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A dead serious question: why?

There's a lot to hate about Java, but it also does some things extremely well. It's valid if you don't like the aesthetics, but that's a you thing. Are there any objective reasons you believe Java is not fit for purpose here?

This effort is relevant to "breaking cryptography" about as much as publishing the script for a 40 years old movie would break the film industry.

I wouldn’t call it “tech”, nor rare. But maybe that’s why I am not in marketing.

In their current scale, I believe Oxide are like Rolce Royce: if you have to ask for the price before taking a test ride, you can't afford it.

From my experience benchmarking S3 express, it is is faster, but not fast enough yet for many use cases.

An obvious disclaimer is that the word "enough" here is carrying quite the weight: I expect it to get better, and each has their own requirements. Do benchmark yourself and don't make expensive decision based on an HN comment.

May own pessimism (based on Google's history) aside, I would argue that while it may fulfill the words of the promise, it surely doesn't fulfill the intent: ChromeOS is a different beast than GooglebookOS. ffs, Google just spent a lot of effort publicizing exactly that.

If you there's no SLAs to engineer for, just set the target at zero, and drive your cost to zero as well. So you have to design for _some_ defined value of reliability.

Backblaze's famous reports put HD failure rate is ~1.39%, so for the 11 9s you get as a guarantee from S3. Assuming nothing else fails, you'd need at least 6 independent copies to get that, plus all the effort to engineer recovery, and constant upkeep.

Suddenly, S3, even when considering bandwidth costs, seems like a steal.

It makes perfect sense: it's a extremely reliable, infinitely-scalable, strongly consistent (in some implementation), cheap, and extremely simple to use key-value store. As such, it transparently solves a lot of the problems distributed systems have to be engineered around.

As long as you can run on a CSP, and can engineer around the high-ish latency (most business cases can), it's extremely expensive to try engineer around it.

Not completely true.

Apple promises all customers 5 years of hardware support past the last day the model was available for sale, and at least two years of limited hardware support thereafter.

In the UK, for iPhone 15 and later, Apple promises at least 5 years of software updates from the time that model was first offered for sale.

I would assume similar schedule outside the UK as well, but afaik it is only explicitly promised in the UK, due to regulatory requirements there.

For enterprise customers, Apple guarantee a minimum period of software security updates for macOS, but the exact period is kept confidential in the specific agreements.

Like the UK iPhone commitment, I assume the enterprise macOS schedule apply to all customers, and Apple just avoids publicly publishing it, I would guess to avoid some legal-induced headaches (which I personally think is the worst excuse, but I digress).

Advertising ten years of support, then, post-purchase of the device, reducing that period by 2 years.

They did. Probably broke contract law (contract needn’t be a signed piece of paper saying “contract” at the top), and depending on the region, multiple consumer protection laws.

It isn’t criminal, but it is illegal mostly everywhere.

In the current telling of this story, the billionaire is also giving his hired army copies of your notes he copied without permission.

But the worst part in your analogy ain’t omitting the suspected spying and the intimidation that followed, but that your hypothetical mathematical philanthropist won’t be able to hire his army: unlike some OAI employees, no self-respecting mathematician would agree to such unethical task.

Anthropic already stopped selling use of their models to xAI when they suspect foul play there.

Should be possible to change, just not automated. You have to reach out to support.

Can't wait for the first use of such images as evidence in court.

Your legal department does not replace your retained lawyers, they add to it. It’s separate roles.

Not always. In the beginning it was supposed to be a freemium product, with all the revenue coming from subscriptions.

You're conflating labels and distributors: for the majors, they are often different department of the same corporations, but they're not the same thing.

Last I chatted with some friends who were going through their first SOC2, they quoted a much lower number.

If we're allowed to dream, make it public transit, as private cars, regardless of how they are driven, are a climate disaster we can not afford.

That you are aware such rules about correct driver position exists makes me wonder how (if?) you are driving legally, as you certainly seem to lack the familiarity with the laws concerning it.

Unions are a solution to a power imbalance, not a sign of maturity, neither when maturity is defined as "having attained a final or desired state" or as "having achieved a low but stable growth rate".

Unionization shouldn't be seen as an emergency measure. Even if I would hypothetically accept union as a last resort, which I don't, safety nets should be built not only when you are speeding towards the ground, and often lack the resources, but much before that, when you are safe.

Or $3 for an ESP32 devboard.

That's on the company owners[1], as represented by its board.

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[1] Companies like Meta actually has two types of ownership: ownership of the company's current assets (economic equity), which is not the same as ownership of control in the company's decision making (voting power). The owners I reference here are the second category of ownership.

In the example of Meta, a quick search suggests Zuckerberg holds about 61% of the voting power.

What I've learned from reading this is how much of my own writing style was influenced by late 1990s MSDN.

It receives, as its name implies, pre-release builds: it is currently on 15.7.8, while the latest macOS 15.7 release is 15.7.7.

If you have enough data to actually need to use Kafka, “simplicity” probably leaves too much out.