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I can't think of any healthy team dynamic that doesn't require some form of deliverability estimates (this is not limited to engineering), and am very curious how you approach this.

> Everything has to have story points assigned to it just so we can say we did an arbitrary number of points per sprint

If you have a manager that's treating N points as a target, then you just have a bad manager. Sprint points are just a signal for how over/under your estimates are on average, to help inform future planning. If someone goes on vacation, how do I know how much work the remaining team can handle? It's also a good signal for measuring the impact of team/process changes (to be clear, the idea here is post hoc analysis and not +N points as a target).

That said, how would you prefer to handle capacity planning? Points aren't perfect, but trends should stabilize over time (you can have predictability/consistency without precision). You can even map point values to ranges of time (e.g. 1 point = [2, 8] hours) if it helps.

There's a massive piece of the music scene that I can't imagine AI ever replacing. Some genres are formulaic by design, but the draw for so many others is the human experience and the inventiveness. Many people follow artists because they connect with material that could only have come from the artist.

One reasonable concern is that tech supplementation will lead to a deluge of derivative work, nullifying the efforts of the actual creators. That's always happened in some form or another, and does it really lead genuine fans away from artists they care about?

There's a comment in another thread about generating a song that includes Kurt Cobain, which is such a weird example because a computer could not have dreamed that up in a thousand years. A computer couldn't write a punk song, and mean it. It will never replace the open mic, the buskers, the songs passed across generations, the Zappas of the world, and millions of others.

My first thought was that this person would be an excellent consultant for some arthropod-based game or film (Arthropods Attack?)

I wonder how common it is for folks to try to understand some new field in order to build something vs. the other way around vs. just outsourcing that expertise.

Big fan of the Spotify app, because it keeps shoving pop-ups in my face about artists and shows I don't care about despite disabling these notifications in the settings. Points for discovery.

I also like how it constantly resets my "car mode" settings, so that my brain does a full reset every time I get behind the wheel.

Or how every week my "liked songs" is un-downloaded from my phone, so instead I get to binge a full season of British Bake-Off on the plane ride.

My favorite is the Terminator-esque widget/notification. I can swipe that sucker away, and force-close the app and it doesn't go anywhere.

Or buy an old car. Of course there are tradeoffs with efficiency and safety, but I like having a car that's easy to work on and features no telemetry or smart features.

Copying a quote from that "slow thinking" post because I hadn't seen it and I think is valuable:

> People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s a knee-jerk emotional response to something in your past.

Fascinating trying to think of questions people might ask, how I might respond, and why.

Do you have a source for that? The highest city tax bracket I can find is 3.867%

To be clear, it's still ridiculous to pay hundreds of dollars a month extra just to live in the five boroughs but 10% would be unmanageable

Not exactly what you're describing, but I've been running my band directly into Logic Pro on an M1 (both for recording, and live shows). Dry signals go through amp sims and effects processors, and then route to both a FOH mix and an in-ear mix all on the laptop.

Wish I had seen the OP's project months ago, but one bonus of the setup I describe is the ability to swap effects after the fact (by virtue of having the dry signal) and the ability to automate effects (so I can engage distortion etc as soon as we hit measure XYZ instead of having to click a pedal)

> It soothes and calms the parasympathetic nervous system

Wouldn't you want to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system? Not calm it?

Thanks for unlocking the memory I have of getting my radio license in my early 20s. Got a lot of questions about why I was interested in radio, but in the sort of way that you might ask an alien what the purpose for their visit is.

Also if anybody is reading this and interested in radio - take the test! It's cheap and you can cram the material in a day.

> "CEO of AI company here [...] This is a gold rush"

Forgive my skepticism, but AI hype today looks remarkably similar to the NFT hype of yesterday. IMO there's certainly value in AI-assisted workflows, and maybe the hype around AI is doing legitimate work here a disservice, but I don't see any lasting, meaningful impact being had as a result of this wave.

The bounty password looks like 2 names, a type of flower, and a two word object. That significantly reduces the search space. Though, it's likely at least one of those words are non-standard or wouldn't be found in any wordlist.

Can't say that I love the praise over Chris McCandless, given the amount of deliberate self-sabotage and the fact that hikers have literally died trying to recreate his pilgrimage.

