@btaf45@mspencer712 The whole point of Scrum is to use the retrospective to stop doing what doesn't work and start doing what does.
At one point, when my team's workload changed to less-timeboxable work, we threw out the entire concept of sprints and just used kanban instead, and stayed like that for a year. We still did retrospectives on the old sprint cadence though.
@btaf45 in my case, we as a team could have done that, because we didn't have management dictating how we did anything. It was our choice to do what worked for us, and it was a valuable tool for dealing with whatever got thrown at us.
Now I'm working in a different place that dictates Agile and Scrum to be done Their Way, on top of a project that's largely waterfall-like to begin with, and I'm starting to see why people say it doesn't work.
It works, BUT, only when you're using it as the right tool for the right job and not when management decide to misapply it as a hot new planning methodology.
RTOS are not going to become consumer operating systems, because there's too much value in selling it as a capability to enterprise customers (who are largely the consumers who REQUIRE a RTOS, rather than it merely being a convenience).
@kier I am no expert, but there are I believe other mechanisms that could maybe indirectly cause cancer with certain kinds of radiation. I feel like cell damage from microwave- or infrared-induced heat could release free radicals or create some other carcinogenic chemicals.
But that's not a direct result of the radiation. Direct DNA damage from radiation only occurs with ionizing radiation, as you mentioned.
And since we're talking about visible light, I'm not aware of any way, indirect or otherwise, that visible light could cause cancer.
If your code files don't contain more lines of comments than lines of actual code, then you're doing it wrong. (For Python, docstrings count as comments)
And your comments shouldn't say what each line of code is doing. If you can code, then you can already tell what each line is doing by just reading the code. The comments should explain WHY it's being done this way, or HOW it's being done, or highlight some pitfalls that might snare a future developer, and generally just give some higher level context to a line or block of code.
@nthcdr this assumes that people write sensible and thorough commit messages, instead of brief five-word ones or, say, song lyrics. Both of which I've seen.
I at least try, except maybe for the other day where my commit message consisted entirely of an exasperated "why", followed by a revert.
That being said, every commit message where I work is required to contain a ticket number (and the server will reject the push if you don't) so at least there's that for context.
@wth I have worked with GTK3 myself, and once I got used to its quirks, actually found it quite nice to work with. I was writing my code in Python too, which added some extra challenge, but the GObject introspection took a lot of the pain out of interoperating with what's basically a C library.
However, I'm aware that GTK has a bit of a reputation. The look and feel is great on Linux desktops that use it natively, but I do remember it looking pretty ugly cross-platform.
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@snowe Typing the character. With GBoard it's switch to numbers+symbols then press and hold a number (in this case 1) to access fractions and superscripts.
@snowe It's got its quirks. For example, if I am replying to someone who's not on programming.dev then I have to make sure to tag @programming (or another account on the instance) in order for my post to still federate to your server, otherwise only the person I'm replying to would see my reply and it wouldn't show in comments.
I did discover that adding the tag as a trailing reply to a missing comment thread will cause the entire reply chain to federate, so that's neat.
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Weaknesses of agile and Scrum (b.agilob.net)
A quick rant about weaknesses of agile
Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications (thelig.ht)
I wrote hacky tampermonkey script to fix Lemmy instance links. Any advice?
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Wireless charging technique boosts long-distance efficiency to 80% (newatlas.com)
What are your programming hot takes?
Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement - Visual Studio Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Are the characters used in syntax of most programming languages dependent on the keys of the standard keyboard or was the standard keyboard made specifically to allow programming with these keys?
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Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla wants its documentation to gaslight you (xeiaso.net)
Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable (github.com)
Consider SQLite (blog.wesleyac.com)
Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)
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