In hindsight the period 2015-2022 was a kind of a golden age for Microsoft.
They actually made (well, acquired) some good software, and even not-so-good stuff like Azure had a point of existing.

Of course it all went downhill very quickly.

Inertia. And GitHub was actually good, despite MS ownership. Until recently.

Questions like “who is this random foreigner”?
Alex Karp is not exactly a household name. And never underestimate xenophobia of rural Alpine regions.

“declare” is doing the heavy lifting here

We need to separate the feeling of driving from practicality. EVs are pleasant to drive for sure. Having to plan your trips around charging is annoying, there isn’t really much progress there.
The only reason I want a car is to do spontaneous trips to less populated areas. I already have range anxiety, I top up as soon as I’m below 1/3 of the tank. Batteries make it worse.

Surprisingly not completely out of touch, companies suffering from middle management long predates AI.

Of course he falls into the same error as most corporate people assuming that people are born with skills rather than trained for them. Why not retrain that 20% into builders and sellers.

Did they try making it good?

What sucks even more is that Palantir are actually good at what they do. They delivered an IT project to a government agency without going insanely over budget, or failing completely. I hate it when bad guys are competent.

The 2 remaining devs using Copilot will leave it.
It’s rare to see such a clear example of first-mover disadvantage as GitHub Copilot.

Ah, I see you were exposed to Scott Manley’s narrative style

Fleeing the consequences of his own actions, how sad /s

Step 1: Profit
Step 2: Destroy the system that made you rich
Step 3: ???

racist incidents

Sound European enough

I don’t think it will ever completely remove tourism, but the current approach is going to ruin the tourist industry too.
There’s nothing left in the old city any more, it’s all tourism. And who’s going to come to visit a bunch of overpriced souvenir shops on an island?

Unironically, as a European, I think the anti-gun stance of many American politicians is more harmful than not.

Socialized medicine, abortion rights, freedom from religion, dealing with racism … many of those would come easier if they didn’t threaten people’s sacred guns.

Partially. If they get stuck a human is alerted to take over remotely. I think they are Filipinos though, based on some other news here.

Also the definition was formalized. Grouping certain human traits and calling it by a common name wasn’t a thing before.

Walmart ​employs about 2.1 million ‌people worldwide

Getting rid of 1000 is just another Tuesday for them

10 years? Ain’t nobody got time for that

Well duh. That’s how training an LLM works

I assume there’s a bottom at some point. Bedrock or something like that. But idk I’m not a geologist.