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Where is the letter P in the second image?

Sounds like the sort of program that'd give you a 0 on an assignment if it worked perfectly but emitted a compiler warning under Sun Studio

no.

This thinking is taught in MBA programs but does not map onto real businesses. If you're in the ice cube business and you made the profoundly unwise decision to set up vending machines in Inuit communities, you don't recover by laying off x% of both your Alaskan retail and Caribbean Cruise wholesale businesses.

I've been on the receiving end of that kind of "reorganization" and this didn't look like that.

EDIT: Specifically, replacements were not "cheap".

> whatever algorithm is being used to remove people

Different functions/teams/departments seemed to use very different algorithms, suggesting there was just no leadership at all. I posted a separate top level comment, but seeing one function do last-in/first-out and another jettison its most-tenured (most expensive? non-pristine HR record? who knows!) folks makes it hard for employees to understand what the new rules of engagement are.

The reason the word "inept" keeps coming up is just how opaque and senseless to the rank and file the January 2023 layoffs were. High performers, low performers, newest hires, most tenure: we saw all kinds of heads roll. I saw a team lose its sole TL with a decade+ of tenure on the team, then turn around and hire 4-6 people to try and catch up. A growing deployment team was actively hiring before and after it got a 6% haircut.

The simplest explanation would be that every cost center/P&L had to offer up 6% of its people, regardless of that cost center's overall trajectory, place in company strategy or open headcount. And that every cost center's VP or general manager or whatever just got collared by HR, was given a list on a piece of paper and couldn't leave until they chose 6% by ...whatever metric they came up with on the spot.

Whatever actually happened I'll never know, but what I've seen was 100% compatible with that theory. Which in turn looks pretty inept.

Thinking about my own usage patterns, when I'm working from home my laptop is VPNed to somewhere reasonably close lag-wise, but certainly not within 50 miles of my house. Meanwhile my phone is studiously checking my inbox using either the local cell tower or my home WiFi.

So if I go look at my personal access logs, I see myself flitting back and forth across the country constantly. I wonder how they plan to filter out these incredibly common false positives without also clobbering detection of thoroughly-owned (consistently-flitting) accounts.

Absolutely! I suspect it would also alleviate a couple of headscratchers like where you spelled out "underscore" when setting a breakpoint.

The novel /referenced/ is Children of Ruin, the sequel, which is just as amazing. I assume the author is referring to the diptych by its first part's name.

Small discrepancy which might confuse exactly the readers who would enjoy the whole work.

Probably the wee Brother 3200-something you can find at any office supply store. We had a rebranded sibling sold by Dell for a decade. CUPS likes them. They're slow, but they work.

Libraries don't let you check out books which can't be replaced economically. You might have heard the word "circulating" in the context of libraries: stuff from Tom Clancy and Harper Lee and Kevin Feige circulate. Out-of-print or rare or college textbooks usually have to be read at the library, where staff discourage you pocketing or photocopying things or whatever.

The new high (secondary) school treated her like a new student, not one with a year of comically poor performance. This isn't about college or university; it's about the last few years of compulsory education, which often set the direction of one's life.