I have no doubt that is accurate. Too many enterprises are shit-shows with no accountability and no negative consequences for really bad decision making once somebody has managed to climb high enough.

The company I work for has decided to stay on VMware because they stated that "the applications we are running aren't supported under another VM".

The point of virtualization is for the applications to not know that they are on a virtual machine.

This was presented at a major corporate "hallelujah" meeting recently where they at the same time had created positions for upper mid level managers that they now are looking for people to fill.

I did experience a similar thing right before the Dot Com bubble burst and that company I worked for just got absorbed by a bigger player and the former management was bought out.

This is how many large corporations dies. Not with a bang (chapter 11 etc.), but with a whimper (bought out by a competitor for pocket money).

Indeed. The only surprise is that some large customers (like T Mobile) apparently did not see that coming.

One could also say this is basically nano-tech, not life.

You wish. Stop projecting.

Maybe. But faking it is not making it. I guess he is not smart enough to see that.

Are we doing that great with the process ourselves?

Our children are deeply despondent, increasingly suicidal, and from the latest surveys evolution seems to have decided higher thinking abilities are to some degree a waste of energy better used for other things.

Seriously? Have you no insight at all? Listen, some minimal understanding of reality is required to play. Please get that.

That unfortunately makes a lot of sense. And it makes for a larger number of complete personal failures on an epic level. As if having mountains of money was a worthwhile goal, compared to, say, working on your skills of seeing reality or having good ethics.

Well, the desire to have more "gold" or "game tokens" (which is valid modern equivalent, agreed), is probably as old as the invention of any money-like thing that scales well enough. This desire is also utterly destructive if not kept in check.

Personally, I do not get this. Money only gets value when you spend it. And what you can actually spend is limited as long as you do rational spending. Also fits in with the now very well verified research result that money does not buy you happiness. The sweet spot seems to be around $75k ... $100k income per year in the west. I cannot imagine how unhappy people like Musk or Trump must be...

They live to long anyways. Stress via noise is a nice way to fix that.

Come on, you too now? There are a lot of immature people here, but you and me are generally not among those.

For reference, the USSR is a case where that happened before. There are others. It causes upheaval, a lot of people get crushed, but overall things continue to work and that is what I am saying here. This is macro-level, not detail level. You usually get that.

Indeed. Although I think there is no "again" here. I mean, I did go full-on in on it and this person still noticed nothing. That looks like a fundamental mental limit to me, not like lack of experience.

Thanks, that's an interesting website. I didn't immediately spot a map of sound levels. Might be an interesting open source project. Some electronics with reasonably well calibrated sound level metering, and an outdoor enclosure for it...

Obviously. Careful antibiotics testing is absolutely critical. This is one of the reason the development in that area is so slow. Just finding an antibiotic is easy. Finding one that is worth it is very hard.

That is not the situation we have here. The LLM proponents are not giving "experts better tools", they are trying to get rid of the experts.