mdekkers

> 3k line insanity query

*laughs in PTSD*

What the % of install cost over the projected lifetime of the system?

> Now older and wiser, candidly a lot of folks would be well served by default blue links, og html submit buttons and tables for layouts. A fair bit of modern UI is complete trash: it's the product of a designer and a product person putting the next bullet point on their resume.

Material design, and a lot of the related nonsense was one of the worst things to happen to modern computing. It sure _looks_ pretty, in the way an expensive, glossy brochure looks pretty, but the usability is garbage. A good UX should signal intent and function at all times. Anything less is doing a disservice to your users.

I don’t have much in the way of “Means”, I just enjoy breathing and set my priorities accordingly. Also, where I live the most expensive CPAP costs like 1800 EUR. Mine costs 900 EUR

After an initial round of bullshit with the local government insurance agency to get my CPAP including the multiple “two month wait for x”, then a 6 month wait to get the machine, and subsequently struggling to get it serviced, I bought my own for a few hundred EUR and been doing that for nearly 10 years now.

Politicians setting unrealistic goals? Well I never….

> It is the worst possible way to schedule jobs at scale.

The literal evidence proves that this approach is absolutely workable at scale, so “the worst possible way” clearly doesn’t apply.

The interesting question here is “how did they make this work?” The answer to which is immensely valuable to the technical community at large. “What are they building next?”, whilst interesting, is less immediately valuable as they will be building something Slack-scale, and most orgs are not Slack or Slack-scale

Sure, but those are organisational failures, not technical failures. If you need better technology because the org sucks at planning, the tech isn’t the issue and you are just sweeping issues under the carpet.

> In an office it's easy for a new hire to ask a question or get someone's attention. When remote, how does the company communicate culturally? Is there an expectation for response times? If not, what internal tools and resources are there that allow a new hire to self-solve common issues?

How is this any different in office vs remote? All of this should be written down in the company manual, at least for a well-functioning org. What is the mistake here? Onboarding folks is literally communicating “this is how we do things around here”

It’s just one example of the insufferably patronising tone of the article. Just stating that a bank transfer happens is enough. No need to assume anything. Making the assumption that an explanation is required is totally unnecessary.

The same way you onboard folks that are not remote, sans the awkward shuffle around the place shaking hands with strangers and being told where the toilets and fire exits are.

I’d love to hear what kind of pitfalls concern you.

The DALL-E generated hero image is terrible, and the tone of the article is beyond patronising, I couldn’t get past the “money transfer between banks is magic”.

Every single question of “Why?” in this article can be answered with “Money”

Life is cheap

> If there were ever to be any kind of “meat grinding” war

Haven't you heard? Ukraine needs 500.000 more units of meat for the grinder. Russia are likewise looking for some huge number.

> Who will you change to?

Since there is only one alternative, I am going to assume that this is a rethorical question designed to invite a discussion about how the alternative is significantly worse in your point of view. Not an interesting debating technique, to be honest.

> Pretty much every other company with a mechanism to send photos to the cloud scans your pictures for CSAM right now and nobody cares. They've been doing it for many years.

There are alternatives available that don't do this, but again, your point appears to be written simply to elicit this specific reponse. Your "pretty much every other company" makes it clear that you are also aware that options exist.

> Nobody cares.

Your next paragraph indicates that, actually, a _lot_ of people cared.

> Apple invited community discussion before implementing it.

Not really. Apple made an announcement, and in the face of an absolute, unmitigated _shitstorm_ of criticism from pretty much _everyone_, they -after fighting an incredibly hard and expensive PR battle- grudgingly called a temporary truce and relented on some of the items they wanted to implement. To frame this as "Apple worked with the community and listened" is... fancy.

The point of that debacle, and this sub-thread, is that Apple is irrepairibly damaging their brand. In the "we will scan all your photos on your device to make sure the content is acceptable" story, they destroyed (literally forever, in the eyes of many people) their branding message that they were on _my_ side, when it comes to privacy and unwanted intrustion of all vendors, including Apple, into my device. That was literally the reason I switched from Android, and by retroactively changing that deal unilaterally on devices I already purchased, they instantly and irrepairably invalidated my only reasons for buying into their overpriced and closed walled garden.

In this new debacle with the EU and their -frankly- childish reponse they once again showed their disdain for their users.

