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Workday, Palantir, ServiceNow - a new generation of Accenture/Oracle et al 'consulting' parasites that wine and dine their way into organisations (and governments) and then bleed them dry. There's a reason software spending endlessly goes up but productivity has flatlined.

I get the impression the innovation drivers at OpenAI have all moved on and the people that have moved in were the ones chasing the money, the rest is history.

The real secret sauce is that Valve is private and doesn't have external investors. As soon as you're owners are primarily interested in short term capital extraction everything else is inevitable.

This is a bizarrely negative take. No residential is being charged negative prices without very, very explicitly joining a plan that exposes them to the direct minute-by-minute wholesale price. Most 'EV' plans include free hours during the day (and much cheaper power in the early hours as well), it's likely it'll be standard within months thanks to this.

They are now also subsidising batteries while should help meet the wave of solar with a wave of distributed storage capacity to smooth out grid demand as well as successful rollout of grid-scale batteries.

This is a generational success story big enough to have geo-strategic implications.

At least recently[1] most Australians and an overwhelming percentage of under-16s supported the ban. Similarly in the UK[2]. This is a topic in which it appears it is the online discourse that's wildly out of alignment with broader public opinion and I'd argue potentially one of the reasons may be that it will make it harder for bot-nets to mass-manipulate public discourse so easily.

[1]https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...

[2]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gen-z-social...

What do you think happens if the exchange rate moves between the point of handover and the point in the future where the trade is unwound?

There aren't a lot of counterparties to a $350Bn currency swap. SK is manoeuvring to make the Fed offering the swap and thus taking the FX risk as a requirement for this deal, which is I suspect why you're reading about this.

Impressive but also impressive in that scrolling down through the examples makes my fully-loaded M4-Max Macbook Pro judder. I hate to imaging the performance of a full UI leveraging this stuff. Apple can do it in the UI because they can optimize the hell out of it.

This is entirely on brand with the Australian startup scene, absolutely lousy with hangers-on, cosplayers and washed-out bankers & consultants that have never built a thing. There's a lot of seriously talented engineers trying to build real tech but they get drowned out by this kind of rubbish.

I couldn't disagree more. Outside of exotic scenarios where things like formal proofing are possible and economically viable I've never seen a process that prevents bugs, only culture. Good engineering cultures are also often ones with well defined and tested processes and good testing practices but it's the culture and people giving a shit that makes the difference, not the other way around.

Good product cultures are ones where natural communication between the field and engineering would mean issues get reported back up and make their way to the right people. No process will compensate for people not giving a shit.

The point is if the problem is the same in both you need to re-examine the pros and cons. Given the other issues in America and other advantages in China it's no longer a simple equation.

Does anyone know how widely FoundationDB is now being used at Apple? I know they run a huge Cassandra cluster, does this serve a different use case?

Strongly agree, this feels very close to gee-shucks-weren't-things-better-in-the-olden-days regressive history-revisionist trad content.

I don't buy this. Real small business have enough problems that trying to vibe code a Xero replacement isn't really high on the todo list.

You could apply precisely the same cynical calculus to engineering but I suspect a lot of the people nodding along with this could suddenly find it offensive when applied to their mission-critical DevSecOps roadmap.

The reality is there's always work to done responding to changing user needs, market forces and organisational objectives and it's not uncommon that UI design overhauls are driven by an abstract desire to make things seem 'fresh' but that doesn't come (solely) from designers, it's often a top-down strategic directive.

And SBF of FTX fame was ex-Jane St so obviously was a serious finance professional. This is why using past employers as a shorthand for capability is unwise.

'Replace every 15-20 years' is not maintenance. Neither is replacement in the case of catastrophic weather events that'll have you replacing all your windows as well. The only 'maintenance' solar panels benefit from (which is still entirely optional) is occasional cleaning.

Counterpoint: Zelensky.

Kamal has a lot of rough edges (still can’t support custom certs for example) but is still a far more mature solution. It does less but better.

If you genuinely believe the real problem here is reporting, not that it's unclear (and had to be denied by the President himself) whether a private citizen with massive and well documented conflicts of interest and who doesn't hold a TS clearance was briefed on some of the nations most sensitive military planning I'd suggest I'm not the one with an information consumption and evaluation issue.

They’re briefing Elon Musk on China war plans, I don’t think the current leadership will care much where they source weather data as long as it aligns with the current ideological purity purge.

On a related note - how are people tracking the absolute thicket of permissions quirks that is Github's various secrets, tokens & repo permissions?

Agreed. Europe won't be sovereign until it fully controls its social media, having American billionaires (or the Chinese state) able to manipulate the narrative at will is unviable. Look at the recent situation in Romania with Călin Georgescu or Musk's pro-AFD meddling. It makes the pearl-clutching in the UK about the ownership of the Telegraph look hilariously quaint.

You sound like Americans talking about Japanese cars 30 years ago.

It's not just about 'UX backward compatibility', it's the epitome of an expert user interface. If you don't know what you're doing it's near unusable but once you've mastered it the speed at which you can operate is incomparable to 'normal' software. It's also one of the few examples of this outside of software engineering tools.

I mean the price is but the fit and finish is offensively bad for the money vs a BMW/Merc/Lexus/Volvo.

Near term inflation but more broadly increasing paralysis of business investment of all stripes in the fact of a wildly unpredictable political landscape.

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Brits and Europeans died for America's last two wars, on a percentage basis more Dutch and Canadian troops died than Americans. Nearly 500 British troops died for your war.

Next time America asks for assistance, whether it's troops or firefighters I hope the attitude is reflected back and it comes with a costs+ invoice due up front.

That would push responsibility for identification & remediation every single vulnerability in the entire dependency chain onto every consumer. Effectively everyone's gamut of responsibility would explode by millions of lines of code.