Opposite of free market. Capitalism = private ownership and profit from ownership.
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I imagine that patent is not a recipe, but description used identify infringements.
If goal is only to identify infringements, then I would leave bunch of stuff out of patents. (Later I could fill new patent for same thing just describe those parts that were left out in the first one)
Avoid all mistakes. (Even if it mean not trying)
I find it remarkable that chlamydia cells, fully enter host cells and live there stealing of resources.
I would call it evolutions “half-assed attempt” at endosymbiosis. (Disclaimer: evolution has no goal)
Then somebody took a sample of people, and measured their body temp and also asked if they were feeling well.
Average among those who felt well was 36.88 °C (98.38 °F) and that was declared normal. (Then in geneal education books it was rounded+shifted and any variation found by the study forgotten)
I found it quite interesting, because I knew normal temp value whole my life, but never even stopped to think where it came from. (I guess in passing thought I imagined that this value was fundamental constant of the universe derived from quantum physics)
My conclusions:
- Studies by necessity are performed on groups on people.
- when it comes to healing an individual, medical knowledge is huge and complex network of rules of thumb (that work on average but there is no such thing as whole medicine field tailored for you)
- there is no better way (listening to your doctor is a good idea)
But by casting an actual vote for “green party”, you are not only electing green party, but you are also sending strong signal to other parties, that there is an active voter who cares for “green” ideas. (Other parties may opt to include some “green” green ideas into their campaign, or even schedule)
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/13/media/right-wing-media-in...
The main difference that I see , is relative lack of female Trump supporters.
Nothing else stands out much.
reason according to wikipedia:
> Vasa sank because she had very little initial stability—resistance to heeling under the force of wind or waves acting on the hull. This was due to the distribution of mass in the hull structure, and to the ballast, guns, provisions, and other objects loaded on board placing a lot of weight too high in the ship. This put the centre of gravity very high relative to the centre of buoyancy, thus making the ship readily heel in response to little force, and not providing enough righting moment for her to become upright again.
My memory of vasa museum: At that time, ship designers not necessarily calculated center of mass and center of buoyancy.
I agree in principle, just want to add a bit of nuance.
Lets take famous “lines of code” metric.
It would be counterproductive to reward it (as proxy of productivity). But it is a good metric to know.
For the same reason why it’s good to know the weight of ships you produce.
Exactly (btw. very nice way to put it)
> stop wasting time on tracking false proxies
Some times a proxy is much cheaper. (Medical anlogy of limited depth: Instead of doing a surgery to see stuff in person, one might opt to check some ratios in the blood first)
- Use not one, but many metrics (article mentioned 600)
- Recognize that some metrics you control directly (input metrics) and others you want to but can’t (output metrics).
- Constantly refine metrics and your causal model between inputs and outputs. (Article mentions weekly 60-90min reviews)
Edit: crucial part, all consumers of these metrics (all leadership) is in this.
Its easy to fake one metric, it harder to consistenly paly around 100 of them.
(But then it’s no longer KPIs probably, as one looking at the data needs to recognise that details and nuance are important)
Laws eventually are use not as intended, but as written.
“defense[1]”, “if happy begin something end”, “if”. All of these technically are code (somewhere). Also check out some esoteric language like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_lang...
Jurisdiction is like good manners, there is plenty of those, but it is not some kind of fundamental law of nature.
… and Finland is on the same side as US anyway, might have similar views.
Btw. Did Linux ban all Russian speaking people or Russian citizen or people with Russian IP addresses?
Parents did not want the baby, so they left it at the door step, date of birth was not known, so some was assigned and used in some legal documents. Later, original parents changed their minds, real date of birth became known.
(For sanity sake, I would just say choose one or flip a coin and be done with it, but at the same time I could imagine that some layer could take my sanity into account)
Also, there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code. There are myriad of programming languages already, and for trolling or legal attack purposes, one could build interpreter using arbitrary words as keywords (to make problems for arbitrary company)
You are correct.
Although, communication has two parts: sending and receiving.
Application named “rustFoo”, automatically is an advertising for rust, and title “RustFoo is faster than Foo” for many implies “rust is faster than <probablyC>”.
Some feedback must exist. (calm, obective and possibly private) Eventually it is up to the manager or manager’s manager to be aware what is happening and take action if critically needed.
> devs who maintain these systems
What is meant by “system” here? Computer application? Hardware?
Extreme B: every collegue is required to read and be able to recite x86, C specifications, postgre manual, and must have IQ 190+.
What is obscure or hard to understand is subjective.
Everybody has a time budget for test execution time. I doubt that you will wait one year for test suite to finish.
It is feasible to test all possible inputs for “int x+ int y”, but it is not feasible to test all inputs for usual GUI application.
Trade offs have to be recognised, some balance must be struck.
Speed is one of the factors that has to be considered.
> What I would like to see instead …
If you hire me, I can address those needs.
It is up to the reader to figure out this one.