Apple sucks.

That site is just a big ad for the book, I was unable to find any actual recipes.

Edit: turns out this entire post is just an ad for the book.

> That's a very U.S. centric perspective. It's somewhat less common in the EU than in the U.S. to involve courts so readily.

For people, yes. For businesses, absolutely not.

> I also think these sort of behaviors are damaging their brand

I have a lot of Apple kit, and the Vision Pro is hugely tempting. Unfortunately, Apples’ shenanigans the past few years, starting with “we will scan all pictures you want to send to iCloud on your phone” which signalled to me that Apple feels fine about unilaterally altering our agreement whenever they feel like, have increasingly soured me on their brand to the point where we as a household and as a business were discussing to stop purchasing new Apple products and services. Their recent actions, both in terms of their Epic situation as well as their reaction to these new EU regulations, have cemented that decision.

> Even worse, it takes even professionals months to fine-tune a manufacturing process to make a new thing.

Months for simple things. Depending on technologies and requirements, the fine-tuning (increase yield and throughput) can take years.

> we’re not here to lie to anyone

A sound foundation for managing my secrets

I never count options as renumeration. Startups and scaleups may as well promise to pay me with lottery tickets. Cash please, thank you. If you want to talk about using equity to pay me, please come with real shares, and a say in how the business is run, at least in the areas where I have experience and expertise.

> I hesitate to say the slaughter of indigenous would not have happened, frankly the British are simply better at hiding their iniquity.

The British indigenous headcount is likely only surpassed by Ghengis Khan, and I am not at all convinced they really went out of their way to hide anything. At the time, nobody cared about the folks they slaughtered and enslaved, and many Western cultures _still_ don’t care about them. They are the people that do the mining, make your sneakers, and develop your shitty games. They are the tech support people that are doing the needful, they are the folks living in the lands where we dump our trash - we in the West have _never_ cared for them, why start now?

The British didn’t need to _hide_ anything, they know that if they don’t bring it up, nobody else in polite society will either.

> It wasn't so much a matter of "not counting cash" though - it was counted frequently, and the problem was that when it was counted, bugs in the accounting system had accumulated to make it look like there was cash missing. These errors added up to a lot of money that never existed seemingly being missing.

I should have been more clear, apologies. Counting cash isn’t just “we have xxx cash monies”, it should include “and going by actual sales, and services processed, we should have xxx cash monies”. We both appear to agree that if you are going to take folks to court or tribunal or something, hell even “let’s have a trip to HR”, you best have some proper evidence besides “computer said so”.

> after a while surely alarm bells should have been going off somewhere.

I am absolutely certain that alarm bells were going off all over the place about this, but mostly in a “cover my ass and hope it goes away” mode.

_Lots_ of people belong in jail over this.

Nice and all to make Fujitsu the (well deserved) fall guy, but it shouldn’t stop there. Everyone involved, from the Government top down to asinine middle management that just blindly followed stupid software accusations without, you know, actually counting cash, should go to jail.

> At what point will Apple try to build/buy their own foundry?

As soon as they are tired of having money.

It isn’t just the cost of building Fabs, literally their entire supply chain is based on being Fabless, and changing that is ridiculously expensive. They have some amazingly skilled chip designers inhouse, but even so many aspects of the actual manufacturing side of the design process were not done at Apple, although they exert an outsized influence.

> Internal servers is not production.

I’m going to take a wild guess here and say you don’t really run any kind of system. “Internal is not production” is the weirdest statement I have heard in a long time.

Of course these systems are production. Not only production, but _P1_ level production.

Almost all of my problems can be immediately solved with large amounts of money. Those that cannot will certainly be made more bearable by the simple fact that I have a lot less to worry about, and that I will have more mental and emotional resources available to deal with them.

Money will _absolutely_ buy happiness. Whoever tells you otherwise is fooling you.

Sorry, you are incorrect. I have a house full of Hue devices, for many years now. I also have many houseguests. Not once did I ask any of them (or my wife, for that matter) to use an app to do anything in my home. To turn the light on or off, everyone here either uses Hue switches, or just walk into the space, if it is a common space, where the motion sensors takes care of things.

Thats not Hue’s fault though, your friend should be better at planning and implementing their Hue implementation. Hue bulbs default to “normal on” when power is restored, and also work with sensors, dimmers, and switches.