manicdave

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[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 27 points 5 months ago

There are sections of both the right and the left that have anti-authoritarian tendancies.

The libertarian right tends to view things purely in terms of government over reach, whilst the left tends to view things in terms of the power of capital.

Leftists saw Facebook pushing propaganda for the highest bidder, Reddit trying to be safe to sell to investors and twitter basically becoming a project to reflect Elon Musk's personal opinions.

Out of that came a bunch of attempts at creating new social networks. The right wing attempts were not cognisant that the aforementioned were the natural result of trying to get rich off it, while the left attempted to make it impossible to get into that position.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How do you decide it's a good idea to risk getting a criminal record for fraud in the hopes of winning just one day's salary!?

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Never approach an empty section of the bar. Make sure to form an orderly queue that blocks the front door and the route to the toilets.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Solar panels on cars are thought of the wrong way. The responses in this thread really demonstrate that.

It's true that they're kind of pointless on EVs, because they're never going to supply enough power to not need a proper charge, which makes the panels redundant.

Where they could be useful is hybrids, sold as something that makes the engine 10-20% more efficient.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Almost went to Stonehenge after visiting family down south. They wanted £60 and wouldn't let us take the dog in.

You can apparently get in cheaper if you're a member of English Heritage. So we looked online to see if it was a fair deal and what other sites membership grants you.

Turns out that English Heritage are a bunch of robbing bastards (they literally stole seahenge!) that enclose our historic sites in order to charge money for access to them.

I won't be visiting if I have to pay them.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

I'm blaming imgflip, not my incredible laziness

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Search for "Hexamethyldisiloxane adhesive remover". It's designed for removing ostomy bags but it will remove pretty much any gummy sticky glue from anything with very little effort.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My point isn't actually about the software.

Agile is a limited form of workplace democracy that succeeded because the usual forms of disciplining workers couldn't be enforced to stop it. It's taken off in software because the outlay for software is so low that people can just quit their jobs and start a rival project with preferable working conditions. It's stuck around because it's significantly more effective than dictat.

I have problems with agile too. A lot of the "ceremonies" seem more like cult rituals and bad practices are often assumed to be self justifying when they should be interrogated. (I once had a bust up in the office because I insisted in creating a future proof test framework instead of writing just what's needed at the time. I was overruled and I'm still mad about it).

So I guess my point isn't even about the specific agile practices either.

The point is that workers are able to self manage when they're allowed to, and agile has accidentally proven this to be the case. Other work places should adopt some of these ideas. And these ideas should be pushed further, into business decisions and HR and management. And physical communities etc. all the way up to actual government.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago

To be honest I'd say it's more similar to anarchism than socialism. Anarchism is voluntarist whilst socialism demands state power first. Both are ideally paths to communism* though so I'm going to say "communism" 'cause it annoys the most people.

communism as in post capitalist, post state utopia, not Stalinism*

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 31 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 66 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I know a joke about UDP.

I know a joke about TCP too.

Did you get it?

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 10 points 5 months ago

What is impact engineering though? If it's it's just agile while being cognisant of technical debt over MVPs, I don't know if it's necessarily that different.

It seems the study was designed to sell a book and I can't find anything about what that book says. I should probably read it but the bait way it's being sold makes me resistant to paying to find out.

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