My workplace which now uses scaled agile used to be waterfall. We have an enormous system to take care of and there’s loads of specialised knowledge, so we were pretty well siloed

So obviously when the sales people sold agile to the organisation they also sold the idea that a programmer is a programmer, designer a designer, tester a tester; no need for specialists, so in 2015 they spun up 50-odd agile teams in about six trains, one for each major system (where the used to be seven silos in one of those systems) grabbed one senior designer and programmer from each major project to put in an “expert” team

And told the rest of us we were working on the whole of our giant system. Where we had trouble understanding how part of it worked, we could talk to one of the experts

Now nine years later those experts have mostly retired, we have lost so much institutional knowledge and if someone runs into a wall you need to hope that someone wrote a knowledge transfer document or a wiki for that bit of the system

30% of jobs are going if self driving is achieved. Low pay jobs are here to stay for a while as they’re too expensive to automate. The current LLM stuff seems to obsolete low productivity people but still need the skilled writers or programmers to come up with new stuff or do the correct detail work the LLM sucks at.

Some management is going to royally screw up by firing junior programmers since the senior programmers can get all the work done with the help of copilot

But they’ll forget that they will in future need new senior programmers to herd the LLMs

I take it you missed the recent fourth integrated flight test, in which the ship soft landed on the ocean near Australia as planned and the booster soft landed on the ocean near the launch site as planned

Their failure in that flight was expected. They hoped thermal tiles sealing the hinge for the aerodynamic surfaces would seal those against plasma during reentry. They didn’t. Had they, it would have been much cheaper than sealing those more thoroughly. The ship landed regardless of that failure

Disliking Musk is fair, but SpaceX is doing good stuff

Actual real world right now giant rockets include

• One that is being built under waterfall methodology. It has been being built for several years. That’s the Blue Origin New Glen heavy lift reusable rocket

• One that is being developed under an agile methodology, it flew as a subscale lander to test their engine and flight control, it has flown four full test flights, improving on each. That’s SpaceX’s Starship

We are yet to see either launch a payload to orbit

The problem is if only 10% of the population is obsoleted, that ten percent needs to find new, different, jobs.

I was fat, not anymore; hay fever, gone; gout, gone

I cut out all plant based food and substituted fatty meat and eggs

Beware though that reference ranges are averages of the population the testing lab sees and only sick people get their blood checked.

Yeah Baldur’s gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical

Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don’t play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

In comparison I eat almost only beef and eggs. Occasionally chicken and lamb. That had all my blood work in order, though it took 2 years to go from obese to the top of normal the blood work got good in only a couple of weeks

The book was Radicalized - a set of short stories, actually from 5 years ago :/

The specific story in the collection was “Unauthorised bread”

Just like everyone else. But also how would you possibly know?

I was not super serious either. I was referencing Corey Doctorow’s recent book, a near future sci-fi

Give it time. It won’t be a licence though, it’ll be a compatible bread subscription for a discounted toaster, with government enforced felonies for using incompatible bread

*Based on how the software and entertainment industries work

And in Australia doing the same it’s “Oy wait up mate, where’s your Ocker licence?” Luckily we don’t need barbeque licenses, tong licenses, etc. we got away from the UK to escape all that bureaucratic red tape

They talk about how they can eat what they want and not get fat as if being fat is a problem. Talking about fat being a problem is fatphobia. Trying to fit a body image your body can’t do is internalised fatphobia. Noticing that nearly no one was fat in 1920, but something like half of us are now, is probably fatphobic. I think accepting a modern diet of processed foods and sugar water drinks is not fatphobic, but suggesting weight loss diets or methods is

What OOP didn’t know is that he was getting worse than obese, he was putting on visceral fat which doesn’t show much.

Being fat isn’t intrinsically unhealthy, but it’s pretty hard to be healthy and obese. It’s pretty hard to be healthy on a diet of packaged foods and factory made drinks

Or to find a long term way of eating that makes you not obese (and not skinny-fat either). I’m on a zero fibre, zero sugar diet which works well — makes me feel good, though it is pretty extreme and isn’t supported by any national dietary guidelines. I have been not obese for over a year and not overweight for a few months

That sounds very fatphobic :/ but really I did it for allergies and health rather than for body image, it just happens to have worked for body image too

Increase your meat (including animal fat) intake, eat eggs.