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Comment Re:The last time Russia tried to replace Uke hardw (Score 1) 101

It was manufactured in the Ukrainian SSR

Post-breakup, Russia continued to make the Kurs antenna array while - VERY reluctantly - buying the rest of the system from Ukraine. The fact that they couldn't just grab the blueprints, tool up and make the guts in the Russian Federation makes Kurs as Ukrainian as it needs to be to deserve the name. In any case, a significant slice of Russia's scientists and engineers originated in Ukraine.

Comment Re:I'd Fire You All (Score 1) 205

Happy employees is management 101

To continue your analogy, most managers either failed that class or are constrained by corporate policy that prevents them from achieving it. There is a real close correlation between "companies that are forcing RTO" and "companies that stack-rank", "companies that RIF regularly based on nonsensical metrics", "companies that are operating on very old policy playbooks" (my previous employer actually had instructions about 8" floppy disks in some of their document control policy docs), etc.

Comment Pundit picks sides in issue to aggrandize self (Score 3, Interesting) 205

This is just grandstanding, seeking influencer status by opining on a current controversy (of sorts). Sure, there are companies implementing RTO policies to go with the TPS reports, corporate "rah" events and other drivel of a bygone era. And there _are_ people who are either more comfortable being a honeybee in a cell, or are in some other kind of position that makes them put up with it even if they're not comfortable. But the genie is permanently out of the bottle on this; companies that do not offer remote work will not attract first-tier talent. In 2025, that isn't even up for debate (unless you're trying to extend the length of a YouTube video to get more ad impressions).

Comment Re:Customized costs too much (Score 2) 10

Samsung had an excellent version of Android OS for phones, called Tenzen

That's Tizen, and it was explicitly not Android - it was its own Linux-based OS. The reason Samsung developed it was, at its root, because Google won't let a vendor sell both AOSP and GMS devices; if you are going to sell Google-certified GMS devices, you have to agree not to sell non-Google-certified Android devices. What Samsung was trying to do with all their bullshit parallel app store universe was this: Sell GMS devices (which are the only devices people in primary markets will buy) with Samsung's music store and app store and home automation and intelligent assistant (if you can call Bixby intelligent) and so forth, loaded alongside the compulsory Google apps. Get people into the Samsung app ecosystem. Then sell them a Tizen phone (with Android emulation) that has only the Samsung ecosystem, not Google's. Then, stop paying Google license fees, and also start rolling around in the ad revenue from their own network. PROFIT! It didn't work because nobody cared, or has ever cared, or ever will care, about the Samsung app store, music store, video store, various other canceled stores, or Bixby.

Comment Re:Startup vs established corp (Score 1) 93

This article indicates, probably correctly, that in 95% of the cases that AI is not suited for the job it was placed in. That's what happens when you believe a salesman

But this is either circular logic, or "you just have to BELIEEEEEEVE". Huge amounts have been spent on placing AI in various positions. If AI salespeople are making 95% of their money selling into places where AI won't work... then the only thing that is provable is "AI can successfully handle only 5% of the paid jobs that it's receiving". It could mean the sustainably addressable market is only 5% of the current snake oil hype market.

Comment Re:Startup vs established corp (Score 1) 93

when actual responsibility is accorded to an AI, as in a corporate setting, it is going to fail

This. And for a corporation, the whole point is that the AI's output has to be used without having humans look at it, because humans cost [more] money. This is a fundamental, well-discussed issue with many LLM use cases that live in important spaces - to act on the output, you need human invigilators, and once you add enough of those to restore safety to the system, the AI becomes irrelevant.

Comment Re:Why not include fundraising as revenue? (Score 1) 93

Just remember to devalue the potential revenue by the percentage of companies that actually gain long term value

Why? Whose "success" are we talking about here? I would argue that if you're an entrepreneur and you build a hallucination, and it sells to someone so you, personally, make out like a bandit - that's success.

Comment Re:ok bye (Score 1) 28

Know commit,push,fetch,checkout, branch, merge and rebase, you are done. No need to be a genius

Gee, that sounds an awful lot like what I said about "using memorized magic incantations to operate", n'est-ce pas?

To be fair, git evolved to solve a problem I don't really encounter - lots of people working on the same exact file at the same exact time. In my world, each programmer has responsibility for a module(s) that are pretty isolated - the only shared things being global header files and the like, and the process to change those global header files is long.

Comment Re:ok bye (Score 3, Insightful) 28

Git is just a very complicated filesystem that nobody really understands and everybody uses memorized magic incantations to operate (fight me). Github is not just a git environment, it is a CI environment. Github Actions (which a MS rep told me is eventually going to obsolete Azure DevOps/Pipelines specifically) is the article of interest. Competitors are things like Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline.

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