CapeTheory

> What am I missing?

I think it can be summarised as "FOMO".

"Move fast and break things"

Wait, no, not like that

Dual class shares are part of the picture here. They are very common in the US, and allow founders to have their cake and eat it. UK regulators have historically frowned upon this, but that stance is beginning to soften.

Looks like you created a bespoke license for your tool, which is your perogative but also means many people won't even consider using it.

The "magic smoke" is what happens when your PC gains a scintilla of self-awareness and realizes it entered your home without an invitation.

Many of our existing physical models can be decomposed into "high-confidence, well tested bit" plus "hand-wavy empirically fitted bit". I'd like to see progress via ML replacing the empirical part - the real scientific advancement then becomes steadily reducing that contribution to the whole by improving the robust physical model incrementally. Computational performance is another big influence though. Replacing the whole of a simulation with an ML model might still make sense if the model training is transferrable and we can take advantage of the GPU speed-ups, which might not be so easy to apply to the foundational physical model solution. Whether your model needs to be verified against real physical models depends on the seriousness of your use-case; for nuclear weapons and aerospace weather forecasts I imagine it will remain essential, while for a lot of consumer-facing things the ML will be good enough.

Good old Chatty Jeeps

What USP are you aiming for, to differentiate from the many companies who have tried and failed to offer some form of HPCaaS over the last 10-15 years?

Maybe Covid will be The End of the Whole Mess after all.

Massive in his field.

But eventually your human mentor diminishes with age.

And then you can crush them.

"This is...better?" :-)

Yes.

1) Unique experiences create memories. Experiences you choose for yourself are more likely to result in happy memories.

2) More difficult to explain, it's just nice to be nice. Emphasis on "little bit" since you want to avoid feeling like you are being taken advantage of.

3) All purchases lose their novelty at basically the same rate. Cheaper treats means they can be more frequent and therefore give more of a novelty boost.

4) The satisfaction of avoiding a painful chore is great. This one is the hardest, because time is expensive.

It's amazing what can happen when software companies start doing something approximating real engineering, rather than just sitting a UI on top of some managed services.

> hleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft's Active Directory

Colour me intrigued - but don't we already have this with FreeIPA?

Maybe that's the new Turing test; true AGI is reached when computers are smart enough to dismiss the possibility of IBM returning to competence. For a warm-up task, ask the AI about a hypothetical scenario involving an honest and ethical Oracle sales rep.

Ridiculous fantasizing - there is simply no way that IBM would be able to build something as good as that.

As an end-user I am not more inclined to support the profiteering of a small VC-backed company than an evil megacorporation - at least when the latter does well, I can see some upside in my pension fund.

So far it feels like a gold rush without much gold, just a lot of very expensive picks and shovels.

Once you get into the top tax band, the 20% cut in base pay only corresponds to an ~8% cut in take-home pay - a pretty good deal as far as I'm concerned. The problem is that employers who pay this much tend to be large US companies and therefore not well equipped to deal with requests for flexible working. Fortunately the law here means that such requests can't be dismissed out of hand, but unfortunately that doesn't mean HR is obligated to make such requests easy for managers to go along with.

The Devs thought this solar system was outside our render distance, so they used default placeholder values for everything. Should be patched in the next release.

You are right, of course. If I had the money I would absolutely build a bunker, even if it was just as an entertaining project.

The fact that we hear about Zuck and Altmann being the ones prepping or building bunkers could reflect that they are the "bad" elite, not invested in the future of the planet in the same way that Gates and his ilk are. Or alternatively, it could just be that old people don't find the idea of a survival shelter nearly as interesting as the younger generation.

I didn't say no-one wants it, just that no-one is asking for it - which is exactly what you would expect for a component which is already a standard part of server hardware.

Option 1: Be a valuable member of society rather than a parasite, so that you can contribute something in a doomsday scenario

Option 2: Dig a big hole to live in while the poors eat each other

Do you happen to have a preferred source for these 3-year old off-lease servers?

Ok thanks, sounds like I should finally check out this podcast. Instances where I have seen the hardware root of trust mentioned were all on Twitter I think.

I guess you just made my point for me - a hardware root of trust is commonplace in modern computing, so I don't really get why they spent so much time talking about it.

Not really. More like one of those 8U blade boxes which holds >16 servers and reduces cabling by including a backplane - but extended to a full rack.

They have made a lot of fuss about the "hardware root of trust", but that seems more like a fetish of the founders than something regular customers are asking for.

Personally I am more interested in the software stack - a much simpler Openstack alternative is very welcome, as long as I can use my own hardware.