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Tax cuts are used more often when the government wants to see more private investment into an industry. Not really an issue with 'AI' right now.

Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.

10 EC votes to Biden. 0 to trump and no hope of any in this year's election.

1/8 red house seats. The other 7 very comfortably blue.

The rest of the state doesn't seem like it matters much to the only results they'd care about - seats and EC votes.

Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.

Not in 3 years each of experience in 'this specific nodejs library' and 'gcp networking' and 'foundationdb'.

Another entry in the 'marketing and technical terms don't mean the same thing despite using the same words' saga.

Good validation of the 'fail early' strategy. If the door came off when they were higher up it would have been worse.

However, this failure seems to have not followed a strategy; the result was just luck.

He understands that if he keeps spouting this stuff the stock keeps going up.

Not my intention, sorry!

Big organisations are stable, mostly due to the often frustrating inertia and lack of risk taking coupled with their existing, mature revenue streams.

Like with any other business, you talk to the sales team and come to an agreeable middle ground.

We don't pay 'list' for gitlab SaaS.

I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.

The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.

Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.

If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!

The best translation, however, is from Fortinet's clarifying statement.

https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111892744775689047

"It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred"

It's not something that actually happened. It's just some bullshit that's gone viral.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111886558855943676

In general a doctor is going to recommend and proceed with a hip replacement because it has been proven to have a positive outcome on quality of life, even considering the risks associated with surgery.

Someone getting a hip replacement is getting one because their existing hip is substantially impaired.

Yes it's better than their situation immediately before the surgery. It's probably not better than when they were thirty.

Amazing, and I've somehow managed to find each and every one of 'em over time in various comment threads, here and elsewhere.

If there's serious work that can't be effectively done any other way then complex and esoteric cooling setups to overcome those challenges are fine to design and use.

Not sure what needs 1600 cores in one 'chip' but it's probably fairly impressive.

It's different when it's a deliberate conspiracy to mislead consumers, especially when that consumer is choosing services that advertise that a safe vehicle will be used.

If they just stopped showing what plane would be used on the route, maybe they'd get away with using 737-MAX series.

If they say 'it's a 737-800 don't worry about it' and swap in a max every time, or 'fly with us on an airbus' and bring in a boeing death-tube after a purposefully misleading advertisement of a different service...

Terms Of Service only gets you so far. It's not a fraud-dodge.

I think of it as another type of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

MBAs are fine, honestly. I have a manager who came up in the industry he works in. He worked at the 'coal-face', understands the issues and has real perspective. He got an MBA later in his career and uses what he learned from that to more effectively communicate up the chain and has some new ideas that he filters through his industry experience to make his team more effective.

Children who get an MBA before getting a job and think they have some magic sauce that solves problems for an industry without respecting the work that's been done and knowing why those problems exist to begin with (maybe they're trade-offs? For a real reason?) are a problem, as are the clueless twats who listen to their breathless assertions as though they carry any weight.

Counteroffers are 'stem the skills bleed' at best. People who take counteroffers were annoyed enough to look in the first place, and know they're valued enough elsewhere to get a market rate. I've heard that even if someone accepts a counteroffer and stays they're very unlikely to still be there 12 months later.

The company can use that time to figure out what that person does and make sure when they leave it's not as painful and abrupt.

It's as coherent as broadcom's 'new IP'

I've seen a bunch of US companies setting up offices here in New Zealand and hiring SRE/DevOps types. Our wages are garbage so it's much cheaper for them! Plus our timezone means having staff here leads to much less on-call requirement for US/UK staff.

I've done a few New Zealand to Houston trips on the Dreamliner and I find the vibration, temperature and humidity to be totally hostile compared to the A350.

Maybe it's a personal preference thing.

I know myself and a couple other people who do the same, would be fascinating to see if it's common enough to show up in statistics.

It's not even just the safety, the Boeing Dreamliner for example is shockingly uncomfortable to fly in.

Self hosted postgres? Yeah, that's been around forever.

Legalized, regulated, taxed substances with guarantees, legal vendor liability and consumer protections are safer and better for everyone than unregulated markets with no guarantees or consumer protections and with zero vendor liability. There's no magic involved.

With all the 'investment' in ISO27001:* validation of the existing infrastructure choices and the like, I'd be astonished if any move in a large company was able to happen within five years.

From what I've seen none of them have taken this issue seriously, either, and won't until they get squeezed hard enough, at which point they'll have to... spend five years trying to move!

1/2 of all Australian employees are getting made redundant, and it looks like 100% of new Zealand employees are out. Several office locations in Oceania are gone.

I don't know if it's 'most' but there's plenty of large private-cloud B2B setups offering vm-as-a-service / esxi-as-a-service or something frontended by vmware cloud director. Definitely to the tune of billions of annual revenue worldwide.

Investing into making their stuff work with the abstracted libraries. Pytorch etc. Collaboration with Microsoft to make their hardware easier to get time on and test with. Starting to support tooling on their lower tier consumer GPUs.

Set up a VM based workflow and it can run fairly well with minimal intervention for years.

Set up a k8s deployment and you're fiddling with deprecated APIs every couple months - if you don't pay close attention the whole deployment spec falls apart within two years.

The VM stuff works for the majority of companies - you can even sprinkle containers in fairly easily.

It's still a massive if mature market that needs some attention and care, it's a shame it's going to get squeezed and abused by broadcom.