Maybe it's just that DeepSeek eliminated the need for such expenditure. I don't see why anyone would want to throw investment money at OpenAI anymore, much less throw capital at new datacenters for OpenAI to grow into. Big-wigs have to feel lied to, just like the ones who threw money at Elizabeth Holmes just a few years back.

Not to mention Stack Overflow.

This is gross, but I don't see how this can be solved. When you own a ticket, you have a possession of limited quantity that you should be able to sell at whatever price someone is paying for it. It's no different than anything else in the world, and it is absolutely a luxury item that no one "needs". Ticketmaster does the main selling of the tickets at whatever price they do, and then they have their very own resale site which you can use to sell what you have at whatever price you can get for them. In that way, they are making at least fees from both sales and whatever cut they make on the original price. Dynamic pricing is the only way for Ticketmaster to sell the tickets at a price that truly represents their value. The only people who ever get tickets at face value are scalpers, who are shady as hell, or those few people who luck into getting them during the initial sale. Why should there even be "luck" involved in obtaining them at the retail price? Why not cut out the scalpers? Dynamic pricing eliminates "luck" from the equation and cuts out the scalpers.. Where Ticketmaster really sucks is on their fees on the ticket sales. Charging a fee for electronic delivery? Ridiculous. As an aside, I would love for the artists to get a percentage of what Ticketmaster sells for with dynamic pricing, though I'm sure that's not part of the deal.

Not a huge fan of Terraform here, but the CLI is relatively usable if you make sure you keep things simple and clean. Other tools help with that, and let you run the regular old Terraform CLI readily. But Terraform Cloud is miserable. It lacks the most basic of features. You can't pin a workspace as a "favorite". You can't call bash or other scripts from within a run without them sitting behind their own APIs. There is very little flexibility for anything outside of just "run terraform". By using it, instead of Jenkins, Github Actions, etc, you are relegating yourself to doing Terraform and Terraform only. Maybe IBM can pump some dough into it to make it worthwhile. I'm doubting it.

It's easy for me to give the NYT an eyeroll for this suit, but the more I think about it, the more I see their point. They are absolutely being used as reference data to train the models, which, in turn, create human-like output that will eventually be as good as professional journalist's own words. And it does this without any kind of reference to the original source data. Meanwhile, NYT does spend a ton of money for journalists around the world to cover stories and to create their own content. This new content, in turn, can be used to further train the models. Hopefully the courts decide relatively quickly.

"Monitored"? For how long? The millennia it would take to know it's not a bad idea?

Having worked > 20 years now in IT, I have seen the same pattern in employee promotion the whole time. People start working on the helpdesk and get paid an entry-level wage. They learn on the job and find somewhere else in the org to go, because being on a helpdesk or even doing deskside work is hard. They move up to easier jobs that have a more important-sounding title and are paid better. That's not how it should be. The hardest job I've had in tech is that helpdesk/deskside support job. Constantly changing questions, constantly failing software and hardware for umpteen reasons, and the end user is always there pissed off. It should be paid more than a cushy "server job" to keep people doing it. You end up with entry people doing that work forever, and many have no skills yet. I picture a Private on the helpdesk, fixing a Captain's email app, all while war is going on around them.

Or are there actually higher spots where the water will puddle because it's more dense there than in a lower spots nearby?

Wouldn't the density changes or the mountains and valleys just move the center of mass, and everything would still get pulled at the exact same rate to the center? I mean, if this is just saying "the hole near India is the deepest" then I understand.

In a perfect world, yes. In a company larger than a Mom-and-Pop, much of this is impossible. Especially numbers 1, 6, and 7. You can never actually "know" your vendor, beyond the slick salesperson visiting you every few months with donuts who is telling you "trust us". Open source is great if you have the talent and time to use it...it's never plug-and-play. And you can't just fire people willy-nilly.

Look, you don't think there's any connection between stopping development of this feature and the recent layoffs? It has nothing to do with users or feedback or whatever, and everything to do with headcounts having been eliminated.

Is there any industry in the world as disgusting as the ticketing industry? I mean, besides the whole scalping thing (which Ticketmaster themselves are a part of), and then you throw on BS fees. I bought a 4-pack of tickets to a show for $80 the other day. Once I got to see the cart, there was an additional $40 in fees. Really? For letting me buy the tickets the only way I can. And then charging me to deliver them via the app that I was ordering from?

Don't trash it until you play it. A stunning game.

If "go there to Azure" means "trying to do a bunch of RHEL servers", you might want to rethink your cloud strategy. Get away from IaaS.

Why did they ever release Windows 11 anyway? They should've spent their time addressing features users were wanting, not doing silly things like continuing to mess with the Start Menu. It never has made sense to me.