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carlivar

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carlivar··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
Isn't this using Biden administration guidelines?
carlivar··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
With screen operated motorized vents. Eww.
carlivar··on Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10
It mentions "Overpayment interest for the 2020–2023 disaster period" which I figured could be applied broadly, but I guess that was more my interpretation rather than the intention.
carlivar··on Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10
It seems to also argue that we all have claims for lost interest on what we paid to the IRS during the period in question, but that's a stretch. I am getting Wesley Snipes tax advisor vibes here and will move along.
carlivar··on Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
Since when do Linux users care about something being a huge pain in the ass?
carlivar··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
16-18 years ago. Is bigotry always a permanent condition?
carlivar··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
This isn't really a bad thing. Any company that monetizes credit cards can only do so because of their real, core product. They aren't really just banks like people claim. If they didn't fly people places reliably the whole thing collapses.

It's really just a surprising morph of their economic model in the post regulation era.

carlivar··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
When you think of them as bailouts it makes more sense.
carlivar··on Stop Flock
Have you read "Brave New World"? It predicted the future better than "1984".
carlivar··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
They have enough food to stay that long?
carlivar··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
Didn't LinkedIn create Kafka? Was that some of the overengineering?
carlivar··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
We are working to migrate from Azure to on-prem because it's so bad. It is an uncoordinated mess indeed.
carlivar··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
Well, to take it full circle, they don't dogfood LinkedIn on Azure. How about GitHub for that matter? Wouldn't that indicate Amazon can dogfood more?
carlivar··on Cybertruck Launch
By "themselves" do you mean Elon Musk? I wasn't under the impression that Tesla was much of a collaborative environment. Musk bans Kanban and Toyota Production System principles after all.
carlivar··on Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious
Maybe they should have an additional phase between test deploy and customers such as "employee personal vehicles".
carlivar··on Smart garage door controller is no longer smart
There's also this, which I have used successfully for a while now with an old opener.

https://opensprinkler.com/product/opengarage/

carlivar··on The product manager role is a mistake
Ultimately the issue is a lack of clear roles and responsibilities of a PM role defined, and a lack of accountability.

I agree with you that the "product org" is an entity that can become a political and bureaucratic entity rather than an enabler.

Personally, I think the Product role should be embedded within engineering teams and report up to the same leaders (level is debatable) so that a bad PM can be dealt with just like a bad engineer. Of course if your company can't get rid of bad engineers either, you have other problems.

carlivar··on The product manager role is a mistake
And that's how it should work. The article is poorly written, but it does suggest more ownership from roles such as "area leads" which is close to Apple, I guess. With Jobs being the Uber Lead.
carlivar··on The product manager role is a mistake
I can't post a comment so I'll report a typo here:

"People are hired based on whether they’d represent no treat"

I think author means "threat".

carlivar··on Pixel 8 Pro
Wow that really puts it into perspective. I had no idea Apple was making such a small phone so recently. What a shame it is discontinued.
carlivar··on Pixel 8 Pro
I had that problem with Pixel. I switched to Samsung phones and the screen fingerprint sensor works perfectly. This might be a Pixel-only problem.
carlivar··on Pixel 8 Pro
Is the regular Samsung model too big for you? S22 and S23. It's just the right size for me and I prefer small phones (or what used to be normal sized phones).
carlivar··on Try the last internet Kermit server
I liked Super Zmodem, so I could play Tetris while my files downloaded.
carlivar··on Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
I've become very fond of the phrase "comparison is the thief of joy" lately. This seems like a version of that. Keep your scope local only.
carlivar··on Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
> I'm entirely unconvinced that J&J couldn't pay back everything they owe

How much is this? I thought we don't know yet since so much is still under litigation.

carlivar··on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond
Perhaps if they charged job seekers for access instead of job posters. Alternatively, run it as a non profit like Wikipedia and solicit donations.
carlivar··on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond
My company has had legitimate 1-2 star reviews removed. I know this because one in particular struck a chord with me, and a month later it was gone. At the same time I saw that many other lower scored reviews were gone.

Glassdoor is simply compromised by money and can't be trusted whatsoever.

carlivar··on The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
Yes, and then potentially rebuild it based on what you know now! No one reads that part.
carlivar··on Humans have known the earth is round for thousands of years (2018)
Columbus didn't discover America, either!

https://www.history.com/news/the-viking-explorer-who-beat-co...

carlivar··on Everything happening on Bluesky
I'm fine with the courts deciding what is misinformation. That's a huge improvement.
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