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bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
How is it not? They're steering the ship. They're in charge, they're the decision makers. If the company is failing, how could it not be the executives problem?

We used to live in an age where leadership meant something, when people took responsibility for their failures. Now executives make excuses, they even have people like you making excuses for them, and instead of forgoing a bonus or handing over the reigns to more qualified team, they play with peoples livelihoods and you think that's perfectly acceptable, even called it cultural.

Anyway, given the age we live in, I'm not surprised at all to see people kissing their asses.

bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
I'm telling you I disagree and I think your explanation is rather comical. Dropbox's slow growth in 2023 and 2024 is directly tied to an under performing executive team. Executive accountability is mostly gone and you're doing a great job furthering my point by trying your hardest to explain why poor leadership is culturally acceptable.
bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
The executive failed to ensure profitability which is their entire focus. They are the ones that should be laid off first. You're giving them a pass which is literally the crux of the problem, these people are allowed to fail up at others expense. I'm talking about the dropbox layoffs, you're talking about just cause termination which is again completely meaningless in California.
bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
In certain cultures its okay to hurt people and not face repercussions. We typically refer to those cultures as underdeveloped.
bastardoperator··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Sure, Let me know when they extinguish kubernetes, helm, vscode, LSP, playwright, powershell, typescript, npm, or the other 6000 projects/repos sitting on GitHub.
bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
California is at will, you can fire anyone for anything or even nothing. I'm yet to see poor performing executives take themselves out before they take out the people that actually create value. You don't need to have layoffs, you need better leaders, and they're the last ones to get culled, usually running off with bonuses for under-performance and lousy work.
bastardoperator··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
It literally does, even if you don't like it.
bastardoperator··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
We should start with the executives who didn't perform/execute, they're the biggest liability.
bastardoperator··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Can you name a company with more OSS projects and contributors? Stop with the hyperbole...
bastardoperator··on PEP 760: No more bare excepts
They made a new version which is highly indicative of breaking changes if not the entire meaning behind bumping the version. What's the problem? I think it's bold of you to rag on volunteers for a supposed botched upgrade, whatever, but I don't know anyone writing python 2 today?
bastardoperator··on macOS Sequoia is certified to Unix 03
homebrew is your friend here
bastardoperator··on OpenAI to become for-profit company
The whole "safety" and "benefits humanity" thing always felt like marketing anyways.
bastardoperator··on Winamp Legacy player source code
I agree it does...

  fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process.
Thats similar to what happens on git providers, you create a new repo by duplicating it, and the repo is linked aka child.

Many forks do go their own way. You can choose to pull from upstream or completely ignore it.

bastardoperator··on Winamp Legacy player source code
A fork is a linked copy, a clone is just a copy. They are not the same.

  Deleting your repository or changing its visibility affects that repository's forks.
bastardoperator··on Winamp Legacy player source code
Looks like someone just removed 180K lines of plugin source code from the repo too. Checkout from here: 7ce05499ff0508f9eb06f7194407f676de7d72f4
bastardoperator··on What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
I disagree. These things are so annoying most people just use a browser plugin that removes them entirely. I don't need a warning label on every website and I don't trust pushing a button on a site does anything except send more data.
bastardoperator··on Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he won presidential election
We deserve everything coming to us if we elect trump again.
bastardoperator··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
So you've been able to gauge life and the street scene in SF based on several meetings? That's super interesting. I would argue the Embarcadero is fairly nice and I live here, but what do I know.
bastardoperator··on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
I hear you, but this story keeps happening over and over and over. The reality is once these companies have you and your product by the balls, they will start squeezing. You can pay money to reduce the pressure, or leave and not be squeezed. I would argue using an unpaid API takes you into the unknown with considerable risk.
bastardoperator··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
I'm pretty sure he spilled the beans, I don't think he has to worry about prison, staying alive is his new main story line.
bastardoperator··on Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
I assume this is for belt driven turntables, not direct drive. I also have a pair of 1200's. Most mixers these days have BPM built in, and before that you had red micro bpm counters and headphone amps to validate BPM. Never once on my 1200's did it read something outside of the producers BPM count when pitch was locked.
bastardoperator··on We're ending our Samsung collaboration
I'm thankful for the New Jersey division of consumer affairs that sued Samsung for faulty home appliances. I'll never buy Samsung anything except nvme drives.
bastardoperator··on Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs
^This.
bastardoperator··on Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
Same thing in California, but working at night is actually better for the workers when it comes to sun and breathing in exhaust fumes. This might be economical for what amounts to a two lane road, but we have freeways with 22 lanes (I5).
bastardoperator··on Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
Whatever they're holding up in that picture, it looks more like iced tea versus cold brew coffee.
bastardoperator··on Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US
Their search is ad-riddled with subpar results. I think a lot of people are looking for alternatives.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
I just asked it the same question and this was the answer it gave me:

go get go.dedis.ch/kyber/v3

LOL...

bastardoperator··on Cheyenne Super Computer Auction
Donate it to https://computerhistory.org/, assuming they want it.
bastardoperator··on Gitlab Duo
It's so wild nobody has been able to successfully challenge it in court.
bastardoperator··on Practical Vim command workflow (2023)
Develop new muscle memory, having to move your hand off the home row to the arrow keys is an absolute waste, god help the people using a pinky finger. Secondly, I would argue disabling the mouse in vim is commonplace.
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