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mbp , 3 months ago

Companies will time layoffs to get a better profit in the next couple months to report better quarterly or yearly earnings reports. How those earnings reports turn out directly affects the stock market performance, which in turn makes the shareholders significantly more money.

This is most effective if somebody’s trying to pump the stock value before jumping ship in the most egregious cases.

mbp , 3 months ago

Good points!

The timing is quite important. Other things to consider are tax periods, bonuses, and nature of the markets. That can all be racked up as cost of doing business if the long-term benefits outweigh the long-term costs.

Especially if they are having a bad year or quarter, performing layoffs can show promise of a better next quarter since severance is basically a fixed cost to the number of employees you have.

There isn’t necessarily one size fits all but the bottom line is dropping employees saves money as human resources are always one of the largest costs of operating.

mbp , 6 months ago

Absolutely. It’s so lively there and with all the people around at all times of the night, I never felt unsafe. Just people out having a good time

mbp , 6 months ago

We have to clarify every time something is American? People don’t even realize because, well, it’s so normal to an American. It’s not like it’s done spitefully.

mbp , 7 months ago

Jesus, it’s so inconsistent. I suppose that may be beneficial when looking at all of your folders at a bird’s eye view but my knee jerk reaction isn’t the most positive.

mbp , 7 months ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/0dd42e21-f215-43f3-8778-b841ffef3362.png

mbp , 7 months ago

You joke but my old FJ Cruiser requires you to turn the key to accessory, turn it off, turn the key back to accessory, open and close the door three times, turn the key back off, turn the key to accessory while holding the odometer reset button for 5 seconds and then it will enter pairing mode for the remote fob.

It made me feel the same joy as pressing the option on my Android phone 5 times to enter development mode back in the mid 2010s but it gets old quick.

mbp , 7 months ago

08 Toyota FJ so we likely had the same sequence ✊

mbp , 7 months ago

Built in sobriety test, how nice!

mbp , 7 months ago

They could’ve stopped at step 3 but they gave you 8 more steps to feel like a true hacker.

mbp , 7 months ago

That sounds incredibly trippy to see in theaters at 6-7. Kinda jealous of your story!

mbp , 7 months ago

What’s been your favorite cocktail as of recently to have on a normal night?

mbp , 7 months ago

Yes! Your knowledge will last and it’s insane how many hobbies have coinciding skills. Keeping it fresh allows me to stay motivated and as long as I’m doing something, I couldn’t care less if it’s painting or soldering or whateverthefuckelse at that moment :D

mbp , 7 months ago

Hell yeah, I’ve been making G&Ts for my quick mixer over the past few years - it’s so good. That Earl Grey cocktail sounds absolutely divine for the last bit of warm weather we have here, thank you!

mbp , 7 months ago

Bookmarked in case of deep inspiration, thank you!

mbp , 7 months ago

Same experience with my printer! Gave me some motivation to finish off some of the projects I’ve disregarded since there’s some new shiny light to it. The printer has been going non-stop (while it’s not needing to be maintained) and I’ve made enclosures, costumes, frames, and molds that got me back into programming, crafting, painting, and masonry. Glad to have such split attention sometimes, lol.

mbp , 7 months ago

Goddammit, now I need to change my fkn VPN, too

mbp , 7 months ago

If I’m going to be relaying through to people strictly over text as much as I do these days, I better have a way to articulate it with the right emotional range to match my sparkling personality ✨

mbp , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I find it’s going to need to get even more convenient for the general public to be interested in it. Federation almost needs to be a ‘background’ process that the end user doesn’t really need to deal with. Otherwise, it’ll be a little too complicated or obscure to comprehend for most. I know it isn’t rocket science but we’re talking about the general public, here.

mbp , 7 months ago

I haven’t ever seen a GitHub file that big before in my life

mbp , 7 months ago

Boss: “make sure you include a PSD and AI file in your package”

Me, a refined Linux user: “uhhhh”

mbp , 7 months ago

Sure, but when I’m a cog in a bigger machine I need to prioritize my work being able to be continued by others or else I’ll be stuck making every single change on it that needs to be made in the future. The architecture we use to use the same PSD on AE projects and embedded webapps is essential to the system functioning as needed. Many, if not most places follow that same line of thinking and using a separate program that isn’t intended for that inner-platform use. It might be kool-aid but it’s a problem bigger than what OS I’d like to use.

mbp , 7 months ago

When you have to deal with quirks (and Adobe just progressively adding more ‘quirks’ to overcome) to use the programs you need to make your living, your initial claim of ‘just use Linux!’ still sounds like an unhelpful answer. I mean I use Linux daily but I still need to work in an ecosystem.

