This advice isn't grounded in reality.

Management normally defines ways to track and judge itself, these are typically called Key Performance Indicators.

KPI's are normally things like contract value growth, new contracts signed, profit margin, etc..

So if the project manager is meeting or exceeding their KPI's and you walk up to their boss telling them the PM is failing as basic job functions, the boss won't care.

This is because the boss might have set the KPI's or the boss might also be judged on them. In either situation its to the bosses advantage to ignore you.

The boss will only care if there is a KPI you can demonstrate the PM failing to meet.

Every person/group will have various incentives and motivations. To affect change you have to understand what they are.

During the pandemic I had some unoccupied python graduates I wanted to teach data engineering to.

Initially I had them implement REST wrappers around Apache OpenNLP and SpaCy and then compare the results of random data sets (project Gutenberg, sharepoint, etc..).

I ended up stealing a grad data scientist because we couldn't find a difference (while there was a difference in confidence, the actual matches were identical).

SpaCy required 1vCPU and 12GiB of RAM to produce the same result as OpenNLP that was running on 0.5 vCPU and 4.5 GiB of RAM.

2 grads were assigned a Spring Boot/Camel/OpenNLP stack and 2 a Spacy/Flask application. It took both groups 4 weeks to get a working result.

The team slowly acquired lockdown staff so I introduced Minio/RabbitMQ/Nifi/Hadoop/Express/React and then different file types (not raw UTF-8, but what about doc, pdf, etc..) for NLP pipelines. They built a fairly complex NLP processing system with a data exploration UI.

I figured I had a group to help me figure out Python best approach in the space, but Python limitations just lead to stuff like needing a Kubernetes volume to host data.

Conversely none of the data scientists we acquired were willing to code in anything but Python.

I tried arguing in my company of the time there was a huge unsolved bit of market there (e.g. MLOP's)

Alas unless you can show profit on the first customer no business would invest. Which is why I am trying to start a business.

I don't think its aged well.

This game looked incredible for the time and introduced a rail gun sniper rifle you could one shot kill people with.

This map let you camp out and be a sniper but it was possible to overwhelm the sniper so the game stayed fluid and teams had to support their sniper.

Quake, HL2 Deathmatch, Counterstrike had similar weapons but quickly filled with people who could launch themselves 100ft in the air and headshot someone half a map away through a window which is why single shot weapons faded out of FPS games.

If you try multiplayer on some of these games, the skill level of opponents is even higher, they know every trick and execute them flawlessly. This destroys the reason the map was so good.

Playing the sniper in 4 player borderlands story is probably the closest you would get to the original experience.

I think its a self burn.

Person has never been in a relationship and so has no ex to photograph

Have you met any of the big IT supply subcontractors?

Many have built a business around highly specific contracts, the expectation is the service level agreements are technically met. Anything outside the contract is irrelevant and will not be done until a contract is in place. This is reflected in the culture of its staff.

For example if you raised a problem and a team had a 24 hour SLA, the team is focussed on closing the ticket within 24 hours, so they will look for a reason to close the ticket. If you outlined a problem and suggested the issue might be in X area, they will declare "User stated a problem in X, X dashboard is green" and close the ticket. 24 Hour SLA Met!

It might take you 20+ tickets before your actual problem is resolved but from their perspective that was 20+ tickets all completed within 24 hour SLA and that is the metric reported in the contact.

If you try and expose the fact it took 20 days to resolve your problem, staff in these organisations will close ranks to protect each other and the business will protect them on the basis it undermines the metrics for the contract.

It really isn't surprising

Clearly you haven't used Kbin.

KBin's have two distinct views "Threads" (Reddit Style) and "Microblogs" (Twitter), the default view is "Threads". You won't see posts in the Thread view and you won't see Articles/Threads in the Microblog view

Its an option similar to Top/Hot/Newest its existence doesn't hurt

Maybe I am old but I don't understand the NEED for a mobile application.

The kbin website works well on desktop and mobile web browsers with no render issues. The lemmy mobile apps all seem to be "alpha" quality.

