We're not impressed because you took the world's fastest car and sold it as a teleportation device. You sold us star trek, but delivered a really good F1 car. So yeah...only a dumbass would be fooled. If you said "we've improved search", I'd very much agree. If you're like Beinhoff and Zuckerberg and told us you've replaced most of your development team...without any evidence, yeah, most of us know you're full of shit, especially those of us who use these.

Well, we've seen this before...sloppy startups launch with sloppy code, but a good idea. They get users. They get marketshare. They get revenue...with real revenue comes real responsibility...there's a data breach and now they realize they cannot be sloppy. They cannot write their core code in Python and port it to a real language. Now they need process and release engineering and backups and rollback....all the things that slowed down their competitors.

With Vibe coding, we'll see it all over again...although weirdly enough, are we even seeing it? Which vibe-coded startups have you heard of? It seems like all LLM activity is simply selling LLMs and LLM tools...where's the video game or data startup that leveraged AI to launch in record time and pushed their story all over the news?

I'm not personally familiar with any of them, but I think we saw this with facebook. It was famously written in PHP...until that stopped working for them...now it's written in a mismash of technologies. LLMs will be similar...maybe something to get you started, but unless you like lawsuits, you'll need to stop vibe coding and have serious professionals fix all the vulnerabilities you've introduced.

If AWS had outages this often, people would switch to Azure or other competitors very quickly....perhaps it's time to do so for Cloudflare? You hire them for reliability, nothing else. An unreliable CDN is like a chair with unreliable legs. What's the point?

Your generalizations are far from correct. We had a famous dot-com bubble where the functionality was, great, but the profitability was vastly oversold. For LLMs, the functionality is oversold. It's not that ChatGPT is working great, but not profitable. It neither functions as sold or has a realistic route to profitability. It may be someday, but it will require a VAST technological revolution to actually achieve half of what they say it can.

I'd add that we had smaller hype cycles in recent memory: Offshore outsourcing, Everything as a Mobile App (after iPhone introduction), Big Data, Cloud, and Crypto. Each was different.

Outsourcing was a massive scam, but has some functionality....so the cost saving and functionality was drastically oversold.

Mobile apps? I think the functionality was fine, it's just not every business needs an app...but it wasn't much of a bubble outside the industry and as companies folded, there was little impact as the economy was growing.

Big Data? same as mobile...some companies created revolutionary products, most failed...however, it's more like a traditional technology introduction than bubble.

Cloud computing?...well...that may not even be a bubble or hype cycle. I think it's oversold, but the data suggests otherwise, so I am likely wrong.

Finally crypto...a full scam...no real functionality, beyond gambling.

Each of these has a drastically different profile. I think the offshore outsourcing craze was the closest analog to LLMs. It's not useless, but it never delivered even a fraction of the functionality promised....most in the industry know this...you can hire as many as you can in India (or similar countries), but no one really saved money doing so. They're not perfect replacement for domestic counterparts as both anyone with any talent doesn't want to work for an offshore outsourcing firm and there's massive overhead in integrating them into your organization as well as massive expenses related to turnover and fraud. Today, many companies use outsourcing, but in very limited ways or they setup offices in India or other developing nations at slightly greater overall cost than local talent for simple reason they can't find enough talent locally.

LLMs will be integrated into our lives, but nothing in the current generation or their announced successors indicate that they can replace human beings in an organization. If you're paying a human being to do it today, you need more accuracy than they provide. I don't think technology introduction patterns are consistent.

EJBs? How fucking old are you? You know those were obsolete over 20 years ago? NO ONE uses them anymore. Also you assume C# has no cumbersome patterns? Your core complaint is about complexity. That's not Java's fault, that's the fault of the engineer. Hire those same people to work in any other language and you'll see unnecessary layers.

My Spring apps? They're really fucking lean...because I know what I'm doing...a Resource for HTTP/Security, a Service class, only if needed (which it isn't 75% of the time) and a Repo class for JPA...which almost always only uses the built-in queries, so has no body...or has native query bindings if I am dealing with a schema I didn't design and is too complex. Certain things are Java issues, certain things are people issues...similarly, it's not JavaScript's fault, there's a new framework born every 10 minutes...nearly all of which have no clear justification for existing...hire a bunch of not very bright professionals with more caffeine and ambition in their blood than experience or attention span to learn existing frameworks and they'll write pointless new frameworks instead of learning the ones that exist....Java had that problem 20-15 years ago...then all the web UI developers left java (templates/JPS/Struts/JSF) to work in JavaScript exclusively and now they're someone else's problems.

