So the current owners of Wework are upset at this as its causing problems trying to get rid of bad lease agreements? It sounds like they don't really want to be sold, but to emerge from bankruptcy without bad leases that were probably signed pre covid. They might be able to get back into those same buildings at a much lower rate. But if they have bidders trying to buy them now with the bad leases, that shows the lease holders that others think they can come out of bankruptcy even with these leases? So are they upset because they want to reject the bid and emerge as is whiteout the bad leases? Or because they know the bid is unrealistic and won't succeed, but make bargaining more difficult? Or do they really not want the company sold for a such a low sum?

No, its not much better than the summary. I think the interesting part where they would explain to us non datacenter level SRE's why they have active checks every 30 minutes, instead of passive alerting is obviously missing. I'd guess that at this scale active searching is cheaper than passive monitoring and their systems can deal with x number of servers dropping dead.

Only an idiot would argue that cryptocurrencies are propping up the global economy.
FTX is dead. The whole investment in Anthropic was supposed to be to make sure AGI didn't happen. Much like OpenAi, the bizarre "AI is going to kill everyone so we decided to invent it first to control it" philosophy kind of dies away once people get a taste of the money it can produce. Money corrupts all.

I migrated to Apple from various android. I have a pixel as a work phone. My life is much better on an iPhone. You try putting on a spec sheet the advantages of an iPhone, but it just makes you look like an idiot. And I'm one who hates hates the cult of Apple because they'll say the dumbest things and swear up and down why the dumb thing Apple rolled out is group breaking and amazing. The reality is Apple makes the Toyota Camry of phones. It does what you need a smart phone to do and does so for a very long time without issues. Animojis, AR, Lidar and whatever dumb new thing they touted in the iphone 15 doesn't really matter at the end of the day just dumb marketing because they have a show to put on every year.

I don't see how using AGPL would have helped Redis the company that much. Sure if AWS/GCP/Azure,etc modified the code they'd have to release it. But I don't see how that helps them make money off of it. Or am I missing something.

1) Use AGPL license for great new service.
2) Cloud users sell AGPL backed service
3) ???
4) Profit

Yeah agreed 100%. Business students 20 years ago took access classes and learned how to do basic access stuff to make things much cleaner than excel. Thats all gone now.

Local geeks can create terrible solutions too. My early career was cleaning up these kinds of messes. Sometimes they know just enough about tools to shoot the customers in the foot, so they also charge for antibiotics, bandages and foot replacement surgeries that replace the mangled foot with something kinda foot like, maybe a yardstick.

Yeah, but I mean its excel. Non techies understand excel and can more easily extend it and get the data they want out of it. Spreadsheets are popular for a reason. And really, I have worked with lots of much worse solutions that low level developers came up with using professional tools.

The history of that part of the business is interesting. Its comprised of:

Historical Nokia efforts ( because they did everything including tires)
Nokia Erikson Efforts ( once a joint venture that Nokia ended up buying)
Motorola Networking ( all of their historical cell communication patents included)

I also wouldn't be surprised if this was one of the old Motorola patents for something really really dumb that got thrown in as part of the break up. They had business units doing the absolute dumbest thing imaginable and some how getting large fortune 500 companies to pay for it. NDA not letting me share here, but I can see those being applied here.

So basically you're saying that nothing is real, all accounts of all events are equally true. Black is white. Death is life, Freedom is censorship.

You obviously don't have kids....

In fairness, I should add my old company charged $500 per 20 Mb as recently as 2008. No, other off the shelf hard drives would not work, and this was intentional to recoup some of the ongoing support of the devices. Other parts were similarly insanely priced for what they were, but hey support was free for life along with software updates.

Free OS updates for 5-6 years. IN the olden mac OSX days that was 100 every year or so. How is that free now? Well they bleed you for memory and disk space up front. Its non upgradable, so you get the max performance on day 1 or you suffer the rest of its lifetime.

Yes thats the trick. Tesla has never said that it can do it right now in a production vehicle, they have said that non public cars can, and your car will real soon. It advertises it behind showy names that portray it as automatic, no human interaction required ( small print says otherwise to protect them legally), but soon it will be human free driving.

Like basic cruise control there is some benefit, but like basic cruise control it doesn't take away all of the work.