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thewileyone··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
"Vibe-coding rescue" is a new industry. Check it out.
thewileyone··on Kakistocracy
More than several instances of this around the world right now.
thewileyone··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
I've worked at a multi-national bank with HQ in London, Operational HQ in Singapore, Shared Services in Malaysia, India and China, Data centres in Hong Kong, Dubai and back in England. Every day was basically remote working with teams across the globe. No video; email, IP phones and audio-only meetings on MS Office Communicator. When the bank downsized office space so that 1/3 of shared services had to work from home, wasn't an issue at all because we were so used to working remotely.

This biggest issue is that new and middle managers are only trained to manage, not to lead. They feel that they must be able to reach out and touch someone to manage, hence RTO.

thewileyone··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Property of Elon Musk
thewileyone··on LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
Gross Revenue is sometimes passed off as Revenue in reports, until you examine the fine print.
thewileyone··on You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
As a long-time Windows user, from 3.11 onwards, sometime Macbook owner and a Linux tinkerer on spare devices, Windows 11 is a step backwards in UI with all it's inconsistencies and forceful but poor implementation of new features. Linux, the distros I've tinkered with, seems to be more polished and consistent across the board.

Only reason I still use Windows is AAA games and MS SQL Server, which I prefer using SSMS to control.

thewileyone··on Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years
Correct, the personal computer is not the entry point for computing anymore.
thewileyone··on PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)
I bought the Orange Box years and years ago and to install this Steam launcher to play Counter-Strike, what a pain in the a$$. Stop playing, promptly forgot about it.

Years passed, and wanted to play something else that was on sale on this Steam thing that seemed familiar so reinstalled it. To my surprise, my old Orange Box games were still there.

That has led to an unhealthy 20 years of hoarding on-sale games like Smaug.

Thanks, gaben!

P.S. Sony is screwing their fans.

thewileyone··on Should European housing politics be Americanized?
It like watching car crash videos ... It's hard to look away ...
thewileyone··on Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely
Something innately creepy about creating new content in perpetuity with a voice that no longer exists.
thewileyone··on Can China build its own ASML?
R&D is difficult and expensive which makes this "logic folding" more impressive. It might not have been a new idea but Huawei, against all the demonization against it over the last 10 years, is commercializing it and that's a huge achievement.

R&D is difficult and expensive which is why the US and Europe gives up on many cutting edge technologies and relies on the tried and true and discounting opportunities. This will be the end of their dominance.

thewileyone··on Federal judge rules Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas unlawful
Has your friend changed her mind about Trump or is now just blaming Biden for Trump having to these things that impacts her?
thewileyone··on Doing nothing at work
If you're still learning or giving opportunities to learn new things, stick it out. If you're stagnating and not allowed to learn new things, it's time to leave.

For the first 10 years or so, this is relevant. After that you can figure out what you really want to do.

thewileyone··on Doing nothing at work
I've argued the same for 30+ years. Having some slack is healthy so that teams can be simultaneously proactive and reactive to issues. Even the best athletes do not train or compete 24/7.
thewileyone··on Huawei executive credits bans for accelerating domestic chip independence
The West thinks that making things difficult ends with subservience, meanwhile the East just sees it as a challenge to solve.
thewileyone··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Good enough for a relaxing sh*t break.
thewileyone··on Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump
The fall of an empire in real-time.
thewileyone··on UAE to leave OPEC
The 3 generation cycle has proven to be true in the past but families are smarter today.
thewileyone··on A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination
Occam's Razor ... it's the simplest explanation isn't it?
thewileyone··on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
Just one more step Mark, one more step needed.
thewileyone··on Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?
Or it's all just the "Big Penis Strategy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEKb9Ktqhc&pp=ygUgc291dGggc...

thewileyone··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
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thewileyone··on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
It all seems like a big pump-and-dump scheme doesn't it?
thewileyone··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
It's not much of a mystery. It's pretty apparent what is happening.
thewileyone··on Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
Desktop publishing was my first career and a very happy memory for me. PageMaker4 and QuarkExpress were my tools but if I needed to put something together quickly I would always use PageMaker.

Later on, used InDesign to write my MBA papers cause I had lots of charts and graphs and wanted explicit control of the page.

Thanks Mr Brainerd for sparking a lifelong interest, may you rest in peace.

thewileyone··on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
This is the end

Hold your breath and count to ten

thewileyone··on Elizabeth Holmes asks President Donald Trump to let her out of prison early
She doesn't meet his "criteria" for release.
thewileyone··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
Everything here I learnt in my first 2 multinational companies. Eventually I learned when to let, and not to let, the other team burn.
thewileyone··on A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall
This was probably Barron Trump
thewileyone··on Things I want to say to my boss
"In the end, good leadership is never proven by what you say about yourself. It’s proven by what people say when you’re not in the room."

The Whatsapp corollary is if your team has a separate chat group without you in it, you should look at your leadership style.

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