C# is not taking much marketshare from Java. No one wants to run Windows server and it's a hard sell to convince people to run Microsoft languages on Linux. As nice as the language may be, Java performs better. It's abysmally stupid to switch platforms for an app you've invested decades in just for slightly better syntax...especially at a very tangible performance penalty, but even if you did want to, you have soooo many good choices. On the server, C# and Java have been independent camps. Historically, MS fans ran C# and Java was for *NIX.

I know you can now run C# on Linux, but why?...I don't know C# well enough to say it's tangibly better than Java, but I'll assume it is...is it better than Kotlin? Scala? Rust? Why go through the pain of dropping Java only for something that is incredibly similar and slower? You can go Rust and go faster. You can go Kotlin and maintain the same speed. You can write an app in Python, JavaScript, or Go and watch your performance drop dramatically. With so many choices, why bother with C#?

However, I know C# is heavily used in game development. I would imagine it's more non server-side apps causing this increase, like Unity games.

C# on Linux is like the Wendy's of Fast Food Franchises. It's nice...and I like Wendy's better than McDonald's, but not better than Chipotle...In and Out, Burger King, Popeye's, etc....if Wendy's was my only choice? I'd eat it and be happy...if I had to eat fast food and could choose anything? Wendy's is not in my top 10. They're not bad....it's just everyone else is better or more interesting.

Why first? That's pretty stupid. Yeah, Google allows some shady shit, but NOTHING compared to what organized crime syndicates have done. Also, the scam ads are a small fraction of their revenue. I think it's safe to say they're an oversight...they're making billions of dollars advertising for MAJOR pharmaceuticals, for example...the thousands of dollars they're receiving for fake boner pill ads don't really compare to the money they're making on Cialis and its competitors. The casino may be robbing me, but I am not eager to get mugged at gunpoint by even more desperate criminals.

One of my tenants gave notice on the house he was renting from me because he was fired from his job the day after the Brexit vote.

It's good for the employees who leave and bad for customers, and coworkers who stay. The smart thing to do is layoff the shitty performers and boost the pay of the best employees. Instead, you're ensuring those with the best resumes will get a great pay package to get a better job. So you like your job at Krafton or can't leave?...well...now the best people quit and you're left with the very worst and least ambitious coworkers.

You're a customer? This is a repeat of the offshore outsourcing rage of the early 2000s...you make the environment hostile and terrible and the best leave for the jobs that aren't asking you to train your replacement....and those that remain have a fraction of the talent....deadlines get missed....product quality goes down....now there's an uptick in vulnerabilities....and of course costs go up...you need to pay these McKinsey consultants who recommended you move all R&D to India massive fortunes to justify their Ivy League brains cluelessly applying patterns that might have worked in manufacturing to software development where it DIDN'T work.

If AI actually worked as Jensen Huang and Altman/Zuckerberg/Beinhoff promised, this might be less of an issue, but AI can't code. At best, it can make your smartest programmers more productive...and even that is controversial. I use Claude 4.5 daily and it's a hindrance in anything I know how to do, like Java, where it can't reliably compile and pretty much fails nearly every prompt I give it. I will admit that it helps me with technology I don't know well...it helped me with some very simple JavaScript recently...so it slows me down on what you actually hired me for, but makes me less of a dumbass in every language you didn't hire me for...

This may move the needle, but not enough that you can cut headcount drastically. If AI can ACTUALLY replace these employees, they weren't contributing a lot to begin with. I am honestly baffled. The CEO must be really clueless. With Beinhoff, he was AI-washing his company's failures and portraying routine layoffs as AI innovation....this guy?...I honestly have no clue what he's doing or his motivations....maybe he's just a really nice guy who cares about the employees more than the future of the company?

I think a lot of EVs can do this. My very early Model 3 (not 4WD or Performance model) could do 0-60 in 4.5 seconds for a while (before Tesla nerfed the acceleration).

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You got that backwards. He understood the property well enough to know the xenomorph is pretty boring. It's an elite hunting animal. It has no emotion or motivation. I don't think you can make a good movie about it any more. It's been done. It will never live up to the first 2. Romulus was decent...but let's face it, Alien was a slasher movie in space that was accidentally good. It's just Halloween/Friday-the-13th in space, but that cast and monster were so good that it became a classic....by accident, they gave it to James Cameron and he ended up making an utter masterpiece. Aliens was about the Colonial Space Marines, not the monsters. He knew he couldn't just repeat the formula, so he made my favorite movie of all time. Even he can't recreate that magic. I think Avatar tried to on somewhat.

