I think it seems tautological to us because it's obvious to us. But other people do not understand or care to understand or even care to think about it. You can see it in this very comment section that there are people swearing how amazingly helpful fixed standups supposedly are even on a whole org level. It's obviously absurd but they have different jobs and priorities, they don't have to understand the inner workings of the product and for them it's invisible that the meetings are almost entirely worthless for the actual workers. The meetings are helping them in their job and so it must be great for the org, that's how many people managers think.
I’ve been on both sides of this. Engineers who complain loudest about the waste of time from too many meetings will also complain the loudest about how they feel disconnected from the decisions and from the product IME.
Decisions rarely need to be made on-the-spot in synchronous meetings. You can have asynchronous approaches with shared documents and RFC processes, where you make everything available if people want to contribute to areas that they find interesting. This does not, of course, mean that decisions need to be made by committee, and people who provide feedback should understand that getting the privilege to provide input does not mean that they also get a veto.
It's quite rare to find companies that do this for the same reason it's quite rare to find companies willing to "do agile correctly" and really scope out work before sprints and not put additional work in the middle of a sprint. It takes too much effort and gives up too much flexibility for most managers to make the investment and see if it pays off.
how do you think the LLM will do required operations when the secrets are stored somewhere other than the disk? It will still need to get them just like the application gets them when it has to do work.
That email felt like the most weasel way of trying to sneak it past users - "data contribution", obfuscation, and the fact that they're not even making the opt out switch available quite yet...
good point, we think of these OAuth logins as so safe and yet they may be the exact opposite because it's more like logging in with your master password. I think these oauth providers like Microsoft and Google need to start mandating 2FA for every company login, it's just too dangerous otherwise.
Why would it be hard to calculate cost? Multiply a fixed price * requests/time ? It doesn't have to be exact in real time, it just has to report something approximately useful in realtime.
It's absolutely not fine to be at the mercy of other people, that's what we buy cloud products or really any products for: So that we are not at the mercy of hardware faults, bad weather, bad teeth, hunger, thirst, [insert anything]
I'm guessing the answer is simply money. It's less expensive to deal with people like this this than it probably was to prevent it. Right now, they seem to run very sparsely, so ramp that up (if it's every 3 hours and they want to change to 5 minutes that's like a 6000% increase) and they're probably paying more than it costs to employ people to return credits or fears of people leaving.
It sucks, but that's unfortunately the world we live in until something changes.
The US could rely on an agency like the CFPB to prevent this, but that was gutted under the current admin.
I don't think that the prospect of getting hit under battlefield conditions is the problem here because that's always the problem and the tunnel is supposed to be the thing that helps you avoid getting hit. Tunneling under battlefield conditions has also been a thing in military conquest of castles for a very long time. These days you don't really have to tunnel towards an enemy, you just have to create underground spaces for your missiles, aircraft, etc. and as safer bases so the situation is vastly easier.
I was also thinking about this and I think it has to go a step further: Assets don't just need to be underground, they need to be on mobile rails underground. They need to constantly be moveable and pop out of one of thousands of holes to attack or if it comes to defensive e.g SAM sites they need to be moveable so that when an incoming missile is not interceptable that it can simply move away to a different underground location, pop out somewhere else and be able to keep defending. All you should be losing when a missile hits is a one of the underground exit holes. And of course to defeat such underground networks you need vast armies of small intelligent drones that can go in there and explore every tunnel where no human wants to risk setting foot in.
The cost of building all the tunnels is astronomical. Making tunnel boring cheap, fast, and resilient to different soil types + rock would also pay huge dividends for urban mass transport (subway lines).
This was the concept of the mx missile program (peacekeeper icbm) - the shell game concept was to have miles and miles of tracks with multiple launch sites, and to consistently move live and dummy missiles between them - that way there was a large number of potential targets and uncertainty as to which targets contained live missiles - I think the Chinese are now building a similar concept to this in the Gobi desert (if memory serves).
> And of course to defeat such underground networks you need vast armies of small intelligent drones that can go in there and explore every tunnel where no human wants to risk setting foot in.
In the book they're defeated by biological warfare.
there are more platforms for searching for games: youtube, google, chatgpt... it's not so dire that if steam bans you then there is no way to find a game
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