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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:47AM (#44612673)
nobody familiar with broadcom or how they are run should be even remotely surprised by this decision
or you even have a single driver in charge of 20 vehicles, waiting for one of them to encounter a situation the system can't handle automatically
Re:The GPT Store on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:29AM (#38948124)
maybe they need some sort of profit center to keep themselves funded to reach their goals
that's not how a median works lmao
That could be a total gamechanger. With their new ARM chip's performance, if they are really prioritizing upstream contributions I could absolutely see a world where my next laptop is has a qualcom chip and runs linux. I have generally viewed Qualcomm as little more than pattent trolls for... pretty much the entire time I have been aware of their existence. It seems like they are intent on changing that and I hope they do!
Re:The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:56PM (#37668824)
true, but these people ARE evil
Re:The End of the Googleverse on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:47AM (#37332583)
if anything, people have a much much higher opinion of microsoft now than they did even just 5 years ago. the arc can change, when you have a good CEO like Satya
Re:Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:12AM (#35357558)
I have had coworkers that were 10x more valuable than the other coworkers. If you haven't then your company probably only employs people that are incredibly talented or incredibly mundane
Re:TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:15PM (#34181379)
> N3 is actually much worse than expected > ~30% higher density in real-world products

I'm a software guy so excuse my ignorance, but isn't 30% higher density a pretty big deal? Why is N3 worse than expected? Were expectations sky high and expectations weren't hit, or is 30% density increase not as big of a deal as it sounds to me.

I think a lot of people may not understand how density increases relate to performance improvements

Re:TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:10PM (#34181352)
I just don't know what is left to achieve really. I have an M1 pro and I just don't really hit any bottlenecks in my workflow as is (unless I am building some obscenely large legacy codebase)

It just seems to me that we are hitting a point of diminishing returns in terms of CPU performance because honestly, the speed of my laptop could triple and it would not noticeably affect my experience in any way.

The main areas of improvement that I would actually notice are better battery life, and faster RAM and SSDs (faster networking as well)

Re:8 Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:58PM (#34165862)
Seconding this. I'm wondering if the person you are replying to might be having a bit of a dunning kruger issue

I only recommend the people that I have worked with that I would want to work with again. Not because of loyalty, but because they are good, and will make me look good for recommending them

Re:8 Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:50PM (#34165786)
My experience was a bit different. Got laid off the week after thanksgiving. Being laid off was absolutely panic inducing. Got a new job before Christmas thanks to intense focus and the decision to accept a 3% paycut
Re:Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7B for Mistreating Customers on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:37AM (#34077080)
yeah just switch to Chase.

been banking with them my entire life, literally 0 problems

their mobile app aint amazing, but hell, I can overlook that

Re:Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:44AM (#33941105)
science advances one death at a time. not the only domain in which the current experts and holding things hostage
sounds profitable to me!
Got to keep my monitor and macbook, with more than enough severance to find a new job. Not a bad deal overall.
Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:30PM (#33935253)
huh? this page is unusable. is this a spoof?
women demonstrate learned helplessness far far more frequently. pretending they could not learn how to change a car's oil, fix a flat tire, or kill a bug, etc. but we have normalized it as a society. Same with men often having to treat their wives like children by handling all the finances, etc. But again, it's normalized and nobody says a thing
smart move
Re:Low-code is not a cure for overworked IT departments on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:51PM (#33917587)
There's definitely no reason to be skeptical of the self-reported results from managers that have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to reporting whether the low code tools they advocated for were a good idea
Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:27PM (#33825961)
I was a bootcamp grad that was hired for a junior level role (5 years ago)

It was rough at first but I had a chip on my shoulder and voluntarily worked 10-11 hours a days for 2 years straight to make up the time difference and learn all the things I needed to learn

I was a good hire (and was also bored AF living in Ohio)

Re:Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why? on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:39AM (#33798020)
thought I would be a lifer at a previous company. Then upper management did a re-org and I lost a manager and team lead that I both loved working with and held in high regard. They were replaced by an okay manager, and a team lead that was technically strong but personally intolerable.

so am I a lifer? for now, yes. as long as upper management here doesn't feel the need to shoot themselves in the foot for no reason

Re:Things your manager might not know on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:16PM (#33498632)
You have the filter pointed the wrong way. I don't go through a list of friends and filter out people that are incompetent at their jobs, rather the competence filter results in only competent coworkers joining the friends list

People that are competent are more enjoyable to work with, so there is a higher likelihood of us becoming friends.

Incompetent people are annoying and I don't become friends with them

Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:10PM (#33498567)
I think OP's point was that clearly there is a disconnect between what people at Twitter are/were saying/thinking, and reality. Unfortunately, when your words or ideas come into conflict with reality, it is rarely reality that is wrong

For example, if someone were cut from a sports team and the coach went and talked about how good that person was, and how hard they worked. Well it raises the obvious question, if they were so good and did work so hard, why did they get cut? And why does everyone get so upset when people ask the obvious question?

Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:51PM (#33498381)
yes, anyone halfway intelligent on that team knew MONTHS AGO that their job was already gone
Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:50PM (#33498364)
If people are being overpaid and underperforming why wouldn't the business owner be within their right to fire them?
Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:45PM (#33498322)
If these people were so incredible and intelligent and hard working and were changing the world for the better. If they truly were the paragons they are made out to be, then why were they the ones fired?

Let's be honest, Twitter has underperformed for a long time. It has been openly known as the rest and vest place. This type of flowery nonsense would be difficult to believe about the better half of their engineers, much less the bottom half that was let go

Re:Things your manager might not know on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:16PM (#33400906)
I have a similar thought, as I rarely become friends with incompetent people. If I were to launch a startup with my friends (that I have worked with over the years) that would be an incredibly competent core of engineers
Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:47PM (#33254483)
I think we may have reached peak consumer tech

I think there is plenty of industry tech left to be developer

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