donny2018

>BYD has already proven <10min

BYD needs to be heavily liquid cooled/thermally managed to achieve that. The Donut battery only had metal heat sink on two or even one side - and its performance was even higher at high temperatures. LFP doesn't behave like that, I think?

I'd assume datacenters built for space would have different reliability standards. I mean, if a communication satellite (which already has a lot of electronic and computing components) can work unattended, then a satellite working as a server could too.

I hear people say that, but I’m yet to see what’s unreliable about Windows. I’m running Windows 11 with latest updates on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and it hasn’t ever failed me, not even once. It has been solid as a rock for me.

Windows laptops vary in hardware quality and software support significantly, maybe that’s where issues arise for some people?

Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.

Most people are fine with Windows, including myself. I find it a good business workhorse with excellent productivity features that I can rely upon, knowing that it will handle pretty much any task I throw at it.

Another factor vs Mac (for me) is that if something to happen to my ThinkPad while I'm at a factory somewhere in rural Uzbekistan, there is always a store in the nearby city where I can grab a Windows laptop for like $400 and continue with the job, and/or have my machine serviced.

Windows has enormous userbase, and obviously you'll hear a high absolute number of criticisms, especially considering that those who actively dislike the OS for whatever reason will take take their time to bring their frustrations online, and those who are fine with it rarely comment about it.

This, and apparently they don’t have a track record of producing bluffware before. They already have some interesting know-how heavy products, and previously they have fully delivered on them.

>I would have had a much easier time getting to where I am today if diagnostic criteria and awareness among clinical staff were better when I was younger.

When I have thoughts like this, I like to theorize about causality. If I had had an easier time when I was young, would I still have developed the qualities that helped me get to where I am now in the first place?

I'm a former AI-hater and sceptic. I do B2B consultancy/development work for my clients.

I understand why people are irritated by this.

However, recently I tried the GitHub Copilot agent with VS Code using Claude Opus 4.5. It literally implemented, tested and fixed entire new features in minutes, that otherwise would have taken days or even weeks of routine repetitive work from me. All while mimicking style and patterns in my existing codebase which made me instantly understand exactly what it was doing. I found it to be an insane productivity boost and I can see how it might be affecting hiring processes in numerous industries, especially in software engineering space.

Maybe, but with all the modern .NET tooling I feel at least 2x productive in .NET than in Spring Boot. There are a lot of quality of life stuff in .NET/C# that really does add up and makes a substantial difference (DX-wise) in the long run.

Your sample are tech people using Copilot, which is very small population sample. Hundreds of millions of casual users around the world default to ChatGPT, and for example in my country, it's basically household name at this point. They haven't even heard about Claude or Gemini. For Google, it looks like like Google+ vs Facebook situation all over again.

Where is that guy who coded RollerCoaster Tycoon in Assembly?

The best Reddit was the one the users from Digg were migrating to.

They were well positioned for cloud business long before AWS and Azure, but they still managed to lose this battle.

Google can be good on the technological side of things, but we saw time and time again that, other than ads, Google is just not good at business.

AI startups were easy cash grabs until very recently. But I think the wave is settling down - doing real AI startup turned out to be VERY hard, and the rest of the "startups" are mostly just wrappers for OpenAI/Anthropic APIs.

Redis, Akka, Hashicorp, CockroachDB, etc. Seems to be a common occurrence everywhere.