evanjrowley

Great choice if the individual values creative expression

Rubbish skills in Cobol =/= a rubbish IT system

Disappointingly narrow focus for such a poignant title.

AKA evolution

I suppose Ashley was not included here because it's a US-specific data set, but among English-speaking countries, I suspect it must be one of the top gender-neutral names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_(given_name)

Those "ugly" houses remind me of some of those modern homes built across from Virginia Hospital Center. Based in Arlington, Virginia, it's some of the most valuable real estate in the United States. Evidently one person's trash is another person's treasure.

I'm shocked that this is even a thing. If you like eating crust-less sandwiches, then you're weak, your bloodline is weak, and you'll never survive the winter.

As a YouTube Premium subscriber of several years, I have never been forced to watch any ad on YouTube.

40% ads sounds like the experience with mainstream/legacy TV. Good riddance to that!

He's a CCP propagandist working out of Beijing.

Or like a Chief Risk Officer, but with extra customer facing responsibilities

Sounds like a Chief Compliance Officer but with applicability to less-regulated industries/markets.

Honestly that's a great control to provent client engagements from going off the rails. I hope more organizations adopt that.

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Legalize it

Should be required watching in public school history classes.

Perhaps this new stance on open source is a result of Intel's stronger relationship with Nvidia, who has historically been hostile to open source.

There's official support for Windows. No support for macOS yet, but there is a working implementation for it. I had no idea I'd be able to use KDE Connect with those operating systems.

Thanks for sharing about Rippling. I'll take a closer look at it: https://www.rippling.com/device-management

The other company I've worked at that chose not to use Active Directory was Tenable. They even acquired a company that specializes in AD security, but ended up deciding AD was too insecure for their IT infrastructure.

Those laptop provisioning experiences sound great. I too found myself working from & deploying software to AWS Workspaces - cloud VDI seems like a great solution for a lot of businesses.

My remote work journey started with IBM in 2015. A few team members got Macs while the rest were issued beefy ThinkPads. It was one of the first large organizations I've seen that intentionally chose not to use Active Directory for their PC fleets. Unsurprisingly, IBM had IT service centers globally distributed. Despite the wider availability of service centers, I also installed extra storage and RAM myself on that ThinkPad.

It's great that remote work has taken off especially since Covid-19.

Years ago, when my vantage point was support and consulting, I had the same view of sales and marketing. I encountered too many buyers who did not know what they were buying, too many sellers who did not know what they were selling, and me in the middle having to reset everyone's expectations. The authority held by sales and marketing to steer the product into insane directions seemed like an injustice. It's an unfortunate reality that customers who already paid for something are often de-prioritized for new customers with different requirements and less expertise.

Much of my job is now customer onboarding, so I work closer with sales and solution architects. I also fill in for the solution architects when they're spread too thin for the events marketing has set up. The struggles faced by those teams are entirely different than those on the engineering and support side, and while it might not seem fair, a good corporate culture means everyone is motivated to work hard. Many of those roles are based on comission, so their financial and career prospects are worse than ours when they're not fully dedicated and producing results.

In terms of who gets what computer, it's unfortunate that the majority of users will be people who have average (or less than average) technical skills. That means a lot of them are afraid to even try macOS and will want to go back to PCs as soon as some trivial difference gives them the slightest uncertanty. Personally, I'd love to work on a rice'd hyprland system all day, but the fact that the business relies on BS like MS/Google collaboration software, our CRM has no keyboard shortcuts, etc. means technical users will always be held back.

>True AirPods aren’t fiddly. But neither are just plugging in wired headphones.

Setting Apple aside, bluetooth multipoint is a game changer for how I use laptops and headsets. I agree that wired headsets are fantastic. For years I used OnePlus phones because they held on to the venreble 3.5mm jack longer than other Android phones. When traveling, however, the bluetooth multipoint headsets are considerably more convenient than wired headsets. With the work Mac and iPhone, Apple's proprietary fast switching makes this very seamless. I look forward to the day when the similar Fast Pair from Google works on non-Chromebook laptops.

>Why would I care about the repeatability of a work laptop? If something breaks, I talk to my IT department

We are a remote company, so going to the IT department is not always the most feasible option. In addition to the Mac, I have Linux and Windows computers for work. My employer lets me do things like expense M.2 drives and install them on those systems. Virtual environments are helpful and having both operating systems helps to validate our on-prem offering works with KVM and Hyper-V. Due to the soldered storage (and ARM CPU), I accept this is not feasible with today's Macs, but also recognize this was Apple's choice and it did not have to be this way.

