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as someone on the other side who has had to deal with deploys that go from 5PM to 2AM due to bad code changes, and being on call with 40+ pages a day, there's a reason why SREs are just say no when they're the first responders to outages caused by poorly implemented features. I'm not saying just say no is the right mentality but I can see why many develop the cynical anti-change mentality

it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display.

why is that crazy? the demand for big epaper isn't really there, but demand for AI has been pretty clear

Ghidra by NSA 5 months ago

leave it to a three letter agency to use a pre-existing acronym for something pretty different

maybe it's better to say it was the biggest L of his engineering career instead of his political career

because the vendor is good at navigating the sales and compliance labyrinth to secure deals.

it's not just that. Alexandr Wang from Scale AI once said in a talk that they had to compete against Palantir for a gov contract. Palantir's salesmen have a high closing rate because they sell the software as if it were written by God itself. It's one hell of a sales strategy