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mathverse··on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
Koreans believe they can brute force their way to success but during the last 10year these policies have been failing them.

It does not help that they are naturally fatalists so its always all or nothing scenario.

mathverse··on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.
mathverse··on Mixtral 8x22B
Shopping for a new mbp. Do you think going with more ram would be wise?
mathverse··on [dead]
w00w00 exploits sendmail to own the president
mathverse··on XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
We dont need any tinfoil hats. FOSS projects were being backdoored even before they became a thing the difference is that this time it's state sponsored actors doing it.

The old groups GOBBLES,ADM,ac1db1tch3z,~el8 were doing it, private "security researchers" like isec.pl were doing it.

This time it's a problem because state actors are abusing the corporate capitalism that created this era of underpaid people working on foundational projects. The bad actors have unlimited resources for their objectives.

That's basically what created the demand and ineption of groups like NSO,Zerodium etc..

Basically before that exploits and backdoors were worthless and hackers hoped to be sponsored or hired by companies like Qualys.

mathverse··on Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby
Could not in theory the stdlib and most used libraries be heavily type annotated to assist the compiler?
mathverse··on CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023)
CFEngine is great if you need to manage a large heterogenous fleet of different UNIX flavors like HP-UX,AIX,Solaris,Linux.

Have used it at AT&T and it's been great.

mathverse··on Qore Programming Language
Meet Qore. Perl like programming language used to build business software at companies like Hutchison Drei.
mathverse··on Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
Yes. These companies are faceless entities, literal money printing machines where some people in charge are the gods who get to decide what to do with the money printer.

They hold an insane monopolistic position. Often these companies utilize verticals which obliterate entire business segments because they are allowed to give products for free (MS Teams for example).

This should not happen.

mathverse··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
Ill word it like this next time :p
mathverse··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
I consider german food products in general to be tasteless (I am not saying they are low quality but it just does not fit my palate). Lidl / Kaufland is fine for veggies. Rewe good in general and I like Billa+ but that's more premium quality anyway.

Just in general not a fan of german food products.

mathverse··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
You can unlock the cart with standard european key tip like this https://image.made-in-china.com/202f0j00GpWUwrYJnBoN/Sn-Euro...

Most homeless and poor people know this trick. It really is just for general populace who are too gullible to know better.

mathverse··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
You can unlock the cart with the tip of the sn european key. No coins needed.
mathverse··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
The coins are useless. It's a people problem not a mechanical one. You can unlock the cart with the tip of the key like this https://image.made-in-china.com/202f0j00GpWUwrYJnBoN/Sn-Euro... (standard european).

And I frequently do because I HATE german supermarkets anyway!

mathverse··on Sora: Creating video from text
It's the opposite. Price of goods is becoming more and more expensive due to larger demand and lower salaries.
mathverse··on Tech companies axe 34,000 jobs since start of year in pivot to AI
Elon did not demonstrate anything. Any faceless entity especially at the top of the industry can function and print money out of thin air with a much smaller workforce.

The reason why companies are so big is that companies want to cover all these unprofitable business flows and use cases for vertical integration. So many people work on products and services that bring 0 revenue to the company and yet these are important.

It's just internally the valuation of these things had changed.

mathverse··on Tech companies axe 34,000 jobs since start of year in pivot to AI
Companies hired too many people but that does not mean they cant afford to pay them. This many people creates friction and makes it harder to manage and allocate resources.

Especially money printing machines (Meta,Google) should be ordered to spend as much money as possible on potential innovation and therefore should have internal "startups/VC" culture and not optimize for stocks.

mathverse··on Weaveworks is shutting down
Companies dont want to pay for specialized building blocks. Similarly we've been looking at Coralogix recently but needed synthetics. We were offered some sort of package with ur company but decided to go with Datadog instead.
mathverse··on Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
This perfectly shows that we need to be remote. They did not wanna all move to Czechia or any other single location.
mathverse··on Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
Wonder what happened to Jetbrains. They have a CZ entity but the largest part of the workforce was in Russia.
mathverse··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
There’s too much abuse of free software by either individuals or big tech. Its not sustainable
mathverse··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Glad this happened to be honest. Software shouldn’t be free.
mathverse··on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027
Nope. This is an equalizer. We already can only sell pre-approved stuff in China and the same for US.

We are about to enter an age where these things are going to be revised.

mathverse··on Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
Kagi is a startup with low margins and high operational costs.
mathverse··on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
We need to tackle generational wealth. Not by outright taxing it but force an action on inactive or speculative capital. Democracy is being eroded if an actual power can be obtained through accumulating wealth.

I dont want billionaires to change the world. I want elected people to do that.

mathverse··on US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes
Poach people from Airbus. Just pay them well and bring them over.
mathverse··on IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
Dont their hire mostly in Italy?
mathverse··on Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?
Unfortunately this is effectively useless as you need to submit your employees one by one to get this exception. I know of an employer ($4bn revenue) who said this is simply not feasible.

EU bureaucrats are just stupid.

mathverse··on I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously
This is an easy and obvious exploit so an attacker would need to extract the data from all sources ASAP. High risk of getting caught and ending in jail to be honest for measly 2BTC. Not worth it for anyone in the US or even Europe.
mathverse··on Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter
I am sorry but that is incredibly simplistic view. Yes TSMC is better but this is a winnner takes all industry. Samsung has other problems since its its own customer for chips and has fingers in many other industries. It is still a wonder that they are basically the 2nd best fab in the world.
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