Did fark scramble rsilvergun's brains, or did rsilvergun scramble fark's brains?

Yes, bad decisions can be made by multiple industries. Good job pointing out the obvious.

Meanwhile, I'll point to various industries that build for the long term, and Windows is nowhere to be found. See: Avionics. Even DAL-E equipment (not needed for safety, does not impact safety during critical failure) still doesn't use Windows, because it's shit and fleet operators are interested in supportable systems in their $100M aircraft that they need to keep in the air. Thus, you get designs focused around fast-swap line-replaceable units and long-lived supported release channels that just cannot be done on Microsoft software.

Wow, did I show you to be a complete fucking moron at some point?

Thanks for letting me know I can live rent-free between your ears any time I want by simply posting something that has nothing to do with you.

It's wonderful to know that I've effected your day in such a manner to cause you to obsess.

Of course they are incompetent. That's the problem.

The tooling is of sufficient complexity without sane defaults to give best practices by default. And the IT monkeys are incompetent so they don't know how to set it to best practices by default.

I never said there was just one problem here.

Is LG and Samsung in some kind of enshittification contest to see who can make the most enshittified products or something?

Ukraine (and Europe and many others) would disagree on your assessment of Patriot interceptors. A drone won't intercept missiles. Patriot does. Including Russia's ill-conceived "impossible to intercept" Oreo Shnick. Different tools for different work. That's what combined arms is. Russia is losing principally because they're using the same kind of thinking you're using.

Secondary to that, they think bombing civilians instead of bombing strategic military targets wins wars. Spoiler: It doesn't. Nobody ever capitulated because of bombing raids, they capitulate only after they've lost the means to continue fighting. This is why Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil refineries is a good idea. Russians. Putler's wermacht runs on oil, not palaces or bath houses. So putting missile defenses around those is rather pointless. Ukraine has no reason to go after those, so why waste effort on it?

Nice platitudes, but these workers are not anomalies. They may become the norm. AI is a big fucking mess right now. It (largely) doesn't work as well as most think and is far inferior to what is promised...but....if that changes, we're FUCKED!!! Once you can automate my job, you can automate anyone's! Are you ready for the financial apocalypse once every office worker's jobs is automated away?...every accountant...every lawyer...every engineer...every designer....1000s of professions I can't think of at the moment, which are the cornerstones of our middle class will be decimated.

OK, so smarty pants...you retired?...you pivoted to healthcare??...welp...I hope your 401k doesn't include companies with huge number of customers impacted by the job apocalypse?...if you and your younger loved ones pivoted to hands-on healthcare, like nursing or doctor positions....well....do you work for free? Who is going to pay your bills when the economy collapses? You'll make it, but life will SUUUUUCK when you're relying on the gov alone to keep the lights on.

Maybe you're special and open a restaurant or bar...same problem...who has money? OK, so now the layoffs spread from white collar workers to EVERYONE because so many relied on middle managers and accountants and lawyers and engineers as customers.

So your tone-deaf comment about living beneath your means and building wealth? I hope you picked wisely...because if the white collar job apocalypse does happen, it's going to impact most of the Dow, most of the S&P 500, the real estate market, etc. This is scary stuff to be taken seriously. What is being threatened is like nothing seen in hundreds of years, if ever. I have enough to retire today....but yeah....I have a fuckton in stocks that are quite vulnerable....OK, I get lucky and cash out in time?...well...I have no clue what will happen to interest rates, but I can't imagine them doing anything but plummeting....so yeah, I was planning on have sustaining income....nope, retirement may be me just eating away at my savings at the exact rate I live....rather than watching it slowly increase, as I had hoped .

The way that I got Windows 11 to the benchmark of "still works the same as it did yesterday" was to virtualize it, feed hardware into it via IOMMU that it needs real hardware access for (GPU, sound, segregated PCIe SSD) to still get top performance, and then snapshot that root drive. Keep anything that requires fast disk access on the PCIe SSD, including the swap file.

