Without pouring through the article again for references, the article made it sound like there were spies(tm) that infiltrated Supermicro. Having people like that on the inside would make it much easier to surreptitiously insert a spot for a part. And if the purpose of the device is originally designed to provide signal conditioning between the boot prom and the baseboard management controller it wouldn't take nearly as significant of an effort.
Why should I put un more effort when I can achieve in 15 hours week more than some of my colleagues in a month or ever?
The only constancy I can see in these threads is that ACs certainly get a lot of work done! I can see why you would work from home, hard to get out of the door with that big fucking head.
higher production cost from fixed capacity and minimum output thermal generators (all fossil fuels and nuclear depend on steam)
Not ALL fossil fuel plants are "minimum output thermal generators": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... You have to have something to turn on when the sun isn't shining, wind isn't blowing, or you don't have enough grid capacity to get renewable energy from somewhere else.
Really? What's the last thing that it took you over an hour to find the manual for? The last thing I can think of was the repair manual for a 1984 mercury outboard. Any piece of tech from the last decade, if you can't find it in 10 minutes you need to turn in your nerd card.
Hint: None of it is cheap, but cheaper than other pollution control measures. (for things like NOx, particulates, etc) I've personally worked on one that was utilizing activated carbon injected into the flue gas prior to the ESP (Electrostatic Precipitator, particulate control). I don't, however, know how effective it actually proved to be. I left the company before they were able to study the results.
He decided to owe up and bail out instead of let the investment incentives keep him going.
I would have rather seen him stay for less than 24 hours after his remaining 850m vested, then turn around and dump that whole pot into something philanthropic.
I owned an 09 Outback, similar in cabin size to the Legacy of the same vintage. I personally found it just a bit too cramped, and I'm not a huge person, 5'10" 200lbs. Not to the point where I couldn't/didn't occasionally drive it (was the wife's car). I much preferred my 11 Legacy. I don't know if it was the increase in size, or the fit of the car, but it just felt better. (My main complaint of the 09 is my legs felt cramped, no matter how the seats were adjusted.) But my wife, about 6" shorter than me, loved the car. So I guess there's that.
So if they don't like me, that's their issue, not mine. Some consider me an AssHat, many don't. It's up to them, it matters not to me.
It's a fine line. There is no issue in calling someone out on their bullshit, whether it's a bad work product or a bad attitude. It should be done, else the bad product and attitude will most certainly continue. It's just best done tactfully, which is the area where Linus was lacking.
Well fuck, now that we've got this nail biter figured out (whatever the hell it is, I couldn't actually tell from the summary) we can finally move on to some of the issues that are far less important than making sure the music industry can still print money. Or maybe I'm wrong, and this does help fix healthcare, balance the budget, etc.
I've hand-soldered quite a few packages with similar pitch. Granted, you're not going to do it on a plain protoboard with a $15 hardware store soldering iron with a naked eye. But a decent iron with the appropriate tip (I run an old school metcal with an sttc-140 tip), some liquid flux, solder wick, and an eye loupe it can be done. Get two corners tacked, drag solder the pins (don't worry about bridging yet), apply some flux, and use the wick to clean it up. It won't look like it was solder pasted, but it'll get the job done.
I spent a few years in a prototype lab. The most "fun" one I got to do was assembling essentially a PC motherboard from scratch. We had the rework team from the production side place the BGAs, but us lab-lackeys got to do the rest.
That being said... I would tend to agree with you, this isn't a hobbyist chip by any stretch. You'd need, at a minimum, a breakout board for it. (And some super steady hands) Not to mention all of the ancillary devices/ports/etc that you'd need just to use it.
That is 100% the flip side to the argument. Assholes, at the end of the day, tend to get shit done. They are going to lose good people doing it, but given enough time they will get results.
However, my personal views is that you can get good work done without resorting to being a prick. If someone makes a bad commit, tell them why it was bad in a professional manner. If the other person chooses to be an asshole about the "rejection" then so be it, that's on them. Choose to be the bigger person and not engage. It's then back on the committer to decide if they want to put their big boy (or big girl) pants on and work in professional manner.
