I've heard this before, my AI is so powerful it's dangerous, I'm keeping it from you for your own safety. That's like that grade school boy saying I'm a blackbelt and my firsts need to be registered with law enforcement whenever I enter a new state.

I fell for that shit when I was 10. I'm confident we'll be laughing about this a year from now. I will take the bet that they made an incremental improvement and are hyping up the safety because it's pretty cool marketing. It certainly forces us to pay attention.

Claude 4.7...cool....probably similar as 4.5 to 4.6...I won't notice until my employer deploys it...but oh noes...we'll ruin cybersecurity for everyone?...now I have to pay attention and all my friends outside the industry are asking about it.

But the Right Wing Media/Podcast circuit reports on the news, just like anyone else...this is definitely newsworthy and will be one of those commonly told stories 30 years from now....like the lady at McDonald's who sued them because they serve hot coffee and she spilled in her lap (which yeah, there are details conveniently left out of that story, but you've heard it dozens of times by now).

You're correct about the AI mania. I just am curious to see if the response is universal ridicule...or will the grifters embrace it and replicate it for a quick buck?

So will Allbirds be the laughing stock of the Right Wing Media bubble....as they undoubtedly will be for the mainstream sectors and late night comics....or will the grifter wing of the Right Wing media movement push this as a story of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, like they did when Long Island Tea Corp because Long Blockchain...mostly because everyone with common sense thought this was an April Fool's article.

I call bullshit. Everything you said is logical and SHOULD be true, but I don't believe it. I think the major manufacturers are colluding because it's much more profitable to cooperate with this endless demand than take a risk to crush your competition. We're seeing it across more and more industries. It's the same reason food prices are hiking even higher than the Trump tariffs and never coming down. In my area, Eggs are still literally 2x the price they were 4 years ago, despite the Avian flu issue subsiding. Beef prices are 2x as well. Why? consolidation and collusion. Everything is done through a few major producers and distributors and even the overwhelming vast majority of grocery stores are owned by 2 major companies (not counting Costco and Walmart). All these corporations are jacking up prices and getting record earnings and profits. They're doing so because they can...the market is failing us and failing us completely.

That's what the right wing free market fetishists forget EVERY FUCKING TIME. A free market is not natural. It requires gov intervention to keep it free...to stop collusion and monopolies. Big gov is evil?...I guess to some extent, but nothing compared to no gov....or a functionally useless one.

Full disclosure, I am a former Sony Pictures employee. I took a brief contract shortly after graduating to write logistics software for them. I thought it was a dream come true as a movie fan. It was a fucking nightmare, easily the worst-run place I've seen or even heard of. I've worked for the federal gov. state gov, academia, big banks, big corporations, and the software industry. For all the shit people give academia and the gov, they can't hold a candle to movie studio dysfunction. In fairness, it makes sense. Their profits are based more on choosing a great script or franchise moreso than day-to-day operations. It's a legacy business with a ton of execs getting paid way too much for diminishing market share. I don't consider them a serious business...at least 25 years ago when I worked for a few studios.

However, back on topic, Sony is historically one of the worst abusers of product placement. Never in my fucking life have I seen a Sony laptop in the wild, but they're in every movie...same with Sony phones. It's weird and jarring, but I don't honestly care too much...if the movie is good enough, I barely notice. It's especially obnoxious when they frame the shot to ensure that Sony logo is visible on protagonist's computer monitor and laptop...like when the soda companies would ensure the actors had the soda can perfectly framed, centered, and they endured to mention it a few times.

I'm a grown up and know that you have to pay millionaire producers salaries somehow...as well as the massive crews needed to make a traditional movie. But you're charging theaters massive and unsustainable fees....and then putting ads in your movies....as well as mostly releasing dogshit in the last 25 years...lame unoriginal blockbuster attempts...that just keep flopping.

So you're not wrong....30 min of ads suck...but hearing it from Sony is like hearing Mark Zuckerberg calling to respect user privacy and have corporations stop meddling in elections.

