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all the useful artifacts from it happened naturally because product and dev were so closely aligned.

Aren't you just saying that DDD wasn't proposed as a solution to the problem because the problem didn't exist? Starting to jog is a smell that you're out of shape, if you were in shape you wouldn't need to start jogging.

One of the ideas that DDD pushes is that product and dev should be closely aligned. The reason that's emphasized is that it isn't the case in a lot of organizations. Of course you could try to avoid all orgs with these kinds of problems (I haven't been able to, unfortunately), but the question is, if encountering an org that _does_ have problems, what solution would you propose?

Completely agree. I mostly get around by bike or running and I doubt I'll use scooters very much, but I'm excited for these to come to the city. The more people there are using alternative forms of transport, the more people become aware of how insane it is that we allocate so much of our scarce space in the city exclusively to the needs of car owners.

I agree. Seems like what Feynman really wants to say here is “this isn’t a question I’m personally interested in”, but frames it as “it’s dumb to be interested in this question”.

We are only experiencing the end result of what our senses sample and our brain processes. That’s clearly true. How much that end result diverges from the real thing is difficult to answer, but in a straight forward way you can look at an optical illusion to see that there is some divergence.

I've been using spacemacs for a while, haven't looked into doom. Mind telling me why you decided to switch?

Something I realized recently is that I'm not addicted to social media or any apps in particular, but I am addicted to my phone. I managed to give up pretty much all social media, save for an occasional peek at reddit and this site, but still take out my phone about as often as I did before. Mostly I just check the news for the umpteenth time in a day. My current plan is to keep using my phone, but switch to using it for more productive things. For example, I started using Anki for memorization and I use a bunch of music theory/sight-reading apps.

Hope to see some musicians creating harmony with it live too.

Glad I'm not the only one. I was picturing myself being laughed out of the Roman Forum.

I can't move my pinky independently of my ring finger, so I can't do a unique 7 and 9.

I think what you're saying is valid, but the point I've been making is that the entire James Damore affair is interesting for pretty much the opposite reason to that which people who tend to bring it up claim.

"It doesn't seem right" is one thing, but that's not why it's still brought up 3 years after the memo was written. A lot has gone on in the world in the past 3 years that doesn't seem right that we've forgotten about or didn't hear about in the first place. Damore is used as a data point (in fact, as a central data point) in the thesis that "political correctness gone awry" or "social justice warriors run amok" are problems that rank highly in a list of society's most concerning. I think it's absurd. That this random dev's firing is doing so much work in bolstering this thesis just highlights the absurdity.

How so, I didn't say anything about the content of the memo? Or you disagree that it did obvious harm to Google's policy on gender? We know that female employees received the memo and stated that it made them feel excluded, which did harm to the intent of the policy. That's not really debatable is it?

Policy from management is not beyond all reproach, but what venue you have for expressing disagreement varies by company. Do you think the firing of James Damore warranted the attention it got?

Edit: removed a too snarky question.

There's been endless discussion about Damore. In particular podcasts you'd think that the firing of a random engineer at Google ranked alongside 9/11 as a defining event in modern history. If I circulated a memo to my co-workers that not only opposed a new policy from management, but did obvious harm to the expressed intent of that policy, I might be fired. It doesn't matter if the memo I circulated would have gotten a passing grade in a college class. The fact that people use that as an argument tells me that they've never worked a normal job before.

Electron is always a point, no matter what wave function it has. Therefore, from this perspective space is all empty.

That depends on what interpretation you're going with. Even with that caveat, I'd be surprised if most physicists would agree with that statement. Electrons are in fact described by the wave function. It's not that the wave function tells us where the electron is, but that the best way of describing the reality of the electron is through its wave function. How and why measurements seem to cause that wave function to collapse to a definite location is different depending on your interpretation of QM.

What appears to have happened here was that a climate denialist group that deliberately use "NAS" to confuse people into thinking they are receiving an invitation to speak at a conference by the National Academy of Sciences, was called out by an open science advocate who himself felt mislead. Then the Wall Street Journal was snookered into publishing an editorial because they'll publish pretty much anything that claims to be about "cancel culture". And now we're here debating how some tweets mean science has been ruined by cancel culture warriors or whatever. The irony is that the person being "canceled" is exactly the person being accused of it.

