If you click this link expecting to read the memo you'll be disappointed as its 95% about what the author thinks about it.

I was very glad for that! It sounds boringly useless, and the extensive response to it is much more valuable than yet another corporate memo of spendthrift-firemore.

Edit: Yeah, it’s just stack ranking by token/use pivottable; keep your work within 1.5 stddevs of everyone else’s or get targeted. Definitely missable.

> We recommend paying special attention to the 10th percentile (finding those teams who aren’t embracing AI effectively and understanding why) and the 90th percentile (finding those teams who are heavily using AI and understanding whether they’re seeing delivery increases to match) of AI adoption.

I'm not going to pass a judgement on whether this is a good or bad thing (disclosure I used to work there).

But this is very Amazon. If the leadership believes AI usage is critical then they will use a blunt stack rank to identify those who aren't using it.

I would be unsurprised to see this as an automated flag that managers have to explain during performance reviews (e.g. "this person was on Maternity leave for three months and therefore their usage is lower, but if you see XYZ data they are now on track for the months after they returned and are catching up as they adopt the new way of working")

They could at least post the actual memo... especially after a header that says "What's the thing say?". Bloviating clickbait nonsense like this doesn't deserve to be here.

We differ on that subjective opinion: I feel the memo is rather bloviating and the Register’s opinion post about it rather less so. (This tends to leave me incompatible with Upper Management, for good or ill.)

Welcome to the Register.

Here's the actual memo - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-softwar...

Welcome to corporate drivel. That memo says next to nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been written by some LLM. "Write it in a grand style, like Kennedy's moon speech, but don't scare the share holders."

Could be macros or forced inline helpers that get copy/pasted everywhere. It may be a more pleasant interface for engineers working with it.

Well it helped me understand the source of the strange flag.

I wonder if his Doug Lea is THE Doug Lea of dlmalloc. I learned so much from his documentation about it.

From the way you're writing, you'll fit right in with the 'business people' since they dont have any clue half the time either.

Nintendo manages to squeak out a margin on hardware unlike the other big players. However, this is only because they trail behind in specs, and their devices are simply cheaper.

My weird take: I wish Nintendo would ship an even less powerful system.

The switch and switch 2 are both just powerful enough that developers can release straight ports of their AAA titles that were developed for other systems, but at the cost of significantly degrading framerate/framepacing, visuals, nothing ever running at native resolution etc.

I would much rather it was more like the Wii and all their previous handhelds where the performance gap between it and the other contemporaneous systems was so big that developers had to develop bespoke games for the system, and ports had to be ground up rewrites.

Everything was so much more playable, and by buying those systems you had access to an entirely different library of games to choose from, rather than the current situation where it's just the first party Nintendo titles that differ from what's available on all the other more powerful systems.

Very few non first party game where worth playing on the ds if you had access to anything else to be honest, at least when I was a kid. I do wish we had actually pocketable ish consoles from the big 3, but it seems like this market is covered by android devices.

Fortunes weave doesn't even run at 60 frames. The hardware could be better.

That sounds like a bug and not a feature.

I mean my son is the type of person that will “do anything” to get some stupid skin, seems like they would want him able to play

Edit… oh wait you said a bug, yea agree

You need to credit someone for "hey lets use solar panels to shade things that would benefit from shade"?

The article starts off by claiming that this person came up with the idea out of the blue; when in all likelihood they probably read a newspaper article about this being done in India. I remember reading about it then, which is why I was able to look it up and find the article.

It's just good manners to give credit where it's due.

What's wrong with mentioning it?

I am also NAL, but out of curiosity does OPs post detailing the obfuscation transgress any laws?

If the security measures exist in plain sight, as they apparently do, are they allowed to be discussed?

I reckon that if OP posts the encoder/decoder software that'd be against some sort of license clause. However in the age of AI who cares about the software at this point? Anyone can prompt their own private version into existence.

Just thinking out loud here. I have not considered AIs use as personal "cheat engines".

To do your question justice would take a while but its quite an interesting story to google. The gist: We did not have confirmation of where NA/EU freshwater eels laid their eggs until 2022. No one has ever seen them reproduce. This mystery is also old: Aristotle wrote about it. They have been an enigma for a long period of human history despite being an important part of it!

Also, before he got famous for inventing diagnosing everyone with penis envy, Freud spent a summer trying and failing to find the eels' reproductive organs.