I am using IE 6 and it is not loading all the elements and looks funny.

Can the author fix by the end of the weekend?

Sincerely, PHB who is not technically literate

Thanks

The problem with that line of thinking is exactly why companies want rto.

Letâ(TM)s say you have a great employee who sometimes stays lates so every project is done. Letâ(TM)s say you have another employee who is not always effective nor efficient and leaves at 5:01 every day but he is always on time. The first is late 3 times a week.

Many gray haired old companies would fire the first guy and promote the second one. Itâ(TM)s silly.

A restaurant is an extreme example but this shit started at the factory. Itâ(TM)s obsolete and hostile to employees. A fast food yes but all jobs? Did you drop out of college because you did not sit in your seat exactly at 4:01 in your dorm therefore you didnâ(TM)t pass classes?

Itâ(TM)s all micro management

I remember reading this here ... in 2005. lol.

Guess what? The fad died last decade when IT projects were failing and no qualified workers were left because Indians took over all the all the market expect for the most seniror staff which caused wages to skyrocket to where they were in 2022.

Now all the sudden these new mellenials and Gen Z types discovered outsourcing and the cycle repeats. Sure the price will go up. But projects will fail, outages will happen, integration with leadership goals will never happan as they have no directors just IT managers who just close cases and do not care about your business processes etc.

It will end badly in a few years

It could also be that these gray hair shareholders believe in collaboration errrr I mean micro management where you can count attendance, tardiness, youtube usage, and cell phone time when they can be supervisered in person. So if you lay off 1/3 of employees they can ensure the last 2/3 will be 30% more productive now.

I am not saying that this is true. But it is the believe from the banking WallStreet guys who actually own the company especially if they are over 50. They will never say this out loud but collaboration is code for watching your screen and making sure you start at 8:01 not 9:32 at home.

I am not anti remote work, but I am pro not tolerating disrespect from leadership and other workers. If you can not get in line with the organization then resign and go work elsewhere. It is not up to you to tell how to run someone elses company.

If you can't find a remote job then oh well your resume and skillsets are not as high as you think they are. Go up them then. In the meantime there are over 1,000,000 laid off American IT workers since 2022 who will be happy to come in the office and want to work if you do not.

Companies need to get shit done and do not have time for this nonsense.

I know I sounded harsh, but it drives me nuts when a McDonalods employee can be termed for being more than 4 minutes late 3 times to his or her shift but because we work IT (most of us here) that we get a free pass. Welcome to being an adult.

Moving optimizations to software was a dumb no brainer. Hardware acceleration is obviously supperior.

HP bought compaq which bought DEC and they inherited the Alpha. HP killed it to appease Intel and promote Itanium instead.

HP had the alpha too the fastest RISC processor in the world and far easier and cheaper to make for the far more expensive and inferior and overclocked/hot and terrible to write for Itanium. Intel was too scary.

Again this shows politics wins not actual competence. I am greatful we have AMD. I shudder to think if IA64 won out if AMD did not exist or we would still be using 32 bit x86 with 4 gigs of ram to this day and be back to 2014 performance levels still.

Every CPU in the 21st has branch predictions, cache, and speculative execution. There is no way to fully block this at the assembly level. DEC invented marking certain memory addresses as data and not executable to peaking and poking holes. Could it be possible to make a completely black box register and cache to store values that are 100% inaccessible outside the cpu to store data?

This feels more like a black box drm but I see no way to prevent this and without destroying performance in a fruitless endevor. These speculative order exections and values need to be secure and non visible.

I do not see how secure an AWS or Azure container can be as anyone writting code can see all the data.

I would mod this up if I had points. The issue is any cpu made in the past 30 years or so does speculative execution and branch prediction. I know there are bits from DEC that have been ported to Intel/AMD to mark certain registers as data and not execution. Maybe there should be registers and cache that are not readable outside the cpu that are used internally.

You know 25 years ago that comment would be cool and edge. It is kind of old now.

Same issue. Any CPU that uses branch prediction is vulnerable as the CPU basically guesses things before they are executed and picks the right value before the calculation is performed by a comparison to guess and the real data.

To take this out will hurt performance back 10 to 20 years ago since every modern cpu does this. You have to have the data stored somehow in the cash or registers to do the check if the guess was correct before the calculation was performed.

What? According to HR and board of directors that RTO is the fix for all morale and productivity problems! How could this have happened?

I love sitting in on disgusting toilets shared by 100 people and getting up at 5:30am and blowing $300 a month on gas so I can sit in teams meetings all day. PRoductivity is waay up now

No it needs to CRASH BAD. It is outrageous for hte homeless in SF to have asian investors, air bnb investors, and realpage.com autoamte rents to the highest possible price when 1/2 are empty for Chinese to park their cash since they appreciate more than inflation whether someone is living there or not.

Converting them to rentals will make the situation worse.

People need to lose money and start panick selling and laws preenting investors overseas need to change or taxed heavily over inflation so they must sell and not keep a condo empty as a parking currency.

Then the homless problem will go away as they can afford rents again when most of htem have jobs and the free market will take care of htings from there. Maybe Texas and Colorado would be not be so attractive if high prices didn't make capital and barriers of entry so expensive.

Arrest them? Where will they go?

The problem isn't that is is hip and fun to be homeless. It is they can't afford a $5000 a month studio and I bet most are employed. How can a Starbucks Barista afford a $5000 a month apartment?

Too many freaken asian investors and airbnb folks are ruining people's lives. There needs to be laws agaisn't this so these people can afford a place to stay and ban realpage.com which has created a cartel automating rents to the highest price possible.