I wish you were getting replies instead of downvotes. I want to know why people think Bun is preferable here. For cross-platform non-performance-important code, I’ll use Bun all day. Once speed enters the equation, I don’t see why you’d still be using it.
Pfffff the rules for flying drones as set by the FAA are already draconian as is and that’s before you begin to run afoul of city/state rules. They’re usually banned in residential areas to begin with (without permits) so you’re screwed even before this rule. Hope you kept VLOS the whole time too or none of the other rules matter.
in 2018 the administration warned Europe of the dangers of Russian gas and badgered Germany into building an LNG port with the Trump-Juncker agreement
I don’t know how fair that is. Modern leaders looked at Appeasement in pre-WW2 and thought they could pull it off by tying their economies to that of their enemy so that war would be ruinous for both. It didn’t work but only because we now know China is bankrolling Russia’s sham economy.
This is going to sound like a corp answer but I mean this genuinely as an individual engineer. Google is a leader in its field and that means we get to chart our own path and do what is best for research and for users.
I personally strive to build software and models provides provides the best and most usable experience for lots of people. I did this before I joined google with open source, and my writing on "old school" generative models, and I'm lucky that I get to this at Google in the current LLM era.
Lost in the cacophony is the fact that Anthropic fumbled a strong lifeline while hemorrhaging cash without a business model. It’s fun to look down at OpenAI but they may not get another chance like this again.
Anthropic is the leading enterprise LLM provider. All they have to do is keep building a best-performing product, charge what they need, and keep costs as far down as possible. If my company knew there were an LLM 1.5x as good as Opus, they would be willing to pay 3x the cost. If it were being sold by Anthropic, they’d be even more likely to pay, since we could easily keep our same tooling.
Claude has had such a massive increase in usage since being labeled a supply chain risk the service has been struggling to scale to meet increase demand.
On top of that, the prevailing opinion seemed to be that courts would overrule the supply chain risk designation, allowing the government and its subcontractors to use Claude again.
It’s hard to see how they could have navigated this better
It's fun to say that Anthropic doesn't have a business model, but clearly they do. Hopefully they can achieve it while maintaining their standards, even if in the eyes of some that's 'fumbling a strong lifeline'.
This government contract was a very small part of anthropic revenue. Almost negligible. Their 2026 revenue is projected to be $14 billion to $20 billion. This contract was $200M over 2 years.
OpenAI smells desperate, and is already understood to be overextended. It isn't Anthropic that retired their flashy video gen platform, ceding competitive ground to Google.
What moat does MS still have to prevent an exodus to Linux anyway? We meme that LibreOffice is insufficient for replacing Excel because of its horrible UX but does that matter anymore when ChatGPT can guide you through any scenario in seconds for free? Device drivers are getting better and better literally daily and the number of Windows applications unported to Linux matters less and less as MS actively sabotages its own desktop application development tools.
Since this exodus (year of the linux desktop has been promised every year since 1998) has not yet happened, there is likely an actual reason (or several) that people choose to stay on Windows.
I use both, but prefer linux to stay behind the scenes on my servers. Windows has been a solved problem for me for the past couple of decades. Here's a random 100 day uptime screenshot that I found from 2017, https://imgur.com/a/PRp9L50. These days I usually shutdown more often to not waste power, and my NVMe makes bootups instant anyway.
I'm a LibreOffice user who recently had to use Excel. Most things I was able to figure out, but two things really stood out as problematic with Excel.
First, the keyboard shortcuts have no mnemonic. It's just random letters. No way to actually remember them.
Second, there was no way to have the row and column of the current cell highlighted. This made it difficult to find where I was - very important not to screw that up on a PCBA BOM.
I've not found any objective UI problem with LibreOffice Calc. It's not perfect, but it is intuitive and feels like the people who wrote it, use it.
> two things really stood out as problematic with Excel.
> First, the keyboard shortcuts have no mnemonic. It's just random letters. No way to actually remember them.
That is no more a problem than the fact that there is no mnemonic to remind you what "chaos" means in English. Shortcuts are there to be convenient to use, not convenient to describe.
> ChatGPT can guide you through any scenario in seconds for free?
Does this actually work? I'm just thinking of the people who refuse to learn from an in-person demonstration, much less a written description. But maybe enough of that level of incompetence is filtered out by the time you're doing interesting things with spreadsheets...
(Not that I'm opposed to people mass-abandoning Microsoft, just trying to be realistic about my hopes.)
>What moat does MS still have to prevent an exodus to Linux anyway?
Billions of installed seats, a huge corporate offering, a mature full-spectrum developer ecosystem, instant familiarity for billions, and working drivers for everything (which every vendor builds with their OS in mind).
no stupid "you're using the wrong distro" recommendations to fix issues either...
Couldn’t agree more and especially when some docs are incorrect and AI is able to guesstimate the correction based on other implementations or parallel docs that it’s found. Goes from “Let me spend a few days scouring the internet and our internal repo to see if I can maybe find a workaround” to “This can definitely get done”.
The whole point of Azure is that it ties into Windows processes neatly. If everyone stops using Windows, then there won’t be any real point to use Azure.
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