November 12 2022, 15:25

Finished reading! Quite a useful book. I’ll post some excerpts in the comments.

Indeed, in all the teams I’ve been part of, I’ve encountered a wild mix of cultures. For example, I’ve been heading a project at Mercedes Benz for almost three years now. I work with people from India, Colombia, Germany, Brazil, the USA, and some of them have also moved and adopted a foreign culture, gradually replacing their own. So, it is possible to make some conclusions from such a mix about how to interact considering the cultural context, but they are unlikely to work. And it has been like this in all other projects since 2016. But I still find it very useful.

Next in line are American Nations and Endurance.

November 09 2022, 11:03

An idea for a startup or pet project – it would be interesting to create a blinking sign at the entrance to a room saying “camera on” or “in a conference call”, which would activate automatically on any messenger that switches to active status.

The simplest way is to monitor the CPU consumption of certain processes (zoom, teams, etc.), and turn on the sign “in a conference call” when a typical CPU load pattern occurs. Probably, one could also programmatically check the camera activity to light up the “camera on” sign

November 08 2022, 18:50

Reading “The Culture Map”: …In another study, Americans and Japanese were asked to “take a picture of a person.” Americans often took close-up shots, highlighting the features of the human face, while Japanese instead showed the person in their surrounding space, where the human figure appeared quite small compared to the background.

Well, that’s how it is, just watch their cartoons

November 07 2022, 08:44

I bought Yuki a bone to chew on and wondered if it’s actually good for dogs to chew on bones. After all, their teeth don’t regenerate, and bones definitely wear them down. While researching this question, I came across the well-known fact that they shouldn’t chew bird bones because such bones are hollow. And it made me think, what air fills them since they are hollow? It’s unlikely that gas gets in there from birth and stays for life. Indeed, it turned out to be more interesting.

It turned out that these cavities in the bones are connected to air sacs (up to nine), which are in turn connected to the lungs. So, it turns out that the cavities in bones are also connected to the air sacs. Oxygen is taken up in the lungs, and air is pumped in and out of the bones and sacs during the movement process. Thus, the bones are essentially an extension of the air sacs.

Interestingly, humans also have bones filled with air (pneumatized bones). They are located around the nose – near the sinuses, the temporal bone, whose mastoid process can be felt behind the ear.

https://infinitespider.com/pneumatic-bones-birds-and-you/

November 07 2022, 01:29

It’s interesting, why does no one implement a gradual discontinuation of subscriptions in case of non-payment on time? For example, gradually slowing down the speed, gradual partial loss of paid functionality, reduced exposure for social networks, the same new Twitter Blue Check could have several degrees of fading/transparency from saturated to semi-transparent (after which it completely disappears).

It’s either there or it’s not. No shades of grey.

November 07 2022, 01:23

Shift Robotics has released boots that increase walking speed by 2.5 times. Curiously, could the same technology be used to make boots that reduce walking speed to zero? That would be wildly interesting for integration with 3D games and virtual worlds. In theory, if all the sensors are in place, and the motors can reverse the wheels…

https://shiftrobotics.io/products/moonwalkers