Actually, I don't think we were misinformed.

The reason so many companies spend wildly on Azure or AWS, is that they don't properly manage their resources. When you use the cloud, you have to think more about what you actually need.

The problem is a habit that came from the days when everybody self-hosted. They would buy a machine, stand it up, and use it. When that machine wasn't as useful, it wasn't costing them anything to keep it sitting there, so they just let it sit there, idle, or under-utilized. They *were* actually paying for this unused infrastructure, but it was "sunk cost" so they moved on and ignored it.

In the cloud, you have to keep paying monthly for every instance of everything that has been provisioned, (typically) even if you're not using it. Many companies neglect to take down instances they're no longer using. My company found that they could save $20K per month just be cleaning up old, unused instances of servers.

So if a company is disorganized and doesn't have the bandwidth to clean up old, unused infrastructure, then yes, the cloud will cost them dearly. For those that are disciplined, the cloud *can* actually save a lot of money compared to purchased hardware.

A balloon is not static, it moves with the atmospheric system it is in. Ergo, it tells you how that system evolves. A drone cannot do this.

A drone can stay put, relative to the ground, telling you how a location's atmosphere evolves. A balloon cannot do this.

These are solving completely different types of problem.

You could, of course, construct a hybrid, as balloons are traditionally single-shot. If a balloon carries the measurement gear and a drone capable of carrying that same gear PLUS a deflated balloon, then you can have something that operates as a balloon until it reaches some pre-set location, whereupon the balloon's gas is released and the drone flies the ensemble to a collection point.

If you think "managing a team of AI coding agents" is an isomorphism for Brooks' team structure, you should re-read the book.

His structure was very explicit, and had only exactly two programmers on a team: the "Chief programmer (surgeon)" and a "Copilot".
All the other roles were auxiliary
- Administrator (scheduling),
- Editor (documentation),
- Toolsmith (creating tools to enable the programming process),
- Tester (QA),
- "Language Lawyer" (kind of an architect).

You can suggest that a programmer with a "team" of AI coding agents is a think that works, but don't point to the Mythical Man Month, it has no relation to the pattern devised by Brooks.

The first one you mean? Weird minority opinion, but you're entitled to it.

The one and only thing that matters to the mainstream modern media outlet is reactions, because people don't care about news any more, they just want to feel something.

You really think a market where you can perform an infinite amount of research before making a prediction is more gambling than buying a package that has a completely random chance of containing something of value??

Yeah that is quite different from sites where the majority of betting is on sporting, which no amount of research will turn it from a bet into an investment. Like, if its not primarily that sort of thing, then sure.

Btw I'm refering to Kalshi which has sports betting as 80% of its "volume". Polymarket is around 40%

I'm sure someone will create a "prediction market" where what you say is true, however this lawsuit isn't about these , its about Kalshi which is primarily (based on useage) a sports betting site, and Polymarket where sports betting is around half its useage.

That's not quite true. You only need to offend one person to get modded down. However, if you also provide value, then you will probably not stay modded down. My karma has only been anywhere other than right up against the kap a couple of times in the last... uh, long time.

Yes. And also and.

But bsky is an echo chamber and feceboot is not, and I want both things.

Twitter is too much of a cesspool to care that I got banned for saying mean things about Leon

You mean people confused by multiple mouse buttons who can't figure out how to configure Safari?

Up 3% today, aka yesterday's tomorrow.

This is why I don't trade stocks, I don't know shit either, but you sure can't take most people's advice

Gorillaz managed to put on some live shows.

Pot kettle black, fucker. You never use a nice word where a rude one will do. I answer rudeness with rudeness and I won't apologize for that, people who are dicks deserve dickery.

Have you seen the garbage big-bucks "enterprises" will pay for? I thought you said you were experienced. If you only know code and not anything about business maybe you should calm down and take a breath here.

I mean have you seen the thing where Zuckerfuck called people who trusted him enough to give him their personal info for facebook "dumb fucks"? You should expect Facebook to intentionally not ban the worst people, if you are familiar with what a piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg is.

No. It literally wrote it "coverged". Now that I'm at my desktop I can just write it.

Also, the correct word is COVERED so even if it did write "converged" that would have been incorrect. But it didn't. Instead it wrote something that isn't even a word. That is the level to which Google has fallen.

Yeah, but there's usually some troll squatting atop the problem preventing it from being resolved.