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541.
by dmix 8mo ago
I'm pretty bullish on AI but Oracle's massive investments confuse me the most.
542.
by dmix 8mo ago
Burkina Faso was one of Bill Gates biggest donation spots and it's had an endless series of unstable leaderships, insurgencies and coups in the last decade. This scares away both foreign investment and foreign aid. Countries like that
543.
by dmix 8mo ago
Almost every software engineer seems to agree on that point. Not believing marketing hype is standard practice in this industry because plenty of us are inherently techno-optimists who have been burned by over-belief in the past. Regardless
544.
by dmix 8mo ago
terraform is 100% overengineering for some hobby projects
545.
by dmix 8mo ago
no offsite backups*
546.
by dmix 8mo ago
Or just never run agents on anything that touches production servers. That seems extremely obvious to me. He let Claude control terminal commands which touched his live servers. That's very different than asking it for help to make a p
547.
by dmix 8mo ago
Based on his twitter he may just like irony/meta posting a little too much like a lot of modern culture
548.
by dmix 8mo ago
Looks like a lot of the usual suspects
549.
by dmix 8mo ago
That's a fair point.
550.
by dmix 8mo ago
This has been pointed on HN about 50 times but the headlines keep coming.
551.
by dmix 8mo ago
That happened to a friend of mine in 2010 so it's not a new thing.
552.
by dmix 8mo ago
Plus people just really like to whine on the internet
553.
by dmix 8mo ago
> on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days That's not exactly how oil supply works. There's plenty of stockpiles which take months to burn through and only some places depend on Iranian oil. C
554.
by dmix 8mo ago
Drone vs drone interceptors in the big deal in Ukraine right now.
555.
by dmix 8mo ago
Plus apparently the US only ordered 73 THAAD interceptors over the last 4yrs, when there was capacity to make 384 https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/2029405914931863830
556.
by dmix 8mo ago
> the corporation said 94% of people in the UK continued to use the BBC each month, but fewer than 80% of households contributed to the licence fee. That's a pretty good ratio no? Plenty of services survive with lower ratios than t
557.
by dmix 8mo ago
> just feels different than "here's nicotine so you can be more productive and make us more money." More likely these companies just offered to give them some free vending machines and some office manager said sure why not
558.
by dmix 8mo ago
You're saying Trump doesn't want tariffs? And the SCOTUS judges who went on record supporting executive powers to tariff was all just a big insider trading scam? And corporations were willing to risk a hundred of billions in tarif
559.
by dmix 8mo ago
The article already explains why, both of the companies have taken a huge amount of capital so further investing doesn't make sense and they will both go public soon where they will raise more. Both companies will need Nvidia products
560.
by dmix 8mo ago
A better headline: Nvidia rushed some investments in both companies just before they went public and are now are just waiting to get paid.
561.
by dmix 8mo ago
Oracle started by building databases for the CIA
562.
by dmix 8mo ago
The solution is still no different than a decade ago. Far stricter laws on intelligence, federal and local police surveillance, and a reduction in executive power which oversteps checks and balances. There will always be another IT company
563.
by dmix 8mo ago
If there’s more than one approval a decade maybe the odds will be higher it won’t be a bloated mess.
564.
by dmix 8mo ago
> signed up with surveillance company Palantir Just to nitpick, Palantir isn't doing surveillance like Flock. They do data integration the way IBM does under contract for the governments. Some data pipelines include law enforcement
565.
by dmix 8mo ago
Seems to be this European robotics company https://robotics.hexagon.com/product/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/hexagon-robotics-ai-software-a...
566.
by dmix 8mo ago
I do frontend work so struggle to get over how bad most Qt GUIs are. They are far out of date compared to Gnome or MacOS in a lot of the small widget details and menus. Plus I use Mac these days and Qt apps just never looked right on that p
567.
by dmix 8mo ago
I got my mom an Asus Chromebook and she loves it. This would have been a nice contender at the time.
568.
by dmix 8mo ago
> But he’s also very interested in “the impact of crystals on the history of art and the history of mind,” This made my eyes roll a bit.
569.
by dmix 8mo ago
I might hate Qt apps more than I hate Electron so I'm curious about the answer too.
570.
by dmix 8mo ago
Not all markets are trendy B2C stuff. The Motorola press release specifically mentioned B2B/corporate sales where security is important and there's plenty of government, journalist, non-profits/activists, etc usecases on top

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