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  1. and ask you for time wasting progress reports.
    Those come automatically out of Jira or what ever Issue tracker you are using.

  2. Re:Yes, TFS is all straw man. *Consistently* wrong on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no Agile teams running Javascript on the server! None.
    Thats bollocks. The development methodology has nothing to do with the used technology or architecture.

  3. Re:Yes, TFS is all straw man. *Consistently* wrong on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    If Scrum does not work for you, you most likely are nor doing Scrum, but some bollocks some one sold you as Scrum.
    Or your developers are all pretty poor ;)

  4. Re:Yes, TFS is all straw man. *Consistently* wrong on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 0

    Your conclusion by management to plan with 85 SP is wrong.
    The planning of your sprints is wrong.

    SN planned actual
    Sprint #. Plan Actual completed
    Sprint 1. 124 98
    Sprint 2. 98 96
    Sprint 3. 96 102
    Sprint 4. 102 97

    For the next sprint, you use as likelely doable number the actual completed SP from thr current/just finished sprint.
    You adjust that plan only, if you have more workers, more workdays or less thereoff.

    The managament, if at all, should plan with 96 or 97 SP per sprint, and hopefully with an velocity increase.

  5. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the numbers are wrong :)
    Average for a two person household is 1400kWh per month, which yields abot 700-800 kWh per person (bigger households usually use a bit more per person).
    I use less than 500kWh per month (electricity).

    Next time you google make sure your links are remotely plausible.

  6. Oh, 70 years only!
    My mistake.

  7. Re: it's what's for dinner on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is replacing old nuclear power plants with coal.

    Arguments like that make no sense :D

    No new nuclear reactor is going to rely on uninterrupted electrical service to power cooling pumps like Fukushima.
    Why do you write such nonsense? Fukushima Daishi had ordinary emergency power generators, like every plant. They did not rely on external power. However, perhaps that escaped you, the emergency power generators got flooded. And for some dumb reason no one came to the idea to helicopter a few military units in.

    or energy prices triple from using unreliable energy like wind and solar.
    In your country? All other countries that introduced wind and solar show that they are very reliabel and cost effective.

  8. Does not really make sense.
    Urheberrechte expire 90 years after the death of the creator.

  9. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You are paying double what your neighbors in France pay. Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Poland, and really all of Europe and much of the world pay less for electricity. The list of nations that pay more for electrical service compared to Germany is quite short.
    Thats bollocks, google is your friend.

    Sure, and if those taxes go away then you might see elecrtricity prices near what nuclear powered France pays and only double, instead of triple what Americans like me pay.
    Yes, and?
    Who cares?
    Power is still so cheap is not an issue. As long as my power bill is a 1/3rd of yours, you are the one who should think about power costs, not me.

    And: France energy company is financed via taxes. it is owned by the gouvernement/state.

  10. Re: it's what's for dinner on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it has anything to do with turbocharging.

    Bottom line efficiency means, how much of the heat energy you "create" is converted into useful power (traction).

    However I'm astonished about the significantly "above Carnot" efficiency. I wonder how they actually calculate and how they achieve that.

  11. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for climbing down and finally admitting that you haven't in fact released 100% bug free software as you previously claimed
    I have not claimed that.

    merely that you have resolved all bugs you were aware of before you released it.
    I wrote that already something like 5 or 10 posts back.

    You have serious reading problems.

  12. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a very slight increase of CO2 output after decades of dropping, what is your problem?
    Energy prices are dropping since 3 or 4 years, again: what is your problem?

    Energy never was a majour part of the bill of an household anyway. E.g. I pay 80EUR a month for gas and electricity.
    Prices per kW/h are not comparable. As a typical german household only uses about a 1/10th of the power of an typical american household.

    Power prices for consumers have not much to do with production costs. As someone who is arguing for a specific kind of power production: you should know that.

    In Germany the enduser is paying about 50% taxes on power. That has nothing to do with production costs, obviously.

    I told you that now several time, get a damn clue.

