espentan
@espentan@lemmy.world
- Comment on U.S Senators call on ICE to halt use of facial recognition as surveillance powers grow 4 days ago:
I have a 9 year old laptop and it’s just fine for pretty much anything you can do in a browser, and that’s enough for me, 95% of the time.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Their revenue probably felt very threatened.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
Well, if it’s stupid I think I’ll refrain. /s
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.
What I wrote was based on my personal experience, managing engineers on product teams and how I approached the role as manager.
We owned the products we developed and maintained and as a team we enjoyed great autonomy, and so we were spared customers/clients asking for the ridiculous, and I can probably count on one hand (ok, maybe two hands) the times we just had to do something because corporate said so.
We always pushed for engineers’ involvement in product and feature development, planning/roadmaps, and they did indeed have great influence over the what and the how. Push back from engineers on products’ suggestions/ideas/plans were frequent, and attention was paid.
This was for a company in Norway, where perhaps top down management isn’t as prevalent as in many other places, and employees are typically encouraged to speak up and get involved. Again, in my experience.
I found that being there to support and assist my engineers, not micro managing them, gave great results in terms of team culture and work satisfaction. I made it clear that I would always have their backs as long as they didn’t intentionally fuck something up.
I fully realize this isn’t the case everywhere, nor even typical.
All said, I really enjoyed being a manager. On some level it triggered a father’s instincts in me, and I took great pride in looking after people and seeing what they were capable of building as a team.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
As a former tech manager, I’d argue you’re a pretty shit manager if you tell your people how to solve a problem. Guide, inform, clarify, help remove obstacles etc. etc., but the solution is for the engineers to find.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure Trump will see many, many great and fabulous reasons to re-platform him.
Well why, would you look at that, a fellow rapist, and he’s a trafficker too?! Hey, Elon, Suck, promote this man NOW!
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 4 weeks ago:
That’s when sugar momma enters the kitchen.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 4 weeks ago:
I quit reddit, cold turkey, the day they shut off free API access for 3rd parties. Except for a couple of fairly niche subs I haven’t missed it at all.
- Comment on China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and AI GPUs — Lisuan 7G106 runs Chinese AAA titles at 4K over 70 FPS and matches RTX 4060 in synthetic benchmarks 1 month ago:
It would be nice if some newcomers could drive Nvidia into the ground.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 2 months ago:
Uninstalled.
Luckily I/people I interact with never used it much.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 2 months ago:
Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 2 months ago:
Just what we needed, more surveillance /s
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 2 months ago:
These days, most companies that work with web based products are under pressure from upper management to “use AI”, as there’s a fear of missing out if they don’t. Now, management doesn’t necessarily have any idea what they should use it for, so they leave that to product managers and such. They don’t have any idea, either, and so they look at what features others have built and find a way to adapt one or more of those to fit their own products.
Slap on back, job well done, clueless upper management happy, even though money and time have been spent and the revenue remains the same.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 3 months ago:
If you’re diligent you could be looking at decades of not installing crap!
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 3 months ago:
Same in Norway, many providers have been offering 10Gb for a while now.
- Comment on France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it 3 months ago:
No optics. /s
- Comment on made this functional part to fix a broken latch 4 months ago:
I hope there’s a future where providing the blueprints for wear parts is a common thing to do. It could make it easy to extend the life of a great many things, I reckon.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 4 months ago:
Yes, it’s ‘fem’ in Norwegian, too…
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 4 months ago:
Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 4 months ago:
Apparently a foldable OLED screen is, typically expected to last at least 200.000 folds. That’s more than a 100 folds/day for 5 years. I’d take my chances on one, I think.
- Comment on Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner 5 months ago:
How the heck do you clean your old carburators? /j
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 months ago:
I did that a bit, for C64 games. I recall it being a mix of fun, tedious and extremely frustrating if there was even the slightest transmission interference while recording, then all you could do was wait for the next transmission and hope they went better.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 months ago:
True, microsoft is a wehrmacht nazi soldier where as apple is full on gestapo.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 5 months ago:
Well, he said he was going to be the worst president the country had ever had, and he’s delivering on that.
- Comment on New U.S. DJI drone alternative just hit the market, it’s only 6X the cost of equivalent DJI drone 5 months ago:
Can’t hold back spending taxpayer money when shopping for tools to keep the taxpayer down. /s
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 6 months ago:
He’s looking more and more like Kim Jong Un by the day…
- Comment on Alphabet's Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source says 6 months ago:
“The bigger we are the more misery we can inflict - Musk, Trump, plz help!”
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 6 months ago:
Everyone should’ve chipped in with a dollar and you’d have your own country! /s
- Comment on ‘Normalise Indian hate’: DOGE staffer resigns over racial posts 7 months ago:
We’re probably witnessing the future of US democracy right there. Every question, or at least the ones where they pretend public opinion matters, to be settled by a poll on shitter.
- Comment on Le Chat: A faster European alternative to American AI 7 months ago:
Le Chat is a good name. It’s also the name of, among other things, I’m sure, a Belgian comic strip.
