I think you glossed over the question
Generally, the answer is management via performance reviews.
Readit Newspacketlost commented on US Intel stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay
Who gets to determine the bottom 50th percentile?
it doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work.
If I may add my view as a formerly high-achieving semiconductor worker that Intel would benefit greatly from having right now, a lot of us pivoted to software and machine learning to earn more money. My first 2 years as a software engineer earned me more RSUs than a decade in semiconductors. Semiconductors is not prestigious work in the U.S., despite the strategic importance. By contrast, it is highly respected and relatively well remunerated in the countries doing well in it.
From this lens, the silver lining of the software layoffs going on may be to stem the bleeding of semiconductor workers to the field. If Intel were really smart, they’d be hiring more right now the people they couldn’t get or retain 3-5 years ago
If Intel were well managed they would purge like 2/3rs of the managers and anyone in the bottom 50th percentile and then pay whatever it takes to get people skilled in their core industry back, training the remaining people as necessary to fill in gaps for the future.
They literally cannot have a culture that encourages the now-traditional job hopping that is so pervasive in American business culture. They can't afford it.
packetlost commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
Polish and decent UI...
I find the sqlitebrowser UI to be perfectly fine. It's not pretty, but it's a tool so who cares.
packetlost commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
What does this offer over sqlitebrowser? https://sqlitebrowser.org/
packetlost commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Gotta put in a plug for Migadu: https://www.migadu.com/pricing/
Happy customer over a couple of years.
I've been using Migadu for a low-moderate throughput inbox (within their micro tier limits) in the US and the IMAP4 performance is kinda awful sometimes. I'm not sure why :(
Do you have an iPhone? Mine is constantly turning “and” into “ABs” when I type with swipe.
I've noticed too. Idk what it is about iOS's autocorrect that has made it go to absolute shit over the last few years.
The wobbling one would be pretty major if you ran into it all the time in your regular workflow...
It's easily solvable with a case. I agree that it's silly that Apple does it this way, but I struggle to see how it rises to the level of being a fundamental flaw like file management is.
Those are some very minor complaints, all of which would not affect my buying choice, given the larger differences. That said, I’ll tell you that I don’t notice (1), for (2) I would never sit there organizing my photos, I have other (mostly less productive) things to do with my time, and (3) seems like something I specifically _dont_ want.
No, two of those are some pretty fundamental complaints about how GP wants to use their device. Just because you don't have those complaints doesn't make them any less fundamental.
Ultimately the disagreement is primarily on the fact that Apple goes very far out of their way to hide the concept of a file and filesystem from the user.
The wobbling one is minor, in all fairness.
packetlost commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
> stymy the flywheel effect that allows a handful of users (and thus sets of norms) to come to dominate so strongly
This prevents certain communities from forming and certain topics from being discussed. For example, you can't discuss LGBTQ issues with troll armies constantly swarming and spamming. If such communities are not given tools to exclude malignant disruptors by setting norms and "dominating" a given channel, they will have to go elsewhere (such as leaving X for BlueSky).
As always, there's a balance. Communities (and individuals) generally need the ability to moderate and manage access to both membership and interactions with the community. Algorithmic-driven open platforms are sorta mutually incompatible with that idea