Readit Newsp4ul commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
I feel similar sentiments about working in Cloud. It's mostly vaporware.
I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience working with cloud technologies, but this comparison strikes me as pretty unfair.
Public clouds have enabled thousands of companies to put their products into the world without having to build and maintain hardware. They've completely changed the landscape of computing.
I tried learning Python recently to move away from .NET. Wish I hadn't spent so much time reading about the language before actually trying to do a real world project. That environment and pip stuff is terrible. Where did they get the idea to do that? No other language I've come across has tooling that ridiculous. I switched to Go instead.
If you haven't written off Python completely, I would suggest giving it a second chance using uv [1] for managing environments and Python versions. In my opinion, uv is the best thing to happen to Python in 10 years.
p4ul commented on Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet ft.com/content/583e9391-b... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
I meant they've always had a reputation for being ruthless business people. Charging license fees based on the amount of memory in the host machine instead of the VM running Oracle, and things like that. They nickle and dime everything.
https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2025/...
They don't break it out into products in the results, but it looks like hardware, software, cloud, and support were all profitable.
I agree with this, and I'd go even a bit further and describe them as predatory. They seem to have absolute contempt for their customers, and look for every possible opportunity to bleed them dry.
But then again, I'm probably guilty of anthropomorphizing the lawnmower. [1]
Don't they already sell servers? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-platform/
I had the same reaction. Haven't they been selling DGX boxes for almost 10 years now? And they've been selling the rack-scale NVL72 beast for probably a few years.[1]
What is changing?
My first job out of uni was building a spreadsheet infra as code version control system after a Windows update made an eight year old spreadsheet go haywire and lose $10m in a afternoon.
Spreadsheets are already a disaster.
It's interesting that you mention disaster; there is at least one annual conference dedicated to "spreadsheet risk management".[1]
For inference they already face competition: that deal OpenAI announced with AMD
.. at a certain point it will be worth broadening away from CUDA.
Yep, and don't forget about Mojo, which has the potential to make such a transition less painful.
> MIT is taking (lots of) money from federal government.
The People of the United States are getting some of their research business done by MIT, yes. MIT competes for that business. It is not a gift, subsidy or favor to MIT.
Of course grants and contracts have terms. I hope the government can come to terms with MIT because I want the best researchers doing our work.
I wish this was better understood more broadly. Grants aren't no-strings-attached gifts—far from it; they are contracts.
When a researcher at a university gets a grant, that's the federal government hiring that researcher and their team to complete a specific research project. The research team has a particular research question that the federal government has deemed important enough that U.S. tax payers would benefit from getting an answer.
Remember, fascism is not an ideology or philosophical idea. It is a system of government. Gaining control of academia is a core part of this system. I applaud MIT for standing up to this.
I hope the other universities involved also resist. We'll see.
Yeah, I am very curious to see the responses from other institutions. The University of Texas (Austin) said they were "honored" to have received the compact.[1] That is obviously very concerning.
[1] https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-white-house-sent-its-c...
Boring names are also very generic, by definition, and thus often harder to remember. Especially when there are 10 other similar tools. Is it sql-validator, sql-schema-validator, schema-validate, db-validator, or god knows what else?
Edit: I am in favor of better “sub titles” / descriptive slugs / and so on. As well as names that are a hybrid of creative and descriptive. Sqlalchemy is a good example.
Why isn’t there a command line utility called “whatisthis” with a standard protocol that allows tools to give a brief description of what they are?
It could be extended to package managers as well. E.g “pip whatisthis foo_baz”.
Shit we should create this…
curl cheat.sh/grep # fetches brief grep cheat sheet