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My impression from the (now deleted) text is that the phone wasn't booting or in a state where it could be factory reset, at least not without considerable effort.

Another way to look at it is that lotteries are a way for poorer people to subsidize college education for richer people.

It seems there's a lot of criticism here about Backblaze - about how other services do it better, etc.

I'm a current Backblaze customer, not a data hoarder, etc. If you're not using Backblaze to back up your data, what are you using? Backblaze is great for me cause all I want it to do is back up my docs, files, etc. and there's very little maintenance I have to do. Is there something out there that does it better?

A team getting to 100% test coverage and enforcing it feels like an application of Goodhart's Law.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

At my last job, we required 100% code coverage for most code, and the other parts of the code (in ideality) were marked with ignores that were well-thought-through.

In practice, I ended up writing a bunch of test cases only to hit the if blocks. It didn't mean that the tests I wrote were any good. I'm still a fan of 100% test coverage, but with some leeway for what needs to be ignored, and what needs to be tested later (non-critical paths, if you have a deadline, perhaps)

We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on it, it was more difficult than it should have been to use env variables at runtime (rather than build time).

I'm used to the Spring Boot approach - start with having different Spring profiles for different environments, and then let your secrets come in via env vars, but doing this via Distillery at the time required some hackery - they wanted you to build a QA build and a prod build, which didn't make much sense. Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.

My issue with polling is that many races were well beyond the margin of error. The Senate polling in particular was bad this year.

Sara Gideon was favored to win the Maine race in the polling, because there hadn't been a single poll showing Collins in the lead since July. She lost her race by 9 points.

It's also strange to see the region makes a difference in the poll error. The polls in Minnesota were basically spot-on, but in Wisconsin (demographically very similar), the polling average was Biden +8, with one ABC news poll showing him +17, the kind of outlier result you'd expect with a +8 average. He's gonna win there by ~1 percentage point.

There's something wrong with how a lot of these pollsters determine samples, or how they judge someone's likeliness to vote.

Placement. Either you want a probe thermometer measuring the internal temperature of the meat or an air temperature probe on the indirect side of grill. The gauge on the grill is likely to be off 50-100 degrees F. They're often cheaply made and not as high quality as something like a probe themometer from Thermoworks, or presumably this Weber device.

Using a meat thermometer (leave-in probe or instant) is a fantastic element of modern cooking, and a huge advancement in food safety. I can't imagine cooking without it. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy experimenting - but it does mean my chicken doesn't dry out or come out undercooked.

The temperature gauge on the lid is a terrible judge of what the actual air temperature is inside your grill. It's often low quality and not in a proper placement for your indirect heat. Depending on placement, it can be off by more than 100 degrees F

It's probably because HN is a particularly privacy-focused community and Zoom's privacy policy is a bit more questionable than other companies

On my current team, we would all WFH on Thursdays and Fridays as a norm. At the beginning of the month, we were told that we should WFH indefinitely because of COVID-19.

I've got a great office setup and am used to working from home, sometimes for a week or two at a time, depending on circumstances, but WFH during COVID-19 feels like something else entirely.

I don't even have kids to take care of, but some combination of 1) having my wife home during the day, 2) the feeling of being cooped up (even though I get outside time walking my dog in my suburban neighborhood), and 3) the foreboding feeling of existential dread taking a toll on my mental health has cut my productivity in half.

This sounds like Scrum with one week sprints.

Fingerprint sensors work in the dark. Facial unlock doesn't.

Edit: looks like I'm probably wrong on this one

I think the bigger issue with Epstein specifically is that it was an open secret that he hadn't changed anything about his behavior

Oh look, it's the weekly "Agile is bad" post. I've successfully worked on two teams (including my current job) where we're a truly agile dev team. We value interactions over processes and tools, collaboration over contracts, and responding to change over following a plan.

Agile is not and has never been a cure-all. Scrum doesn't solve any problems. It's supposed to reveal the problems that exist and make them apparent to anyone looking at the scrumboard. If you don't change your team dynamic and just start looking at a JIRA board every day in 30 minute "standup" meetings, you're not agile. You're just cargo culting.

I'm tired of people blaming "agile" -- which is mainly about self-organizing teams and adapting quickly to changing circumstances, for what's really a management failure.