Seems like the main reasons why I use Macs at work are not covered by this article, so here they are:

1. At trade shows, the superior battery life and screen quality make our 1:1 demos stand out. It impresses a lot of PC-focused prospects. I can't go one day at a trade show without someone basically saying "ooh, wow, a Mac!"

2. Using a Mac with an iPhone means I can send/receive texts messages with customers/coworkers from both devices. Also, they like to see the blue bubble in Messages.

3. When used together with any Apple device, AirPods save a small but VALUABLE amount of time when a headset is desirable for meetings/calls. Seriously, AirPods are the least fiddly of any headset I've ever had to use with a computer.

4. Microphone, noise cancelling, and camera quality are quite good on Mac/iPhone. The experience has been better than any PC I've used and it's the general consensus at the company.

The benefits are so good that I would avoid working for another employer who didn't offer Mac as an option.

Also, screw Apple for their ridiculous prices, lawbreaking, gaslighting of their users, their stance on repairability, the lack of "Alt+Tab" in macOS, the lack of "Right-Click > New > Text Document" etc. in Finder, and other intentional choices made by Apple to limit functionality of their devices.

If it hadn't been for the Facebook acquisition, there's a good chance WhatsApp would have continued running on FreeBSD until today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434103

If it makes Apple users feel better about Liquid Glass, the Material 3 Expressive in Android 16 is an overall worse experence than what came before. Yes it looks better, but apps are much laggier, at least on my Pixel 7 anyway. The venreble 120 Hz refresh rate on Android doesn't help when scrolling HN is enough for an FPS drop.

I've used it with the Coral EdgeTPU and Hailo. These have worked very well. What hasn't worked the greatest is the video transcoding, but that's mostly my fault.

The first mistake was thinking that the Raspberri Pi would be suitable for this. The Raspberry Pi 5 seems like a good choice, but unfortunately, it lacks video encoding. The Raspberry Pi 4 has both encoding and decoding, but no PCIe interface for the EdgeTPU and Hailo. It is possible to use the USB EdgeTPU, but anything more than a few camera streams will not go well with the Raspberry Pi.

My results with an Intel N100 have been much better, but I also made another mistake. I had issues where some videos were not recorded, and I think this has to do with me not using small video sizes for monitoring vs. larger ones for recording. Everything was large, and that's probably why the N100 couldn't keep up with 5 cameras. I can't confirm it because that system's disk died and it hasn't yet been restored.

I'm interested to try Frigate with OpenVINO on the Intel Arc GPU. I have a Minisform MS-01 that should be able to transcode more camera streams. It will be interesting to see how the stronger iGPU fares vs. the Coral EdgeTPU.

Do they scencerely want to free themselves from Nvidia's dominance? If they do, then they could be sensible and expand support for GPU partitioning[0] in Windows. In addition to Nvidia, Microsoft could be using Intel Arc Graphics Virtualization[1] and AMD Instinct Virtualization[2] for their cloud workloads. Right now, they have a self-imposed limitation that limits it to Nvidia cards and Windows Server 2025.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizat...

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

[2] https://instinct.docs.amd.com/projects/virt-drv/en/latest/us...

I recently watched a video about the lead on an ancient Roman ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A9M5wHBA4

Meanwhile, my Android phone has been doing this the entire time.

This reminds me of when a US judge believed evidence had to be free from AI manipulation: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22775580/kyle-rittenhous...

Perhaps it is no longer necessary because CIRCIA is superseding it [0]? The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) was meant to go into effect this year, however, CISA has delayed the implementation to May 2026 according to a recent report [1].

[0] https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/inf...

[1] https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-pushes-final-cyber-incident-repo...

Oof. Those demo laptops appear to have the same "Seamless Glass Touchpad" design as recent premium laptops from Dell[0]. Personally I would never buy a laptop with this feature and I hope it does not catch on with the Snapdragon X2 series.

Side Tangent: I sencerely hope this trend does not catch on, because as someone who touch types (i.e., both palms on the laptop and fingers resting on home row), I strongly view the "seamless" trackpad as an anti-feature. They are far too easily to accidentally activate, leading to unpredictable things happening when trying to type anything on your computer. I have one of these XPS models from work, and despite it's other advantages, that one design choice holds it back so much. I have to talk about how horrible this design choice is every time I see it, because if product managers don't realize the mistake they're making by adding it to their laptops, then touch typists will be doomed.

[0] https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-us/videos/videoplay...