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teepo··on Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)
Well if we hugged the stats page to death, as it appears to me, some of us will need more context. Like what is Lemmy?
teepo··on Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture
And check out the old Slack HQ: https://www.officelovin.com/2019/07/a-tour-of-slacks-super-s...
teepo··on Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
You could try Box. It has really good enterprise controls as well.
teepo··on Fictional Brands Archive
That was the first one I looked for as well. Also Volcano Coffee Company, AdventureWorks, the always enjoyable Northwind Traders. (I recall working on a Visual InterDev project that had the Northwind e-commerce store). There's a bunch of others as well: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
teepo··on The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop
This also holds true for pesky things like displaylink, docs, USB hubs that may need a firmware update to resolve issues with linux. Also I think some Lenovo laptops need an update to Intel ME, which for a long time and depending on your hw was only packaged as a Windows .exe
teepo··on Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (1986) [video]
Well we do have the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Super Chip: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-hopper-superc...
teepo··on The lost art of lacing cable (2018)
I like the old Softlayer / IBM Cloud cabling scheme: dual 10Gbps to TOR (red)and BOR (blue) and the 1Gbps green cabling into the IPMI. Here's a pic: https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-cloud?item=32774
teepo··on Goldman Sachs has lost billions on Apple Card, but it's optimistic
"Goldman as a 2.93% net charge-off rate, double Chase and Bank of America “Charge-offs” are typically after a customer misses payments for six months

More than $16 billion in loan balances

More than a quarter of Goldman’s card loans have gone to people with FICO scores below 660

Goldman is less aggressive (and less successful) at recovering charge-off debt than other banks"

teepo··on Dish' internal systems are so broken some employees haven’t worked in over a day
I'd wager it's related to identity and access management. If everything is tied in to a single IDP, like Okta for example, and then cycled secrets incorrectly they could have locked everyone out.
teepo··on Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
Reminds me of the film "The Conversation". Check it out if you get a chance.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/

teepo··on Last Flight Out
I feel like my Emacs setup would be perfect after the winter isolation. :) - Has anyone studied the Antarctic winter with respect to deep focus and personal productivity?
teepo··on Show HN: Wordga.com – A word puzzle game
This was a fun, but a challenge before coffee. I had a little trouble with the Esc to quit on Safari, the pop-up would flicker before I could click. - I also liked the wiktionary feature for the found words that were new to me.
teepo··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I cringe when watching actors on television make an entrance but don't close the door.
teepo··on Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure
sendgrid is still not aware of hey.com .
teepo··on Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
My guess is they used something like LinkedIN Sales Navigator to feed the MSG "no fly" list.
teepo··on Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
A theater ticket is not like booking with an airline. The venue doesn't assign a validated name to each seat. In this case it was likely one name for the entire batch of tickets in their group.
teepo··on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
It's also a heroin usage trope.
teepo··on Companies like HP must split to survive, is like the evolution of new species
I see the cutting edge of this in the Dell Technologies saga. Pulling in EMC, VMware, Pivotal, and other storage vendors to bolster it's "Enterprise" chops, then pretty quickly restructuring and spinning out all the software groups as public companies.

So now Dell has two divisions with serious synergy: Dell EMC (storage, enterprise software, consulting), and Dell (servers, PCs, etc).

Spinning out VMware and Pivotal ensured that each could grow without having to answer to specific hardware vendor affinity.

As other big bets grow fruit they will likely get sold off or spun out as well. The cutting edge is that as they spin, the shareholders get pieces of the NewCos, and the process renews again.

teepo··on Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022 [pdf]
Productivity definitions cited in the report:

Productivity cannot be reduced to a single dimension (or metric), so frameworks include multiple dimensions. Performance/Outcomes, Collaboration, and Efficiency are examples of potential dimensions to consider (Forsgren et al. 2021).