> We’ve all got this theory that we’re not just meant to be confined to buildings and work. And [McCandless] was experiencing life. Real life. Social media and phones are not real life.

I'm nitpicking, just think there are way healthier examples. Overall I love the mentality and really hope the next generation or two embraces a major shift away from tech addiction. Feels like growing pains from head-spinningly rapid technological innovation and availability.

Episodic (vs serial) television has its own problems. It can be done well, but the path of least resistance is to make episodes low-stakes, formulaic, and mindless. Law & Order, The X-Files, The Simpsons et al have vague arcs but are approachable by design, which I see as "convenient but less satisfying".

There's a group that does this, but supposedly has not made much of an impact on the city's rat population and the practice has stirred some controversy (content warning: dead rats)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/new-york-cit...

Thank you for this.

Honestly, your first line is enough. You can wake up later, you can start drinking earlier, or you can do both. I'm sure a lot of people do better with a more structured, social workday -- it's easier to not feel bad about something if you don't have to try to hide it.

I have fond memories of rooting early Android devices, and having to constantly rip the battery out when the phone would inevitably lock up.

I have less fond memories of waiting all day for a newer phone to run out of battery when the same thing happened.

Interesting you mention guitarists thinking in terms of flats. Is that rooted in music theory, preference/convention, or something else?

A sibling common mentions "c#, g#, c#, f, g#, c#" which is exactly how I would think of it. I'd guess that without a key signature to reference it doesn't really matter, but I'm a theory novice so curious about this.

This is awesome. I've been kicking around the idea of a notation/composition system that uses external forces (temperature, moon phase, time, etc) as live input but prior research is a bit hard to come by.

Feeding signal into e.g. a guitar pedal is easy enough, but mutating an entire orchestra in real time is a different beast. If anyone knows of similar works I'd be grateful for links.

That's a shame. I just paid for a T-casual with cash and it worked beautifully throughout the week despite becoming a crumpled mess by the end of my trip.

NYC is moving to a system called OMNY, where you can either hunt down a retailer with the cards or just use tap-to-pay. I suspect many casual riders will use the latter because of the low friction, but it's indeed not anonymous.

One neat thing I recently encountered is that people are listing apartments with fees as "no-fee" on StreetEasy.

That is, I inquired about a no-fee listing and was met with "actually, there is a 15% on this listing is that ok?".

To address a sibling comment, there are still bait-and-switch listings as well. Many of these are listed as having been on the market for 50+ days. You can spot these placeholder listings with practice. They're especially common with larger, managed [airquotes]luxury[/airquotes] apartments.

As a manager - my work habits look pretty similar. If you don't trust your peers or reports, such that you need to monitor the specific hours they're doing asynchronous/solo work, then that's a problem.

The challenge is actually getting people to take advantage of this. I work with folks who default to overworking, so I have to be pretty insistent that they take time for themselves.

I support the change, but it means we'll have yet another edge case in time handling.

Big fan of DO.

I have a Droplet I haven't accessed in 7 years. I'm pretty sure if I look at it the wrong way it will break, but it's been running the same app with no downtime like a champ.

I stopped grazing when WFH started, since I don't care to replicate the office's snack stash.

I signed up for a premade meal service, so I throw a box in the microwave and eat whatever's inside (e.g. salmon/rice/veggies). I end up eating like 3 lunches a day this way, but I'm trying to gain weight so it works out.

I built an app like this in my college days! That is, an app that can send network requests over voice, decode the voice channel response (which comes from some proxy), and render it in a useful way or pass it off to some other process.

Tried to revisit this approach last year, but Android security restrictions now make tapping calls impossible

This sounded silly until I remembered that software versioning trips me up just the same.

I always read 1.2.11 as < 1.2.2

Your tone is quasi-facetious, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars, so...now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

Small world, I won Best Mobile Hack at hack.UVA a few years ago :)

Notes:

- This was one of many I snuck into after I had dropped out of college

- It was a mobile app that let you scan an ISBN and would pirate the book for you. The results were sourced from your usual trackers, so 1% of the time it would work and 99% of the time you'd get <NSFW>.