Looking for money, somewhere, anywhere, as long as it’s hard currency. They’re running out of fake collateral.

It’s missing a /s for some people but it’s exactly the attitude.

Tech ran out of new ideas over a decade ago. They’ve enshittified everything. The people are tired of it.

I hate the cold. Winter needs regular sauna at or over 100° to be tolerable. Summer at 25-35° is totally acceptable, as long as overnight it does drop off. Some of these heat waves, ouf.

GAAP or GTFO

Lunchtime video games.

But also SharePoint, virtual. Bloated crap.

I was issued a laptop with 32GB for standard office work. 15 years ago our devs had 128GB. Of course, that was before COVID and AI insanity.

Lane keep drives me of the fucking road when it’s sunny and the cameras can’t see straight.

Automatic braking loses it because of shadows but misses the goddamn elk.

I really love adaptive cruise, but i can see how many people (especially with lane centring) tune out - and make it a liability.

What most people don’t do is drive many vehicles. The difference between safety features on cars - and it’s not always price that is the differentiator - is staggering. Stability control isn’t the same between a Toyota and a BMW. Not halfway. A $90,000 GM and a $15,000 smart car are generations apart - the smart wins, at least on traction control. Unfortunately it’s not easy to test all these features empirically.

It’s no wonder people turn it off.

Just hire another round of BCG/McKinsey and let them explain the best way to get more productivity from some already stressed doctors.

Freedom! Only in areas where theres NIMBYs in HOAs.

A former manager had team lunches every month. It wasn’t mandatory but it was a day that we could go in and team members would be there. It was also not a day taken up with general business update meetings and the like, so we could get work done.

The key is ensuring that people know when they can go in and see other people they know, not just the marketing team.

HR drone always talks about how nice it is to see everyone collaborating in the office when we come in for quarterly meetings.

Nobody is getting work done. We’re all “collaborating” about sportsball or coffee machines or whatever it is, or just trying to tune it out. It’s a full day of productivity lost for nearly everyone there. Not to mention the early rise for a commute, cost of the commute, missed workouts, and exhaustion on the return home.

“Please buy our product, don’t wait for prices to drop. We need to sell at current prices to maintain stock valuation.”

Osborne effect, mutated.

I’ve got Pfsense installed on a device with 6 RJ45 ports. 0 is wan, 1 is lan0, 2 is lan1, etc up to 4. Why I have multiple lans is somewhat tangential.

One day it rebooted due to a power outage and WAN worked but lan1 and 2 and 3+ were messed up. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but the second physical Ethernet port was non responsive at boot and Pfsense just assigned the ports as if it never existed. I moved all the cables over one except LAN and it worked just fine. Except that of course in the troubleshooting i had moved all the assignments around and broke it thoroughly, so it took a while.

Speakerphones, anywhere outside of a single room.

“Copilot, I get an error when I run this code”

“An easy fix for this would be to remove the WMIC component from Windows”

…

If Iran can run the Navy ragged, imagine what India or China can do

If someone made “Spotify for movies”, where I could watch literally all the shows on a single subscription, without ads, with good UI and interoperability between platforms I would pay for it.

So Netflix, a few years ago. I know, they didn’t license everything, but they did have a good catalogue, good price, and it just worked. Now they’ve got tiers and ads and bullshit.

60 employees who can’t be productive without AI?

And this is progress?