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This is a useful marker of progress in translation, not a replacement for literary translators. Six years ago I fed Dante's Inferno to AWS translation. It was...not good[1]. Maybe …

Leaving aside one's opinion of Elon Musk: was the CT any good as a truck? I have never, /ever/ seen a truck-y business (plumber, contractor, etc) in a Cybertruck. This puzzles me. …

> I’m an asshole and possibly not fun at parties I got this vibe at AWS, interviewing in 2020. They asked me to design a stock price tracking webapp. I started asking questions and…

Sadly this is the fate of many bulk carb foods. A loaf of generic bread from the supermarket is only slightly related to something you make yourself with flour yeast water and salt…

Yes, I think that is it. Thank you for finding it! AT&T took some bad press around that time, and in July 2016, the FCC, facing political pressure, and now sensing that the PR gods…

Jim is a good guy and ATIS tried real hard with STIR/SHAKEN, but technology cannot overcome the commercial incentives that carriers have to let this nonsense continue. I've written…

In rural America, the major telcos choose not to help, and that is a big factor here. You can't do stir/shaken crypto attestation of calls over TDM, but the big guys refuse to sell…

Two things. 1. If it's not written down, it does not exist. This needs to be a ruthlessly enforced rule. I know we all love those Mel the Programmer stories, but that's a story abo…

The UK power grid operators famously plan for massive demand surges at eg the end of major football matches. I cant imagine what their forecasters thought of the England-Mexico nai…

And inversely, steer away from (named competition). If I was Corp A competing with Corp B, what stops me, today, from flooding reddit etc with anti-Corp B material to pollute the m…

This is an odd little device. It seems you can only call other express chat users? it's reminiscent of cellphone systems from the old old days like Nextel walkie talkies. Also I se…

I'm going to mangle the terms of art here, but the ur-problem is that labels of routing, like phone numbers and email addresses, get confused with labels of identity, and then with…

I sometimes feel that when the industry moved from pets to cattle, what really happened is that the cattle turned out to need an exotic farm to live on, negating the savings. You c…

I worked on STIR/SHAKEN for the two biggest US operators. The techies tried very hard to make it work, and, indeed, there was a brief time when it worked pretty well, but, the ince…

The problem with (Enterprise, 365) is that it's critically underpowered for precisely the kind of knowledge work that the 365 power users need it for. Summarizing emails or Word do…

Cuts two ways. Why should I pay $200 for a BigBrand dog bed if this knockoff site shows SHRDLU has the same thing for $40? We all know that BigBrand gets it from the same supplier.…

I wanted to sympathize with OP, but I sense that the blog post was written while they were still fuming, and some of their behavior during the process (esp the first job) gave me p…

I see what you did there. Touché.

Oh Baldrick, you must have attended one of the great Universities. Oxford. Cambridge. Hull.

Amen. Normal office work is wildly different from what we read about on HN. If you were a CEO, determined to lay off all your people, you would want to really zero in on having you…

Some would say, "Oh, Windows Update again"

I feel that OP should be congratulated on trying! I dont see this experiment as any kind of "failure". Something was learned, and OP is better off for it. Computing and science lit…

The text that SCOTUS put out today discusses this in great detail. You might agree or disagree with their reasoning, but they consider what "obvious" means in light of the text and…

Its been "day 2" at Amazon for a long time now. I guess the Leadership Principles need an update.

I do wonder how Microsoft will manage the transition of the NT generation. Raymond Chen has been doing this kind of work for thirty years. He probably has, what, another ten years,…