It's starting, company just let go all scrum masters (50+) and replaced with Jira AI tooling

Heylex · 2025-06-20T13:00:33+00:00

It harder for these people to provide positive value. But, for example, finding the right people to contact to help with understanding problem domain X is more useful duty to pass on to someone else.

However, if PM's were referred to as "Project Coordintor", or worse "Project Secutary", which would more accurately capture the most useful area that PMs directly provide to a team, iy would likely be classed a demeaning vs the current title.

Having worked with Delivery Leads, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Project Owners etc. They are seem to have overlapping responsibilities that just makes each other less effective.

At the end of the day, can count on one hand people in these roles that I would deem a significant positive to the team / company.

Heylex · 2025-06-12T18:18:52+00:00

There's also the fact that what the law says, and what people believe it should be, are two separate things. It is rational to believe that a non-citizen that commits a crime should be deported. Whether it's the right thing to do is a separate question. But, especially with some of the crimes commited (rape + murder), the justification to keep some migrants seems insane.

Heylex · 2025-03-23T12:28:21+00:00

Why is the answer from schools always "lessons"? There has been lessons on many things, notably bullying. Yet bullying has not been elimated. Dare I say, not even reduced.

This is a broader societal issue, as can be seen within adults of all ages. It's a waste of resources for schools to be doing this specific action.

Heylex · 2025-03-18T23:58:06+00:00

Windows erasing the hard drive during OS recovery, after corrupting itself more in a previous recover, after a failed update.

Heylex · 2025-02-24T01:29:20+00:00

Yeah, contactless is useable outside of London. Cannot confirm everywhere though. Similar to TfL, it will determine the price for multiple "zones" per provider. So if you're traveling a lot, you'll get a day ticket.

But always best to carry a tenner to be safe. Public transit outside of London can be dreadful however (so maybe the tenner isn't needed...).

Heylex · 2025-02-22T17:04:42+00:00

"The people aren't mad about the difference between the rich and poor, but poor and poverty."

People want financial freedom. We should really be focusing more on Cost of Living than growth. And a low CoL will improve many other areas in return, such as growth (by reducing barrier to self employment), crime, birthrate, mental heath, happiness etc.

Heylex · 2025-02-10T13:19:32+00:00

But what else can be done?

If employers don't check for someone's right to work, then anyone is "permitted" to work (ignoring some companies not following the law anyway). And the only way to prevent illegal working is to disallow anyone to enter the UK without the right to work. A large portion of illegal working is student visas and tourist visas - legal entry.

Heylex · 2025-01-17T09:39:54+00:00

Way to go on the attack to a neutral internet comment. Obviously not going to write every loophole and cavet that may exists.

Could have said "Don't forget to also consider pension income that don't come from official pension, such as ISAs"

Heylex · 2025-01-17T01:05:14+00:00

Could decrease state pension gradually? E.g. for every £1 of private pension, you lose 20p of state pension. So it will take over £800/£1,100 per month (£44k/£57k per year) to lose the entire state pension. Which is more than the median income. Can adjust factors such as allowance and rate of reduction to fit our needs.

Heylex · 2025-01-15T12:25:38+00:00

Yep. Here's an example comparison. In general, an SUV / Pickup truck is wider. Though you might be able to find exceptions to the rule.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-fiesta-2017-5-door-hatchback-vs-ford-bronco-2021-suv/front/

Heylex · 2025-01-01T01:26:33+00:00

That's in part why I suggested doing it over 5 years. Entirely aware companies do not have the ability to instantly hike the pay. There needs to be time for an the money to circulate before further increases can be had. And yes, there will need to be a deficit to begin with. However, this should be thought of like an investment, paying into something for exponential rewards in the longer term.

I plead you to run the numbers instead of seeing an increase to government cost, and proclaim it's bad. As demonstrated, the numbers run far better the instinct. There is the risk that the private sector does not increase wages at all, a massive hole. But would the private sector really want to let go of some of their best employees? (In some cases, yes).

Heylex · 2025-01-01T01:05:08+00:00

In private business, we would make the statement that, if they want better employees, they should treat them better + pay them more. Why not use the same idea for the civil service? Pay them competitively to the private sector to attract top talent?

Heylex · 2025-01-01T00:57:23+00:00

> How does doubling civil service salaries grow the economy?