• Managers are more likely to define productivity as outcomes, and individual contributors are more likely to define productivity as output (Storey et al. 2021)

• Productivity is something that happens over time, and choosing a specific time interval is yet another dimension (Smith et al. 2021).

• This diversity of definitions is in addition to many other dimensions introduced by looking at productivity at different scales: e.g., organizational, national.

• One broader definition of productivity that has been proposed emphasizes several new dimensions in addition to what is typically considered by managers: well-being, collaboration, and innovation (Teevan 2021).

teepo··on FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok
Well in this case I don't think the FCC has the authority to block it. They can recommend lawmakers do something.

But this begs the question of if this point of view is based on oversight of the recommendation algorithm, is it limited to those developed by foreign owned platforms?

teepo··on FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok
So the main issues are leaking private data to Chinese authorities and the risk of foreign manipulation of the recommendation algorithm. -Does this somehow become a blueprint for oversight, in this case Oracle, of these algorithms for other social media platforms? And who wants to trust Oracle to do this?
teepo··on Has Rakuten made a Rocky-er road for Red Hat?
I kind of feel Rakuten is just moving their problem down the line, or up the stack. Key focus areas in Open RAN is containers now. The commodity hardware at the edge needs to be able to run many of the network functions in containers, and to do that, a service provider is going to need very good k8s orchestration. There are not a ton of "free" options any mobile service provider will choose to manage this at scale.
teepo··on List of Alternative Shells for Windows
My family had a Compaq PC with TabWorks. The MS blowback at the time rings true:

>Microsoft did not like that Compaq was creating systems that replaced the primary Windows user interface. "Since the release of Windows 95, Microsoft has become aware of instances in which OEMs are modifying the product as a method of differentiating their hardware. This has caused considerable confusion with our end user customers. As a result, Microsoft is taking this opportunity to define the requirements and restrictions of the preinstallation process, so that all of our end users have a consistent experience with our products."

teepo··on Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
The read I have is more around PC sales declining. Cloud still has good margins across the big 5. GCP is a quarter or so away from profitability after the massive build outs and Azure has probably the largest GP right now of the hyperscalers.
teepo··on Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
WhatsApp, Fitbit, tumblr among many others ran on IBM. Of course none were what I’d consider “generic cloud projects”, they chose IBM bc of specific capabilities not easy to achieve on other hyperscalers. -unless you run your own hyperscaler.
teepo··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I use an org mode capture template and a couple browser extensions. Dead simple for bookmarks and surfacing the context inside Emacs. - I have two use cases: 1. a simple bookmark I want to revisit (maybe) and 2. A bookmark with an excerpt from the page. I can copy in the material I want to capture all withe the same process.
teepo··on Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
Looking at some of the prediction markets has some ideas: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/7439/u-s-interest-rate-p...
teepo··on Ask HN: Will consumers ever have a use for 10Gbit internet
In the consumer space the trends I'm following are more aligned to the various 5G spectrum roll-outs. I think there's an approaching inflection point where consumers will be routing (or be QOS'ed) by their Telco ISPs to either a fiber network or wireless.

I imagine telco consumer routers becoming a MEP.

teepo··on Ask HN: Have you hired a personal assistant as a programmer?
Well now you have two problems.

With a personal assistant, you'll need to provide very detailed instructions for success. The list of items you list for your PA will take roughly the same amount of time as actually just doing the work.

Drycleaning, handling returns, that stuff is easy. But if you're like me, that's only 10% of what you need to get done.

I'm wired similarly, have tried PAs, and I try to use services that have a PA aspect to them. (StichFix, Uber, wedding coordinator) -But unless you're putting in the work to really get value and automate the things you need a PA for, you'll find yourself just shifting the boring tasks to dealing with the PA, and shift the problem.

teepo··on Akamai to Acquire Linode
Great news for the Linode team. Another isolated silo for Akamai. Honestly the way Akamai pieces together product offerings through acquisitions to compete has made it very difficult to leverage their portfolio without hiring consulting firm to integrate a solution.
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