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New comment by lorecoeur in "Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired"

lorecoeur — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:41:25 +0000

Funnily enough, it might very well be a morale failure. Just not a moral one.

New comment by lorecoeur in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

lorecoeur — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:51:59 +0000

The breaker in this analogy is equivalent to rate quota limits, it limits peak throughput.

You can rack up an outrageous monthly electricity bill without tripping a breaker.

New comment by lorecoeur in "I've been told (many times) that “the good employees never get laid off”"

lorecoeur — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 04:06:30 +0000

Also in banking. Even if you make simplifying assumptions that managers are rational and objective performance management is possible, this is still entirely true.

Large scale layoffs are executed via cascaded headcount targets that affect departments, not people. Usually this entirely disregards relative performance between groups/teams, and forces managers to make local decisions that might be globally poor.

Has this just not been a factor in big tech due to growth? I'm struggling to understand why recent threads like this generate so much commentary.