lordbritishbusiness

MS usually does it before anyone else, releases a product, fails to market it, product dies to exec cutback, then three years later Apple does it and it's amazing.

All the shortcut technical debt is coming due, especially now that there's a tool able to undertake mass analysis with fairly general rules.

It's getting bad out there, and it's not visible on the surface but a tsunami of bug reports and patches has been sweeping the internet and drowning anything unable to swim.

For anything that sinks underwater, metaphorically, they're getting grabbed by automated sharks that are now actively on the attack. If you're not rapidly fixing everything and monitoring everything closely you're probably being eaten alive without knowing.

I've been of the opinion that Silicon Valley and tech in the US has effectively drawn in the very best of several countries and collectively robbed so many industries of some of the smartest people around.

These people retraining or going back home and into other industries could be an economic boom in the making.

Well, there's always supercritical CO2 for getting a bit more spin for your heat.

It's got a pretty fabulous efficiency, pretty fabulous cost too.

It'll be the deeper corners with tech and product advice, Reddit still comes up often when searching for solutions and it's because one of the communities had someone who knew the answer.

Where else could to ask others about some detailed F1 race question and have an actual track marshal who was at the race, or a pit member chime in?

Reddit the company are terrible, but the site can be gold. But they chased the best commenters away, and Google already got their training done and copied all the good stuff.

Too true unfortunately. I like to champion a local public transport project that beat the timeline and came in under budget.

But when the newspaper doesn't like the government and wants to stir up controversy they won't ever discuss all the times it worked perfectly, or try to pretend it didn't.

Nothing makes me happier than seeing a plan come together though.

"Today marks the successful delivery of the project on time and under budget." I dream of hearing these words more often.

Suitably MS is behind a bunch of small models released to hugging face for things like audio transcription and text to speech. Suggests they're moving to the idea of full local experience, but haven't really been able to fully materialise it.

Wouldn't surprise me if they're fighting it out internally of having the fully local experience they're kinda moving to vs the frontier experience using cloud and subscriptions they can change more for.