I have been to all of the QC Snapdragon briefs, know the engineers personally, and have written about the shitshow on SemiAccurate.com extensively, basically I know what is going on. QC doesn't understand what they are doing and why, and there is ZERO internal impetus to change from the people on top. They do nearly nothing on software enablement because, "That is Microsoft's job". Drivers are intentionally locked down and encrypted to block Linux, and x86 compatibility is BETTER in hardware than the Mac Mx line (Same people who did the M1 and M2 did the X1 and X2, and they all just bailed on QC) but the software is.... oh look outside, there is a sky.

TLDR: No chance in hell there will be a fix.

                    -Charlie

The best deal I ever got on a used car at a dealership was achieved using strategies that are claimed not to work.

I arrived towards closing time at the dealership and, having satisfied myself that the car was suitable, I just sat there saying the price was too much. They kept coming down in price and I got a great deal on the car, when everyone wanted to go home.

I didn't lie.

Look at it from a CFO's point of view. The company will spend a bunch of money migrating and there is then nothing to stop Nutanix pulling the same kind of pricing stunt in the future.

Potentially, it's lower risk to just pay the Danegeld.

Anything that can't be repaired usually ends up in a landfill, probably leeching toxins into the soil. This is a massive environmental issue. Additionally, I hate how disposable goods propagate bad design. Things should be built to last. They should be repairable. If I am getting a $20 bluetooth speaker from the dollar store, OK, I have realistic expectations. However, it is heinous to make it difficult to repair a $3000+ laptop. I should be able to change the battery with nothing more than a screwdriver, especially for anything labeled "pro."

Hillary and Kamela sucked, end of story, just like Jeb and Mitt. People love Trump. No one loves Kamela or Hillary. You'll be hard pressed to find a voter who gives a fuck about them now that they're not running. People love Bernie. People love Obama. People love Trump. People who voted for Mitt, Jeb, Hillary, and Kamela preferred them over the competition, but didn't love them. People still care what Obama thinks. Who the fuck cares about anything that comes out of Hillary/Kamela/Mitt/Jeb's mouth these days?

The Democrats are fighting an unfair fight. With so much ignorance and propaganda propping up Republicans, For New being the most dangerous, they have to fight with rational thought. Democrats can lose voters. After Trump, few Republican voters are rational. They vote their beliefs, but VERY FEW rationally considered both sides and thought the Republican was a better fit for them. You'd have to be a billionaire to objectively benefit from a Republican administration. They voted on emotions or habit. It's a lot easier to lose a rational voter than an emotional one.

But, most importantly, the couch is always on the ballot. The Democrats need to run a candidate that people love...not simply one that is superior to the Republican offering. More individuals prefer Democratic candidates and policies, but more Republican voters show up...for a myriad of reasons...key of which is that the majority are emotional voters. The majority of Kamela voters voted out of duty, not excitement. She was boring AF. I can't say a nice thing about her other than she didn't suck and she was nice looking. I don't remember her being charming or likable. I don't remember anything interesting about her. I don't remember her being funny. I couldn't tell you anything about her personality. I can tell you a bunch about Bernie, AOC, and Fetterman...but Kamela?...not really, blank, pretty smile.

It sucks and is unfair, but that's life. Democrats have to run and please rational voters. Republicans just have to inspire crazies with empty promises, no results, and pretty much all end their run with a recession.

Dogs don't complain. They don't want the pack to abandon them because they are lame.

As a dog owner, you should know this.

I'll add to this. Microsoft or the NSA has discovered a vulnerability in VeraCrypt and the government doesn't want the author to be able to push out a fix.

You think that there is intelligent thinking being done by Hegseth and Trump?

They just want to justify tax breaks for the wealthy by saying 31% of Americans will benefit...when in reality, only 2% or less truly get more than they lose from a typical Republican tax cut. Nope, those tariffs are not failing!!! Look, more people are getting wealthy!!! No need to look into tax reform or making sure billionaires pay more!

