PedroBatista

Please remind me: Is there any legitimate business venture that can operate outside the laws of the country they are registered?

If there is, why don’t these people who write blog posts and comments about how “this is all a scam!!” “It’s a psyop! “They” control it all!” If it’s all black and white, if there no real difference between a company like Proton and Google or Microsoft, then why don’t they create a business that provides a service where there’s no way to any government know anything at all, ever? They’ll be printing money..

But perhaps the conspiracy realm and public broadcast of ideals is more attractive than a real business.

Yes, you shouldn’t trust 100% in a person let alone a group of people that form a company. Grow up.

Relax, while mentioning the real world without any criticism for the soundness of the solution is absolute nonsense, some would say idiotic, thinking only in the absolute best solution given your narrow world view is not any better.

Now I know I was not crazy and the "cheap" 4K screen I bought a couple months ago doesn't actually suck.

Tim Apple's Apple has been fu#$%& me again..

I'm sorry to be that guy, but can we reintroduce a good dose of skepticism in our mental diets?

BYD was already selling a ton of cars when the oil prices were "low", of course there's some very creative accounting business moves you would expect from a Chinese company like BYD ( companies from other places have their own peculiarities too ).

Gas prices have been "sky high" for a week and people who are under financial stress just decided to ditch their cars and buy a brand new BYD? Are we children now? listening bedtime stories?

The concept of electric vehicle is technically superior to support the context and lifestyle a large majority of people have. It will "win" over time. There is no need to this bullshit simplistic feel-good articles.

Btw, the the market movements of people trying to get rid of their gas-guzzling SUVs when prices are high and trade them for a smaller and more economical car ( what they should have been doing in the first place.. ) already happened in the past many times, there is no news here. But these movements don't happen in a time span of a week or a couple weeks.

Sorry for the rant, but between AI's "Absolutely, you're entirely right!" and these bullshit articles.. I don't know.

To be clear: EV's will "win" and BYD has been selling a ton of cars because they are cheap and not terrible right out of the gate, also people don't have much disposable income.

They perks and dread of middle management...

Tech directors, CEOs, managers, etc tend to be people with a certain personality and ( learned behaviors/thinking ) just like "technical people".

Yes, they tend to be incredible gullible to certain things, over-simplistic and over-confident but also very "agile" when it comes to sweep their failures under the rug and move on to keep their own neck in one piece. At this point in time even the median CEO knows AI has been way overhyped and they over invested to a point of absolute financial insanity.

The first line of defense about the pressure to deliver is to mandate their minions to use it as much as possible.

We spent a fortune on this over-rated Michelin star reservation, and now you kids are going to absolutely enjoy it, like it or not goddammit!

A more mainstream group of situations: https://share.google/aimode/Y1PvDiPSLkcZxC00o

plus all the times he has been a crybaby and demanding special treatment when it comes to flying and everything related to his private jet for some reason.

He's not unique and probably not the Antichrist, just in the group of turbo-assholes. This post was made in the context of this chain.

I would say customers, but have you met the guy or read his shenanigans on the new or grapevine? Jesus f’ing Christ what a “peach”..

Ironically, Google is the safer bet and this might have been a correct decision from Tim Apple.

AI is changing at a rapid pace ( still ) and OpenAI is no longer the only game in town at the top, plus their finances are.. something we’ll hear about the next year and Sam Altman is an incredible unscrupulous person with past actions and decisions catching up to him. Not exactly the situation you want to partner with.

At this point you don’t need your AI on Apple devices to be revolutionary, it needs to work and be better than the current situation which is not difficult.

Gemini 3 is quite good for the general public, Google has the money to keep playing the AÍ games and also played ball with Apple, OpenAI only has 1 or 2 of those going for them.

The delusion of the “Mac just works” crowd is only matched by the delusion of the Linux “year of the Desktop” crowd.

They share the same trait of “it works on my machine, I like it, therefore it’s my identity and everything else is wrong”

I use Linux regularly as a second OS for more than 15 years. Driver compatibility improved, software design and quality didn’t, in fact it suffers more or less the same problems of other mainstream OSs.