The advantage of scooter and bike share over owning is spontaneity. I love being able to grab a bike on a whim without any planning. And one-way trips is a big advantage, which of course only works because people are shuttling them around.

I think the relative efficiency of the share model needs to be weighed against the inefficiency of everyone owning their own while only using it a fraction of the time.

My mother's cat used to carry live mice into the house and release them. He'd bat the stunned mouse around but not kill it. I would have to catch the mouse and bring it back outside. The exact opposite behavior you want from a cat.

I'm loving pihole https://pi-hole.net/

50 years ago we walked on the moon. This year we're not. _They_ went to the moon, built the interstate system, subway system, etc. _We_ are barely maintaining what we inherited.

Genetic vs fluid is a false dichotomy. Whether you are the way you are because of your genes or because of conditions in early development (perhaps as far back as the womb), either way you don't get to choose.

This makes sense to me. If you're an expert you are comparing yourself to other experts in your field. On the other hand, if you know anything about a topic but only interact with people who know nothing at all about it, you would rate yourself highly.

For example, I read a lot about modern physics but am not a physicist. I would give myself an above average understanding but would likely fail an exam.

Boomer logic: oppose every new construction project anywhere near your neighborhood and mock millennials when they find there is a scarcity of affordable housing.

This seems right to me. I would point out that you don't have to live a 20 minute drive from anything to be alone. Loneliness is as much a problem in cities as anywhere else.

Also, isn't loneliness also a major issue in other cultures, like Scandinavian or Japanese cultures?

A common mistake (those who see themselves as) clever people make is that they believe that if you win an argument, you are correct.

You contradict this later by saying "We often care more about winning arguments than about finding truth." This is right - it's not that people think that winning the argument means they're correct, it's just that it feels good to win an argument. Winning does matter more than finding the true. Why? Feelings. Feelings govern everything. Life would literally have no meaning without the feeling tones that give it meaning.

Verge is doing Google's bidding? I get the feeling that any information that counters the narrative that you're selling is "fake news", right?

Western intelligence agencies all agree that a foreign adversary is working to influence elections. This is a problem. The monopoly power of a handful of tech giants is also a problem but bringing it up in this context is a perfect example of whataboutism.

I don't understand this comment. An enlightening list of challenges facing programmers in a part of the world we don't often hear from. How is your comment appropriate at all here? Or did you accidentally comment on the wrong post?

No, under most interpretations of QM, things literally behave differently at that scale. Under Copenhagen, the wave literally collapses into a fixed position/momentum. The pre measurement wave isn't a statement of our ignorance of the system but rather a description of reality. The many worlds is even more serious in its quantum literalism. Far from pushing around the subject of your experiment with a too-big measuring device, you're actually branching worlds where all predictions of the wave function occur.

So what? These sorts of criticisms are irritating. "Such and such is just virtue signalling and therefore bad" makes no sense. Everyone virtue signals all the time. It's just one of those things that human beings do. Accusing others of "just" virtue signalling is itself a signal of ones own virtue (in having deeper, more meaningful motivations).

Good thing for the overall economy, so in this case for the EU as a whole. Increasing productive capacity overall is good because it means a society can afford more of the things it values. But again, the EU is in a difficult place because it's not a cohesive country. If you can't convince a German to value the well being of an Italian in the same way he values that of another German, then increasing the productive capacity of the EU as a whole doesn't help Italy at all.

Generally, freedom of movement is a good thing, allowing the most productive people to go to places that enable them to produce the most. The issue appears to be that the EU isn't a real country. Taxing winners and transferring resources to losers of the open borders/single currency zone turns out to be really important.

You're probably right about signalling, but I think there's a more sympathetic take. The story of the Buddha is of a prince who had all a person could ever want, only to discover old-age, disease and death. He realized that suffering is inescapable and universal and therefore requires a universal solution. I'm not rich or powerful by any means, but I'm doing comparatively well financially and in health. But it's never enough. Systems like Buddhism or stoicism answer the question: "I seem to be doing well in life, but why do I still feel so shitty?"