Microsoft has had dog shit software in the past. But it wasn't necessarily because of evil it was incompetence. There is some problems with Microsoft Office where the format is intentionally overly complex to make it difficult to reverse engineer and other bits of nastiness like that. But for the most part when an entire operating system from Microsoft sucks like Vista or 8 it's because Microsoft screwed the pooch by accident.

Typically Microsoft intentionally bloats their operating systems so that oems have something to sell new computers for. That's a long standing and not terribly secret thing and it's why every new iteration of windows gobbles is much RAM and GPU and CPU as they can. But that wasn't really a factor with Windows 11 or even Windows 10 because we had just gotten to the point where computers were fast enough.

With Windows 11 it's the spyware. It's grinding the computer to a halt so they can monitor what you're doing to train their AI bullshit to replace you at your job. It's also a fuck ton of nasty DRM and other associated nastiness so that corporations can spy on you and control your computer. This makes your computer increasingly unusable. That's a relatively new thing.

It's not narcissism, it's entirely rational: we are all working because of self interest, not because we care about the company.

And you learned economics from a handful of right wing propaganda Mills.

You would have been better off going with Saturday morning cartoons. Scrooge McDuck had a lot of money but in the magic world of duckburg it never actually hurt the general population. In the real world Scrooge McDuck would have been more like his namesake causing massive social problems from his greed and lust for power and money

Or rather who that matters actually cares?

Return to office was about commercial real estate property values so that a couple of billionaires who are heavily invested in it didn't lose their investments. Every single credible study has shown that work from home improves productivity and is universally beneficial because it gets people off the roads so if you are somebody who genuinely has to go into the office you have less traffic and cleaner air.

Nobody is going to care whether employees are happy or not anymore. Not broadly. Automation has been devouring jobs since the late 70s and by all accounts the pace is going to accelerate. So employers don't need to be nice to you anymore.

I like the commandline. I even open my browser by typing the command in the commandline. Who needs buttons?

But I admit almost everything I do these days (when I'm not programming) is done in a browser window. The need for local software is almost gone.

Ok, so this headline is a bit misleading.

Why did they ever trust the official story? Lying has been standard in SV for a long time. Obviously longer, but I can't find older links. A lot CxOs lie for no reason, in a transparent way that kills morale. I'm starting to think they intentionally kill morale.

Pointing out someone's logical fallacy is not ad hominem.

You are not trying to understand the situation, you are trying to show that what OpenAI did is correct. But there's no way to do that: they broke the law.

Maybe YOU would, but most people can't even be bothered to set their optimization flags correctly.

Insightful distillation.

That is not the definition of AI. Maybe next time don't post while high.

My assumption is you are an AI fanboy.

Your comment appears to be motivated reasoning.

A hedge fund is named such because they (traditionally) hedge against risk. Thus, whether the stock goes up or down, the hedge fund can make money (and lose money if it stays flat).

This fund clearly failed on the hedging. No point in using a hedge fund at that point, might as well have just bought the stock (or options if you're crazy).

The expensive part is the training, once the NNs are trained, they are significantly cheaper to run (and there are a lot of optimizations you can do to make them a LOT more efficient).

This is the problem with letting these things get out of handle. Crypto and Bitcoin are large enough that they could potentially have an impact on the broader economy when people lose money in them.

You can't just wash your hands of things. Not in a modern economy. Everything is interconnected and sooner or later shit rains down on everybody.