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Tallish_Tom

@Tallish_Tom@fosstodon.org

Aging geek. Elixir Language Fan, Lean/agile delivery consultant/coach (if you mean what I mean when I say that). Excited by ecology, biodiversity and wilding.

Desperately trying to hang onto some nuance in a world of microblogging.

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cstross, to random
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"Visionaries at NASA identified a futuristic new energy source (space billionaire egos) and found a way to tap it on a fixed-cost basis"— ouch!

The Lunacy of Artemis (Idle Words), or why the Artemis moon program is incoherent, badly designed bollocks that will probably kill astronauts.
https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

Tallish_Tom,
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@cstross

I am increasingly convinced that Starhip will never leave earth orbit. Whatever its owner believes.

OTOH if SpaceX manages to make it work as designed for orbital launches it will fundementally change the economics of space and enable many cool future projects.

simon_brooke, to random
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This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

Tallish_Tom,
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@simon_brooke

Respect!

melanie, to random
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@simon_brooke hey did you know that you write good and you have done for 11 years?

Tallish_Tom,
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@melanie @simon_brooke

Should this be bigger or smaller (or fundamentally different)?

tcoopman, to random
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Any people on here who have both experience with + and or ?

It feels that stream-aligned teams and the fluid teams is a big conflict? And I'm wondering what kind of tradeoffs you've found when working with one or the other?

For example, how do devs build deep domain expertise in fluid teams?

Or if you do TeamToplogies, does it always mean that you might need to rework your architecture so teams can work on value and not just on individual components?

Tallish_Tom,
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@matthewskelton @tcoopman

While I can understand why you might argue your first point (though I tend to disagree with it), I see zero evidence to support the second.

Tallish_Tom,
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@matthewskelton @tcoopman

While I think you may have a point with LeSS. They have long lived 7-10 person stable teams that are expected to be "fungible" but I think that you are discounting the various rapid reteaming processes within a FAST collective.

TBH it feels like a replay, at team level, the C2 wiki falling out between Coplien and the XP crowd over code ownership.

I'm not saying you are wrong in that it might not work. But I think code ownership is addressed at a different level.

baldur, to random
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“Heat Death of the Internet - takahē” https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

Why is it tagged "fiction"?

Tallish_Tom, to random
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Asking any developers doiing with "classic" approach and using an approach.

Do you find the different approaches affect your low-level design?

@emilybache

Tallish_Tom, to accessibility
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Asking Mastadon.

Can anyone recommend good online resources to learn ? Really am asking for a friend, they would ideally like something structured like a course.

Thanks!

(Apologies for tagging individuals as well, I hope that isn't rude).
@angelikatyborska
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@baldur

FredKiesche, to random
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And there it is…the first novel-length installment appearance of the BOMB-PUMPED X-RAY LASER!

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Tallish_Tom,
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@nyrath @sudnadja @FredKiesche

The Expanse ships got this right.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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One third of local councils are cutting support to the , one third are cutting support for parks & leisure... and a wide range of other service reductions or halts are expected.

The progressive destruction of local , accountability & social provision is now accelerating...

The hollowing out of our local government & the ever increasing centralisation of power & responsibility is unlikely to be reversed by the next Govt.

The value of municipal governance has been completely lost

Tallish_Tom,
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@AndyDeardentsa @patrickhadfield @ChrisMayLA6

Not a fan of the Victorians but they understood the power of properly funded local government - just look at the water and sewage projects undertaken by municipal authorities in this period.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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Presented without comment.

Tallish_Tom,
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@Impossible_PhD

In a work context did the trainer suggest an approach for the situation where your co-worker is, from your PoV, making a mistake? Is feels like pointing out your understanding of the situation and why you think they are having/about to have trouble would work. That way you can understand their PoV and either realise your or their understanding of the situation is wrong.

mrtazz, to random
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This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.

Tallish_Tom,
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@mrtazz @debcha

All modern human-technical systems (i.e. ALL our systems) operate in failure mode except in extremely unusual "average" conditions and they ALL then require heroic human efforts to recover (or operate at all) when conditions deviate from average.

matthewskelton, to random
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Okay, people. I need a phrase that is kinda the opposite of "Land and Expand" that big consultancies do. We want to emphasize coaching, building capability within the customer organization, acting as a TT Enabling team, etc. Sort of "consulting done right".

(We came up with "Coach and Poach" but obvs that is not exactly a good way of working! 🤣)

Tallish_Tom,
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@matthewskelton

Facilitate and elevate?

Arrive and help thrive?

