It wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest understanding of the technology,…
There is a great deal of death in a language.
Gawker flouted the law. They were publicly sharing an intimate video of Hogan without his consent, he got a court order telling them to stop and they just refused to obey it, stating that they had a first amendment…
Historically, the UK was run for the benefit of an elite and the regions they lived in, but they discovered that that ran counter to their own interests. They reversed the economic parts of that in Ireland in the 1890s…
Viewed in isolation, the number of redundancies might not be unusual, but how it's being presented to the employees is. Before, Zuckerberg rhetorically accepted responsibility for lay-offs, but now he's making clear…
He was a Communist until his death in the 1970s, but Communism is a pretty broad spectrum and his beliefs moved about it during his life. His public and financial support for Stalinism in France until the mid-1950s was…
Enshittification - they switched to artificial sweetener.
The two companies are not the same; their dominant positions are in different markets which means the anti-trust implications of them extending into a specific market have to be judged separately. As an extreme example,…
In general, the more direct the impact of your role on short-term revenue, the safer you are when your company starts sacrificing people to the gods of quarterly accounts. Ancillary service workers always get hit badly,…
The role of McDonnell-Douglas is exaggerated. Boeing had achieved pretty close to a monopoly in the mid-1970s, but things had changed by the mid-1990s. 1. Domestic airlines protected by regulation had been effective…
Social media sites have so many users/viewings that fixed costs for serving all their content don't really matter to them, but since ads don't pay much per viewing, they have to cut the marginal costs of hosting and…
The CCP really don't want another Tienanmen Square and bend to public opinion when necessary, e.g. the ending of lockdown. Given that a lot of Chinese women feel strongly about this, their government can still prod them…
Also, Pascal is a direct descendant of a very, very old language (ALGOL-58 from 1958). In the 1950s, HLL compilation was at the extreme edge of what computers were capable of doing and a key goal of language design was…
No British crime report ever: "Well, the thief lets more people watch my television for free than I did, so it rightfully belongs to him."
Cameron denied that and the two people who made the claim admit their only source was a single anonymous member of parliament. But, because it's so funny and they knew Cameron wouldn't sue, it didn't matter to them…
OS/2 would have beaten NT in the consumer and SMB markets. 95 dealt with every weakness of NT in those markets and provided developers, consumers and SMBs with a smooth migration path towards it. It had very good…
"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" = "He lied to us about something important" Murati's selection as interim CEO is a surprise and might be an attempt to distance the company from…
mIRC is very powerful, but most '90s, Windows power-users needed some explanation of how to use it, whereas Slack's design language makes it install-and-play for even basic users. Mobile design isn't just a response to…
Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.
Depending on the political situation in your country, your parents probably got the same knowledge of American life from TV series and films. America's monopoly of popular culture is weaker today than it was when they…
I don't think that's a common interpretation of the move. Heaney spent a year as a guest lecturer in UC Berkeley in 1970-'71 and realised there that his daily life in Northern Ireland had become dominated by the…
If it does, there's zero chance that Microsoft know about it. When your company is worth $2,427,000,000,000 , you'd have to be insane to risk it all like that.
It's one of those tricky irregular verbs in English: We dug our own grave. You are fired. He/She is fired. You are fired. You are fired. They are fired.
So, that link answers "Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?" Communism seems to be his favorite example of something that can work initially from a good starting point, but fails over time, and he also…
In 2006, Toshiba bought Westinghouse Electric Company in one of the worst deals in history. Westinghouse negotiated fixed price contracts to construct nuclear reactors and Toshiba provided financial guarantees, so they…
It wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest understanding of the technology,…
There is a great deal of death in a language.
Gawker flouted the law. They were publicly sharing an intimate video of Hogan without his consent, he got a court order telling them to stop and they just refused to obey it, stating that they had a first amendment…
Historically, the UK was run for the benefit of an elite and the regions they lived in, but they discovered that that ran counter to their own interests. They reversed the economic parts of that in Ireland in the 1890s…
Viewed in isolation, the number of redundancies might not be unusual, but how it's being presented to the employees is. Before, Zuckerberg rhetorically accepted responsibility for lay-offs, but now he's making clear…
He was a Communist until his death in the 1970s, but Communism is a pretty broad spectrum and his beliefs moved about it during his life. His public and financial support for Stalinism in France until the mid-1950s was…
Enshittification - they switched to artificial sweetener.
The two companies are not the same; their dominant positions are in different markets which means the anti-trust implications of them extending into a specific market have to be judged separately. As an extreme example,…
In general, the more direct the impact of your role on short-term revenue, the safer you are when your company starts sacrificing people to the gods of quarterly accounts. Ancillary service workers always get hit badly,…
The role of McDonnell-Douglas is exaggerated. Boeing had achieved pretty close to a monopoly in the mid-1970s, but things had changed by the mid-1990s. 1. Domestic airlines protected by regulation had been effective…
Social media sites have so many users/viewings that fixed costs for serving all their content don't really matter to them, but since ads don't pay much per viewing, they have to cut the marginal costs of hosting and…
The CCP really don't want another Tienanmen Square and bend to public opinion when necessary, e.g. the ending of lockdown. Given that a lot of Chinese women feel strongly about this, their government can still prod them…
Also, Pascal is a direct descendant of a very, very old language (ALGOL-58 from 1958). In the 1950s, HLL compilation was at the extreme edge of what computers were capable of doing and a key goal of language design was…
No British crime report ever: "Well, the thief lets more people watch my television for free than I did, so it rightfully belongs to him."
Cameron denied that and the two people who made the claim admit their only source was a single anonymous member of parliament. But, because it's so funny and they knew Cameron wouldn't sue, it didn't matter to them…
OS/2 would have beaten NT in the consumer and SMB markets. 95 dealt with every weakness of NT in those markets and provided developers, consumers and SMBs with a smooth migration path towards it. It had very good…
"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" = "He lied to us about something important" Murati's selection as interim CEO is a surprise and might be an attempt to distance the company from…
mIRC is very powerful, but most '90s, Windows power-users needed some explanation of how to use it, whereas Slack's design language makes it install-and-play for even basic users. Mobile design isn't just a response to…
Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.
Depending on the political situation in your country, your parents probably got the same knowledge of American life from TV series and films. America's monopoly of popular culture is weaker today than it was when they…
I don't think that's a common interpretation of the move. Heaney spent a year as a guest lecturer in UC Berkeley in 1970-'71 and realised there that his daily life in Northern Ireland had become dominated by the…
If it does, there's zero chance that Microsoft know about it. When your company is worth $2,427,000,000,000 , you'd have to be insane to risk it all like that.
It's one of those tricky irregular verbs in English: We dug our own grave. You are fired. He/She is fired. You are fired. You are fired. They are fired.
So, that link answers "Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?" Communism seems to be his favorite example of something that can work initially from a good starting point, but fails over time, and he also…
In 2006, Toshiba bought Westinghouse Electric Company in one of the worst deals in history. Westinghouse negotiated fixed price contracts to construct nuclear reactors and Toshiba provided financial guarantees, so they…