When they fuck things up, I revert the snapshot. Fuck you, Microsoft.

Every IT-controlled Windows system I've seen in 10 years uses automatic updates because that's the default behavior of Windows - it's just a matter of if they are pointing it to a controlled update proxy, or pulling the default firehose direct from Microsoft.

And it's fucking horrible. No, I don't want to reboot in the middle of a presentation I'm leading to install a new mandated version of some shit I don't even ever launch.

Most IT departments have no idea how to set up automatic updating properly so that it still gets the job done, but doesn't piss off the users that you can't really piss off (executives, etc.) so they index on the side of threading the needle to not piss off the bosses, but still deliver minimum acceptable patching.

I don't know why anyone would make an embedded hardware product run on Windows. You are asking for extended support nightmares.

Everyone should have learned this long before Windows XP.

When your next version is shittier than the existing version, a significant number of existing customers will say "no thanks" and stay on the existing version, because functionality always trumps marketing bullshit.

This is not new. It's not new, even for Microsoft. See: Windows ME, Windows 8.

Which means, as I said, your process is fucked up because it's a rubber stamp.

A peer review where the code isn't actually reviewed by a peer isn't a peer review. AI review is not peer review - it's a really fancy linter and type checker. Unless you are doing some advanced automated testing using things like Xray / Cucumber / etc. to actually ground your AI review in product / feature specs, it's not going to infer that exacting information to know if you're over the target or not.

People know what the code is actually supposed to do, and not do.

Do proper peer reviews.

But how do you discover which specialist you need to see?

That's where AI currently looks really exciting for medicine, to me at least. An AI can have superhuman breadth of knowledge: even if it's not great at being a doc it can know as much as ten not-great docs.

Unless you have a very peculiar job, I think you're one of those AI-as-a-religion zealots who WANTS to believe and thus overinflates the productivity gains. I've been using it daily for 2 years. I just had it write a new feature for me. It FUCKED UP bad. It actually worked...but holy shit was the code awful. As a professional software engineer for a software company, we don't tolerate that level of shittiness. It copy pasted so much code instead of refactoring private methods to be public...it looked up the same data multiple times. Claude's version took 2 seconds to run for a request from a large customer...unacceptable. I had to go in and fix it....my version?...0.02 to 0.2 seconds and my version was 1/10th the code and no copy/paste. It also tried to change the unit tests to cover up it's mistakes. I've caught that on several coworker's pull requests as well.

So if you're putting out 10x productivity, you're either unusually lucky or....you're spamming your codebase with SHIT code that will be challenging to maintain down the road and making your users suffer.

I get the AI is your religion thing. I want to believe too...I just have real world experience and a demanding job with coworkers and managers who hold me accountable when I release shit code. We have 2 guys on the team who sound just like you. They watched the movies. They WANT to believe. I have to reject their pull requests OFTEN because I can spot the errors.

If you said 2x?...I'd believe you...maybe 4 since you're very niche and the only guy there....but 10x? Nope...I am skeptical. I'm not saying you're a bad guy, I think you're just too confident in what you're putting out and overestimating the gains.

They posted their first profit in 2001. Also, they were INTENTIONALLY unprofitable and I think you know this. They wanted to dominate retail and get people hooked, like my wife. 15 years ago, you'd have to be an idiot to buy elsewhere. They had the best prices and insanely good service...then they flipped a switch, metaphorically and their retail division was profitable...suddenly, their prices all went up and the service went down. Remember when Prime guaranteed 2 day delivery? Now prime deliveries can take as long as 2 weeks....but so many people had their brains hacked. I check several places before buying...my wife just goes to Amazon alone...is always surprised when I tell her it's the same price and often cheaper now at other major retailers, depending on the item.

Amazon smartly played the long game, but they're an anomaly. They reinvested heavily and now can charge normal prices and still profit more than their competitors...from investments in supply chain automation, marketing, analytics, etc....not to mention the AWS thing, which I am convinced was a happy accident.