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Believe it or not a good source of those is the Bible. Every language knows what do with them, either pronounce natively or a direct analogue; Ivan/John and so on.

I used to run more strict 15 minute SCRUM standups, but when the pandemic hit and we all left the office I changed to this kind of standup on purpose.

Those chit-chat conversations are important and since they weren't happening by accident we made it part of the structure. I also encourage people to turn their cameras on during standup, just so we see each other once a day.

Before commenting, do NOT miss the disclaimer at the top:

"[Epistemic status: Extremely confused! Low confidence in all of this]"

This is Scott having a conversation with his readership, not asserting a Bold New Idea.

Ah, for me it doesn't invade the command line at all, perhaps because I don't have emacs set as $EDITOR?

I use emacs as my daily driver also, however if bash wants an editor it's usually a small task, so I'm just as happy to use vim or nano. Most often I can't install emacs on remote servers anyway.

Stay with it! I would suggest you launch emacs with a file in the repo, ($ emacs <filename>) and then run magit, "C-x g".

Then you're in the magit window with menus and prompts and so forth.

I tell people that even if you're not an emacs user, it's worth installing emacs just for magit.

Hello, long time user first time commenter. ;) Just came here to say that because of this post I went and sponsored XMonad. I want it to survive for decades to come.

I find Haskell to be absolutely impenetrable, but I run XMonad and work with my config file just fine.

So users will probably be able to hack together what they want, but they may struggle to grow a large developer community. But that can still work out okay.

Also, I would be willing to wager that the spread of housing prices has increased over time. That prices in the cities have grown much much faster.

So nowadays there are many people who want to live in a city but can't afford to, and there are many homeowners in the towns who haven't seen much appreciation of their largest asset.

Meanwhile back in the 50's someone could afford a house in the suburbs on a single income (a laughable concept today) because it wasn't many times more expensive than a house in a small town.

I was in my 20's in the 90's. It's tough to say. On the one hand I feel like I was the last generation to take a mid-level software salary and pay off a degree and a "short commute" detached house before I was 40.

On the other hand, since I was in my 20's in the 90's I was a young child in the 70's and 80's when nerds were to be bullied, gay people were to be beaten, and God help you if you were Trans. That's still the case in much of the world, but looking at how my kids grew up, vastly improved since then.

So as a nerd, yes, the 90's were probably better for 20 year old me, but the 10's were definitely better for the 10 year old me.

I'm a US expat living in Canada, and a parent of Canadian children. They are eligible for US citizenship, but don't become US citizens unless I go through a procedure to register them as such.

Unless the road span in question is a 10m intersection. Now if you went through at 30km/hour it took you 1.2s, but lose that second and now you went through at 180 km/hr.

Go through at 60km/hour and you left the intersection before you entered it. Does that mean the government owes you the fine?

Well, the thesis is that with exponential growth and a modest amount of time there _aren't_ plenty of stars out there.

Octagons don't fit together on their own; they need squares in between them. Like a soccer ball. Hexagons let you cover area with the same shape over and over again.

No, not at all! The goal of the comb isn't just about fencing off area, it's about having functional chambers that can be used for things.

The chamber size is fit to purpose; smaller cells for incubating worker bee larvae, larger cells for drones and queens.

Even for honey and nectar storage, the cells are sized to a single serving (fortunately roughly the same size as a hatchery cell), so the bees can consume what they need while the rest stays safely sealed with wax caps.

I forget where I heard it, but someone once said "The mind is like a boomerang. If you throw it, there is a very good chance it won't come back."

Yes, exactly. Or maybe you want a guarantee of being able to stay in one place for a long period of time, say to send your children to a particular school, or be close to neighbors or family.

And, as always, the "next maintainer" is most likely your future self. So conversely, it's really nice to give your future self the gift of clarity and con-conversely look back and say "Thanks past me!"

Like John Aaron, the steely eyed missile man!

I work in telecommunications, back in the 90's fibre optic transport for plain old telephone service. Think back to how reliable your phone was before VOIP.

Then we hired a guy from an Aerospace company and he thought we were a bunch of reckless cowboys who didn't care a thing about quality.

IQ! It's a romantic comedy, but it's very sweet and features great performances from Walter Matthau as Einstein, Lou Jacobi as Godel and the rest of the IAS crew.

Boris Podolsky: James! How's the rat business?

James Moreland: Well, actually it's mostly students I'm experimenting on now.

Kurt Godel: My God, the mazes must be enormous.

For a more direct presentation of these ideas, see Elements of Style by Strunk and White:

http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf

Absolutely true, but FTR there are now lab grown diamonds which change the calculus a bit.

Indeed. Came here to say that over several decades the risk of losing a diamond is non-trivial. It's not even a matter of losing the ring; sometimes the ring setting can fail and the stone simply falls out.

Those 13 years of doing things the old way will come in really handy when the abstraction leaks and you're the one who actually knows how to troubleshoot firewalld

IMO the most fascinating skew along those lines is how advances in emergency medicine are actually the primary cause of a drop in murder rates. Police take all the credit, but it's actually paramedics rolling up to the scene with a full trauma center in the back of the ambulance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/

There's not a single "deadline", each short seller has their own contract with their own terms and conditions.

So since it's a rotating cast of characters, it is entirely possible that the very early short position holders have all taken their lumps, and the current short sellers sold their borrowed shares for $100's of dollars each, and now have the ability to hold on for quite some time.

- Everyone discussing this law should really read the text

The difficulty in doing so is a big part of the problem. As per AOC's comments on twitter yesterday, at 2PM Members of Congress got 5000 pages of bill dropped on their desk with a vote call at 4PM.

The whole thing needs to be much more transparent.

The trouble is that it is rare that trig identities are used for simplifying computations.

Most often they are used for simplifying expressions. For that purpose it's not a matter of deducing what they are, but recognizing them in the expression, and spotting the opportunity to use the identity on the path to eliminating terms.

For that purpose one needs to have them memorized in order to spot the opportunity -on the carefully derived homework problem- in the wild.

Isn't that more or less why Perelman turned down the Fields medal? He had no interest in the competitive part of professional math study?