It's strange organizations want to push users off of a minor $100/yr/user cost when there are many other ways to save money that don't involve making a power user useless for years.
Readit NewsYeah, but then it is yet another layer of configuration slapped on top of the previous layer of configuration. That can't be the best solution, can it? Same thing for piping helm template through Kustomize.
Use helm to generate the manifests with a Makefile, use Kustomize to change said manifests for prod, staging, etc.
nwmcsween commented on D2: Diagram Scripting Language d2lang.com/tour/intro/... · Posted by u/benzguo
I just want prettier default diagrams in d2, the default theme (and other ones) is a hard sell to orgs where management isn't technical. Something similar to the Obsidian diagram theme
nwmcsween commented on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 github.com/francoismichel... · Posted by u/tempaccount420
I recently looked into this at it looks like the IETF(?) RFC draft for SSH3 was abandoned? It's great this exists but I think the standard needs to be done as well.
> “Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and product people with what is half good ideas and half bad ideas, now I test it myself. I come say, ‘Look, I’ve actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?’” he said.
This would be my personal hell, let me just read n files of AI slop from the CEO.
nwmcsween commented on Google's Liquid Cooling chipsandcheese.com/p/goog... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
What I don't understand is why not use what I've seen in industrial processes? Why not a low boiling point liquid and a heat exchanger? Or even better power a turbine like biogas plants do
nwmcsween commented on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people gamesradar.com/games/micr... · Posted by u/01-_-
All microsoft software I used is increasingly bad. Loop is a complete mess, office is a maze of useless options, windows became so irritating I actively sought out another option, teams seems to be half integrated and half not with anything else, and has an interface that is steadily getting worse and worse.
It's because of their target, they target corporate non-technical IT where the end users have no idea of what they actually want but want it all integrated, badly, and it all works brilliantly for Microsoft as feature x is $y/mo.
One thing AI won’t be able to do is take the blame for big decisions.
I’ve realized that companies like McKinsey also provide a scapegoat for a manager’s decision gone wrong. They can just blame McKinsey for advising them to do it. But they can’t as easily blame an AI. And McKinsey is happy to be the bad guy.
I think this is an area where we will still keep humans. To blame someone when something goes wrong.
Unfortunately for McKinsey, that’s not going to be enough to prop up their revenues.
This is more than enough to prop them up. More often then not the consultee already has a plan even if the plan is horrendous the consulting company is there to insulate management from any fallout (read incompetence).
nwmcsween commented on Atlassian terminates 150 staff cyberdaily.au/digital-tra... · Posted by u/speckx
Sadly the time when an org wanted people to excel and really grow at is over, the new normal is peak capitalism of maximizing value.
People develop relationships with coworkers, you care if someone has issues, you're happy if a solution makes customers/coworkers happy but none of that matters to the lawnmower, it just mows lawns.
In some cases I have seen, people use RFCs to steamroll decisions when they are the only stakeholders. Here the waste comes from the fact that the proposal becomes just a bureaucratic step or a way to diffuse responsibility.
In the case you mention (which I have seen many times) I would say the general issue is that the goals and the constraints are not qualified sufficiently. If that's the case, then there are only 2 cases: there is an objective way to measure if an objection or comment makes sense or not, or it is subjective. If it's objective, then consensus is easy to reach, if it's subjective, it needs to be acknowledged and usually the decisions falls on those who are responsible for the outcome (e.g., the team who needs to maintain or build the thing).
Of course, the debate can move to constraints, goals or even ways to measure, but these are generally more straightforward.
Really though it's the organization (and people) that makes or breaks anything.