It's still a company worth $400B that makes $3B of profits and not even $20B of revenue.

And full of debt from AI datacenters full of hardware with a 6 year depreciation cycle, possibly even lower depending on what NVidia releases next.

So overvalued!

Oracle has >$60B in revenue and $16B in net income. It doesn’t seem crazily overvalued to me? Perhaps you were looking at quarterly statements?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL/financials/

Yeah plenty of suckers are trapped by Ellison’s downward facing grass cutting blades.

It’s a sad state of affairs. I mean Postgres is right over there!

We can't slow down.

Executives want to see numbers go up, even if it's a vanity metric like LOC or PRs merged.

It feels we're mostly building liabilities, rather than assets.

Management will later grind us to fix it all, as this will trigger a huge crisis as nothing works anymore, and we will have to do it and pretend they didn't create the problems themselves, so we keep our jobs, in the most optimistic scenario.

Companies with good tech leadership will thrive in that environment, but they are so few...

Just focus on getting healthy again. You have a very challenging road ahead of you, and it's only about your health.

Money, job and responsibilities can wait.

America will just get behind even more as years pass behind Europe in terms of proper regulation of the digital economy, which benefits citizens instead of companies and rich billionaries.

The reason is that europeans have nothing to win from those "winner-take-all" platforms the US has built in the past decades. Europe has built zero of them.

It contributes very little to Europe's GDP or the overall being of the european. And in some cases, it eats Europe's GDP, moving economic activity back to the US. This is different than for Americans which big tech is a net-positive contributor to society in my POV, mainly because how much economic activity $ it generates.

Big techs provide huge paychecks and made a lot of people rich in the US, and most of its GDP growth in the last decade. But it's a double-edged sword.

They will make laws in favor of them in detriment of the average American, while minting more billionaries than Europe could ever dream of.

Europe will take a long time to get the digital revolution the US already did, but it'll mostly come from regulations and government initiatives. And will be net-positive for humans living in Euope, not for owners of corporations.

It is interesting isn't it? Most of Europe has better internet access than the US for similar reasons: sensible regulation led to high competition.

> Most of Europe has better internet access than the US for similar reasons: sensible regulation led to high competition.

Which "most of Europe" would that be? Switzerland and handful of northern countries? Because it is definitely not Germany or several "you can't access half of the internet during times when twenty men kicking a ball on a field" southern states.

Same. Also became a .net developer after almost 20 years of Ruby/Rails.

Nowadays C# is anyways much more expressive than before. Meanwhile Ruby is still very slow.

Not to mention how poorly maintained are most Rails projects. People have been "vibe coding" forever.

A well-organized and maintained Rails app is great though. I'd definitely consider working with it again, but it really depends on what company it is.

Americans are about to find out why data protection laws exist in the EU, and why even the government has to follow it.

Nobody should have permission to query 70M Americans, it's a huge security flaw for the average citizen. But Pentagon has been doing this for a while a la Snowden, and the average american doesn't seem to be worried. With Snowden becoming a menace rather than a hero.

Once private government data from Americans starts being heavily used to mess up elections, or even worse, persecute people with a different opinion than the ruling party...

Americans will finally wake up that GDPR doesn't stiffle innovation, but rather protect its citizens from an evil actors.

But it may be too late, like when NSDAP started chasing jews and migrants. There was nothing they could do other than to flee to survive.

Unlikely. Also it doesn't work well where it needed in the EU.

That isn't true, if you run local models you'll also need to have to spend on operations.

Maybe focus first on providing value and later you can optimize this setup.

Just add very hard high limits and add instrumentation so you can track it and re-evaluate it accordingly.

This takes a couple of hours maximum at best.

Sounds like a plan, But what if you can just pay a fixed cost every month and not worry about anything?

What you suggested is the best way in my opinion, but given what OP asked, I gave my answer.

Wish they gave FFmpeg a decent chunk of money, words are cheap

They did contribute code. For opensource projects, good code contributions may be more valuable.

It was much easier to pirate games on the Dreamcast - the copy protection was broken to the degree that you could burn a game to a CD-R and have it Just Work without modifying the console in any way. It being both a total piracy free-for-all and also a catastrophic commercial failure doesn't seem to fit what you're saying.

Not to say that easy piracy is necessarily a death sentence for a console, the DS succeeded in spite of ubiquitous and cheap flashcarts, but the Dreamcast shows it's not necessarily a path to success either. There are just more pertinent reasons for a system to sink or swim.

I think that it was a game player and a DVD player had more to do with the success of the thing. Oh and it plays psx games too.

I owned both. The graphics/games were of similar quality. Having a larger game storage gave the ps2 a decent advantage. The dreamcast seemed more interesting. But the PS2 had a better customer feature set.

In models built prior October 2000 - it was very easy, just boot up Utopia loader and then you were able to run any game from CD.

Lol what? You got it the other way around. Also out of the dozen or so friends in my friend group who had a PS2, none of us had a modded PS2 or pirated games.

The PS2 was popular on its own and it wasn't related to piracy.

What are you talking about? The Dreamcast didn't even have adequate copy protection. I switched my entire collection to backups at some point to preserve the integrity of the original discs.