At the end fof the day, it's his project, he decides what goes and what doesn't go. If enough people's work get rejected because they can't accept valid professional criticism and choose to be assholes instead, maybe attitudes will start to change.
In all seriousness, if this is actually true, good on him. It takes a big person to admit being an asshole. Takes a bigger person to actually change. Time will tell I guess.
My #1 gripe. Showing up on time and ready for the meeting.
Nothing better than when the facilitator shows up 5 minutes late, and unprepared. And usually starts with a "Sorry I'm late, [chuckle] and sorry I didn't have time to put together an agenda. I invited all 50 of you here to talk about...". You can hear the eye-rolls through the phone.
Just me, personally, I have never been in any meeting with more than 10 active participants that produced any meaningful outcome. Without knowing the details of the meeting, I can only imagine that a number of smaller meetings would be way more effective.
The only reference I have of managing turn-overs was on construction projects. (Think power plant maintenance/outages) The teams were anywhere from 2 to 20 foremen, each with 5-15 guys. There is no way in hell I'd put all of them in a room together to do a turn over. It'd take an hour, at best, for every person on the job. We found it much more effective for the foremen to come in 30 minutes early and stay 30 minutes late to do the turn-overs, then disseminate any information to their crews. The only time we'd ever have a large group was for orientation. Just my 2c, I'd be interested to hear more about your meetings, actual content discussed, types of participants, etc.
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Without pouring through the article again for references, the article made it sound like there were spies(tm) that infiltrated Supermicro. Having people like that on the inside would make it much easier to surreptitiously insert a spot for a part. And if the purpose of the device is originally designed to provide signal conditioning between the boot prom and the baseboard management controller it wouldn't take nearly as significant of an effort.
What event woyld(sic) justify sending such a message and will it explain what people must do in that event.
Ask Hawaii.
Why should I put un more effort when I can achieve in 15 hours week more than some of my colleagues in a month or ever?
The only constancy I can see in these threads is that ACs certainly get a lot of work done! I can see why you would work from home, hard to get out of the door with that big fucking head.
I mean, yes, his base salary was $80k, but made $1.6m in "other" compensation: https://www1.salary.com/Jeffre...
Problem is, it doesn't go into what the "other" is. It's not bonuses, stock, or stock options.
higher production cost from fixed capacity and minimum output thermal generators (all fossil fuels and nuclear depend on steam)
Not ALL fossil fuel plants are "minimum output thermal generators": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... You have to have something to turn on when the sun isn't shining, wind isn't blowing, or you don't have enough grid capacity to get renewable energy from somewhere else.
Well shit, that took all of 30 seconds. https://support.google.com/pix...
Really? What's the last thing that it took you over an hour to find the manual for? The last thing I can think of was the repair manual for a 1984 mercury outboard. Any piece of tech from the last decade, if you can't find it in 10 minutes you need to turn in your nerd card.
This is some good info for you: https://www.nrdc.org/sites/def...
Hint: None of it is cheap, but cheaper than other pollution control measures. (for things like NOx, particulates, etc) I've personally worked on one that was utilizing activated carbon injected into the flue gas prior to the ESP (Electrostatic Precipitator, particulate control). I don't, however, know how effective it actually proved to be. I left the company before they were able to study the results.
He decided to owe up and bail out instead of let the investment incentives keep him going.
I would have rather seen him stay for less than 24 hours after his remaining 850m vested, then turn around and dump that whole pot into something philanthropic.
For one billion? Hell, there isn't much I wouldn't do for a million.
I owned an 09 Outback, similar in cabin size to the Legacy of the same vintage. I personally found it just a bit too cramped, and I'm not a huge person, 5'10" 200lbs. Not to the point where I couldn't/didn't occasionally drive it (was the wife's car). I much preferred my 11 Legacy. I don't know if it was the increase in size, or the fit of the car, but it just felt better. (My main complaint of the 09 is my legs felt cramped, no matter how the seats were adjusted.) But my wife, about 6" shorter than me, loved the car. So I guess there's that.
four headsets to each Walmart supercenter and two headsets to each Neighborhood Market in the country
Didn't even make it to the 2nd line of the summary?
