Be Gay Do Crimes licence - seems to be good for gay people who live where being gay is a crime, unless one wishes not to out themselves by their choice of licence

Works fine on boost for me, in landscape

I asked gpt for code to aim a heliostat

It needed a module to get the sun’s position, it used sun::alt:: azimuth which doesn’t exist rather than Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun

It needed a module to calculate mirror angle between the Sun’s altitude and azimuth and the target altitude and azimuth. It left that commented out rather than selecting the altitude halfway between Sun and target and azimuth between Sun and azimuth

It turns out there’s precious little on the internet on how to aim a mirror, partly because it’s not popular, partly because it’s dead simple

I’m a systems analyst, or in agile terminology “a designer” as I’m responsible for “design artifacts”

Our designs are usually unambiguous

They worked well for us, we were updating a big system or adding functionality to it and a lot of the features were similar enough that we could reliably break the work down to sub-single sprint chunks and assign consistent story points to them

Though I have only been in one team that lasted more than 3 sprints relatively intact, and it’s only that team that got good at story pointing work

I try really hard when I’m in a scrum master position (my position is pretty chaotic, 20k person organisation, scaled agile, “we need your x skills this program increment, please would you?”) to hide my team’s individual performance from management. Mostly because your can’t compare a system analysts numbers to a mainframe programmer to a mid-range programmer, but also if someone’s not pulling their weight I want to solve the problem within the team where we can approach it as equals before resorting to management “performance review” systems.

The idea with story points is you assign them consistently, so the team’s velocity is meaningful.

One team might deliver 30 points in a sprint while another delivers 25 and they deliver the same amount of work

Of course management want to be able to use story points for tracking, they want to compare teams using them, so you end up with formulas for how many points to assign

Of course if they score you on points, they get more points, not more work and story points become useless

The estimate is not a promise, it’s a guess. I prefer to estimate in sprints because that’s about the resolution we can have confidence in, but management want hours so my process is to estimate the number of hours in a sprint (73.5 for us) plus one sprint

200% overruns are common, especially when requirements change significantly

Nothing is ever a generation’s fault. There are and were good and bad among every generation. Some had luck buying into housing or business at just the right moment that value went up

Boomers, X, and older Millennials all had more luck than younger Millennials; at least the Millennials and later had recognition of autism and ADHD.

My autistic friends weren’t diagnosed until their 40s, some had to work it out out on their own after the internet became popular

– a xennial

It was a longboat, not a raft, and he had a sextant and almanac so he could look up rise and set times for stars. He lacked charts.

It was a remarkable feat

I have a friend who’s sure I’m on the spectrum, and points at things I talk about as my current hyperfixation. Meanwhile I’m talking imprecisely forgetting detail.

If I’m on the spectrum, I suck at fixating on stuff

“it’s a bit limited for an operating system”

Instead they’re probably paying Canonical

They make smaller chairs. Blame your employer for not buying sufficient variety. Also a proper ergonomic chair should be able to bring the back forward or the seat back

Or get a cushion to put behind you

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don’t normally make. It didn’t work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

I recommend against being an early adopter. I’m a bit worried being a slightly late adopter of folding phones – I waited for pixel 9 – since I have already warranty replaced the two month old phone once for a complete failure of the internal screen (they said it was water damage, I replied with their water resistance rating)

I expect it was an internal hack. Like a DOGE person left for the day with their terminal open and a federal employee took the opportunity to make it look bad for DOGE

The bad side of this:

• It’s going to be stupidly expensive to fix
• It’s going to take years to hire and train, or rehire lost staff to do the fixing
• People are going to lose services and probably money that they need
• It achieves nothing

The good side:

Isn’t it a payments database? One client could have multiple payments. You wouldn’t expect client IDs to be unique

It’s going to be so expensive to fix all the damage this government is doing when America next has sensible government

So many skills lost, so many systems broken