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The ROÍ will be happening any day now, we promise. Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts.


Is there a company that has been more damaging to the software industry than these jokers?


Microsoft comes to mind, with their anti-open-source era, their bullying of security researchers, and several other infractions. Plus I suspect they're gearing up for some shenanigans re: their auth portal.


I dunno is creating chaos that requires many expensive rewrites damaging to the industry?

I kid of course - their recommendations on management of technical teams are fly-in, fly-out out of context garbage in my experience. Usually results in poor but justified decisions from senior leaders that happen in cycles of 3-5 years.


Oracle maybe?


I can take believe I'm saying this but, Oracle at least provides a useful product.


Apple?


The one who invested in LLVM?


The one who normalised needing approval from the device maker to run code.


How so?


I'm about as much of an Apple hater as anyone else, but you're probably thinking of user interface design (or CUPS).


Around where I live, they first shut down during covid with the excuse of preventing transmission. Of course they just never opened up again. Ditto water fountains.


I had 512 in my desktop a decade ago


I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!


I have some bad news about how closely Econ 101 resembles the real world…


Sounds like that feature would really cut into their overdraft fees.


There’s been a bunch of airline IT meltdowns in recent years, some much much worse than what you described. Airlines just decided IT is a “cost center” and decided not to maintain it.


They’re assuredly checkpointing, which is SOP for any long training. Lots of things can go wrong besides power loss.


If yout backup power is unreliable it could slow down your model release by days or weeks.


Sure. Reasonably reliable backup power is a very good thing, but losing power isn’t necessarily a catastrophe.


So I take it you’re a marine engineer or similar?


No, but I did have my father check the maths and he built oil rigs for 30 years.


Can you share your work?

Trust but verify


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