I meant I’ve never come across one not good enough in store, sorry about the confusion. That is, Whistles bought seem fine.

Doesn’t matter, it’s just the eventual temperature of a black body kept in deep space

Thank you

Hm, fair enough

I’ve never come across a whistle that isn’t good enough, so I don’t really understand

I see…

Why not buy a regular whistle?

FFmpeg is mainstream?? What are the alternatives?

FFmpeg is mainstream?? What’s the alternative?

If google really wanted to, they can. But if you’re so against ads, what’s the point in showing them? Leaving a mechanism to block ads with default being with ads is net positive for google. Now, something like AdNauseum is what hurts google

I hate how logical this conclusion is.

Some plants need the soil to dry out between watering. Learned that the hard way when my plants died from root rot.

Yes, that’s right, agile in its general meaning. High pressure could change things but it needs to lead to permanent changes in incentive structures, as pressures come and go too fast.

How Lack of Agile Ties to European Tech Limitations:

1. Slower Time-to-Market: The tech industry demands high-speed, iterative, and “fail-fast” development cycles to dominate consumer markets. European firms tend to have slower product development cycles compared to US counterparts, often favoring long-term planning over rapid, iterative, and agile software development.

2. Talent and Structural Rigidity: Rigid labor structures and high restructuring costs in Europe make it difficult to pivot, scale teams quickly, or adopt flexible, “sprint-based” agile approaches, unlike US firms that can rapidly restructure teams.

3. “Middle Technology Trap” & Risk Aversion: Many European companies excel in mature technologies (e.g., traditional engineering) rather than the rapid, agile software development required for consumer internet platforms. This leads to a risk-averse culture, where firms hesitate to make the massive, risky investments in software that define US Big Tech.

I didn’t say it’s the only factor, it’s just one I’ve noticed. Other factors might be more important. At the end of the day, it’s not like we can run experiments to see how the world evolves with different factors, in order to know precise causality and mechanisms.

The company would have to be suitable for it. Force fitting the principles from agile manifesto isn’t going to be useful.

Europe struggles with agile, in my experience

I just bought some fruit and was wondering whether it was economically judicious

What kind of research?

Whoa, thank you.

Not even mentioning growing inequality and housing costs at world “economic” forum will always feel odd to me