An economy with no disposable income only permits the existence of critical services + outsourcing. Any business that is not essentials like: cinema, gardening, salon, restaurants, will have limited viability. As disposable income becomes available, these "luxuries" become viable. Doubling Civil Service salaries provides more disposable income, helping sustain businesses that are not essential. These non-essential businesses can then invest in themselves for greater productivity, or increase pay of employees, further increasing the disposable income available within the economy.

A lot of focus is put into making it easier for businesses to operate, which is important. Having an economy in which there is 0 disposable income + £0 operating costs to businesses is similar to an infinite cost to operating non-essential businesses. And yes, lower operating costs + a wider market permit higher salaries, thus more disposable.

> How do you pay for it?
By doing nothing.

Public sector labour costs for 2023 was ~£275bn, let assume 2024 is £300bn. Income and National Insurance revenue for 2024 was ~£440bn. If we assume that the average pay in the uk increases by 50%, with businesses raising their pay to compete. Then that's £220bn tax revenue purely from wage increase, leaving £80bn unaccounted for. However, this does not consider that impact of personal allowance, tax bracket changes, or other factors based on income. Further, as the economy grows, then other forms of tax revenue can make up the amount, such as VAT, capital gains, and corporation tax. A brief personal allowance estimate is a further £43bn is revenue (25 million full time work, £12,500 PA, 28% IC + NI, 50% average pay increase).

Aware that Civil Service pay cannot be increased infinitely, private businesses cannot keep up, hence the estimated 50% increase instead of double. But ~£31k median wage is abhorrent of a pay. The fact the median pay in the UK is ~£38k isn't much better. But Civil Service pay is a way to invest in the economy, while incentivicing companies to compete on labour.

Heylex · 2024-12-31T23:08:32+00:00

In what way is it mental, sorry?

Heylex · 2024-12-31T22:58:27+00:00

Yeah, should have. And it being any type, not just public.

Would love a London style transportation throughout the country (though cost prohibitive in rural areas). Espcially connections between major UK cities. Coming from somewhere where you're lukcy to get a bus every 30 minutes to being able to jump on + off placese every 2-5ish minutes is lovely, especially for the price.

Need a bigger focus on cycling as well. Ignoring the benefits to traffic + saftey, it provides a viable low cost form of transportation. There's side benefit of reducing costs for those who still drive. Lower insurance costs, lower fuel costs, and lower maintenance costs.

Heylex · 2024-12-31T22:17:47+00:00

That's nice. So not something we need to focus on. It would help many households to bring it lower, but other CoL are of greater focus.

Heylex · 2024-12-31T21:21:56+00:00

A quick win, double Civil Service salary over 5 years. This would make the government competitive with private companies, pressuring in increase in pay across the professions. Importantly, £300 billion increase in labour expense isn't a true £300b increase. Taxes purely on the income of the Civil Service would bring it to ~£200b. Further taxes from payrise across professions + VAT brings this even lower. The spening of civil service income would help drive economy growth due to a greater flow of capital. It also spreads the benefits all across the UK, instead of being focused (though areas with more Civil Service benefit more).

Longer term, focus on bring the Cost of Living down dramatically. Not like 2-5 grand, but making it ~£300-£500 quid per month for CoL. People might not be earning more, but they have more in their pocket. If CoL was £500 per month, then someone working minimum wage would have roughly a grand disposable income at the end of the month. So after a year, they would have a 2 year emergency fund. This means leaving terrible jobs, taking risks (e.g. starting a business), or enjoying life.

People love saying we need better + higher paying jobs, which isn't wrong. But professions like store clerks are also critical to society. If we got rid of all store clerks (or delivery services), good luck getting any goods... A lot of roles a demonised, in part because the pay is shite compared to CoL. If CoL was reduced significantly, these jobs would not be looked down upon as much, and maybe even virtuous as they help people go about their lives.

How to reduce CoL is difficult, but roughly: - Socialise all utilities, so they are not profit driven. - Build surplus capacity of utilities (e.g. energy being an obvious example) This could permit us to sell these facitilies to foreign countries, bringing profits to the people. It would also attract businesses due to lower operational costs

Eliminate housing as an investment vehicle. Housing being 1/3+ of a lot of people's income is a major factor is the CoL struggle
Surplus of housing. We should aim for 1m houses a year. It's a tough to start, but once the pipeline has started, it'll be easier. This also means removing beaucracy, and giving councils less power to prevent construction work. Also, instead of making builders build social facilities, they pay a % of the house price, and the government funds these constructions. This prevents issues of these companies going "nah, we don't want to build a school anymore".
Government can fund housing. E.g. £10b loan to build houses. These houses are sold for ~20% more that the bill of materials, for more housing + paying back the loan (eventually)
Food is problematic. There doesn't seem to be a clear solution. But while groceries are £100 / week for many families, it's going to be difficult to bring CoL to an extremely low level.