Why is a buggy app better thana working website?

I choose an application or website based on which one works best. For example I browse Amazon via the web browser on the phone since the mobile application takes 2-5 seconds to load.

I am currently getting quotes for that, the point of my post was to point out the cost of an air source heat pump is greater than switching your entire house to air conditioning.

We use radiators because every house had a gas line for heating, boiling water and cooking. Radiators were more efficient than gas fires.

Most residential gas boilers are 20-35kwh, air source heat pumps (£4k-£5k) are linked to compression cylinders which provided 11kwh of heating and cost of £9k each, with the need for a water tank, etc... and then installation cost.

Putting air conditioning in still requires the heat pump with a unit (£500-£1k) for each room, plus installation costs.

If you take a 3 bed room house, you are looking at ~£15k for an air source heat pump vs £9k to put air conditioning into every room (it gets worse for air sourced heat pumps the bigger the property).

Once you move to air conditioning for each room you don't need radiators. This means your hot water supply is dishwashers, washing machines, taps, baths and showers.

Dishwashers and washing machines boil their own water (for efficiency).

Taps and showers have electric solutions. The price difference between the two is so great you could buy a hot tub to replace your bath.

Air source heat pumps don't make sense

Does this make sense to anyone?

From a design perspective isn't it normal to puck an icon set which has drawn these icons in a specific style. Individually they follow diffent, shape/colour rules so look messy.

Apart from Ubuntu/Fedora (which are Snap/Flatpak heavy), I think you would be OK with any Linux distribution. I have a Intel Atom N270 and 2GiB of RAM happily running Debian Bookworm and KDE (with an SSD) your talking about something with far more power.

For me the considerations are as follows.

RAM

You've listed 4GiB of RAM, looking at my PC now (Debian Bookworm, KDE Desktop, 2 Flatpaks, Steam Store and Firefox ESR running), I am using 4.5GiB of RAM.

• 2.9GiB of that is Firefox,
• ~800MiB is Steam of which 550MiB is the Steam Store Web Browser.
• ~850MiB is the KDE desktop

Moving to XFCE or LXDE would help you reduce the Desktop RAM usage to 400MiB-600MiB, but you'll still keeping hitting memory limits unless you install an addon to limit the number of tabs. Upgrading 8GiB in would resolve this weakness.

I get by on the Netbook limiting it to 3 tabs or steam.

Disk Storage
You've listed 500GiB of HDD Storage, this means you want to avoid any distribution which pushes Snaps/Flatpaks/Immutable OS because the amount of storage they require and loading that from a HDD would be insanely slow.

Similarly I would go for LXDE or KDE desktops, both are based on creating common shared system libraries so your desktop loads one instance of the library into memory and applications use it. As a result such desktops will quickly reach 1GiB of RAM but not increase much further.

Also moving from a HDD to SDD would give noticeable performance gains, the biggest performance bottleneck as far back as Core 2 Duo/Bulldozer CPU's was Disk I/O.

GPU

The biggest issue will be the 710M, I don't think NVidia's Wayland driver covers this era so you'll be stuck on X11. Considering the age of the GPU and the need for the proprietary driver, personally I would aim for Debian or OpenSuse the long release cycles mean you can get it working and it will stay that way.

From a desktop perspective, I would install KDE and if it was slow/tearing I'd switch to Mate desktop.

• KDE has some GPU effects but is largely CPU drawn, it tends to look nice and work
• Gnome 3 choses to use the GPU even when its less efficient so if it doesn't work well on KDE it won't on Gnome.
• Mate is Gnome 2 and works smoothly on pretty much anything.
• Cinnamon is Gnome 3
• XFCE is like Mate is just works everywhere, personally I find Mate a more complete desktop.

I love this.

If I were a billionaire I would have a warehouse of computer rigs, constantly being tested looking for regressions and bugs.

Then again I would hire an army of people to ensure a vulkan driver exists for all hatdware and rewrite KDE so it used Vulkan and not GBM.

So perhaps there is a good reason I am not a billionaire