Linux on the desktop has been winning because the others got bad at a faster pace, I’m not sure there is anything to be celebrated.

Even most toy databases "built in a weekend" can be very stable for years if:

- No edge-case is thrown at them

- No part of the system is stressed ( software modules, OS,firmware, hardware )

- No plug is pulled

Crank the requests to 11 or import a billion rows of data with another billion relations and watch what happens. The main problem isn't the system refusing to serve a request or throwing "No soup for you!" errors, it's data corruption and/or wrong responses.

I really never understood how people could store very important information in ES like it was a database.

Even if they don't understand what ES is and what a "normal" database is, I'm sure some of those people run into issues where their "db" got either corrupted of lost data even when testing and building their system around it. This is and was general knowledge at the time, it was no secret that from time to time things got corrupted and indexes needed to be rebuilt.

Doesn't happen all the time, but way greater than zero times and it's understandable because Lucene is not a DB engine or "DB grade" storage engine, they had other more important things to solve in their domain.

So when I read stories of data loss and things going South, I don't have sympathy for anyone involved other than the unsuspecting final clients. These people knew or more or less knew and choose to ignore and be lazy.

Good decision for a change, now looking at execution track record and ability to stick with it..

yeah, that's where the bad news start.

They have a tendency to go from trend to trend and always a "me too, I'm here" player. Deliver first and stick with it, Mozilla's goodwill fund is long gone to be excited about "mission statements".

Stoicism is like recommending having a couple drinks ( literally ) to a "normal" person with mild social anxiety with a need to go out in the World and live life.

It works and it's good advice.

Unfortunately it gets recommended to everybody at every point in their lives, which include alcoholics and people in crisis.

In a more direct way: Stop with this "no emotion" "I'm a fortress" bullshit. It only helps a narrow group of people in specific circumstances of their lives but wreaks havoc on everybody else because it's misplaced and mostly a lie or at least a very incomplete picture.

"In most organizations, knowledge increases as you go up the hierarchy. CEOs understand their business better than middle managers. "

I chuckled on this one.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt and imagine he's was referring to the act of running a "business"/agenda in parallel of the business that is conducted day by day by normal people.

Yes, employees and managers can be doing the business of selling paper while the CEO is conducting the business of inflating the stock and massaging the numbers in order to fulfill the objective the board told him privately because the owner wants to sell the business to buy a bigger boat and buy a nice apartment in NYC for his angel of a daughter.

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Can't wait for all the profound and fulfilling work ahead of us in 2026!

Go team!

For all the insightful takes about everything under the Sun, Dan's cynicism and skewed view towards "Europe" are shown in this letter.

It's not that all his takes are wrong, it's the exaggeration, the doom and gloom and a somewhat dismissal or some unsolved personal issues he has with "Europeans".

The irony is not lost that Dan acts as smug and dismissal as he accuses Europeans to be.

Regarding the whole "Degrowth" thing: yes Europe has those and they found their gold in Governmental entities and they entertain the rich. But.. that's exactly what happens in the US too and Dan as knowledge as he is should know this was mostly an American academia export, he just needs to talk with some people in the very same colleges he regularly set foot into.

Also, he should take a hint when he says historically liberal societies have fared much better than autocratic ones even if those are very focused and appear to make progress very quickly. Having a few mega-bilionaires directing what the populace do or not do might not be a smart move as it sounds. We'll see when the AI musical chairs stops.

Btw, Europe has been dead and on the brink of destruction for a few centuries by now. And according to experts the EU is about to collapse 3 or 4 times a year - minimum.

This whole thing is hilarious.

In a time when some of Satya Nadella's chickens are coming home to roost and Windows being the most obvious example and most of their AI things quickly approaching too, it's good to laugh at their stupidity as a consolation prize.

In the past Microsoft fucked up some many times but they had the absolute dominance of the market and a huge pool of talent and knowledgeable people capable of making them try again and win. Times have changed, many have retired or been layoff to give way for the next round of "cheap young" talent in the form of contract workers.

