I mostly don't blame Amazon.
If the mob boss demands $10M in protection money in order to allow your $2.5T business to operate, you pay, especially if that mob boss happens to be the head of federal law enforcement.
Maybe we shift a bit of focus towards Congress, supreme courts and frankly voters who are apparently OK with this.
Speaking of the Supreme Court, Justice Robert’s wife earned $10 million as a “consultant.” The compensation made her one of the highest-paid legal recruiters. That's another "Melania movie".
I agree that we should be blaming the voters who decided that naked bribery and corruption is an American value (moreso than, say, their bleating about gun rights), but…
The people most capable of fighting back, and who ultimately have the most to lose in a kleptocratic, authoritarian state, apparently to be cowards and losers. Bezos and Jassy could tell the administration to pound sand, given how critical AWS is, and that Amazon is part of the like, 4 companies propping up the teetering stack of cards holding up the thing this administration (and its weaponized voters) think represents “the economy”. But they won’t, because they’re a bunch of feckless children, desperate for scraps.
Yeah I think this is a good way to think about it.
I mean Google, MSFT for example have effectively unlimited developers, and their products still suck in some areas (Teams is my number one worst) so maybe AI will allow them to upgrade their features and compete
At large companies, UI/UX is done by UI/UX designers and features are chosen and prioritized by product management and customer research teams. Developers don't get much input.
As Steve Jobs said long ago "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste." but you can apply the same to Google and anyone else trying to compete with them. Having infinite AI developers doesn't help those who have UI designers and product managers that have no taste.
MSFT, GOOG et al have an enormous army of engineers. And yet, they dont seem to be continually releasing one hit product after another. Why is that? Because writing lines of code is not the bottleneck of continually producing and bringing new products to market.
Its crazy to me how people are missing the point with all this.
I think a big factor is generational. Bigcos are led mlby generations that are phone or email first. Chat is an afterthought. For orgs like that, Teams is great if chat is your least important collaboration method.
From outside as consumer. The end problem is that these product do not compete on price. A chat app on enterprise at the scale of customers they have should probably be 1€ a month. Not 10 or 20€.
That might not be multi billions a year business, but maybe chat app should not be one.
I remember a former colleague, (may he RIP) ported a similar optimization to our fork of Python 2.5, circa 2007. We were running Linux on PPC and it gave us that similar 10-15% boost at the time.
Transmission loss in gas pipes is probably lower than electric transmission?
Underground probably easier than above ground.
Lastly I think they are building data centers near natural gas fields...
I wouldn't expect so, because it's not just fugitive emissions we're talking about, but that you need to run a lot of big compressors to run pipelines. But often that cost isn't really counted because they just burn more gas to power them.
It's amortized for sure, gas is relatively dense in energy and can be transported long distance with minimal loss, unlike electricity. High voltage DC power lines are used in some places for long distance transport, but that's nowhere near the continent-spanning oil and gas pipes.
Yeah I was thinking they probably picked a public use case that looks a lot like their classified workloads...
The article mentions the simulation ran quickly, the time spent was debugging. Suggests to me the real classified system will be much more capable.
Maybe we shift a bit of focus towards Congress, supreme courts and frankly voters who are apparently OK with this.
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