PedroBatista

It’s in the name: Language Model, nothing else.

Does anyone else thinks this is actually a great incidental marketing campaign for McDonald's? Not only the free reach but also tons of people discussing the "problems" with a big co and how to "fix" them as they are an essential part of society, and this case ice-creams.

Sure we focus on the big brain things like copyright, business malpractice and MBA lore but with it comes McDonald's embedded.

I know this might sound a bit snobby, but just don't play the game, ignore them. If there is criminal activity let who gets paid deal with it, otherwise just move on and stop "fixing" problems that are not of your concern, let alone "fixing" them for free.

MySQL 8 and beyond has been riddled with bugs and performance regressions. It was a huge rewrite from 5.7.

8 has nice features and I think they evaluated it as stable enough to upgrade their whole fleet to it. I'm pretty sure from 8 to 8.4 the upgrades will be much simpler.

I mean.. After ES6 with classes what is JavaScript anyway? Just bring Structs too, the more the merrier.

This is unfortunately a widespread practice even in less tech heavy companies. It starts with a very aggressive C suit or manager responding to everything 24/7, supported by “cheap” labor who say yes to everything and promise the World, usually extra complicated. Fast forward a couple years and the company/project is a expensive hell-hole of disfunction and suffering. CEOs and the board also are to blame for this, they are aware, they just don’t care as they like people who say yes and don’t give them any bad news.

Possible unpopular opinion: Rust is a systems language, doing "web work" in Rust is a waste of effort as there are much better languages and ecosystems for that.

No we don’t. The focus is the problem bad enough to issue a mandatory fix. the solution doesn’t really matter, if it’s software, change a bolt or half the car in this context.

Other cars also had problems fixed with software updates, the only I can see that’s heavily used but Tesla and not the other companies ( in the past ) it’s OTA updates.

These 2 belong in a Judge Judy episode.

So Blade Runner is a documentary of the future?

Starting in the Internet first then IRL.

I joke but this is already has been happening for many years: email verification, captcha, pics with a customized message.. just like “AI” was present in 90s digital cameras.

That's not an honest question.

If you are completely fine with WPEngine's commercial practices, trademark violations in their marketing materials ( like it or not ) and moral OK for them not picking up part of the bill of what they consume ( talking about infra resources, not even talking about code ), then.. why the f** are you so bothered by an unhinged rant from some guy? It's GPL after all.. Don't you see the irony? or you just want to see it because Matt is kind of an unlikable dbag? Is that the level of depth we are at when cheerleading for this stuff?

While Matt comes looking "not good" and his apparent impulsiveness and "less than optimal" communication skills are doing more damage than good, I find it "interesting" most of the people attacking him either choose to ignore of gloss over the absolute trash WPEngine management people are.

It's rich coming from people demanding a high standard for Matt but not for the WPEngine people.

In the end all of it will get "solved" because there's way too much money in this to go any other way.

As Danny Glover famously said: "I'm too old for this shit"

This tango NVIDIA is dancing will continue as long as ( local ) AI doesn't reach plateau where even most enthusiasts are happy with the AI model they have, because when it comes to games, other than a few streamers and rich kids, nobody will run to buy this, even AAA games are dying and the appetite for running them with the latest and greatest graphics has mostly disappeared ( given the cost ).

From a gaming perspective, technicality is not anything like the ending days of Voodoo cards, but somehow it reminds me of the same feeling.

Well.. they are not wrong.

Even with the advancements made by OpenAI, some of his takes remind me of a Dollar Store Elon Musk, let alone his despicable way of doing business and seemingly complete lack of any morals.

To your average TSMC exec he's closer to a Jake Paul than to a Lisa Su or even Jensen Huang.

Seriously, and I mean this in the most non-aggressive way: Grow up.

Do you really think out of the millions upon millions of installations with wildly diverse contexts and situations all the people including the unsuspecting users CHOOSE to "expose the printer to a public IP"?

Seriously, how are we still at this level of discussion?

OK, I'll correct you :)

This is the quintessential wrong way of thinking about computers and security. It's the equivalent of the "OK, but.. [insert BS argument trying to deflect]". There is no "but", "Your" system has a bug/vulnerability/non-compliance - FIX it and help the users/customers instead of waterboarding us with pseudo-moralistic quips about "deserving" and whatnot.

The Universe is quite a big place with realities, situations and contexts you wouldn't even fathom. Be humble.

