> IMO I think we are going to see Paramount, STARZ and AMC bought up soon.
You do know that David Ellison (Larry Ellison's son), through his Skydance Media, acquired Paramount Global (including its parent, National Amusements) in a merger completed in August 2025.
I don't think I could agree with you more. I think that more in tech and business should think about and read about philosophy, the mind, social interactions, and society.
ED Tech for example I think really seems to neglect the kind of bonds that people form when they go through difficult things together, and the pushing through difficulties is how we improve. Asking a robot xyz does not improve ourselves. AI and LLMs do not know how to teach, they are not Socratic pushing and prodding at our weaknesses and assessing us to improve. The just say how smart we are.
If there is 1 job at a university. And there are 10 researchers applying. And 1 took this improvement in research speed to do more research, and 9 took the change to play more piano and take more walks, then most likely that one will get the job. This competitive nature is what has driven society forward and not kept us at just above subsistence agriculture.
I mean with our population increase in the last 100 years these numbers are showing a massive decrease in poverty with sub Saharan Africa holding the highest remaining areas of poverty.
Not really. It's a very recent fad to treat "research" as some kind of mechanical factory process that need simply optimize units research per unit time.
When you sit down to think about it, what does it really even mean to do "more research"? What concrete phenomenon are you observing to decide what that is?
Across the journey from "subsistence agriculture", there have been countless approaches to nurturing innovation and discovery, but abstracting it into an abstract game measured by papers published and citations received is extremely novel and so far seems to correlate more with a waste and noise than it does discovery. Science and research is not in a healthy period these days, and the model that you describe, and seem to take for granted or may even be celebrating, plays a big role in why.
Eh the more problem space you explore the more energy is required to explore it. Looking at the last 300 years and saying 'look at all the low hanging fruit we picked' doesnt describe where we are now.
A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.
Ceph is awesome for software defined storage where you have multiple storage nodes and multiple storage devices on each. It's way too heavy and resource intensive for a single machine with loopback devices.
Ceph has multiple daemons that would need to be running: monitor, manager, OSD (1 per storage device), and RADOS Gateway (RGW). If you only had a single storage device it would still be 4 daemons.
IMO AWS once you get off the core services is full of beta services. S3, Dynamo, Lambda, ECS, etc are all solid. But there are a lot of services they have that have some big rough patches.
RDS, Route53, and Elasticache are decent, too. But yes, I've also been bitten badly in the distant past by attempting to rely on their higher-level services. I guess some things don't change.
I wonder if the difference is stuff they dogfood versus stuff they don't?
I once used one of their services (I forget which, but I think it was there serverless product) that “supported” Java.
… but the official command line tools had show-stopper bugs if you were deploying Java to this service, that’d been known for months, and some features couldn’t be used in Java, and the docs were only like 20% complete.
But this work-in-progress alpha (not even beta quality because it couldn’t plausibly be considered feature complete) counted as “supported” alongside other languages that were actually supported.
(This was a few years ago and this particular thing might be a lot better now, but it shows how little you can trust their marketing pages and GUI AWS dashboards)
I'm assuming you're talking about Lambda. I don't mess with their default images. Write a Dockerfile and use containerized Lambdas. Saves so many headaches. Still have to deal with RIE though, which is annoying.
But yes, the less of a core building block the specific service is (or widely used internally in Amazon), the more likely you are to run into significant issues.
Hmm is it actually that bad? Keep in mind r2 is only stored in one region which is chosen when the bucket is first created so that might be what you're seeing
But I've never really looked too closely because I just use it for non-latency critical blob storage
Personally, EMR has never shaken off the "scrappy" feeling (sometimes it feels OK if you're using Spark), and it feels even more neglected recently as they seem to want you on AWS Glue or Athena. LakeFormation is... a thing that I'm sure is good in theory if you're using only managed services, but in practice is like taking a quick jaunt on the Event Horizon.
Glue Catalog has some annoying assumptions baked in.
Frankly the entire analytics space on AWS feels like a huge mess of competing teams and products instead of a uniform vision.
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