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Run your years-old VirtualBox images? If I were to guess; maybe QEMU does that too.
The qemu-img(1) installed on my system claims that it supports every disk format supported by Virtualbox [0], so I guess the only thing left would be to be able to handle the "machine definition" file. qemu definitely won't do that out of the box, so, yeah, VirtualBox is better than qemu there. But I bet there's a fancy-pants GUI out there that has an import wizard that will handle that for you. [0] https://www.virtu…
Vbox has the desktop experience. The "guest integration" stuff and whatnot. If you've used it for years, familiarity.
Life is good, I guess.. Java people should start sweating.
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Enterprise companies typically don’t just add credit card forms, they push you through a sales process and don’t care much for small accounts.
For automated cloud computing services they do.
I'm skeptical Oracle fits into the wider SaaS business category vs enterprise sales.
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The UK empire is considered by many to have ended in 1947 with the independence of India. Others say it was finally finished in 1997 with Hong Kong. Either way the UK is still around and while things aren't rosy, they still trudge along and will continue to do so. Meanwhile the US's "supposed upcoming ending" puts them in a better position than the UK was in many different categories. It still has massive resources,…
Obviously the UK didn't vanish in a puff of smoke and nor will the US. America doesn't cease to exist it is just gradually ceasing to matter as I said.
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> Market signals on an impending AI bust are broader than just Oracle’s woes. It's worse than that - I believe that Oracle is one of the (many) companies right now that, if their AI experimentation fails, will stop the music, and everyone will be running for a chair. Oracle is one of a few foundational components in the circular-investing group of AI companies. If they fail to make their commitments they're the first…
What's the best way to hedge against this, considering many of us have significant savings in the market? A few puts on SPY dated a year or two out?
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When we tried to do a pilot with their cloud we couldn't even sign-up. None of the corporate credit cards were accepted. In addition to that the form basically only worked in Edge. We emailed support, they changed something on the backend. It still did not work. We gave up. In retrospective that was a very clear warning sign that their priorities were misguided. I'm glad we did not waste any further time and effort o…
Oracle Cloud sometimes feels like an elaborate prank that I'm not in on. I know people and companies on AWS (obviously), Azure, Google Cloud, Hetzner, CloudFlare's various PaaS offerings, etc., but I can't name a single thing running on Oracle Cloud. Somebody out there is clearly using but I'll be damned if I know who it is.
Many companies use OCI for their Oracle DBs, as I believe they get some sort of discount when run this way.
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For automated cloud computing services they do.
Microsoft pretends they do this with Azure where they'll let you signup with a credit card but anyone who has used Azure knows that the web admin is absolutely terrible and almost always requires speaking to a disinterested human to set it up properly. I'm skeptical Oracle fits into the wider SaaS business category vs enterprise sales.
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he is correct on most counts and for the rest I lack the competence to vouch for or denounce his research. a rare sight!
I like his work. I think he is wrong when he says AI is useless. I agree that it's far from being as useful as assholes like Amodei claim it is, but it clearly has use cases. Then again, that is the weak part of Zitron's argument, and laughably the only thing his critics like to engage. When he brings up the bonkers economics of AI, and how absolutely unsustainable it is, his arguments are very solid. I am still to s…
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> Protection from downside risk on your S&P500 investments may cost 20-30% of your investment What? Absolutely not.
What did you buy and for how much?