( Hope I wasn't too blunt :) )

Not targeting the author as this appears not to be the case and he provided helpful advice, but it bugs me to no end how a not insignificant amount of people deals with security vulnerability and concerns. How casual, dismissive, aloof and many times straight up hostile and the most infantile ways they act when someone raises ( very valid ) concerns about security.

I've seen this over and over again with Linux people, granted this view might be skewed because of the public reach of the project, but still.. they seem to view any communication regarding CVEs or security concerns or design recommendations as adversarial and tend go into the "I know more about Linux than you" and "Everything is fine until you convince me it's not, which will be never" mode.

Not wanting to turn this into a dunking contest but, it's the general feeling I have about this.

Short term it doesn’t matter for Amazon, they are printing money but more challenging times are ahead and wouldn’t mind to reduce their headcount. Being “unhappy” has been the staple of most Amazon employees since the beginning - see Yegge blog posts.

Tech jobs do not abound right now, so if they are going to do this, the moment is now.

The discussion if this is the right move or not ( for the future of the company) is one we could have, but in a way it’s like the peasants discussing the latest drama in the Royal family, at the of the day: who cares? They’ll be fine either way.

Can these 2 people just kiss so we can move on? This is ridiculous.

And the moment lawyers are involved, forget it..

This feud is the type of thing that’s entertaining when the people involved are CEOs, upper management or tech personalities with all the high school drama and pet hates, when they start changing licenses, involving lawyers and suing each other it’s not fun anymore and quite pathetic. No one looks good in this.

And leave huge chunk of brand recognition money on the table while having to spend copious amounts of it to build another brand?

If me or you were in the same position we would do the exact same.

It's code for: "Your goal is to make this company the most MONEY possible"

Given the current landscape of crass hype beasts with all the peacocking vs the "follow your heart" microaggressions crowd it's easy to see those texts were written, but just like today's "tech company's" that "invent" things that existed for decades already, this is nothing new and it's a sign of a culture with very little oversight based on smoke and mirrors. Ironically this is exactly what the distilled core of "Corporate America" is and we all know what "results at all costs" lead to: See Wall Street, Boeing, etc.

Personally I never cared for the guy, it always looked tremendously fake and dishonest to me, to to each each own. IMO there is nothing new o special about this case, there are little dramas like these all over millions of organizations around the World.

Does that architecture will empower that small organization to support their app on iOS versions older than 2 years?

Sure, if you need a machine to do "normal" PC/server things, buying a computer would be the natural path.

More memory also needs more power.

Not sure what percentage of those gains can be attributed to less memory and what can is due to better die/process.

Boy, his Toyota Camry will be put to the test huh?

Can't way for him to present the ESG section on the quarterly earnings call. It would be better than most comedy specials on Netflix.

I would say you can even go a looong way without any Docker at all.

And for the large majority of the companies/projects, if your project is so complex and heavy of resources that it doesn't fit on a modern laptop, the problem is not in the laptop, it's in the whole project and the culture and cargo-cult around "modern" software development.

> Everyone needs money, it doesn’t matter who you are and what your circumstances are. So to bring this up as an argument against someone is kind of pointless.

Yes, that's why my whole point of contention is not the money but the half-assed cheap tactics to get it.

> "and appeals to the stated ideals of the EU."

This whole letter looks like a toddler with an oversized business suit writing a letter to Santa. It's not the end of the World, it really doesn't matter that much. But I find it funny how they think the EU works and how they think this will get them money.

With all the nasty drama inside the nixOS organization, while reading this "open letter" I can't help myself viewing this as some wolf playing as the sheep.

Let's cut the BS, they want money and the whole low key gaslighting about the " sovereignty of a European infrastructure", "country widening" and the whole "Look! USA, China or Russia are way ahead of you guys, you suck and are in danger, please give us money." tell us more about the nixOS organization than the EU one.

I'm not that salty I swear :) Just don't waterboard us with theatrics and BS when all you want is the money like anyone else.

Yes, all of that but.. that's exactly the way of looking at things that a chip company like AMD are not allowed to have ( or at least to say publicly ).

The CPUs are "old" they are "limit" as an installed base but only comparing to today's AMD market share because I'm pretty sure there are hundred of thousands ( if not a few millions ) of these CPUs all over the World.

My main point is: going the extra-mile/cost to fix these cpus would be the cheaper route for them because image and credibility matters.. a lot.

It would not be a Summer time end of the week without the obligatory catastrophic flaw or snafu to keep everyone busy..

It looks bad but this phrase looks even worse for AMD: "No fix planned"[1].

Finally internalizing themselves as the winner and starting to pull an Intel?

[1] - https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...