According to TFS, the layoffs are due on 20th May. No one is going to voluntarily quit if they can just phone it in for another 8 working days and get at least some additional severence pay to tide them over while they look for a new job. If they don't get cut and are still hacked off enough on the 21st, that's probably when people are going to start to quit.

Of course, one thing Meta is very good at is profiling people. And another, as TFS points out, is being callous sociopaths. Chances are they've factored all that in and I wouldn't be at all surprised if their actual target is a 15% RIF and they've worked out that if they fire *this* 10% on the 20th, then *this* further 5% that have definitely had enough and were hoping to be laid off will be so fed up with the loss of their former colleagues and even more hostile workplace will quit of their own accord over the next few weeks. If Meta was aware you were looking for another job before they announced the 10% RIF, it's pretty good bet you're in the additional 5% they are hoping for.

I agree in principle, but real software development almost always runs afoul of real deadlines.

I agree completely. This happens regardless of development methodology. This is standard market practice. There is never enough time.

Agile has gotten a bad name from how much useless cruft has attached itself (including having a formal definition). Worthless metrics are a real problem, but they have been around for far longer than Agile has had a name. Actual agile development can be done on very few principles, but managers think that micromanaging is effective managing.

It's still illegal. Enforcement, however, has always been a problem.

There's a reasonably good correlation between bigfoot sightings and bears being present. So don't just dismiss it as hallucinations, but consider misidentification.

Tell that to McDonalds.

You are wrong. Several reporters and columnists have been important voices in the past. But quite possibly not this decade.

Even worse, it installs a special Excel that you can only access through Solitaire, but which still takes up all of the space of normal Excel.

I use Firefox with UBO and occasionally youtube gets mad for a day or two, then it works again. Yes, I've run updates manually.

I still recommend it as long as it works, though.

Sadly I can't recommend Firefox for mobile any more. It crashes on me every day, sometimes multiple times, when using javascript-heavy sites.

You were so close. It's obvious you post as a coward because you're stupid.

It's not a lake under the city, it's an aquifer, so it takes quite a bit of time for the water to disperse, rather than flow, through it. Replenishing a little bit of the water in one area through a leak might stave off some of the sinking in that area, but the areas where water is being extracted from will continue to sink much faster, with the additional complication that the density of the aquifter likely varies as well. The net result is the same though; different parts of the city sink at different rates, with those near leaks or denser parts of the aquifer slower than those near extraction points or the more porous areas, hence all the tilting buildings.

The SSD would cost $10 but only the commissars would be able to buy them because they would always be out of stock everywhere else.

Oh look it got mad I insulted its sock puppet

It is when they get it, but I'm not sure you understand the purpose of an archive

When the AI bubble bursts, the government will run a "Cash for Clankers" program where they buy all the old AI hardware and crush it so it can't wreck the market for new parts.

I remember years ago reading a post on some Microsoft techie's blog where he answered a question about why Windows did something in a weird way and it was apparently because it would break otherwise if you tried to do that thing on a system where the file you were trying to access was on actually a tape drive and had to be retrieved very slowly.