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| hans:
It's a tough call. I don't even think 2 months is enough to make lasting changes, especially at the speed they were running at. I think their 1 week hiatus was more in thanks to Linus emotional response. If he had slept a night over it, had some meetings with other chiefs, or possibly let the CEO do the talking, I think they might have gotten away without a hiatus. People would be mad, but some people will find any reason to twist words and create personal attacks. I was also going through some social media stuff, and found this: https://twitter.com/TimHolowachuk/status/1654291480494899200 The linked video is on the large comments posted on inconsistent CPU cooler testing, with large deltas and and missed CPUs thermal throttling on their own reference platform with Noctua coolers, and finally, a lack of understanding how to pick up on errors and outliers. Not to say interns work is bad, but a students learning experience should be prioritized above delivering production ready materials. I wonder if some errors went undetected since guiding students properly requires a lot of time and patience to get them to do it right. Plus then to check their work anyways.. which is hard to do if this student spent literal weeks in the lab swapping coolers and running stress tests. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: hans on August 20, 2023, 10:26:42 pm ---It's a tough call. I don't even think 2 months is enough to make lasting changes, especially at the speed they were running at. I think their 1 week hiatus was more in thanks to Linus emotional response. If he had slept a night over it, had some meetings with other chiefs, or possibly let the CEO do the talking, I think they might have gotten away without a hiatus. People would be mad, but some people will find any reason to twist words and create personal attacks. --- End quote --- There is no "getting away with it". Those who want to be pissed off will be pissed off regardless of what you do. No response at all I'm sure would not have resulted in the 200k loss in subs in 2 days. This all happened because they "tried to fix it", and then doubled down trying to fix it. And the trippled down by halting production. Now everyone smells blood in the water. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 20, 2023, 10:49:28 pm --- --- Quote from: hans on August 20, 2023, 10:26:42 pm ---It's a tough call. I don't even think 2 months is enough to make lasting changes, especially at the speed they were running at. I think their 1 week hiatus was more in thanks to Linus emotional response. If he had slept a night over it, had some meetings with other chiefs, or possibly let the CEO do the talking, I think they might have gotten away without a hiatus. People would be mad, but some people will find any reason to twist words and create personal attacks. --- End quote --- There is no "getting away with it". Those who want to be pissed off will be pissed off regardless of what you do. No response at all I'm sure would not have resulted in the 200k loss in subs in 2 days. This all happened because they "tried to fix it", and then doubled down trying to fix it. And the trippled down by halting production. Now everyone smells blood in the water. --- End quote --- Agreed. And it was already a tricky time for LTT with the turned down offer (which made a lot of people talk), the new CEO, etc. So they should have thought twice before reacting. I've watched the "What do we do now?" video - looks like something that won't help either. |
| Psi:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 20, 2023, 08:40:59 am --- --- Quote from: Psi on August 19, 2023, 11:56:57 am ---I think they are very optimistic at taking a week break to fix/address all company procedures and systems. 2 months maybe, but not a week. Maybe a week just to build a good list of things to fix. --- End quote --- 2 months is suicide. --- End quote --- I wasn't actually suggesting they should have taken 2 months. I was just commenting that them saying they will take 1 week off to fix things seemed silly because that would actually take ~2 months. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---2 months is suicide. --- End quote --- Would it be? Sure, views and subscriptions might go down but for something as well known and with such a massive footprint as LTT, just think of the news and views when they did come back. I reckon views would be off the chart, since even the detractors would want to see what's changed (maybe so they could pick holes, but so what). |
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