There's a tool that will help Duolingo develop more efficiently, and so investors think the app is done? I've been doing some vibe coding lately -- and believe me, being able to ask an LLM to spit out the code of a basic app is nowhere near being able to develop a production quality app, let alone run a good business.

Why not jusy use railroads for the long hauls? To me, trucks seem better for the collecton and distribution at either end.

"Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all..." Sheesh, I am WAITING for the CHANCE to upgrade to Windows 11! I keep my ASUS laptop fully updated via Windows Update all the time. At the top there is a colorful invitation to upgrade to 11. I try it regularly, I've gone down the "see if you system can support Windows 11" path, the answer is yes, but finally I must wait until "Windows 11 update is ready for your model". When, WHEN, I ask! Will it be before the Windows 10 support ends??

Culture tends to pervade an organization.. and usually flows down from the top. As the discussion reported in the article is centered on the competent management of details, I think it is relevant that I found this typo while reading the front page of the bcachefs web site: "...bcache already has a reasonably good track record for reliability Starting from there...." Just a proofreading would have caught that. So I imagine there may very well be such oversights in the code as well.

In the end, as paradigm shift does ruin some lives and expectations, don't there end up new industries and new work? I think it requires two things: entrepreneurship (unboxed creativity) to get out of your sinking boat and be able to see new value niches, and retargeted education for the workforce (with an associated delay). Both are education issues. If the education system is too workforce focused, without enough practise and preparation for broader thinking, that's where you've (as a society) put yourself in a problem spot. Because paradigms are always going to shift...

I thought human personality was dried up in the tech sector. But what a great name, the Jack-Ma-Backed Ant Group! What is a jack-ma-backed ant? It has a funny, crooked back?

Completely agree. When I read this, "...paints an equally grim picture," I was a bit stunned, because until that point I had thought the article was /celebrating/ the trend! But I guess that was me, not the author..

As I am in France, the AM band (called Medium Wave in Europe) is unused. Spain and England use it, though, so I tune in from time to time to hear English and Spanish...

Thank heavens! I first thought that this article was about CHU... Whew!

1. Not stated, the point would obviously be to get out of any legal jurisdiction.. I, for one, don't appreciate that attitude. 2. "Edge processing", as I understand it from my part of industry, is to do processing close (in time and often space) to the point of use of the data, not the place of storage.

This is *NOT* offering employees "unlimited time off". My company has this, we call it "balanced time away". Instead this is a flexible policy where managers work with their underlings to decide what is an appropriate time off and when.

Ideally, it could be quite beneficial, for instance, if you work really extra hard for a few weeks to make a delivery, and the manager can recognize that and reward it by agreeing to some additional time off to celebrate and recover. Or if family stress outside of work mounts, a manager can encourage some time away to help avoid a breakdown.

BUT, there are two major problems. 1) Because this is not a system, there is no tracking, and no seniority. If you've been with the company many years, and you are accustomed to an extra week and a half of annual vacation, it is easy for that to be trimmed away. Even if you deserve your 2 weeks as a new hire, it's easy for that to be trimmed down. 2) What if you have a nice manager, good with people who believes in reward, but your friend and colleague has a mean, parsimonious manager who believes in the strength of fear? Will there be fair and even treatment across the organization?

These are two *HUGE* problems, and it entirely depends on your corporate culture how it's going to come out. I hear Microsoft maybe doesn't have the nicest culture in the first place.

P.S. I avoided the term "bullsh--" in my post, but I sure did want to use it!

I work for a $250+M/yr corporation specializing in audio/video stream processing for television and online streaming industries. We use ffmpeg, but not for our "heavy lifting". Our core codec products still undergo continuous improvement by a staff of specialists, and it is the difference we can make w/respect to our competitors that keeps us in business. And frankly, when it comes to achieving a quality compression at challenging bitrates, ffmpeg isn't even on the playing field. That said, we do use a couple of ffmpeg's capabilities in products, and ffmpeg is all over the laboratories to help with analysis and monitoring. Ffmpeg is indeed indispensible. But as far as "completely eradicating proprientary software in its niche"? Our customers say otherwise.

The quotes are, "...it would take a team.." and, "...no single person knows...". That's a line of stonewalling corporate BS. Because they could certainly assign those engineering teams to investigate and actually produce an answer.

When I see this kind of mistake right at the top of an article, I have to wonder who's writing and why. Cadmium and tellerium are elements; cadmium telluride is a compound of the two. "Cadmium and telluride" could only have been written by someone with zero experience in photonics or chemistry.

It seems like folks have forgotten all about them.