  13. Re: it's what's for dinner on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, a combustion engine practically can't get above 50% efficiency.
    The limit is actually 42%, Carnot Principle. In reality they are around 19%

    Whereas most power plants easily reach into the 85%+ efficiency.
    No, also only 42%, same principle. However, there are two tricks: combined turbine and boiler gas plants, they reach up to ~60% efficiency and bookkeeping tricks: you sell the excess heat and call that "more efficient". However you still only used 40% of the heat to produce electricity.

  14. Re: it's what's for dinner on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.thebalance.com/che...

    Belarus estimates total losses of $235 billion. (Source: Chernobylâ(TM)s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, The Chernobyl Forum: 2003-2005)

    Other source:

    Economic damage of the Chernobyl accident is estimated at $235 billion for 30 years on after the explosion, making up 32 national budgets as of 1985. Chernobyl disaster vastly damaged the agricultural sector of the Belarusian economy, which is worth over $700 million annually.

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

    Japanâ(TM)s government on Friday nearly doubled its projections for costs related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion), increasing pressure on Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) (9501.T) to step up reform and improve its performance.

    Other source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/n...Â¥70-trillion-triple-governments-estimate-think-tank/

    A private think tank says the total cost of the Fukushima disaster could reach Â¥70 trillion ($626 billion), or more than three times the governmentâ(TM)s latest estimate.

    I would not call that: cheap.

  15. That copyright expired 1 Jan 2016
    No it did not.
    Why should it?

    Hitler died 1945 ... not 1926.

  16. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As soon as we have a fully wind, water, solar powered planet, global warming is gone.
    So: we don't need the burden of nuclear waste.

    I'll just laugh at Germany some more.
    About what particularly?

  17. Re:I'm a AI forum bot on Are Companies Overhyping AI? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The self driving cars, I was involved in, don't use learning algorithms. (Why would they? For what purpose?)
    Everything is hard coded.

    So your points 1) to 3) are all holding.

  18. Re: Tariff a subsidized thing? Huh? on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You simply can replace all coal plants by wind and solar, as Germany is doing.

    No idea why you make a "2 pages rant" again, which no one will read anyway.

    Nuclear power has serious problems: WASTE.

    WASTE

    WASTE

    Until you have a solution for that no one in you country will go for it.

    My country exited nuclear power long ago, if you have not noticed.

    So arguing with me about nuclear power is completely pointless.

  19. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What has my bug history to do with your previous post?

    It is not my fault that I managed to get code into production that has no reported bugs ...

    Our previous post/discussion was about bugs/errors/security flaws in "common" code ... it was not about me or my code.

    Your "scrolling back abilities" must be very weak.

    Scrolling back a bit: but just because you think there aren't bugs doesn't mean that there aren't any bugs
    Again: I never said that. Perhaps you might scroll back further ...

  20. Re:Overhyping is overhyping on Are Companies Overhyping AI? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say the biggest issue is that there isn't an agreed upon definition of what constitutes "AI".
    Actually there is.
    Visit an university, or their relevant web sites, and the definition(s) are right there.

  21. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "I never said that."

    Actually that's EXACTLY

    Nope.
    You have a reading problem. Hint: just "scroll back" and read my previous posts.

    a bottom of the pile HTML developer or something
    I actually have not much clue about HTML ... why do you bring that into discussion? I do software, not "documents". Aka I use C++/Java and other languages ... I actually don't even have a deep insight about TeX :D but that is chanign as my current job requires me to write docs in tech.

    Funny is: I wrote my diploma thesis in HTML, with Netscape.

    Now get off my lawn and find someone else to insult.

  22. Re:I'm a AI forum bot on Are Companies Overhyping AI? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    It is only overhyped on /.
    Where people talk about AI, not really knowing what it is.
    Where people think e.g. a "self driving car" is run by an AI etc.

  23. Re:People often don't understand what the A stands on Are Companies Overhyping AI? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    AI is automation that is indistinguishable from a human

    More precisely: AI is automation that is indistinguishable from a human by a human.

  24. Re:Companies No, Prognosticators Yes on Are Companies Overhyping AI? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminder to self: "everything that gets media attention in the US is a hype".

  25. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But you can recompile the Swift 3 source code with the Swift 4 compiler and get a Swift 4 compatible binary.
    https://stackoverflow.com/ques...