiting 30 seconds for your single-page application blog article to load because we only get intermittent 3G reception on the metro.

I don't really care what sort of frameworks you like. Stop building shit webapps!

Hey, thanks for checking it out. Really appreciate the feedback all around. Going to address a few specifics here –

"Sine Keys" is a monster. It's the long release time coupled with a healthy setting for max poly, and the killer in Cadmium is the per-voice overhead. I'm definitely aware of this – the CPU usage is a consequence both of the audio-rate modulation and because of VPS being difficult to antialias. Nonetheless, it's a priority and I'm working on it.

Resizable UI is also on the roadmap. The next version (1.1) will have Retina support, and that will pave the way for a fully resizable UI likely in 1.2 (Q1/Q2 next year).

There's a loose roadmap, but I haven't made it public just yet. My priority right now is getting the next version sorted out to establish a release cadence, and then after 1.1 I'll be more open about my plans.

Again, thanks for demoing it, and glad to hear you're enjoying it. Feel free to reach out anytime. :)