But what if no one is ever going to use the output anyway? Might not need to check it.

I've dealt with *way* too many business processes that have people generate obscene amounts of prose that no one will ever read or even skim or reference.

I remember one of these companies championed that they used LLM to complete an important 'overhaul' of their source code. The 'overhaul' was generating separate document detailing all these uncommented functions and what the LLM guessed they were supposed to do and how in plain text. The theory was that if one day they actually wanted to start porting this code to something else, that document would be 'helpful'. And of course:
- They never will do that porting
- Even if they did, the developers will likely ignore that document.

Question to what extent was revenue reduced versus deferred. If 90% of their customers couldn't reach competitors either, was revenue lost or did it just happen later?

The thing is that this is terrible for all the outages to be aligned for the internet users, but for the providers, the thought that outages are likely to align with competitor outages might be a pretty solid mitigation, so long as the outage doesn't exceed what they might incur themselves. Even a longer outage common with competitors may be better than a shorter outage that *only* impacts them.

Certainly if AWS was down enough that someone could get a competitive advantage by moving it would drag on them, but if it's not *much* worse than their own outages, well there's a comfort in making sure your competitors are more likely to go down with you.

But what is the tax? These services are down and no one is blaming the companies, they just say it's an Amazon problem. No one is penalizing a company because their Internet services went down just like most of their competitors

The police dont need to sell it, Ring sells it..

Actually thats not what it means, what it means is ethnic minorities get fingered for crime much more than their %age of population would seem to indicate.
The implication of course is that that is somehow unfair, the alternative explanation is that just perhaps they commit more crime per population size.

But no, its not because black people get IDed for white crimes, the software is not even a little bit that stupid, and even if it did, as a facial picture exists, it would be trivial to prove false. The reason people keep bringing this up is they dont like the statistics..

Think the point is going beyond external. If you are converting to hardwire, I'm picturing removing the power connector and putting some screw terminals down.

A barrel connector is going to be a couple of rather large solder points. A USB-C connector is... not going to be that.

As I recall, you can do wireless charging, and even exclusively so if you want no charging port at all. Also, plenty of devices still do non-USB-c power (e.g. if it takes AC power in, that's not required to do USB-C, and if it's a car, then it's CCS2).

There's no sign of a successor to USB-C form factor in the space that EU mandates its use. IIRC, they even wrote the standard to leave some wiggle room to adopt such a successor should it arrive, but the industry seems to have settled into USB-C as an DC power strategy up to 240W with no interest in others.

Barrel connectors can be like $0.50 cheaper, so a fair number of cheap devices could balk reasonably at how USB-C drives their prices higher and they don't need USB-C. But a more 'advanced' connector is not in the cards.

Obviously the next step is CCS2 over USB-C, duh.

It's GNU/Hurd or nothing

I think any dramatic change from how you currently run things to a different way is full of risk. Just because it's Linux doesn't really do much in the face of who knows how much hard coded this or that they accumulated in their infrastructure management.

People's infrastructure management tends to be ugly and locked in to how they do it in various ways.

Azure may be utterly capable, but any difference is a huge headache, particularly the longer the 'old ways' went on and how many people along the way left the company.

It was widely rumored that in 1998 Microsoft tried to force Hotmail to use Microsoft infrastructure and met with predictably miserable results. Hotmail was more about trying to show off their infrastructure products that as an offering in and of itself.

Microsoft might be a bit more conflicted on github, but clearly that sentiment persists.

Unfortunately looks like they are sufficiently impatient they've pivoted to trying to fire up more coal instead...

Most bubbles are rooted in something real, the dotcom, the housing market. You do have things like crypto that is more purely fictional, but most mainstream bubbles are rooted in real stuff..

At this point, about 35% of the SP500 is pretty directly predicated on AI. That's way too much across the board.

Probably no coincidence he felt compelled to write after the Friday crash. Wasn't related to AI but since about 35% of the S&P 500 is concentrated in AI concerns, it's particularly vulnerable to general stock disruption.