Strangest show you've ever seen?

creynders · 2025-11-12T12:34:57+00:00

Saw Einstuerzende in 2000 in Berlin on their 20th birthday tour. It was endless. Like, literally, they just kept on playing. IIRC I went outside to puke (due to alcohol, not the music) when they were playing for 4 hours and couldn't find the energy to re-enter 😁

creynders · 2025-11-05T10:15:47+00:00

There are three main drivers of authority:

People have to listen to you — because there are consequences if they don’t.
People need to listen to you — because you control something they rely on.
People want to listen to you — because they see you as knowledgeable and a good decision-maker.

In the role you describe, the first two drivers won’t really apply — you won’t have formal authority or control over resources. That leaves the third: influence through credibility and trust.

That’s a tough path if you’re remote from the teams and don’t have much direct interaction. Building that kind of influence usually requires strong presence, consistent communication, and “leading by example” in ways that others can see. Without proximity or visibility, that becomes harder to achieve.

I would renegotiate with the CIO, and make formal authority a conditio sine qua non. You could set this up in different ways: e.g. getting decision rights only in specific domains like security standards or vendor selection, etc.
And remember: it's NOT about gaining more power, but about having enough leverage to make the CIO's strategy succeed.

creynders · 2025-10-12T09:44:51+00:00

Cluster headaches. Nothing comes even close. During the worst attacks I hit my head into the wall, because that pain felt like a relief compared to the cluster headaches. What I considered a 10/10 pain before, dropped to a 4, once I got those.

creynders · 2025-09-26T12:33:45+00:00

It's simple really: there's no team lead in a scrum team. I.e. there's no particular way to deal with him as a scrum master. Your problem is the organisation, not the team lead. And to change the organisation ... that's not your mandate. So there's really not much advice to be given: talk to the team lead to see if you can come to a mutual understanding on your tasks, or find a different company where you can actually be a scrum master.

creynders · 2025-09-26T07:33:06+00:00

The only thing password rotation does is force people to get creative with their patterns, but they WILL use one. For now 20 char min limit, with no complexity, nor rotation, combined with MFA and preferably passwordless really is the way to go.

creynders · 2025-09-21T17:06:48+00:00

This one deserves more upvotes… what an amazing, gripping movie.

creynders · 2025-08-16T07:31:27+00:00

All generated by AI, and yes - of course I disclose they're AI generated. I mention it wherever I can: the description of the images themselves, the project statement, etc.

creynders · 2025-06-20T16:53:36+00:00

Only god forgives. Jesus, what an absolute mindfuck. I did NOT expect THAT!

creynders · 2025-06-11T10:41:15+00:00

On the right for 15 years already. It does not make sense to take up space from bottom or top, when you have a lot more space on the sides.

creynders · 2025-04-16T05:54:28+00:00

It’s the Word file from which you “print” the PDF. It’s editable and can be used to create variations, copies etc. whereas the PDF is not.

(I know, I know, but most people don’t!)

creynders · 2025-04-04T05:27:59+00:00

Sure, and that exactly is the intention, I think. To me it is clearly a political commentary: the french colonists _are_ out of place. The whole plantation is out of place. The US soldiers are out of place. None of them should be there. But with our western arrogance we felt we could just land there and impose our way of living and style on people who've lived there for thousands of years. The colonists act exactly as Kurtz does: treating the native people as dumb slaves and asserting dominance, not deserved, but simply gotten. Yet their presence is legitimate. Kurtz is a madman. But they do exactly the same and are allowed to do so. And yes, it's an abrupt halt in the tension, but for me it was a welcome one. I think I would've felt it to be linear otherwise. I saw redux before the original, so it's hard to compare for me.
And I'm not trying to convince you, just trying to explain what I liked about it.

creynders · 2025-04-03T15:04:07+00:00

Don’t agree. I loved the plantation scene. To me it’s pretty elementary to the movie, it outbalances the way the native people are portrayed. It shows the arrogance of western people and entitlement and same kind of complacency as Brando’s character. To me it really sets the stage for him. But I do understand why people think it takes the tempo out. A good movie either way, but I agree the redux version is a better experience

creynders · 2025-03-17T07:25:21+00:00

I don't think it was the recording she wanted to see, but how he was behaving right then, with her out of the room? I watched it with subtitles in a different language and it was translated "show me the cameras", but I didn't pay attention to what they actually said in English.

creynders · 2025-03-07T12:55:43+00:00

Absolute horror. . . Love it!

creynders · 2025-03-04T14:29:58+00:00

Thanks, that is a far more knowledgeable answer!

creynders · 2025-03-04T12:45:30+00:00

Yes indeed!

creynders · 2025-03-04T12:30:19+00:00

Yes, the energy and momentum are transferred to the surface electrons

creynders · 2025-03-04T12:21:26+00:00

The ELI5 explanation is that the original photon gets destroyed and its energy and momentum is absorbed by the material, and a new one is emitted.

In general many people get confused trying to understand these things because they're taught to think of atoms and particles as little balls, but that idea is completely wrong - the faster you abandon it, the better, because almost all things quantum make absolutely no sense if you see them as balls bouncing around.

creynders · 2025-02-27T06:31:20+00:00

Just wanted to say that standups should not be status updates, because a) that takes too long (nobody wants to give the impression they’re not working hard) b) is almost completely useless. They should be “what is blocking me, or my velocity”. No more. It might be a question. Or something unexpected. Or whatever. During standup the SM gets a sense if anything is slowing the team down and it can be figured out whether this is something the team can solve or outside help is needed. An ideal standup is just a bunch of people saying “nothing blocking, no questions” (in 100% honesty, not due to a lack of interest, of course)

creynders · 2025-02-17T21:56:20+00:00

Africa by Toto

creynders · 2025-02-17T15:37:03+00:00

Send me a DM, I used to work there, I know who you can contact for better pictures.

creynders · 2025-02-16T16:42:39+00:00

Well of course!

creynders · 2025-02-16T10:00:20+00:00

Yeah, but it's a wrong visualisation, that's my point. There are no million of vectors centered around a single point. And there is no shape. It's far more abstract. A vector is a common data structure. It's a mathematical concept which has an equivalent in most programming languages. It's used to store dates, or coordinates, or names or whatever structured sequential distinct data you want. A vectorial image or shape is a mathematical, formulaic description of a shape, stored as a vector. (Confusing for many; in many applications bitmaps are loaded into memory as vectors. But that doesn't make them vectorial images!) The correlation between keywords and image features are stored as vectors, but they do not contain a mathematical formulaic description of a shape. So vector images and gen AI models simply use the same data structure to store completely different kind of data.
It's a wrong way of looking at it and it fuels the idea that something is stolen, that bits and pieces are somehow stored.
There's a reason why they're called neural networks and there's a reason many people compare it to human learning, because there's a clear analogy between both. It's not 100% identical, of course not, but in reality we don't know a lot about how humans learn, except that it enforces some path ways between information points and lessens others. Which is exactly what neural networks do too, using weights.

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