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New comment by bsg75 in "Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive"

bsg75 — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:33:58 +0000

> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.

New comment by bsg75 in "Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive"

bsg75 — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:17:01 +0000

During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, even when lowering requirements to "Anything reasonably suitable".

At the same time MacBook Pro's did not have significant changes in order times. I suspect this is because that for large corps, Macs are not as prevalent as Windows laptops. More "specialist" less "commodity".

Personally, I have 10 year old Macs still usable. This message comes from a 2012 MacMini - laptop level hardware. Equivalent age Windows laptops are either Linux (which is also not as corporate common) or our of service.

New comment by bsg75 in "Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups"

bsg75 — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:52:36 +0000

> It's not going anywhere.

Including towards a potential revenue stream?

New comment by bsg75 in "Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (2021)"

bsg75 — Sun, 21 May 2023 17:59:03 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_Go...

New comment by bsg75 in "My 26-hour delay on Delta Air Lines"

bsg75 — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:32:49 +0000

> There’s not enough slack in the system. Everything is strung so tight that any disruption causes a cascade of delays

The MBA effect.

Fedora Program Manager Laid Off as Part of Red Hat Cuts

bsg75 — Sun, 14 May 2023 16:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1387241-fedora-program-manager-laid-off-as-part-of-red-hat-cuts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939044

Points: 17

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Debian bookworm release planned on 2023-06-10

bsg75 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:20:28 +0000

Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35735272

Points: 4

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New comment by bsg75 in "Pandas 2.0"

bsg75 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:19:25 +0000

Pre-release this was a reason [1]. Not sure if its still a compatibility reason:

> There is also an option to let pandas know we want Arrow backed types by default. The option at the time of writing this article is partially implemented and has a confusing API. In particular, it's not yet working when creating data with pandas.Series or pandas.DataFrame. And for loading data from files it will only work when the parameter use_nullable_dtypes is set to True. For example, to load a CSV file with PyArrow directly into PyArrow backed pandas Series, you can use the next code:

> pandas.options.mode.dtype_backend = 'pyarrow'

[1] https://datapythonista.me/blog/pandas-20-and-the-arrow-revol...

New comment by bsg75 in "The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions"

bsg75 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:53:40 +0000

Does this refer to privacy.com, or something else?

New comment by bsg75 in "Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M"

bsg75 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:46:05 +0000

Why not $LANGUAGE ?

New comment by bsg75 in "Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified"

bsg75 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:08:38 +0000

> I don't think I've ever met another dev who likes PowerShell

I have. But they have never used bash, zsh, Fish, or NuShell.

New comment by bsg75 in "Ex-CNN President Jeff Zucker Ordered Staff to Ignore Lab-Leak Theory"

bsg75 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:44:03 +0000

Fox News reporting on something CNN did that is very Fox News like. Maybe it’s just meta-enough for HN.

New comment by bsg75 in "Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around"

bsg75 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:17:08 +0000

No, I find it odd to spend that much cash on a celebrity endorsement when the target consumer audience (businesses) know that the celebrity is not a Sales Force customer:

"What the heck to Matthew McConaughey use SalesForce for ?"

  or more importantly:

"Why is SalesForce paying that kind of money when they could be investing instead in their abysmal support?" - as a SF/Tableau customer this is my perspective.

New comment by bsg75 in "How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb"

bsg75 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:43:30 +0000

I would be fine with that. The problem is both with the host and AirBnB, neither of which I would want to do business with again after this.

New comment by bsg75 in "Another pointless, confusing MS rebrand: Yammer becomes Viva Engage"

bsg75 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:07:13 +0000

Microsoft loves to rename things and make them less specific to search.

I still can't understand the change from "Parallel Data Warehouse" to "Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools".

New comment by bsg75 in "Amazon Announces RTO for Employees"

bsg75 — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 01:02:40 +0000

If “deep work” means can’t function as a team member and communicate in a timely and professional manner, like we all did when working in an office was more common, yes I let them know.

New comment by bsg75 in "Amazon Announces RTO for Employees"

bsg75 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:50:54 +0000

> A lot of people will often not respond to Slack for several hours

Fire them.

One hard rule I have for my team is not being responsive on IM for extended periods is treated the same as not showing up for work.

If people need to be taught how to work remotely, or anywhere for that matter, then the company has the wrong people, or maybe interns who need such training.

New comment by bsg75 in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

bsg75 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:22:24 +0000

Interesting opinion contrast to this posted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531284

New comment by bsg75 in "Tech CEOs Screwed Up"

bsg75 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:46:11 +0000

"He didn't mention that during his time at the helm Google has been hit with billions of dollars' worth of antitrust fines, been left in the dust by OpenAI's ChatGPT despite "pivoting the company to be AI-first," and seen its core search product get steadily worse."

> I'd be more curious what makes someone think their jobs are worth that much.

Multiple strategy failures on core business elements would suggest the job being performed is not worth that much.

New comment by bsg75 in "Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs"

bsg75 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:37:22 +0000

That is because shareholders are focused on current / next quarter gains, and will blame management if short term expectations are not met.

Then when long term goals fail, shareholders will blame management when long term expectations are not met.

Shareholders are not strategic, with the possible exception of a few rarities.