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I was recently called a “boomer” for bringing it up. I really need a new job.
Come now, people also used to die from toothaches, and during those hundreds of thousands of years infant and child mortality was incredibly high, and education practically nonexistent.
These “we have done this since the beginning of time” arguments always make me chuckle, they are so incredibly simplistic.
There were no “Zero Dark Thirty” style extractions.
Many HN patrons are actually working where the rubber meets the road.
DNS is a poor comparison. Pretty much everything, related to your application or not, needs DNS. On the other hand, the only thing WNGMAN[0]may or may not do, is help with finding the user’s DOB.
Three in this thread alone, and shifting the goalposts from “studies show it is bad” to “I don’t know anyone with multiple monitors” or “It is tiring to move your head around all the time” indicate you are not debating this in good faith, so I am done with this chat.
Have a great day!
The NYTimes article is actually explicit about that:
> Unlike monitor makers with their multidisplay studies, I have no research proving you’ll find as much benefit from a single monitor as I did.
In other words “there are actual studies proving multimonitor setups enhance productivity, but Big Screen(tm) paid for them so they must be wrong” which has no basis in science at all.
Also:
> “Two monitors are a double-edged sword,” said Gloria Mark, a professor who studies workplace distractions at the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Mark hasn’t specifically researched how second monitors might affect focus, and when she recently had a chance to work at a two-monitor machine, she felt that it did make some of her tasks easier. “But most people have their email up on the second screen, and of course, when anything comes in, it’s a great source of distraction,” she said.
So the only actual scientist in all of this actually said “hey, this is making me more productive, unless I fill the screens with distractions”
The tl;dr is that people need to set up their workspace to enhance their flow and focus, and reduce distraction to be productive. The amount of screens is about as relevant to that as the weather outside. (“Hey, the sun is shining and the birds are singing, it is a beautiful day outside, let’s go out!”). As per your own conclusion (“the studies don’t indicate it’s universal” - setting aside the fact that there _are_ no studies) It is not universal.
Trying to whitewash Apple’s lack of DP Daisychaining support as “You don’t need this anyway, Apple simply cares about your productivity!” Is silly.
You are my hero
I think you will find that much of what you are expressing concerns about isn’t really happening at any kind of meaningful scale.
Perhaps you can bring some facts to the discussion?
As computer manufacturers, they are not even in the top 3, with less than 10% market share in terms of units shipped.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_com...
Your argument isn’t based on valid assumptions.
Or don’t buy overpriced gear from a company that is aggressively user-hostile. Take them to some kind of small claims court. It is your device, you purchased it from them, and they have no right to refuse to un-brick if they have the ability to do so, just because you didn’t do the magic handshake in the right way.
Also see https://www.finepowertools.com/drills/f1-wheel-gun/ for some more background
> you think that OpenAI would not have given this a bit of consideration?
Those are just assumptions though. The issue is not “this was labelled as a shoe, but it’s a car”, the issue is about depth vs superficially, which is harder to verify. See also https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-int... for a well-sourced article on the subject.
That really depends on the business. I worked with a manufacturing client a few years back, and millisecond process improvements could translate into millions of dollars increased annual profits. They manufactured parts that would sell for about $0.75 a piece at razor thin margins.
All these things you mention are not “administration” in a “manage systems that end-users use”, they are “manage devices” activities. Macs have the literal worst business/enterprise administration administration/manageability experience. At previous $client, they had in excess of 30k desktops, and in excess of 50k total endpoints.
They spawned a new opco, and that new opco wanted all macs. 12 months along, that was all thrown out because of the ongoing challenges of securing, managing, and administering the devices, and supporting the userbase. It wasn’t even a TCO thing (that was also wild, about 4x over a “regular” workplace, that being either Win10 or a supported Linux build), it was a “we never want to see Mac’s in the entire global organisation ever again.
Macs have their place. There are plenty of environments where they can function adequately. Medium and Large Enterprise isn’t amongst those, and that is 100% due to the dire administration experience.
Sorry, _Who’s_ system? Apple can do with their systems whatever they want, but mine is mine, not Apple’s
Ah yes, Microsoft. The company known for being so cash poor and not making money from their OS.
PRs have dwell times of weeks. It’s all broken, but somehow we are all convinced that this is better than a formalised change review process.
Never mind the inability to plan work, or having to have yet another discussion with some corporate random that happens to be reviewing your PR and has a thousand questions as to why this particular functionality needs to be implemented, and why weren’t they consulted - dude, here is all the process documentation, go complain at management, not me.
But in the meantime, management wants to know why x was not delivered on time.
In some areas in Portugal these increases were, again, absurd. Rent increases of 800% were common. The owner of the place we rented wanted us out before we even moved in because they felt they missed out on some lucrative get-rich-quick scheme, and they harassed us for 10 months. Many of these places never rented out at all for the asking prices (think “150 m2 3 bedroom house, 12.000 EUR per month”, lol)
Few of those that move to Portugal participate in the local business environment, at least not in IT. Wages and contracting rates are absurdly low, so those folks coming from abroad do so with non-Portuguese contracts in hand. The low wages are why international companies settle there in the first placed. Everyone wants to near-shore (look at eastern europe) and all these businesses look for the proverbial “25 years experience with K8S” and are offering EUR 15 per hour. Many skilled Portuguese leave the country to try their luck in other places.
Getting rid of these tax breaks won’t do anything for the problem they need to solve, because the housing problems are not due to the kind of professionals that are looking to benefit from these tax breaks. The housing situation in Portugal is _dire_ as there simply isn’t enough housing stock that targets “normal” Portuguese. New builds are all for the “exclusive” and AirBnB markets. The measures the Portuguese Govt. needs to take (improve wages, increase affordable housing stock) to resolve this issue are unpopular with the monied crowd, so they do something like this that makes everyone feel good, but will not move the needle in terms of resolving the issue.