Kewl insult. Do you have an explanation?...or are too lazy to justify your comment?

Also, your logic is stupid. I'm not authoring the goddamn page, I am just trying to buy a product or do some research or use an app. I have no choice in the tooling someone else uses.

Also, it's not the defacto standard for full stack development. That's wishful thinking on your part so you'll not have to open a book and learn another language. Java still has greater penetration among anyone who has a budget and knows what they're doing. At best, node.js replaced PHP, which was always the low-budget entry-level language. JavaScript is an absolute shit language for server-side unless you move to typescript...and even then...why bother? Java performs far better, has a larger community, more penetration, and is just a better platform. My hope was the AI revolution would lead to less Python and JavaScript where they don't belong. In the browser?...well, it's basically the only option. Node.js was just a means of making users suffer so UI professionals wouldn't have to learn a superior technology. Hopefully, they can just vibe-code some Java until they can afford to hire a real professional. With typescript?...OK, at least they addressed the reliability aspect....but yeah, you're adding the same amount of complexity as Java, only noticeably slower and less scalable and efficient.

And if you're like most professionals I've talked to, I'll anticipate you taking offense at my comment. I'll prematurely respond to what I anticipate your response to be: You may be AWESOME at writing node.js services and write perfect tests and create works of beauty. The problem is you'll be rewarded with a promotion and your app will get handed off to someone more junior.

I inherited one (I'm definitely junior at node.js), it imported a Google lib, which needed a security update to the latest version. They completely rewrote the signature of every function. That's shitty of Google...but it is what it is. If it were Java/C#/Rust/C++/Go? It would be a 1h task to fix. The compiler would catch every error. Not only would Java catch every error in my code I wrote, it would catch every signature error in every lib I imported very quickly, typically on startup. Node.js? Oh, it starts. It will only catch the simplest errors on request.

OK. So here I am with an app I don't understand because the original author rage quit. Her wiki is horribly out of date, just like every wiki page I've written...we're all guilty of that! So I have to guess the functionality. I know what everyone else knows. But had a nice multi-day trial and error of testing every function point to check for missed signatures. Turns out she wrote shit unit tests, which honestly...many devs do...so the builds passed. It ended up being a 2 week ordeal because a whole batch were caught in production, by users, because of some undocumented functionality that was added in later.

If it were typescript? I think it would have found it. If it was Java, I know it wouldn't have passed the build. When you're the only author? You can do whatever you want with whatever you want. If work for a larger employer and have real teams, you cannot rely on your talent alone. That's why dynamically and untyped languages are usually inferior choices for corporate development.

However, the core complaint is not about node.js....that's between you and your hosting-env/hyperscalar. My problem is MASSIVE complex websites that render simple static content, yet make 100s of REST calls to build a page in a real-time on my client...rather than just build the final page...save it somewhere. And to your point, it's not JavaScript's faults that there are idiots out there. However, the community certainly seems to be embracing and encouraging all sorts of complexity and frameworks.

Every front-end-dev I've talked to as well as the ones I work with daily will tell you that you need many modern frameworks in your work product in order to stay employable....specifically meaning if you write a simple HTML page with simple minimal JavaScript, the first guy who sees your page will tell your boss you're a clueless moron who doesn't know his way around React/Vue.js/Angular/Svelte...not that you do know your way and thought they were a fit for larger projects. So let's add 100 dependencies in your build and many frameworks....so people know you know what you're doing. So now the user has this slow page and gets to watch it rerender in real-time on his page...making it challenging to know when it's fully loaded and having links and buttons move around on him/her...I've many times accidentally clicked the wrong function on an app because it moved the buttons around in the time between when I position my mouse and click.

But to the OP's original, this is not about Java. This is fully about JavaScript...and more precisely, misuse by JavaScript. It's just a tool. It's the author's fault the page is a mess and horrible time to use.