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One problem with paying people significantly below market is that some of your people will be disgruntled and will optimize for working as little as possible without getting fired.

Soon enough there are entire groups whose culture aligns with cutting corners and pretending to work.

This company needs to be audited, starting at the top. Once a business is considered critical for natural security (Boeing is certainly in this category), it has an obligation to deliver with quality and on time. Boeing is failing and needs recovery.

> indie developers can't memorize everything in 100s pages of policies/rules etc

I am certain that if there are any developers that care about policies, it's the indie ones. And there are still too many rules for them to follow, and invisible lines they're unaware they can't cross.

The developers at Big Tech don't get banned from Google Play because Google isn't going to de-list Netflix, Spotify or Microsoft.

It's entirely feasible for Google to involve humans in review, and create a team for developer support. The scale is not nearly as large as people think, and Google is wealthy beyond belief.

Larry Page said it very clearly: “Find the leverage in the world, so you can be more lazy!”[1]

Not having support, for users or devs, not even escalation, is a great example of being lazy. And Google demonstrated for its entire existence that it can get away with it. Who in Congress is willing to speak for the indie devs getting their accounts banned?

[1] https://fortune.com/2024/08/19/larry-page-google-advice-be-l...

Boeing can definitely go down further, and in fact I expect it, given the inertia of a huge business that has bled a lot of talent.

Just look at Intel.

Irrespective of the popular sentiment towards oil companies, CCS is a major component of climate policy towards net zero by 2050, and the article points out why the current trajectory needs significant and time-sensitive improvements.

Your scenario describes real people, but Facebook was not built by vulnerable visa holders.

Facebook hired and retained engineers over its entire company history by offering enormous amounts of stock. They successfully demonstrated there are a lot of engineers willing to build unethical products when offered 2-3x their previous salary.

Our apps would be deplatformed on Android and iOS, and our businesses would be prosecuted by the DoJ and FBI.

"may have bones" would be a more accurate headline, in line with the tone of the ruling. "may" warns of the possibility while being less definitive than "can".

I'm surprised the ruling was 4-3 and not a bigger majority. I don't expect the supplier to have extremely tight quality controls around the presence of bones. Boneless is a convenience, not an absolute guarantee.

"This app is not available for your device"

I have a Pixel 6.

The streamer used publicly available binaries so if there's a leak here, it's on the dev team for embedding assets that they shouldn't have.

What an incredibly tone deaf admission of unethical behavior.

As general counsel he happily admitted to making false accusations of a federal crime against a minor.

This level of comfort and pride in unethical behavior raises the question of what else has Don McGowan done that is improper?

It seems that it's cheap because they're cutting corners on infrastructure.

100% this. These problems were solved in the 90's. The people who solved them moved on to other things, retired, etc.

Designers and PMs don't get promoted for keeping things the same. So they went ahead and broke usability and gave each other high fives for making the UI "modern".

There are many variations of this theme. Look at Google Maps. It was solved a decade ago. Whoever built it has presumably moved on. New people are in charge and they won't get promoted if they leave it untouched. With every change, usability gets worse.

Because the essay radiates techbro tone, with minor adjustments for 2007. The author is an unapologetic believer in SV exceptionalism.

"Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. [...] Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley"

"Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house."

If you didn't tell me the author, I could've attributed to any random SV tech bro.

It takes massive ego to proclaim dead a huge, well diversified business that has strong net revenue, product demand and well defined moats.

Yes, on some cards.

I have workstations with dual RTX A6000 that run far too hot (~85 C) and drivers crash with PCIe errors. These are dual slot cards with blower fans, so they are loud, and it seems that NVIDIA chose to let the silicon get extremely hot to keep the noise down. NVIDIA's silicon might be rated to run super hot but the motherboard isn't, and signal integrity apparently suffers.

It's definitely an issue with the cards because the case has excellent airflow and the cards are comfortably spaced.

My solution is to force fan speeds using nvidia-settings. And nvidia-settings requires X11 to run, which is kind of a ridiculous solution for setting fans on headless systems.

This is a feature, not a bug.

There is no schadenfreude for the people in my circle. The same can be said for Intel.

We all see it as a huge national security issue that these companies are fumbling, given how foundational they are for U.S. security, self-reliance and tech leadership.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

I see two sides to this story.

By his own account, Feynman thought the psychiatrist was a bullshitter (I can see his point), turned the interview around, trolled him and presented a clearly adversarial attitude.

Telling almost no one in advance was intended to protect the board from Altman's interference but put them in an indefensible situation. Alone against very rich, well connected people, without even a narrative to offer.

This argument is however not on solid ground.

It's not OK to cause pain and suffering to a creature capable of intelligence and emotions just because it's less intelligent than an arbitrary, conveniently chosen threshold.

Dragon Range (e.g., 7945HX) is a laptop/mobile workstation Ryzen with up to 16 cores, but power inefficient compared to the 8000-series due to the chiplet design. Already in market, mostly in gaming laptops.

I share the same objection about the lack of regulation in the medical profession worldwide.

My best friend from high school became an MD and I witnessed doctors in training being proud of powering through extremely long, back to back shifts with little rest.

Meanwhile, as an engineer I've seen short and strict shift limits on employees operating machinery like trucks and forklifts. Under the obvious principle that insufficient sleep impairs judgement, put lives at risk and creates massive liability.

Author conflates utility with social cost, as if they were equivalent terms. Everything that follows is a mess.

Opinion columns of newspapers are largely platforms to publish nonsense with no review or editorial accountability. This seems to fit the pattern.

My legal last name has a space in it and US airlines don't handle this well. Most eliminate the space in internal records, which can break name comparison logic. A common side effect is a broken check-in flow online or at the airport kiosk, forcing me to do it in person with an agent.

Airline IT systems look like a house of cards written in 1970's that everyone is too scared to touch, and this does not seem to be a competitive disadvantage because every airline in this highly regulated market is similarly dysfunctional.

Seems like they're mostly describing young people.

Young people are much more likely to protest, have unrealistic expectations, not follow process, behave unpredictably and take risks.

For me it's about having a silent PC and not making the room feel like a sauna.

I have a Ryzen 7950X in ECO mode 105W that's very fast in every workload I can throw at it, trivial to run whisper quiet with a basic Noctua cooler, and barely warms the room.

Their endowments are already managed like hedge funds, so this would be entirely consistent with their playbook.