Now they have the Cloud, I'm not so sure the Windows division can turn this turd around this time. Xbox has tangentially been the canary.

Yeah, for those foreign firms to manufacture goods from US companies in order to fill Walmarts and number go up.

Microsoft doing Microsoft things, even with all those fresh coats of "open source" paint they bathe themselves in the last decade they really can't change their DNA.

Expect the amount of f*ckery to increase as the AI realities set in but the number has to go up either way.

It reminds me of the good old days of Visual Studio + .NET + SQL Server where they played these games too.

While I’m not a fan of mobbing on someone as it easily escalates to bullying an gratuitous attacks, parodying his name is the least of my concerns. And he is a public figure. Being the head designer at Apple grants you that status and don’t even doubt for a second anyone who wants that type of job doesn’t play the fame/status game.

Of course it can, but different killer apps for a different crowd. A missile tracking system wouldn't be the kind of application to do in PHP. Wrong app, wrong crowd.

I'm aware of D since it's inception more or less but don't know it very well. I would say D lacks a "bombastic" feature and maybe that's both the reason is not used more but also why is such a good language.

It's not "memory safe" like Rust, yes it's fast but so is C/C++, it doesn't have the "massive parallelism/ always-on" robustness like Erlang. It has a bit of everything which is good and bad.

Being a mid all-arounder is OK in my book, perhaps it's more a matter of some "post-AI" tech startup adopt it and get massive or famous, like Ruby because of the Web 2.0 era or Erlang with the Whatsapp thing.

Maybe D is good the way it is and will always be there.

That might be true or not. But I’m sure you’re aware your post didn’t offer anything constructive and for that reason alone should be downvoted.

Familiar is different from the same, therefore is new. And zig has many new concepts and things different from C

It’s a question of risk vs reward and it’s assessment

Build the “killer app” that the audience wants and needs and where D is the best lang to do it and justify the investment in learning yet another lang. I have no idea of what that is and nobody knows, it’s the universal problem of any product/lang/tech. Right place at the right time I guess

Over the years, especially in areas where some "hard science" is needed I've been seeing the US startup / US founder announcements where in reality is mostly a cash grab for VC money, a glowing marketing operation for some dipshit business venture outsourced to indians or easter europeans or the typical trust fund kid playing "Little Timmy does startup" game.

Sure not all of it, but a HUGE part of it.

The type of guy Cook is, was the “best” and safe choice for a company like Apple on the trajectory it was. Now everyone is a multimillionaire on the bank but the culture inside is quite hollowed out. Good luck for the next guy, he’ll need all of it.

What's up with the naming of rage forked projects?

OpenMaxIO, Forgejo, Valkey, OpenTofu..

Some worse than the others, but still..

Btw, MinIO making these not "open open-source" moves should not be a surprise. Since the beginning, YEARS ago their own CEO, lead people talked in a way it was clear they wanted to follow the Hashicorp book, a few years later they've taken quite a few hundreds of millions in investment.

So let's not be childish, adopt it for what it is and when it happens adapt it for what it is.

The concentration problem is well known in the egg industry but also in the meat industry in general ( Cargill, Tyson Foods.. ) In the past, most farms were independent and the distribution was also very broad. If a couple farms got egg problems ( an example ), the overall market wouldn't even notice other than their county. Now the "farms" are HUGE if a couple ones run into troubles the entire State suffers and the whole national market feels it.

Also, many of the "independent" farms in reality run with a single-"customer" contracts and the margins squeezed to the max in a way they even need to borrow huge amounts of money just to stay afloat and don't breach their contracts with huge conglomerates like Tyson. In practical terms the supply side for the quarters is decided by a couple managers who work for these big food companies which have their own "tough" contracts with retailers like Walmart, Target, etc. So if the manager happens to be a dipshit or making a bad move the consequences of that are national. And I'm not even talking about shoving MILLIONS of animals packed in a couple acres. If one coughs..