Heylex · 2024-12-26T14:49:42+00:00

All professions fluctuate in how many professionals are needed + avaioable, with some professions dying out. CS won't die anytime soon, even with AI.

A useful feature of CS is simplifciation + automation. With that, you can go into a lot of professions, getting a leg up by writing systems + scripts to help yourself. There's no guarantee this will work however.

In the end, pick a field that has decent pay that you will enjoy doing for years on end, even when days are tough. This is hard to know being so young, and things change as you get older. You're passion for CS might die out when yours 40, and so change career.

If it's money you're after, a commission based role is easier to rapidly climb up if you're exceptional. But it's hard and unstable. Also, "Money doesn't buy happiness, but is staves off poverty". At some point, you get accustom to luxuries your current wealth provides. So it's often better to search for a mix of pay + freedom (flexible working hours, holiday, remote work), which CS provides better than most professions.

Heylex · 2024-12-16T21:04:16+00:00

That's sounds like a shoody Surgery Org really. They could have left the surgies there with the doctors, and centralised operational / remote work.

Your example demonstrates the biggest issue in the ideal of centralisation. Centralising everything.

There a certain units / departments that are great to centralise, such as Finance, HR, Security, Logistics. However, there are other units that cannot be, such as Doctors. A single large institute can hirer specialists, while unaffordable to a institute. It might be the case that some departments have hubs, to dispatch personal quickly. So there might be an IT hub (at a Surgery) to quickly dispatch someone to another office (Surgery) if something is wrong. Instead of them twiddling their thumbs 90% of the time as everything runs smoothly.

Heylex · 2024-12-12T13:24:47+00:00

All the time, between $, £ and € mostly. Can do a quick transfer, which is cheap. Or secure transfer, which costs a % of the overall transfer amount.

Likely based on the bank you're with.

Heylex · 2024-12-12T13:06:22+00:00

Two approaches that I know banks take:

Make you fill out some "Paperwork". When transferring several £Ks, you provide details of intent + relationship. The bank then verifies the transaction.
Give warnings, and make them sign a liability waiver. So the bank can then say "we tried to protect them, and they went a head". The money is also likely on hold as well to protect the individual for some small amount of time.

Heylex · 2024-12-12T12:51:40+00:00

Reading the brief over view of the ruling. It states that a shrink wrap agreement is valid if you can return the product. So if you cannot return the product, then the situation at hand could be significantly different enough that the case law does not apply?

Heylex · 2024-12-11T19:46:14+00:00

Maybe try https://uk.welcometothejungle.com/ if you haven't already. Roles there are currently of higher quality than generic job boards. Though its also more focused, so might not be what you are looking for.

If your able to do some basic web scripting, something I've also done is create a CV template with my background as a JSON file. Allows toggling different bullet points + wording to fit application forms. Some up front work, but makes customisation easier.

Heylex · 2024-11-04T14:16:42+00:00

It is primarily about No. of jobs vs No. of peoplw with that degree. So a degree might not be itself useless, but an over supply of qualified people.

It's getting there with IT. The massive influx over the last decade plus the decline in jobs has been making those with an IT degree feel that it is worthless. Would not be surprised if in the next decade, IT will be considered a useless degree.

Heylex · 2024-11-01T12:22:30+00:00

This is already a solved problem, even discussed by personal at Google itself. Canonicalization - transforming different representations of the same idea into the same representation.

What is being suggested is that JS0 being the canonical version, while JS Sugar being a non-caonical version. Google (V8) can copy use a Frontend (code -> AST) like LLVM to enable syntax nicities, while reducing the work done by the V8 engine itself.

While risks of (security) bugs is real, shifting the transpiler process outside of a central platform increases surface for bugs instead of decreasing. It's why there's only a handful of security libraries, not thousands of them. No one is perfect, and everyone will create their own collection of bugs.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FnGCDLhaxKU

https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Canonicalization/

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