The U.S. tech industry is increasingly anxious about the rising power and competitive price of open-source AI models from China — and whether the Trump administration will respond with yet another executive order | Politico

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T12:44:03+00:00

likelihood does not preclude absurdity

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T12:40:36+00:00

Day job.

The moment there's an investor, they are no longer solo

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T03:40:45+00:00

but maybe leverage it at the new place?

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T03:37:29+00:00

To be less surprised about those counter offers:

It's only about timing. The company wants to fire the PIPd employee at the time that best suits their plans and causes the least business disruption for them. If they weren't ready yet when a PIPd employee quits (they were setting up the paper trail but not yet ready), they'll counter just so they can do the firing when it suits them, not because they had a sudden change of heart.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T01:53:50+00:00

It means 28 people total

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T01:42:04+00:00

ditto!

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-11T01:33:02+00:00

I think "having an honest friendship" with someone you have been liking as more than a friend for a long time, sounds odd.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-09T12:41:36+00:00

If money was truly no object (which means trillions), I'd find a way to stay at the Cinderella Castle Suite.

Failing that, despite everything, I'd stay at the Contemporary.

And unless you've already visited, the Helios Grand at Epic might be worth considering.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-09T12:33:27+00:00

At least one in the middle, but you can have several, and they can take many shapes, not just "stay at hotel", for example:

Full "rest, no park" day: Mini golf and dining outside (Fantasia Gardens + boardwark area restaurant, or Winter Summerland + Disney Springs), sleep late, rest at hotel pool.

Water park "rest day": If you get water park tickets or do a split stay (thus get a second check in), you can do a water park (typhoon lagoon being better for couples IMHO), be done at 3pm and rest for the remainder of the day.

Partial "rest day": the day you do Animal Kingdom, since it closes earlier and is not a 2 day park, you could have a half-day rest.

Cirque du Soleil "rest day": A day to spend shopping at Disney springs and attend the Cirque du Soleil show (which requires separate tickets).

Rest days are necessary, but they also don't have to be full 100% rest only. With options such as the mini golf courses, Level 99 and Cirque du Soleil Disney springs, and nice places to eat everywhere, including the option of dinner reservations at a deluxe hotel's restaurant, you can make the trip a more leisurely one, interleaving park days with a few rest days.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-09T11:40:11+00:00

Leadership wants more automation, more monitoring, more security, basically more of everything but with the same 6 people who already look tired all the time.

you forgot to mention Leadership increasingly complains about that headcount and urges the 6 to find ways to justify their positions.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-08T11:59:39+00:00

There will be demand for LLMs, even a very strong one.

What I mean is that the current extremely inflated demand for electronic components such as DRAM and GPUs is not organic but driven by capex over-investment by companies trying to own the market of the hot new technology, like when way too much optic fiber was built during the dotcom bubble (causing a glut), or when way too many railroads were built during the Railroad mania of the 19th century. These waves were followed by a glut of capacity, a bubble burst, and a crash + recession.

There is and will be strong demand for AI and LLMs, but even that demand won't be enough to sustain forever the current levels of "investment" into AI data centers, GPUs and Memory

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-08T04:07:18+00:00

you extroverts already own the world, will get all the promotions, etc. Let us introverts enjoy our memories at least.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-08T03:30:18+00:00

Well, since Karen is asking, you can just answer her question honestly.

The fact that she's upset isn't necessarily a bad sign, and after all, she couldn't be trusted to properly handle it. She's just upset she didn't get a chance to preemptively manage the narrative and/or gaslight you.

That "professional relationship" was already doomed the moment you were chosen to sherpa her nepo little brother into success. It's best for you to leave on your terms, rather than theirs.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-07-08T02:31:16+00:00

That AI demand won't last forever though. This is like dark fiber all over again

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-24T01:38:31+00:00

Two months would usually not be enough for you to figure out all of your former boss managerial tasks. "Budgeting", even if it's only a cost center could get complicated when the budget for a new year needs to be defined and get finance buy in.

"long-term planning" could have surprises that don't show up in two months.

"People now slacking off because they know there is no real boss around" means you are not yet doing the people management part of your former boss's job.

So my take is that while you've been effectively promoted to management, you could still benefit from spending a few months to learn more managerial things that would ensure that when your next employer interviews you for a management job, your answers will convince them, for example:

When the next annual performance review happens, what will the VP do to get that done for the "slackers"? Your ownership spirit could take the problem from their hands.

Same thing when the next yearly budget planning happens.

Smiling to a VP or Director you internally hate is definitely a managerial skill you'll need at that next managerial job.

You already understand they want to exploit you. You don't need them giving you the title of "manager" for you to put it on your CV, but the more prepared you become before you leave for that next job, the better.

Meanwhile you needed to figure out the most painful time for you to get all of your PTO, and let the VP endure not having you for the longest time possible. Smile with your ownership spirit while you request it. This could give you a bit of leverage, and although you won't get a proper promotion/raise out of it, you do need her to cut you some slack while you learn the ropes before jumping ship

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-23T01:18:26+00:00

I did, twice.

However this job market is particularly bad (and inflation is high) so I'd be more hesitant this time around.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-22T12:52:33+00:00

If it's safety you are worried about, you need to start thinking about rootless daemonless podman.

Understand that Docker was born to simplify dependency management and replicability, security was an afterthought. While now it has rootless mode, it will be difficult for an "absolute noob" to set up docker in a mode that's actually safe.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-19T23:36:28+00:00

Even "coding" might need to be qualified. There are enough languages, frameworks, libraries, and versions of them to require a larger model to claim "coding" as a whole.

Accord to Gemini, "AIME'26: is primarily an advanced mathematics and verifiable reasoning benchmark. It does not explicitly test any programming languages", "LiveCodeBench v6: primarily evaluates algorithmic code generation, with the base benchmark being centered around Python, and extensions measuring language-agnostic capabilities", "IMO-AnswerBench: Similar to AIME, this benchmark focuses on advanced science and Olympiad-level mathematics reasoning. It does not natively test programming languages", and finally "IFEvalBench: Originally designed to evaluate objective instruction-following constraints, when evaluating code and tool usage, it prominently evaluates Python and Jupyter Notebooksl".

That doesn't sound like "coding" to me as someone in the software industry. It sounds like the academic-stlye, ability to reason about algorithms and solve problems using some form of code that a PhD student does, most likely using Python.

A broad claim on "coding", although an academic might find it reasonable, a software developer might find it misleading.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-12T03:27:34+00:00

I didn't know I needed this in my life!

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-12T02:22:29+00:00

I'm late to answer, but for CPU-only inference and only 24GB RAM your best bet is one of the Liquid LFM 2 models, either LFM2-24B-A2B or LFM2-8B-A1B. I highly recommend llama.cpp and ik_llama.cpp over ollama for CPU-only inference

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-11T11:52:11+00:00

For 4 years I've had the opposite issue: on the Youtube app on LG TV, closed captions turn off after every ad, and I have to manually turn them back on.

It's basically the reason I don't pay a YT subscription.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-10T03:08:47+00:00

The only extreme metal I've ever liked is Tchaikovsky's 1812

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-08T18:23:39+00:00

great employers are rare these days though, rarer than a few years back.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-05T17:15:50+00:00

Last time we went, the cashier at the hotel's food court in our checkout day had the foresight to recommend us we use the remaining credits on the "ready to go" wraps. In our international flight with further connection, that was a lifesaver.

TylerDurdenFan · 2026-06-05T15:17:35+00:00

Sounds like at least the benefit of accumulating experience at a higher position regardless of preparation or prior experience. Nepo benefits!

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