One of my jobs during high school was working for an engineering firmed turned accounting software house. Nobody bought their engineering software, but their in-house accounting apps turned into best sellers. Since GL/AP/AR is hardly anything new it made me wonder what happened and it seems like most of the competitors were bought or went under. Sure enough PeachTree which was #1 in the late 80s has renamed itself and gone cloud subscription.
There's always GNU Cash I guess, although I haven't heard good things from my one friend who tried it.
How are bios and firmware updates for supermicro? Are they open to the public or require a support contract. Speaking from personal experience even though HPE is cheap, you really don't want to buy it for home use due to license constraints. I hear Dell leaves their updates available on the web, and am curious if Supermicro does as well. This is critical because of regularly discovered CVEs.
As well it should. It's rare for me to defend Microsoft anything, but in this case I will. MS authenticator happily backs itself up to the cloud if you let it. Whether you consider that good or just another attack vector is up to you, but keep in mind if you switch phones, you'll be setting up TOTP again for every service in Google authenticator.
>Dell is also acting corporately weird by the way.
My employer offers a modest Dell discount via an Employee Purchase Program. (EPP). You can order the 9310 with 16 or 32 gigs of memory through the EPP with Windows, but if want one with 32 gigs of memory and Linux, you have to engage their small business group and ask for a quote. Exact same machine in every way, just more memory. As I understand the memory is now soldered on the 9310 it's worth paying up front to get maximum, but I've read the storage is still upgradeable.
So Dell still thinks only businesses use 32GB of memory with Linux and for that matter Linux developers only want 13" screens. Both assumptions are (IMHO) obviously false, but there's that corporate weirdness for you.
If anyone from Dell is reading this please expand your Linux offerings to your larger laptops, preferably ones with bigger batteries and discrete GPU options. Not every developer on the planet wants an Intel-based macbook air clone, particularly when a) Iris XE GPUs benchmark slower than the current M1 GPU (which is about to get refreshed), and b) the i7-11{6,8}5G7 CPUs support 64 GB of memory. Stop crippling laptop features to fluff up your battery life numbers.
I came to therapy very late in life and it was similarly opaque to me. I was very fortunate to come across someone who listened to me talk about my life and distilled it into insights I had never made on my own. I can only assume they've seen so much and treated so many patients they have a deep well of patterns to start with and it's mostly of matter of seeing where you fit plus whatever is unique to you.
I've always had a good relationship with my mother but it was only though my therapist I even realized I did in fact have some attachment issues. Anecdotally when I mentioned that to my aunts they immediately starting sharing stories about mom. Family knew all along but they remained silent until I asked for detail. The point is for both the therapist and family just talking is enough to prime the process of discovery. You won't start with a giant epiphany.
Astoundingly poorly. I'm (as far as I can tell) older than the median HN poster, which means I've had more time to make good decisions or poor ones and have the cumulative weight of them bear down on my life.
Career-wise as I've posted previously my job is in peril. Finding another role that pays as well at 50+ can be a challenge in IT, I believe the current economic strife will amplify the difficulty.
It's funny this came up because I was about to create this throwaway account and post an Ask HN for advice anyway.
Me and my team are in the process of delivering a new infrastructure provisioning system that will bring 9 figures worth of equipment online this year. For the most part we're on time modulo the usual bobbles that come from a year-long project this size.
My upper management regularly says We're in a new safe space and there's room to fail, we're trying to be more like Silicon Valley, etc. My new manager told me in our last 1:1 'If you don't take your application stack you're delivering and turn it into a service in the next 60 days, I'll eliminate your job by year end.'
So we're right back to Go Big or Go Home pressure that the company has always exerted on people despite lip service to the idea we've shed our bad old ways. At least it feels that way to me. Maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe I should look for another job. LOL.
There's always GNU Cash I guess, although I haven't heard good things from my one friend who tried it.