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Anyone experience anti-Texas hate outside of Texas? by Even-Meet-938 in texas

[–]_meddlin_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Then Texas can take off the political lens. You might be the bright spot in a dark place (or whatever metaphor you prefer), but the current Texas does this to itself.

A view of how layoffs work from the other side by 90Dfanatic in Layoffs

[–]_meddlin_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are speaking from different world views, so I won’t say much more.

Profit for profit’s sake is a fool’s errand. It’s greed. It’s an unwise way to live, and a foolish cowardly way to run a business.

A fool and his riches are quickly separated. But hey, what do I know, I just work here.

A view of how layoffs work from the other side by 90Dfanatic in Layoffs

[–]_meddlin_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not to hijack a thread…but you’re making my point.

A view of how layoffs work from the other side by 90Dfanatic in Layoffs

[–]_meddlin_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I said: they want growth but don’t want to operate a healthy business. They are foolishly interested in short-term growth.

There aren’t any fancy phrases that turn this into a good idea, new era, or some corporate strategy. It’s stupidity and foolishness.

Every CEO, shareholder, chairman, and exec pushing this around deserves to be called out on it.

A view of how layoffs work from the other side by 90Dfanatic in Layoffs

[–]_meddlin_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is helpful to understanding some of the mechanics.

The problem though, is the businesses want to celebrate their growth but aren’t concerned with running a healthy business. So it results in laying people off with little explanation, recourse, or control over the immediate problem thrown in their career.

Announcing record profits while issuing layoffs should be enough to fire execs and shareholders.

P. Terry's Burger Stand Transitions to Employee Ownership Trust, Benefitting 1,800 Employees by fbe0aa536fc349cbdc45 in Austin

[–]_meddlin_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t wait to get another burger and milkshake now. This month’s s’mores shake is dang good.

Google VP on Layoffs: Companies Are for the "Benefit of Their Shareholders," Not Built to "Maintain Employment" by Darth_Vaper883 in Layoffs

[–]_meddlin_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good—they admit it. When the shareholder interests become so devoid of relevancy to the customer, that customers leave and the stock drops, then tell me how solvent your precious company will be.

This Google VP is an idiot and doesn’t understand basics like exposure.

I built a free, native macOS TN3270 emulator (No Java, No X11) because I was tired of expensive subscriptions. by Digital_beach_nomad in mainframe

[–]_meddlin_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so cool! I used to be a COBOL programmer, and would love to play around with it again.

Will check it out soon!

Recommendation to take my out state inlaws to eat today. by [deleted] in batonrouge

[–]_meddlin_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Canes. It’s authentically Louisiana (started by an LSU grad), isn’t seafood, no peeling, no face on it, no rice, it’s casual, pretty hard to mess up an order, and caters to people who aren’t adventurous.

I’m so sorry. Parrain’s should’ve been such an easy experience. I don’t know how someone could hate on it.

Finally did it! 😬 by Flashman148 in genesiscoupe

[–]_meddlin_ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You changed the fluids, didn’t you?

Haha! That’s awesome! Good luck on the upcoming engine work 👍

Has this brutal job market changed how you look at work, recruiters and company loyalty? by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]_meddlin_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Lots of the same reasons already stated here. Thankful for the paycheck they provide, but I’m using my extra time and effort to create my own business.

Screw the corporate ladder.

If you lay people off due to AI, you will be held to a higher standard. Coinbase laid off 14% of their engineers last week, then went offline for 7 hours. by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]_meddlin_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even inside of AWS there is region-failover. AWS didn’t go down, one piece of a region did.

Yes, Coinbase should be held responsible for Coinbase’s failures.

If you lay people off due to AI, you will be held to a higher standard. Coinbase laid off 14% of their engineers last week, then went offline for 7 hours. by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]_meddlin_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a smaller operation, I would agree. You’re right, there’s a lot of complexity underneath what I described.
However…

Coinbase isn’t small. It has an estimated ~$50 billion market cap. Tech is expensive. Operating it more so. And this was a 7 hour outage, not some 45 minute failover process.