Of course everyone knows "land and expand" is all about benefit to the consultancy not the client so may not be a good word-form to echo.

jasongorman, to random
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CEO as a Service will come in 4 exciting varieties of middle-aged privately-educated white dude.

Tallish_Tom,
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@kyonshi @jasongorman

Yup, just like with the current IRL crop.

jasongorman, to random
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Sad -but-true story. I've worked with teams who consistently delivered reliable, useful, usable software time after time, and the customer just didn't notice.

The customer did notice teams who heroically put out fires with every release - fires that those teams had started.

So we learned to start fires. Add a couple of show-stopping bugs, or a Thread.sleep() in some performance-critical code, that could be removed in a heartbeat.

Software development's mostly about managing expectations.

Tallish_Tom,
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@jasongorman

True story.
Org has important business function - still manual, expensive, slow.
Two projects have failed to deliver solution.

Next attempt.
1 Team picks simple tech & finds key users to talk too.
2 Team, talking to users, realises the solution is framed wrong.
3 Team pivots to new approach.
4 Original need met
5 New needs identified
6 Solutions delivered frequently.
...
Users happy
No complaints
More dev...
No complaints
...
Result: Mgmnt offshores dev & makes team redundant.

baldur, to random
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“What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? — Ludicity”

This understates the problem because these dysfunctions aren’t limited to the tech industry. It might look different in a non-tech company, but I can guarantee you most of them suffer from similiar messes https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/what-the-goddamn-hell-is-going-on-in-the-tech-industry/

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur @jchyip

Also, as a consultant you often get called in to the "problem" area of the org only to see the Senior Leaders (who are "OK" apparently) spraying shit in all directions.

Tallish_Tom, to random
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“there is no contradiction between staunchly opposing the Israeli subjugation and occupation of Palestinians and unequivocally condemning brutal acts of violence against innocent civilians. In fact, every consistent leftist must hold both positions simultaneously.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/yuval-noah-harari-backs-critique-of-leftist-indifference-to-hamas-atrocities

baldur, to random
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Honestly, whenever I use SASS I end up regretting it because of some subtle incompatibility with standard CSS. Like this:

https://webdevpuneet.com/error-incompatible-units-vw-and-rem-in-scss-to-css-compiler/

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

Is this a "you should use SCSS" or "You should just us CSS" post? 🙂

baldur, to random
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“Narrative - You’re All Set: Casual Language, Embedded Advertising, And The Decline Of Human-Centered Design” https://www.wonderfulnarrative.com/thoughts/youre-all-set

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

Another example of

malwaretech, (edited ) to random

I might have actually just found the dumbest takes possible on the Israel/Gaza conflict.

"Jews are from Europe"

1/2

Tallish_Tom,
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@malwaretech

I think what they are referring to is the view that the current conflict has its roots in extant land rights (not ancient historical claims) that started with the Zionist movement (secular European Jewry) settling in Palestine in the early 20th century and displacing the local population (who, by then, were self identifying as "Palestinian". In this view the current conflict is yet another case of the powerful "European" culture viewing others as disposable according to its needs.

gregeganSF, to random
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“Deadloch” won’t be to everyone’s taste, but if you’re in the mood for an over-the-top black comedy with a foul-mouthed female detective who makes Malcolm Tucker look like Mother Theresa & Inspector Clouseau like H. Poirot, with bonus satire of the infamously fatuous Dark Mofo …

Tallish_Tom,
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@gregeganSF

Love it. Though I find I need a little lie down and some recovery time after each episode.

baldur, to random
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“Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It - Dhole Moments”

Executives are genuinely bad at their job part the infinite. https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

From the article:

"Ultimately, never choose the one giving you an ultimatum."

Top tip!

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

OTOH bad take: "Companies have to kowtow to the government in order to reduce their tax bill."

Actual: Big companies bully cities to take their business and give them massive tax breaks with the promise that the economic uplift they bring will still float all boats (very much a "maybe"). As a figleaf they put numbers on it.

Now they are being caught out but they made this metaphorical bed.

Tallish_Tom,
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@baldur

Its funny how they always think the dead-wood will be the ones that will quit over forced relocation/back to office mandates.

timnitGebru, to ai
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The field of is such junk pseudo science at this point. Which other field has its equivalent of Nobel prize winners going absolutely bonkers? Between him and Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (his brother has the complete opposite view at least) clown town is getting crowded.

Tallish_Tom,
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@timnitGebru

What they seem to be saying is: "to get the full environmental benefit of AI we not only have to make the "replaced" person redundant, we have to kill and eat them too."

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