These are good developments, but it remains to be seen how much of impact they will have. Software developers will have to follow a bunch of “best practices”, but there isn’t a requirement that they are good at them. There are no fines for producing insecure software, only fines for not following the rules.
Software providers are also likely to be specifying narrow “fit for purpose” statements and short (ish) support window. If costs go up too much, people will be using “inappropriate” and/or EOL stuff because the “right thing” is too expensive.
To be clear, this is a step in the right direction but is not the panacea.
Universal Commercial Code says that if your agreement does not specify a place of payment you can pay at any Microsoft office building. So check the agreement and if it doesn’t specify a place of payment then take $24 in cash to any Microsoft office building. If this doesn’t work, have a real litigation lawyer send their legal department a letter about them violating UCC and that a lawsuit is incoming.
At this point, I'm already building boxes on AWS. Fortunately we're building a greenfield app and I still have the opportunity to recommend we pivot our vendor. I'll be posing this argument to my client:
"If Microsoft's solution to a simple billing issue is, 'Create a new account and start over,' then what happens the first time we have a simple issue in our production application? Or even in our development environment during the development stage? Are we just down for weeks until Microsoft tells us, 'Create a new account and start over?'"
I think I have a pretty compelling argument to pivot what would've been an easy $10M (over 10 years) project to a different vendor. I may not be able to win the argument to going to a smaller vendor, but Microsoft just lost a chunk of change if I can sway the client.
Not just rate of return, but who will be the fund providers and what will their fees be?
Even at the exact same rate of return, the difference in the (effectively compounded) fees paid on a low-cost index fund and a “low-cost” index fund can be 15% of the total value of the account over the course of 6 decades. You can do this math yourself by looking at existing funds.
The number and amount of money involved makes these a really juicy target for providers that will charge higher than standard fees if they can get away with it.
Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts. But I agree with the quoted people at the universities that think that the levels of undiagnosed anxiety and ADHD outstrips rich-people-cheating by 5:1 or so. Public K-12 has become awful in the US and is most definitely causing anxiety at high rates among students. School is nothing like when we were kids.
> Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts.
What makes you say this? Do you think she went into the assignment knowing that the rates of disability diagnosis were quite so high at Brown, Stanford, Amherst, etc.? Or do you think she might have gone in with an open mind, learned the facts, and then formed the thesis of the article?
VMS expects to be run as a cluster of machines with a single drive system. How that actually happens is “hidden” from user view, and what you see are “logicals”, which can be stacked on top of each other and otherwise manipulated by a user/process without affecting the underlying file system. The results can be insane in the hands of inexperienced folks. But that is where NT came from.
All true, all good points. Some day partitions and their unique UUIDs will be the sole valid identifiers. Then end users will have to be warned not to copy entire partitions including their (no longer unique) UUID. Sounds bizarre but I've had that exact conversation.
> Cherry kept making the same product line which they had since the 1980s, with relatively minor improvements.
Cherry was an American company that manufactured in the US until the automotive division was sold to a German company with keyboard switches thrown in. They moved production to Germany to capitalize on the perception of German quality. So, it’s not really surprising that it stagnated - it was a somewhat unwanted portion of a company and all the original folks got left behind.
Same here. Minor iterative engineering innovation has been the main theme for years in Germany. Somehow hoping for a wakeup call, but it is hard to be optimistic these days.
I associate “German engineering” mostly with Dieselgate nowadays. German-made tools are still excellent, but even there companies like Rösle or Vogel quietly moved production to China or India.
Not a tech company, but I feel strongly about this when it comes to LAMY (a fountain pen company). As far as I can tell their pens (notably the Safari and 2000) have stayed almost exactly the same for the past 40 years!
