Many big companies are investing in AI to replace people, not fix problems. Try getting anything internal from a human anymore. It's all internal bots. It's easier to sell when you can say "We can replace 90% of your HR department" vs "It will help you find bugs and develop features faster". I'm a bit cynical, but I see it happening everyday.
This is not NASAs first time dealing with this type of scenario. The crew of Skylab 3 had thruster issues in their Apollo command module. NASA actually redesigned an Apollo capsule to seat 5 in a return to earth. It went so far as the rescue crew starting to seriously train for a launch. In the end they found workarounds for the issue and brought them home normally.
The rescue kit built for Apollo during Skylab, while a precedent, is not a complete one. Apollo was the only vehicle available in that situation, so if the CSM already at Skylab couldn't be used, the rescue CSM had to launch. There are alternatives to (say) squeezing in more than four people into Crew Dragon.
In case of a true emergency, would squeezing two people into one seat be that dangerous? (As in, is the safety envelope of the vehicle tied to weight in each seat?)
Retired IBM manager here. This has nothing to do with working together. This is another attempt by IBM to get rid of the older workers (again). Most teams are scattered across the world, and in the US they are all over the place. It's just another "Resource Action" targeted at older workers disguised as some kind of great idea to be more productive.
Exactly - Managers with kids in high school (aka expensive employees) won't move. People who are 25 (aka cheap employees) might. It's been done for years by IBM and many other companies.
When it happened at my job 20+ years ago this was the exact pattern - good news for me is that I was 23 and wanted to move (new city matched my lifestyle much better). Only 1 person in my org who was in their 40s (based on my guess) out of 20 moved. He was single with no kids. All of my same-aged friends did move as well. At least then the paid severance if you didn't take the offer.
I do not know about IBM today but during my time working for the company they were the greatest company to work for if business was good but in bad times for the company their number one priority was the bottom line.
Thank you for introducing me to genius scan. I have been getting more and more frustrated with CamScanner as the UI degrades with each version push, even as a paid user. Genius scan is great.
Which foot pedal are you using? I tried a cheap one from AliExpress but it doesn't actually send PageDown keypresses, rather tries to simulate dragging. And it came broken anyway.
I am a manager that has been full-time WAH for 15+ years. A leader who understands their role should be empowering people to do their jobs, and providing them the tools they need to do it, be it in the office, at home, or on another planet even. That's what leaders do. If they think their job is to monitor and micromanage their teams, then they are not leaders, just bad managers. Leaders see the value in employees creating a situation where they increase their productivity. I really don't care where my employees work as long as they meet clearly defined goals and objectives. They know what they need to do, and I trust them to figure out how best to accomplish it!
Oh you have no idea how welcome this is. As a member of the National Guard, we are expected to use our own personal equipment to access DoD websites. It is a constant battle of certificates that are not recognized, expired, many other things. The Army maintains a gold image for all active duty computers, but us silly part time soldiers who try to use our own equipment are completely screwed.
Just this month alone I have been 'mandated' to sign multiple documents and complete on-line courses that I can not access due to the Army's making everything only Microsoft compatible. So many sites are years old still making ancient calls to Internet Explorer functions.
The simple act of fixing the certificate issues would eliminate half the frustration right now. The second thing they need to do is mandate that any site has to operate with all the major browsers, and not just ancient versions of IE.