So if they don't like me, that's their issue, not mine. Some consider me an AssHat, many don't. It's up to them, it matters not to me.
It's a fine line. There is no issue in calling someone out on their bullshit, whether it's a bad work product or a bad attitude. It should be done, else the bad product and attitude will most certainly continue. It's just best done tactfully, which is the area where Linus was lacking.
I'm curious what your opposition to gTLDs are? Genuinely asking, not trying to be a smart-ass.
Well fuck, now that we've got this nail biter figured out (whatever the hell it is, I couldn't actually tell from the summary) we can finally move on to some of the issues that are far less important than making sure the music industry can still print money. Or maybe I'm wrong, and this does help fix healthcare, balance the budget, etc.
I've hand-soldered quite a few packages with similar pitch. Granted, you're not going to do it on a plain protoboard with a $15 hardware store soldering iron with a naked eye. But a decent iron with the appropriate tip (I run an old school metcal with an sttc-140 tip), some liquid flux, solder wick, and an eye loupe it can be done. Get two corners tacked, drag solder the pins (don't worry about bridging yet), apply some flux, and use the wick to clean it up. It won't look like it was solder pasted, but it'll get the job done.
I spent a few years in a prototype lab. The most "fun" one I got to do was assembling essentially a PC motherboard from scratch. We had the rework team from the production side place the BGAs, but us lab-lackeys got to do the rest.
That being said... I would tend to agree with you, this isn't a hobbyist chip by any stretch. You'd need, at a minimum, a breakout board for it. (And some super steady hands) Not to mention all of the ancillary devices/ports/etc that you'd need just to use it.
That is 100% the flip side to the argument. Assholes, at the end of the day, tend to get shit done. They are going to lose good people doing it, but given enough time they will get results.
However, my personal views is that you can get good work done without resorting to being a prick. If someone makes a bad commit, tell them why it was bad in a professional manner. If the other person chooses to be an asshole about the "rejection" then so be it, that's on them. Choose to be the bigger person and not engage. It's then back on the committer to decide if they want to put their big boy (or big girl) pants on and work in professional manner.
At the end fof the day, it's his project, he decides what goes and what doesn't go. If enough people's work get rejected because they can't accept valid professional criticism and choose to be assholes instead, maybe attitudes will start to change.
I thought April fools was, you know, in April
In all seriousness, if this is actually true, good on him. It takes a big person to admit being an asshole. Takes a bigger person to actually change. Time will tell I guess.
Say HSMM-Mesh again...
Do you want a sentient computer? Cause that's how you get a sentient computer.
and land will be fiercely contested.
Have you been anywhere in the middle of the country? Take a ride through North Dakota and tell me how little available land there is...
Are you suggesting that groundwater isn't replenished? USGS would disagree with you: https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/gw/h...
Just tell Donald that it's a wall, he'll start pushing for funding.
My #1 gripe. Showing up on time and ready for the meeting.
Nothing better than when the facilitator shows up 5 minutes late, and unprepared. And usually starts with a "Sorry I'm late, [chuckle] and sorry I didn't have time to put together an agenda. I invited all 50 of you here to talk about...". You can hear the eye-rolls through the phone.
Just me, personally, I have never been in any meeting with more than 10 active participants that produced any meaningful outcome. Without knowing the details of the meeting, I can only imagine that a number of smaller meetings would be way more effective.
The only reference I have of managing turn-overs was on construction projects. (Think power plant maintenance/outages) The teams were anywhere from 2 to 20 foremen, each with 5-15 guys. There is no way in hell I'd put all of them in a room together to do a turn over. It'd take an hour, at best, for every person on the job. We found it much more effective for the foremen to come in 30 minutes early and stay 30 minutes late to do the turn-overs, then disseminate any information to their crews. The only time we'd ever have a large group was for orientation. Just my 2c, I'd be interested to hear more about your meetings, actual content discussed, types of participants, etc.