Regarding Picasso, use whatever for personal art but people use the “industry standard” so they know any of their colleagues can use my deliverable for anything they should need to is a novel thing. I have plenty of personal experience why deviating causes problems where you least expect it to. It’s a shitty monopoly but I’m glad you have a means that allows you to work outside of it (keep doing it, it’s a good thing!)

mbp , 7 months ago

Gonna think of this term every time I listen to sun ra

mbp , 7 months ago

Awesome perspective! I’ve worked with and around seriously depressed, possession hoarders for around a year and quite the majority were the type to call you randomly ultimately to chat about something or another. The exact priming situation that would fall into abusing LLM tech if offered easy access to it. This was before the days of Chatgpt but I do worry some of my old clients are falling into this situation but with far less nuance than your friend.

mbp , 8 months ago

I love when the deers play with the mooses and geeses

mbp , 8 months ago

Agent Cooper NOOO

mbp , 8 months ago

I swear whenever I mention I need my Adobe programs everyone is so quick to offer alternatives but NOTHING will be an alternative to a .psd/.ai file made in Photoshop or Illustrator. I need to make vectors in Illustrator, texture then in Photoshop, send the layers to After Effects, make some more vectors in Illustrator, use the same psd in InDesign… I can go without the cloud or streamlined UI but I really need that interoperability layer to function. Any time spent fiddling is costing me money as a bottom line.

And as someone who’s been spending hours learning FreeCAD, you’re really hitting me where I’m sensitive 😅

mbp , 8 months ago

Eh, partially agreed but Adobe does have a stranglehold on the market due to proprietary encoding. The world still runs on their licensed filetypes and that’s a big hurdle for FOSS to overcome. A paradigm shift could happen but a lot is stacked up against it for now. Certainly not an issue that’s unable to be solved but we need some seriously clever minds dedicated to the problem.

mbp , 8 months ago

God, I would love that so much

mbp , 8 months ago

Lovely reply; this is not the simplest answer but it’s the truth.

mbp , 8 months ago

Another term that wasn’t mentioned yet is ‘cel shading’

Using flat colors to indicate shadow and gradients.

mbp , 8 months ago

Is that a regional thing? I know it as cel.

mbp , 8 months ago

Hell yeah, brother

mbp , 8 months ago

I hate to be pedantic with naming/spelling but it’s silly to speak as an authority when you have no idea what you’re talking about…

Cel Shading - A Comprehensive Expert Guide

mbp , 8 months ago

Thank you for being receptive, good people on this site ✨

mbp , 8 months ago

Not them but adding it to cakes, cookies, macrons, etc like cocoa powder does the job wonderfully in my cases.

mbp , 7 months ago

Espresso powder definitely has a better coffee flavor and I’d use that if allowed but instant still works well for quick work and light flavors. Always have some on hand for camping :)

mbp , 8 months ago

Put that on my gravestone

mbp , 8 months ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/5bc718a3-1472-4205-a79a-8d25ed5222ca.png

mbp , 8 months ago

Uh, “journalism”

mbp , 8 months ago

Like, truly, where was legality ever an issue if you were really considering suicide? Maybe that’s just my lense

mbp , 8 months ago

It seems to be about yelling at others that “you’re not a real programmer!!!” mixed with being so “technically correct” my eyes can no longer roll the same way they used to.

mbp , 8 months ago

Broken record

mbp , 8 months ago

Idk why this killed me

mbp , 8 months ago

To add to this, the green that you see is from the offset of primary colors creating the dark patch underneath. Since the magenta is nudged in the positive y direction and the blue is nudged in the negative y direction (and a slight positive x), we get a cool color mixing effect where the dark hues from his hair are present on his neck but it is without the magenta being mixed in. So all we get is the product of strong quantities blue and yellow which is green! Even more apparent due to the situational contrast.

mbp , 8 months ago

You can assume contracts are involved in those c-level deals. Breaking contract usually involves renegotiating the shares to some degree. The stock options are certainly a means to consider them stakeholders so there is more incentive to produce.

mbp , 8 months ago

Will the level 80 “technical fellow” please stand up?