"not a single product was delivered on schedule,"
I get why upper-management dislikes this, but did they consider that trying to deliver things, especially complex things like CPUs, on a schedule is part of their quality problem?
rather than ripping out computers
I'm guessing they're modular components that can be easily swapped out. And the newer cones are probably already certified as replacements.
Boeing Scenario:
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down.
Hopefully you mean the FAA. Politicians and the Courts have problems with the FCC and just net-neutrality, so I'm sure they'd have a fit about them trying to regulate airplanes.
spraying millions of tons of dust into the atmosphere
Actually, my first thought from the title was "dimmer switch", which made me think of this Steven Wright joke.
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything.
Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check.
Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, "Cut it out."
Major consulting firms including McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain have frozen starting salaries for the third consecutive year
Have they frozen upper management (their) salaries? (Probably not)
Those are also things those in charge - financial and political - don't want the masses to be good at. Those skills help people think for themselves. For the most part, the ruling classes want docile, dependent workers that just do and believe what they're told. Here's an interesting bit from Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Reveals Why Billionaires Are Going Crazy Over AI
Sanders: AI is going to come. You don't have to do this job. You don't have to do that job. Really, really good. Do you think that is what Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos have in mind? Do you think that's why they're spending hundreds of billions of dollars to say, "Hey, isn't this great? We can lower the work week. We can guarantee health care, high-quality health care to everybody. We can expand life expectancy. We can solve global warming. Man, let's go do it. That's what we want to do."
Sanders: Do you think that's what these guys have in mind?
Questioner: Probably not.
Sanders: Probably not.
Sanders:They are not staying up nights worrying about working people. In my view, they want even more wealth and they want even more power. So the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it.
It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?
That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus.
"I have a hammer. Please validate my belief that all your problems are nails and praise me for it."
That will do you well when a White House cabinet position opens up.
While drunk driving happens in Dubai, as a Muslim nation they have exactly zero humor about it.
I figure the rate of bad driving from other things like just being an absurdly entitled citizen or part of the royalty is more common.
I've actually been in Dubai, deployed there once. Visited the city a few times. It's "interesting".
I too bought memory in April to avoid tariffs. I had to run a stupid python program to generate a dataset that required 96GB of RAM for a delayed project so I figured I might as well bite the bullet. DDR4 was still a good value at that point (it's a problem that can run overnight, performance wasn't too important).
But how are the tariffs limiting the manufacturing supply capacity of RAM factories in East Asia?
Do you have a mechanism to propose?
Do you think they're making enough to meet demand but then blaming tariffs to justify jacking up prices? All of them? It would be an interesting conspiracy but is there any evidence to support that theory?
> How much is this problem is down to AI and how much to beautiful tariffs?
What mechanism are you thinking of where tariffs could limit supply of VRAM from East Asia?
Simple price increases, sure, definitely, but this is described by manufacturers as a supply & demand problem.
Do you have a different angle we should consider?
> It did happened before, but not on this scale and speed.
Check out Meltwater Pulses 1a and 1b.
And now I'm picturing Harrison Ford going around asking people what time it is.
In a constantly changing world where change is happening ever faster, ChatGPT is essentially a static model.
While games are, apparently, not art and their authorship does not matter. Do I have that right?
If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.
