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Comment Re:We will see (Score 2) 74

and they are not yet charging for the "tokens" what they need to charge to become profitable

We recently got access to Claude Enterprise and found how expensive it is. We were given $45 a month of budget. Everyone in the team blew through that in 2 days. And considering this is still being "subsidized" I honestly don't see what's the future for "AI Coding".

Comment Re:Accounting oddly is resilient (Score 4, Insightful) 74

As to HR, a critical function of HR is resolving conflicts.

No it's not? HR's only role is to protect the company from their employees.

HR is not your friend. Raise any concerns with HR and you will be flagged as problematic. They are not there to resolve conflicts. They're there to AVOID conflicts. And the best way to avoid conflict is not having "conflictive" people in the first place.

HR does not work in your interest. HR works in the interest of the company.

HR is there to document your mistakes so the company can fire you cleanly. That's HR's main function.

Comment Re:Could you...? (Score 1) 26

That will depend on Microsoft. The SoC most likely has the dtsi files since it is basically the same a s the DGX spark, but the boards dts files will need to be supplied by the manufacture. Both are required to create the DTB blobs required for boot. I would be very surprised if Microsoft provided them. They will say WSL is enough.

Comment Re:Unconstitutional (Score 1) 164

"Ultimately, whether it is legal in the United States to falsely shout "fire" in a theater depends on the circumstances in which it is done and the consequences of doing it. The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise. "

If you were trying to show that it is illegal, you made a poor choice.

Comment Re:MongoDB (Score 1) 62

well, at my current job they use NoSQL, in this case it's DynamoDB and it's been frustrating at times. So I asked the question: why are we dealing with these problems day in, day out, if the problems we're trying to solve have been solved half a century ago with SQL?

The answer is cost. The way we access data may be convenient to do with SQL, but it's also expensive. We have big (not webscale but large) volumes of data coming in every day. Having this on SQL would cost us tens of thousands a month. Keeping it in DynamoDB costs us a few hundred. And it's stupidly fast - if we wanted to get that kind of performance from SQL we'd have to pay for a supercharged overprovisioned server.

And honestly it's been fun. It's turned "boring business software development" back into more of an engineering problem.

Comment Re: A problem with GenAI... (Score 1) 62

I see the problem as a more "get off my lawn" types here. They have fully adopted "vibe coding" as "anything made with AI assistance" as much as older people call anyone younger than them "millennials".

There's a big difference between an experienced programmer providing the AI with clear, concise prompts and guidance; than having someone with zero knowledge trying to build an entire app from scratch.

One is "augmented capabilities", the other is vibe coding. But the haters here just refuse ANY sort of AI involvement.

Comment Re:Cartel (Score 1) 70

I refuse to believe the claim that "this would require billions of dollars and at least five years to get a factory operational."

There is clearly enormous amounts of money circulating in the industry right now. If a company like Nvidia genuinely wanted to manufacture its own memory, it absolutely could. Even with initially poor yields, the economics could still work. A 50% yield rate is far less concerning when RAM prices have increased by 200%, especially for a company purchasing memory in massive volumes alongside its hardware partners.

From my perspective, this looks less like an unavoidable technical limitation and more like market consolidation and price coordination. Companies have become comfortable charging substantial premiums for RAM, and the current situation provides a convenient justification for it.

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