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Comment Re:2TB SSD (Score 1) 50

What in the actual fuck are those tabs doing eating gigabytes of RAM? And why in the fuck are most Chromium based browser installs now almost a gig of storage?

Never going to say that we can't optimize something better.

But let's get real - the engines have got insanely more capable. We can do things with just CSS now that it took reams of JS to do before, if you could even do them.

But -- we can do that because the browser engine is now capable of it.

Comment Re:Incredible Foolishness (Score 1) 15

So they pump water out of the water table below the city, and it flows thru pipes under the city, which are broken, so the water returns to (ultimately) the water table...right?

Eventually. How long is the question. It could take a few years to hundred of years to reach the water table depending on the soil conditions.

Comment Re:One behemoth isn't a trend (Score 2) 49

I suspect is from sheer ignorance rather than any design to get more workers underneath them.

Wrong. Managers are always scheming to get as many people below them as possible. Claiming savings is an effective short-term strategy that only works in specific circumstances, and it only works as a strategy when it results in more people below you on the org tree.

Comment Re: So? (Score 2) 9

However, this technique worked only for coiled cables..straight cables -- even exposed ones right next to the speaker -- did not record speech well.

If your fiber service loop is coiled more than Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pickups, you should be working for Fender, not Verizon.

Comment Re:Depends on your goals, I guess. (Score 1) 49

In the end- good engineers with sufficient experience and support will get stuff working with any methodology. Bad ones or ones insufficiently supported will fail with any methodology.

So true. Same with programming languages, too. Good engineers solve problems in the constraints they are given.

Comment Re:One behemoth isn't a trend (Score 1) 49

They say that is the intent, but they have zero evidence that the reorganization will in fact lead to "moving faster."

Why do you think their intent is to move faster?

If managers can slow you down, then they need to hire more people below them. That is a promotion for the manager.

Managers are actively trying to slow you down.

Comment Re:"Span of control" (Score 1) 49

Business consulting firms - Gartner, Forrester, and such need a new "silver bullet" program, strategy, plan,.... to sell to upper management.

They don't sell to upper level management, they sell to second tier management.

If you're second level, you need to make "positive changes" in the company to climb the ladder, but you aren't smart enough to think of those changes yourself. Gartner sells the plan to second level managers, who sell it to top level in hopes of getting promoted.

Gartner, Forrester, etc are in the "help second tier managers get promoted" business.

Comment Re:One behemoth isn't a trend (Score 1) 49

The problem with that is the skills needed to manage and the skills needed to do real work (let's take programming as an example) are pretty distinct.

Normally people become managers with zero training in management. It's not a high skill position.

If you want to manage, then this book will quickly get you into the 98th percentile of managers. Only 224 pages.

If you want to climb the corporate ladder, that is the difficult side of management. I don't know any good books about that.

Comment Spot the Jeffrey Epstein clone ... (Score 0) 57

So, gun camera had malfunction in CCD and... ALIENS!!!

Not necessarily a malfunction, but I'm sure that happens too. Sometimes its just an inherent limitation of the technology that is solving a very specialized need.

We basically need a different sort of camera to spot the Jeffrey Epstein clone looking out the porthole of a flying saucer. :-)

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