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Man, I remember being blown away after getting a 14.4 modem after dialing up with my 2400 from the family 286.... Data was instant, those ANSI greetings from the BBS were just there.

Not even learning about dying of dysentery? Or where in the world a certain person was?

You are technically correct... the best kind of correct!

Part of the problem for them is that most of that work involves input that they don't have a means to capture.

Think of manual work that becomes too difficult or impossible just by wearing gloves and dulling the touch sensation, and even then you still using how it feels as a significant input. Also output is far more complex and not instrumented, and camera footage doesn't cut it.

This is why driving is, comparatively, easier for the machine learning approach. The vast majority of input is visual, some audio. The only outputs that matter are the turn of a wheel and actuating a couple of pedals.

They've been trying with remote operation (the glasses don't do it, but remote operation ensures all input and output can be captured), but it's just really hard to remotely do a lot of this stuff without just being able to touch and feel things through.

Open ended manual work is going to be actually trickier than "knowledge work", and knowledge work isn't exactly fantastic as it stands yet either.

That does not say over report your tips to the IRS if tips are so low they would have forced your employer to pay a higher wage.

I could see making that judgement call if the employer is a dick but customers are usually exceptionally generous tip wise, and you had an isolated slow night. However if day to day the tips are normal, then taking the hit for your employer is just a recipe for continued exploitation.

Already noticed that the "AI" flag is nearly worthless.

There a channel I watch regularly that has used a synthetized voice forever, and despite predating the AI that is controversial, it is flagged.

Then noticed a family member watching an AI song and not flagged as AI at all.

Note that if a worker fails to get to minimum wage through tips, they are owed minimum wage by the employer.

However, minimum wage is pretty crap.

Your point stands that compensation should be baked in of course, it is just that normal minimum wage does kick in if the tips fail.

They probably could every VM as a "server", and people get crazy about lots of virtual machines.

In this case, that are pissed because they already spent the money. Further I'm sure they started the VMware path likely over 15 years ago, and frankly the alternatives weren't great back then and VMware wasn't as crazy unreasonable.

One could think it's not great that they are going Microsoft for virtualization after being bitten, but I'm positive their infrastructure is Windows based and so for them, it makes sense. I can't imagine that being the desired choice personally, but here we are.

They failed to transition from technology leader to commodity product.

Well, Broadcom clearly saw that VMware was on the trajectory to be supplanted by either cloud aligned virtualization solutions or built in operating system virtualization. They failed to really carve out another niche because even in the most dedicated VMware shop, all the advances happened in operating systems by other vendors.

So Broadcom decided explicitly to gouge the hell out of customers too afraid to migrate losing any chance at new customers (which they probably weren't going to get any way) and scaring away current customers (I recall some report they felt they could alienate 90% of their customers and still be happy with how hard they were gouging the remaining 10%).

In short, going exactly according to plan.

Problem being is that I don't see us rewarding good leadership, so much as rewarding having a huge ego and being a sociopath.

Generally the most well rewarded executives I've dealt with provided no actionable leadership, but claimed they were amazing leaders while tossing out useless pointy haired boss fodder. Last week was in a meeting where someone was stating plainly what we needed to do about something and the executive cuts him off mid sentence to say "we need to figure out what we need to do and then do it". Yes, we were in the middle of that but he needed to interject to claim that it was his idea. He cut off another team describing what they did and he said "why didn't you just use ai? It would be done already and you wouldn't need the people working on it". Note this was a very very AI heavy team already, because he had already mandated it and he thinks they are lying because things aren't magically happening.

I've occasionally seen good leadership, With actionable awareness of the customer and work and ability to keep things on track and not fall into the trap of just spewing business jargon. Usually they get undermined by some incompetent who sees them as a threat and the upper tier is infested by people who deal with the hollow jargon and thus will tend to believe a fellow jargon speaker. So they get sidelined or quit.

And those people want to spend $500 on a handheld device?