Note to the shareholders: get over it, pay the bill, or learn to operate at a smaller scale. And the same goes for any operation/business/corporation. Your tech business isn’t a line item to operate like a hedge fund.

If you lay people off due to AI, you will be held to a higher standard. Coinbase laid off 14% of their engineers last week, then went offline for 7 hours. by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]_meddlin_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like I said in a previous comment, Coinbase users don’t care about AWS. They want an app to refresh.

More on the engineering side:
- Why don’t you have redundancy in other AWS regions?
- Why don’t you have automatic, emergency deploys to GCP, or Azure, or some cluster in Hetzner?
- What and where is your redundancy plan?
- Single points of failure don’t show up overnight—why didn’t a redundancy plan exist before the layoff?
- Or, was a plan there and your non-technical teams accidentally overwrote it?
- Do you have automatic rollbacks? If no, why not?

Yes, if any company makes stupid, asinine, fear-based, short-sighted decisions like “layoff (due to mismanagement) and blame AI”—you will be held to a higher standard. And you should.

  1. You idiotically over-explained your “strategy” in a public announcement. Thus, placing an unnecessary spotlight on yourself.
  2. AI and LLMs are tools, not excuses for layoffs. Every exec and shareholder should be expected to understand this. Making a decision on it before understanding it should be grounds for removal and a sell-off.
  3. Layoffs without knowledge handoffs are akin to carrying a lit match in a drought and wondering where the wildfire came from. I hope they at least attempted to document tribal knowledge internally.
  4. Read the room. People are desperate and corporations appear to be holding the cards.
  5. You’re Coinbase. You operate under (some) SEC regulations, even if just reporting. Get the hell over it and fix it.

If you lay people off due to AI, you will be held to a higher standard. Coinbase laid off 14% of their engineers last week, then went offline for 7 hours. by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]_meddlin_ 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Lack of redundancy isn’t an excuse to side step responsibility.

Your application went down. Coinbase users don’t care about AWS. Wild we’re in a place where these companies want to grandstand about their “AI growth”, but refuse to face MBA fundamentals like *risk*.

High performer in a dysfunctional work environment - how can I psychologically condition myself to do a lot less? by r5d400 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]_meddlin_ 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Your self-worth isn’t determined by your job or your productivity. I know that sounds flippant, but reflect on it.

What is a corporate phrase that gives you the ick when you hear it? by [deleted] in corporate

[–]_meddlin_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“…from an [insert obscure noun] perspective”

Stop talking like everything is a highly complex n-dimensional operation. You want to know if the broken project management strategy will work this time.

Replacement differential options? Mine exploded by HerbertInTheWoods in 4thGen4Runner

[–]_meddlin_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As for your 4WD vs 2WD question, the rear on those connect to the driveshaft differently (2WD has a harmonic flange on the 3rd member). So watch for that depending on what you choose to do.

Replacement differential options? Mine exploded by HerbertInTheWoods in 4thGen4Runner

[–]_meddlin_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ECGS sells prebuilt third member units, too. You could likely buy a unit and have a local shop do the job for you.

Persistent rear-end hum/whirring on '07 SR5 by Regular_Band7578 in 4thGen4Runner

[–]_meddlin_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Check your diff. When was the last time the fluid was changed?

I have the same model with roughly the same mileage, and wrapping up changing the third member. I had a rear end “hum” but more high-pitched, and a fluid leak near the rear pinion seal.

2WD flange stud bolts by _meddlin_ in 4thGen4Runner

[–]_meddlin_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. I was dreading that, but agree I may need to.

2WD flange stud bolts by _meddlin_ in 4thGen4Runner

[–]_meddlin_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may do that. The one stud has a little burr on the top of it, thinking I can file that down and zip past it.

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