> I watched some explain how deepseak got good and the Chinese approach to LLM training.
I distinctly remember reading a big pantie twisting from Sam Altman and Co that Chinese took their stuff, the stuff OpenAI and Co spent billions to create, and used that as the base for $0.00
Correct. To get to the staff engineer level you probably spent at least 10 years in the industry making gobs of money. You did save some, right? Right?
> I read it as saying you should fire someone because of their age. Not stupid, malicious.
One does not get the title of "Staff Engineer" for age.
One also does not get fired for age. One gets fired for sitting on their ass doing virtually nothing. The "Staff Engineers" and above tend to sit on their ass, doing virtually nothing. Any sane company would do well by firing them.
When Google was a young company the idea of someone in engineering with a fat title sitting on his ass doing nothing was not tolerated. That's when Google was doing amazing things, was innovative and actually gave a s!it because every single person in that company wanted to get s!it done. Right now Google is a standard issue sh!t company because its upper echelons are full of people who are just warming their fancy chairs, talk about their amazing work life balance and count the days to their next options package vests so they can take yet another multi-months vacation.
> So you suggest firing people based on their title alone? Sounds pretty damn stupid.
You can look through the threads in this comment section and in other comment sections of threads that touched on Staff Engineers and Senior staff engineers. People perfectly illustrate why the companies would do well firing them - people describe that as their dream "retirement" job.
Yes, I suggest firing every single one of them. They are non-performing group eating enormous compensation packages.
I worked closely with a few during my career in a few companies. It is a retirement plan of people who neither can nor want to perform after they "put in time". These days as someone who gets to give my couple of cents to folks in the upper echelons of promising companies I tell the newly minted CTOs to either not hire them or if they are already hired, fire them.
Staff engineer and above = 45 year old soccer player bench warmer getting the pay 22 year old striker.
> they have no history of working devices to prove themselves!
* Boot loops.
* Android updates that they push to their own phones that brick those phones or break the cameras. It is as if their engineers write code against the devices those engineers can't use to test on.
* Non-existent customer service in case the phone does go into a boot loop or update breaks the camera.
Google fails at even building an ecommerce website for the special launch event. In 2021. For a launch of a major "premium product".
Why on earth would one ever believe the rest of the product which is orders of magnitude more complicated would actually function and not suck in 4 months?
I syncthing all devices/systems onto staging server and just rclone it via encrypt target onto S3-compatible remotes. It is about 4TB. After the initial "long" backup, the hourly runs take minutes
> There are plenty of "Average people" that entered near the top, and since not everyone can sell simultaneously, that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down.
Most of "average people" entered at or near the top. The ones that did not were so engaged in gambling that they did not sell when it did 20x return. Call it what it is: fear of missing out.
Even DeepFuckingValue, who sold at least some of this position and netted a lot of money after taxes was not smart enough to say that 20x return in a few months is a time to pack the toys and go home so he could fight another day, leaving millions on a table in a futile hope that it would do much, much better.
> M. Whether I run my Python or C# or Java on ARM or Intel doesn't matter too much to me and if AWS can offer me ARM servers at a discount, I might as well take advantage of that.
I think that's the fundamental mistake in reasoning:
If ARM is cheaper for AWS, then AWS has no reason at all to offer it to its customers at a discount because the customers will not move if no discount if offered. As long as there's no mass market for ARM PCs/servers that work with all the modern software that anyone can rack and sell a-la ServInt/Erols/EV1 circa 1996 there won't be pricing pressure.
This has played time and time again in transit pricing.
I toured three in the late 2000 about 20-25 minutes away from Philadelphia in different directions. I was told if we wanted to go further away there were dozens.
There's its own market for 15-30k sq/feet built out data processing facilities. It is something that compete with Equinix? Not at all, but it is definitely competitive with 3rd tier colos at the major carrier hotels at a fraction of the cost.
I distinctly remember reading a big pantie twisting from Sam Altman and Co that Chinese took their stuff, the stuff OpenAI and Co spent billions to create, and used that as the base for $0.00