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It was invented by Sun Microsystems, acquired by Oracle and now developed by engineers from Red Hat, SAP, Amazon, IBM, Google, and others.

Commodity products can't demand high profit margins. Supermarkets typically have 1% to 3% net profit margin. SaaS often has 70% to 85% profit margins. Data centers hover around 15%. You don't want to sacrifice a high profit margin business in order to gain share in a low profit margin one.

> their own AI services

Oracle doesn't have any. And that's wise. Oracle makes good RDBMS servers. They suck at everything else.

Oracle does not have any proprietary IP that OpenAI depends on. That means Oracle is providing commodity services to OpenAI.

AI hardware is advancing rapidly. If NVIDIA's next generations deliver radically more tokens per watt and per dollar, an Oracle facility designed, financed, and contracted around an older GPU generation can be overtaken before it is fully online or fully monetized.

That's a big risk.

And to finance this they are making deep cuts to the ERP business where Oracle does have proprietary IP.

If you want to see how to write a maintainable application without a huge framework here's an example: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Clie...

It uses two 500-line libraries, one for using JSX syntax, and the other for MVC.

Users, sure. But what about businesses?

> 60k fired from Microsoft

Not true

Only a "close relationship", no sex is alleged.

Sol means "sun" in Spanish and Portuguese, but that wasn't obvious to me as an English speaker, I had to look that up after you said Sol is the sun.

> it's obvious immediately which are the better models. I.e. Sol is better than Luna, or Mythos is better than Fable.

It is not obvious to me at all. I like Apple's naming more: iPhone Pro Max is better than iPhone Pro which is better than iPhone.

Sol vs Luna, how am I supposed to know which is better? Is sol a word, what does it mean? Same with mythos and fable. How am I supposed to keep track of these names across multiple companies? Why can't they use Claude vs. Claude Pro vs. Claude Pro Max?

Add to that the weaponization of the justice department. Former FBI director Comey charged 3 times as retaliation, Senator Mark Kelly and other senators, even lowly aides such as Cassidy Hutchinson, all facing retaliation.

David Hearn, the former Olympic canoeist was accused and indicted for damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, purely as a scapegoat.

All federal funds to the state of Colorado frozen to force them to release a convicted-and-imprisoned ally of the administration (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOE6DTMjPEc )

All of this happening out in the open, no checks, no balances. Yeah it isn't "pretty close", it is a police state.

Emacs is awesome, but it is unfortunate that on Windows it still only supports x64, which is a legacy platform at this point. Hopefully arm64 will be supported soon as well!

Then at a minimum, offer unlimited COBRA to employees who have had long tenure.

> Large employers are usually self-insured.

They can choose to not be self-insured as well. This needs to be based on what is best for employees, not corporations.

Many reasons.

First of all, it is not cheaper. It may be cheaper for young people because ACA marketplace rates are age dependent while COBRA rates are not. It is not cheaper if you are over a certain age, it is significantly more expensive.

Secondly, many ACA marketplace plans have narrower networks. (Which doctors are in-network doesn't only dependent on the insurance company, it also depends on the network, and insurance companies have multiple networks.) In WA, check out Regence's network for ACA plans--most hospitals are excluded, while their regular plans include them.

Unlike COBRA which almost always includes out-of-state doctors and hospitals, ACA networks don't. If you get a rare disease for which the expert doctor is in another state over you're out of luck.

And lastly, ACA rates just went up 20% in many states. If you are a couple in your 60's, you will pay nearly $45,000 for health insurance and then pay $7,000 each in deductible before insurance kicks in. At these rates, most healthy people will decide to forgo insurance. Which will reduce insurance company profits, who will then raise rates even more. This is a death spiral, and ACA will collapse (which is a desirable outcome as far as the current admin is concerned).

> What is the reason to even put a time limit on the unsubsidized part of COBRA?

Good question, and why limit this question to Microsoft? Why does COBRA have an 18-month limit? There should be no time limit to COBRA at all, especially if you have been with the same employer for many years. The law needs to be updated. Contact your elected representative.

That offer was substantially different, for example it included 5 years of COBRA including 1 year of paid COBRA, and it was intended for those near retirement. This current offer is only slightly better terms than an involuntary layoff, and includes only standard 18 months of COBRA, only 6 months paid.

Only a small fraction is expected to accept. Probably 5% or fewer.

Spam texts? What about spam calls? AT&T flags spam calls as such, and yet my phone rings. I am dumbfounded that iOS doesn't have an option for saying if the network identifies a call as likely spam, do not ring the phone, send it to voice mail directly. Actually, iOS does have an option for this... it just doesn't seem to work.

Earlier Tesla self-driving software used search-based planning and conventional optimization alongside neural networks. Tesla has publicly demonstrated A* in its path planning work.

> they have no way of knowing if the AI is bullshitting them

That hasn’t stopped Tesla. Their self-driving cars work by connecting the car’s controls directly to a neural network.

> most companies struggle to define what is important, what needs to be measured

Today that’s just a chat session, see https://reportr.com

This is hugely relevant in India because Musk is trying to force his way into the Indian market [1]. You don't want Musk owning critical infrastructure in any country.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/business/india-elon-musk-...

Some code implements architecture, it is the skeleton of the program. Some code implements features, it is the flesh. The "flesh" is often isolated, if it is broken it can be replaced without major impact. The "skeleton" on the other hand needs to be correct. I make sure to understand the skeleton as well as critical features. I don't take the time to understand non-critical features implemented using AI, I just make sure it writes lots of automated tests.

Can you elaborate? What is wrong with Omni, and why is interfaces underwhelming?

So basically, you're treating your Tesla as a Level 3 or Level 4 autonomous vehicle, even though its driving system is only Level 2. If you were endangering only yourself, that would be one thing. But you're also endangering other drivers sharing the road.

I am confused why this is considered a black swan event. Does AI take the joy out of mathematics research? Yes. But universities are not laying off mathematicians just because OpenAI has released some proofs. The proofs were never the point of mathematics, it is the understanding behind the proofs, and applying that understanding to solve real world problems.

Now consider a computer science major in college who knows that he won't get a job when he graduates. Consider fresh graduates who thought they would have lucrative jobs but had to take up jobs as Uber drivers. To them AI is a black swan event. That's who I have sympathy for.

> Imagine waking up one morning to find that an alien technology has solved the problem you had dedicated your life to

But it could be another human that did that, and the impact would be no different.

As a software engineer this is part of my life, and always has been. I may have been working on a software product for the last 3 years, and suddenly one morning I find out that another company has released a similar product, and selling it cheaper, now the value of my work is slashed by 90%. I may even have to drop my project and find something else to work on. This is a normal part of life.

> I don't think I've had to take over any time this year.

That just makes you less prepared when you do have to take over. That's the danger of almost-perfect self driving.

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