So...Hawley had 2 choices...make Alien Romulus on FX...or take it in a new direction. Making it about warring corporations and the Alien a pawn was interesting. I liked it. I want to know more. I want to know more about the other aliens. It worked for me.

You were given an amazing steakhouse meal with wine, appetizers, a perfect steak, and a great dessert...it sounds like you're complaining that the salad had too much dressing. There are flaws in the show...but the good parts are so good. I have seen so few sci fi shows that are as good as the good part....there are a few parts I didn't like, but the parts I liked were so good, I just focus on the good.

But maybe you're an asshole who just looks for things to complain about? I'm a massive fan of the franchise as well and am excited to see Weyland Yutani and the new Octopus alien and to see where it goes....and even if it didn't work for you? It's still a very interesting effort. Even if I never want to eat the dish again, I can acknowledge the cook is very good and the meal was good. I didn't like the Prometheus series, but can acknowledge it was interesting and bold. It was decent, just not what I wanted to see and I have no interest in rewatching those.

The show was really great. I had low expectations because the last Alien movie I loved was in 1986. It's not as good as Aliens, but it's about the corporate rivalry and new aliens, not the xenomorph. You have to let go that Aliens is an absolute masterpiece and no one has replicated. It doesn't seem THAT hard, but many have tried and failed. It was just a perfect movie. You're never going to recreate that.

However, if you watch Alien Earth with an open mind and don't just look for things to complain about, it's really fucking amazing. There are flaws, but the good parts make up for the flaws. With any show that long, there's always going to be something to complain about. I see this post is filled with dicks complaining about minor things. That's like having an expensive steakhouse dinner with drinks and dessert and complaining the salad didn't have enough croutons.

Sorry, I tried running a custom PC on a TV, it was a shit experience and my family hated it. I'm a gaming/machine building enthusiast. I've been doing this for 25 years. I know what I am doing...but Windows wasn't meant for being run on a TV. I built a perfect gaming PC with name-brand components during the pandemic when consoles were in impossible to find. I bought XBox controllers. They'd pair fine at first...and disconnect mid-game around 2-3 hours in. It sucked badly. I tried the XBox Series X controller as well as XBox one...something would crash after an hour or 2. WiFI/Bluetooth wasn't reliable...so I had to move it across the room to an ethernet port. I tried switching out several components to no avail. We were constantly updating and troubleshooting and as soon as the kids started a game, 1h into it, my wife would have to call me in to fix something. Even when things worked, some games were just off on a TV. We had to keep the keyboard and mouse handy for daily fixes, updates, and troubleshooting

Everyone hated it. Eventually, I managed to get an XBox Series X (regret not getting a PS5, but that's a different story)...COMPLETE OPPOSITE EXPERIENCE. Everything auto-updates. Controllers almost never disconnect and when they do, it's due to the battery running out. It's smooth and effortless. A windows gaming machine is a project. The XBox is a product. You buy it and it largely just works. Press the center button on the controller and 20 seconds later, you're gaming...you definitely can't say that about any PC.

The steam machine, if priced like an xbox, would allow me buy a gaming machine at a reasonable cost that's not a project and will be well tested and well supported (or so the hope is). I was already considering saving up for the ROG XBox Ally X for similar reasons. If this is half the price and a lot better performance, I'd probably just rather have that.

Another use case is a second machine. My kids and I love playing games together, but we only have 1 gaming machine, so we're limited to couch co-op games or cross-platform ones. With this, we can play pretty much any multi-player game out there.

Finally, PC gaming stuff is kinda sketchy. I don't like spending 1-2k on an ASUS gaming device. They don't have a great history of supporting their products years out. Valve does. Sony does, MS does. ASUS/Lenovo?...kinda getting nervous. The ROG flow sounds amazing on paper, but will it work 5 years from now? I am not confident. The PS5 and XBox Series S/X are working great after 5 years...my Nintendo Switch is after 8 years. Hopefully Valve will bring console-reliability to PC gaming.

Because money is the ultimate fungible commodity, the headline should really be:

"Singapore to subsidize production and use of sustainable aviation fuel"

I am skeptical that the "sustainable aviation fuel" is really sustainable and it isn't just disguised fossil fuel (like almost all hydrogen production for vehicles).

How about getting a refund from your credit card company? Wasn't that possible?