I was thinking this could work well at the golden gate. The water is deep enough that most fish and all boats can pass with no issue. On the other hand the planning time and cost would be 10-100x because of the environmental concerns red tape. Just like it can cost a fortune to add just a public toilet in SF.

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I thought that lying to the judge was a serious offense for a lawyer. I know cops get put on a special list if they a repeatedly found to lie to judges.

I guess laws don't apply the same for the folks in the system vs common folks. So much for We The People.

Yeah, I do not like the bailouts, but if my tax money is going to pay for the bailouts I want to get some of that back in my pocket. I only invested $12k, so not a massive investment, and I don't expect a 10x return either. I do think there is potential for 2-3x in 5y if they start getting their act together. The main problem is that employee morale is low, and they are going to have a hard time keeping the good employees that can get things done.

With the increased tension with eastern powers, having solid chip manufacturing within the US borders is geopolitically very important. That's part of my thinking that Intel is too important to let fail.

I know the x86 chips are translating into microcode, but I feel that it is partially why they are relatively inefficient in compute per watts compared to more modern architectures.

I'm surprised that x86 is still a thing. It is pretty clear that ARM chips now able to run circles around Intel chips both on the portable and the server market, especially when you consider the compute per watts.

Now, I got some Intel shares last month because, just like the big banks and the Detroit car manufacturers, I believe they are Too Big To Fail and will likely get bailed out by our tax dollars when it comes to it. I mean they first hit $20 a share in 1997, peaked at $75 in 2000, and have been mostly cruising around $20 since. The overall business should much bigger than it was 25y ago. With Nvidia price gouging I feel there is a big opportunity there for them, but AMD seems to be doing a better job at executing.

As others have pointed out, the same content is available for free in other platforms such as YouTube. I don't pay for YouTube and I do pay for ad free Netflix, so that's a positive for me. Yes, you can block ads on YouTube but they are making this harder, and most content creators are putting sponsored content in the middle of their videos.

Politicians are getting in the way. While they officially want to reduce pollution they also do not want to eat too much in the profits of their corporate sponsors.

For example in Silicon Valley you need to get permission from PG&E (yes the Erin Brockovich foes) before you can be permitted to install panels. They can refuse if your capacity will be too high. Locally we are not allowed to cover the entire roof, as the firemen need room to walk on the roof. I get that one, safety first.

I'm considering putting panels on my south facing walls and get batteries. After that I might be able to curt the cord from the grid since they want to charge $25 to $50 per month just for the privilege to be connected to the grid. Knowing CA lawmakers they might want to pass a law to make it illegal to be off grid as PG&E profits would take a hit.

Again I'm talking profits, I'm charged $0.41 to $0.51 per kWh, plus a monthly minimum fee.

Going off grid would be a good way to say FU to them and save over $1k/y at current rates.

A friend of mine with no solar can have monthly electrical at $1k for a family of 5, insane.

Yes go solar, if not to save the planet, do it for selfish reasons: save your wallet in the long term.

Yep, if you work in tech you should be able to retire early by living below your means and invest the savings. I personally retired before 50 and really enjoy the additional free time.

His boss's boss will probably say to fire him for not drinking the cool aid.

The think tanks that advise the companies boards are pushing the AI adoption very hard, so all the CEOs are complying, whether they believe it or not.

The individual contributors and middle managers onky have the choice to comply or get laid off, most of the time the latter.

I only know what I watched on the Netflix documentary but it seems that they did test and the test proved without a doubt that the sub was likely to fail eventually. The CEO pulled a "I reject reality and substitute my own". To some extent the only good thing the CEO did was to get on board the sub. Unfortunately a professional pilot would have bailed out, and that's why he ended up being the pilot: all the other pilots resigned or got fired for refusing to dive.

I used to work for a self driving car company and we had several safety incidents that were ignored. At some point the VP of HR said that the space race was won at the cost of lives, justifying putting unaware pedestrians in harms way.

The Ocean Gate CEO was no exception, I've met and worked for similar CEOs before. My recommendation is to stay clear of companies were the CEO is proud of being a liar, or if the CEO is just a board puppet.

And a third dog shows up.

I'm not sure it will help. The community will need to switch to the new repo for this to become a success.

The best option is to not use PHP based technology. There are so many other options with fewer issues. I understand there are some killer app but nobody in their right mind should start a new project in PHP. Yet Oracle and Azure still find new customers.

I recently left the workforce but we did use GitHub and we did backups to separate read only repositories (archived through admin privileges) and also a separate GitHub org limited to a handful of employees. Furthermore our CI/CD system had several cached copies of the repositories in AWS (to improve the performance) which means these are full git clones to recover from. Finally most devs will have a full clone on their laptop.

We also use terraform to manage most, but not all (not all settings are manageable through terraform), GitHub repos configurations. This ensured consistent rules across the micro repos. Most small shops do not bother with these things until the fan gets hit. I'm quite sure this company security and DevOps practices must be abysmal if their app stopped working for days. They will probably address it by 'being more careful', which last only for a short time.

A few years ago, at a small AI startup and internet forced pushed to main, deleting 2 days of changes. I fixed it thanks to my morning sync, got the handful of devs with lost commits re-push their commits and we were back to normal in 30m. We added branch protections after that, and I've always made sure to use branch protections for all GitHub and gitlab repos ever since.

Moto was "Don't be evil", which still allows to "do evil" just not on purpose. Dropping it was a clear message to the rest of the world that they could do evil on purpose, without internal questioning.

I worked at Google when the internal chat deletion was enabled. It was pretty clear that the goal was purely to lower the ability to get audited during lawsuits.

IANAL but I think it became pretty bad when Google started doing government work which has strong requirements to retain such information. Google would CC lawyers on potentially sensitive communications in order to claim attorney/client privilege, even if the attorney would not read the content, it was just cc-ex to prevent discovery. Then they banned the use of written notes on anything remotely sensitive.

I once had a VP at a different company asking to delete emails after 30 days, which is ridiculously short, especially considering we had 3 weeks release cycles.

Once your communications systems are highly optimized to prevent discovery, and you are convinced multiple times of illegal practices, it is pretty clear that you should be banned from trying to hide the truth.

See how it works with high level politicians, be it with personal emails servers or the use of platforms like Telegram.

TBH I do not think most technical managers truly believe AI coding is there. I personally suspect it is the Think Tanks that whisper in the Boards ears that believe it. The boards then mandate the CEO to cut R&D cost (or stop hiring if they were hiring) and re-invest a small portion the "saved" costs into AI agents. It will take 2 years before the CEO start seeing the returns on this new strategy and I predict that there will be a re-hiring spree to try to fix and undo the non working bits of the AI generated code.

We will probably see a rise in AI coding style which will self feed on the same biases and self confirm leading to less innovative designs in coding patterns.

I do believe the coding agents are helpful and make me more productive, especially when I try to access new APIs (ones I'm previously unfamiliar with) and help write unittests. Unfortunately the hallucinations are pretty severe and some of the recommendations can make things worse. For example I saw Github Copilot recommend replacing a string split (split on the first dash, keep the second half) with a regular expression. In practice regexes should be a last resort, not your go to way to split strings, if only for performance sake.

As far as I know it is near impossible for humans to survive without some source of animal protein. India which has a large percentage of vegetarians who receive significant animal proteins through dairy.

Once you are old enough you can get by for a long time without animal proteins, but babies cannot survive without animal proteins (and yes mother's milk count as a source of animal protein).

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