The only thing they tweak in these pens are the limited edition colors, which for the Safari they're releasing probably 3+ per year. I once met a guy who had a collection of over 50 Safari pens so I guess that market works out for them…
This is exactly one example I had in mind. I visited LAMY about 8yrs ago as we were paid by local government to consult local companies for AI and data analytics applications. While I was deeply impressed by the value creation depth at LAMY, it was also crazy how anachronistic the operation was.
on the other hand, I am curious as to what the perception is of technical improvements in fountain pens in the past 40 years that they are not following?
Lots of colleges offer laboratory science classes for homeschooled children. AOPS wipes the floor with any math education you’d get at a public school. Most US national laboratories have on-site programs for school-aged kids and homeschoolers have equal standing for attending.
We’ve homeschooled all our kids up to 8th grade. Our oldest is now a sophomore at the public high school but will start attending community college next year, paid for by the school district.
Most of the adults you see at the various group things are stay-at-home moms. Most. Some stay-at-home dads. Some of the moms have part-time jobs. I don’t recall any dads with part-time jobs. But many dads are present while also working full-time. You get into a rhythm, have a schedule, etc. and you can work it out. My wife is fairly unusual in that she runs her own full-time business. Many moms don’t like her, presumably because they gave up their careers to do this and are jealous that she does both.
> My wife is fairly unusual in that she runs her own full-time business. Many moms don’t like her, presumably because they gave up their careers to do this and are jealous that she does both.
FWIW, my experience is that the dynamic at play in these situations is that women who run their own businesses or otherwise have high-powered careers tend to have a constellation of personality traits that is significantly shifted vs. those of stay at home moms, plus their daily lives are very different, so they don't really fit in. Saying that without value judgement, just an observation.
Wait... you homeschool your kids and yet you write "...and [they] are jealous that she does both." No, they are ENVIOUS: one envies what they don't have and are jealous of what they have.
> Altman taking OpenAI public to get it into the SP500
There are eligibility requirements to meet before a stock can even be considered for inclusion into the SP500, and it’s hard to see how OpenAI, if they ever get into the situation where they need a public bag holder, could pull off another restructuring and then seasoning before the whole world realizes what’s going on.
Be wary. Pay attention. But don’t lose any sleep over it.
2 July 1937, 2100 hours: TG Quivey was returned to the ship by the shore patrol; offense: (1) conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, (2) creating a disturbance in a public establishment, (3) threatening and violence, (4) employment of obscene language, (5) disrespectful in manner to the assistant patrol officer. Placed under sentry's charge.
2 July 1937, 2140 hours: TG Quivey examined by Commander Mull and found to be under the influence of intoxicating liquors.
2 July 1937, 2145 hours: Disconnected water line from dock.
2 July 1937, 2325 hours: EL Agers returned to ship without a liberty card.
3 July 1937, 0043 hours: HW White reported aboard absent over liberty 43 minutes.
3 July 1937, 0920 hours: Received two general court martial prisoners from USS Oglala for further transfer to US Naval Prison, Mare Island, California.
3 July 1937, 0955 hours: Published the findings and sentence in the case of DH LeClaire, tried by deck court. Guilty. Sentence: To lose $12 of pay per month for two months.
3 July 1937, 1301 hours: Underway, clearing Pearl Harbor enroute to Howland Island to assist in search for lost plane of Amelia Earhart.
3 July 1937, 1445 hours: JT Green released from confinement.
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5 July 1937, 0130 hours: BR Sharp placed on sick list, contusion, right shoulder, fell out of hammock.
6 July 1937, 1130 hours: RV Udick and AR DiLella placed in solitary confinement.
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7 July 1937, 1800 hours: LE Hogue injured while "skylarking on forecastle", concussion, negligence apparent.
9 July 1937, 0900 hours: RE LaMarche injured during Neptune Party, punctured abdomen from scissors in pocket. BW Lloyd, injured during Neptune Party, dislocated shoulder when thrown in the tank.
Software providers are also likely to be specifying narrow “fit for purpose” statements and short (ish) support window. If costs go up too much, people will be using “inappropriate” and/or EOL stuff because the “right thing” is too expensive.
To be clear, this is a step in the right direction but is not the panacea.
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