During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, even when lowering requirements to "Anything reasonably suitable".
At the same time MacBook Pro's did not have significant changes in order times. I suspect this is because that for large corps, Macs are not as prevalent as Windows laptops. More "specialist" less "commodity".
Personally, I have 10 year old Macs still usable. This message comes from a 2012 MacMini - laptop level hardware. Equivalent age Windows laptops are either Linux (which is also not as corporate common) or our of service.
Pre-release this was a reason [1]. Not sure if its still a compatibility reason:
> There is also an option to let pandas know we want Arrow backed types by default. The option at the time of writing this article is partially implemented and has a confusing API. In particular, it's not yet working when creating data with pandas.Series or pandas.DataFrame. And for loading data from files it will only work when the parameter use_nullable_dtypes is set to True. For example, to load a CSV file with PyArrow directly into PyArrow backed pandas Series, you can use the next code:
No, I find it odd to spend that much cash on a celebrity endorsement when the target consumer audience (businesses) know that the celebrity is not a Sales Force customer:
"What the heck to Matthew McConaughey use SalesForce for ?"
or more importantly:
"Why is SalesForce paying that kind of money when they could be investing instead in their abysmal support?" - as a SF/Tableau customer this is my perspective.
If “deep work” means can’t function as a team member and communicate in a timely and professional manner, like we all did when working in an office was more common, yes I let them know.
> A lot of people will often not respond to Slack for several hours
Fire them.
One hard rule I have for my team is not being responsive on IM for extended periods is treated the same as not showing up for work.
If people need to be taught how to work remotely, or anywhere for that matter, then the company has the wrong people, or maybe interns who need such training.
"He didn't mention that during his time at the helm Google has been hit with billions of dollars' worth of antitrust fines, been left in the dust by OpenAI's ChatGPT despite "pivoting the company to be AI-first," and seen its core search product get steadily worse."
> I'd be more curious what makes someone think their jobs are worth that much.
Multiple strategy failures on core business elements would suggest the job being performed is not worth that much.
Because many politicians see individual enrichment as a goal over law making. Corporations pay to prevent consumer protections that would limit their revenue.
Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.