Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org

A different perspective...

Vu là : https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

Business leaders: if you've stopped hiring & training software developers after listening to pronouncements from CEOs in Big Tech about all software code being written by "AI" in the near future, be advised: while you drink the Kool-Aid, businesses who've seen through it are stealing a march on you.

Waybackify-WP.

I've finally cleaned up and posted something I've been using for a few years: wayback-wp.php is a script that you run from cron to replace any old links in your blog posts and comments with contemporaneous Wayback Machine URLs. I do this on all of my posts older than 5 years...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkS

In a nutshell

Finally some good news:

The fate of #FarRight website #Infowars will be controlled by #theOnion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the #media company founded by #conspiracy theorist #AlexJones.

#justice #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/14/infowars-auction-alex-jones-sandy-hook-the-onion/

“Too many organizations spend effort building beautiful DORA dashboards that no one looks at.”

In listening to Joseph Pelrine describe effective estimation techniques at #CraftConf, I'm left even more strongly believing that the vast majority of software projects are absolutely wasting energy trying to do this better.

Eventually, maybe. Now, no. I believe you'll benefit more by focusing on the flow of value first. In the meantime, use budgets instead of trying to estimate costs.

At the first ALE conference, I – the sole USAnian attendee – listened to many stories about the annoyance of working for BigCos. It boiled over at the final lightning talk, where I complained about their complaining and said, “Quit! Start a company! In the USA, going independent is a huge risk because you’ll lose your health care. You have guaranteed health care! Use it!”

I’m pleased that two people later contacted me and said my talk nudged them toward doing just that. https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112244383621137601

The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.

What if instead of following a liquids only diet the day before a colonoscopy, you could eat rice, fish, plain yogurt and much more?

Turns out you can:

"A low-residue diet, one that is heavy on starch and protein and free of vegetables, is just as effective, and much less difficult to endure, than a diet restricted to clear liquids all day. (I have seen corn and seeds many times during a colonoscopy, but I have never seen a piece of chicken!)

A pre-colonoscopy diet that includes solid foods is safe and effective, and there are abundant data to prove it."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/19/colonoscopy-preparation-liquid-only-diet-data-gastroenterologists/