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New comment by me_here_alone in "Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?"

me_here_alone — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:09:25 +0000

Many big companies are investing in AI to replace people, not fix problems. Try getting anything internal from a human anymore. It's all internal bots. It's easier to sell when you can say "We can replace 90% of your HR department" vs "It will help you find bugs and develop features faster". I'm a bit cynical, but I see it happening everyday.

New comment by me_here_alone in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

me_here_alone — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:20:31 +0000

This is not NASAs first time dealing with this type of scenario. The crew of Skylab 3 had thruster issues in their Apollo command module. NASA actually redesigned an Apollo capsule to seat 5 in a return to earth. It went so far as the rescue crew starting to seriously train for a launch. In the end they found workarounds for the issue and brought them home normally.

http://www.astronautix.com/s/skylabrescue.html

New comment by me_here_alone in "IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company"

me_here_alone — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:43:41 +0000

Retired IBM manager here. This has nothing to do with working together. This is another attempt by IBM to get rid of the older workers (again). Most teams are scattered across the world, and in the US they are all over the place. It's just another "Resource Action" targeted at older workers disguised as some kind of great idea to be more productive.

New comment by me_here_alone in "Ask HN: Questions for two 40 year IBM Mainframe repair and programmers"

me_here_alone — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:48:48 +0000

As a recently retired IBMer, I would love to know what the think of IBM today vs when they worked there.

New comment by me_here_alone in "Show HN: Sheet Music Management App"

me_here_alone — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:42:15 +0000

Yueyinpu Wireless Foot Pedal. Had it about a year and no issues so far!

New comment by me_here_alone in "Show HN: Sheet Music Management App"

me_here_alone — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:09:24 +0000

MobileSheets, a cheap foot pedal, and a Fire Tablet work just fine for me. I use genius scan on my Pixel 7 to grab digital images of the music.

New comment by me_here_alone in "Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead"

me_here_alone — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:32:34 +0000

I am a manager that has been full-time WAH for 15+ years. A leader who understands their role should be empowering people to do their jobs, and providing them the tools they need to do it, be it in the office, at home, or on another planet even. That's what leaders do. If they think their job is to monitor and micromanage their teams, then they are not leaders, just bad managers. Leaders see the value in employees creating a situation where they increase their productivity. I really don't care where my employees work as long as they meet clearly defined goals and objectives. They know what they need to do, and I trust them to figure out how best to accomplish it!

New comment by me_here_alone in "Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]"

me_here_alone — Wed, 23 May 2018 00:51:04 +0000

Oh you have no idea how welcome this is. As a member of the National Guard, we are expected to use our own personal equipment to access DoD websites. It is a constant battle of certificates that are not recognized, expired, many other things. The Army maintains a gold image for all active duty computers, but us silly part time soldiers who try to use our own equipment are completely screwed.

Just this month alone I have been 'mandated' to sign multiple documents and complete on-line courses that I can not access due to the Army's making everything only Microsoft compatible. So many sites are years old still making ancient calls to Internet Explorer functions.

The simple act of fixing the certificate issues would eliminate half the frustration right now. The second thing they need to do is mandate that any site has to operate with all the major browsers, and not just ancient versions of IE.