I wonder if we end up with z series running on arm long term.
The value in z series is in the system design and ecosystem, IBM could engineer an architecture migration to custom CPUs based on ARM cores. They would still be mainframe processors, but likely able to be able to reduce investment in silicon and supporting software.
You can run 1960s System/360 binaries unmodified on modern z/OS. The system also uses a lot of "high level assembler" and "system provided assembly macros" making a complete architecture switch extremely painful and complicated.
They called their new architecture "ESAME" for a while for a pretty obvious reason.
I don't think that would change if the underlying architecture changes; IBM has been committed to backward compatibility for a long time. Some hypothetical future mainframe class IBM ARM would undoubtedly be able virtualize a 360/370/390 without breaking a sweat. And ARM will undoubtedly enable IBM to add custom emulation hardware to their spin on ARM if they need it.
Grok shouldn't be serving this kind of information IMO, and it's yet another serial example of xAI just not caring about real problems, but the even bigger crime is these services she is paying thousands to seem to have done jack other than give a false sense of security while happily taking their money. A time bound Google search and verification of pages from the Wayback Machine confirms this information has been all over social media and other sites constantly for the last decade.
If I were cynical I'd say this was just a publicity stunt, but the truth is probably really just sad all around: lack of ability to keep such things private, leechers making people think you can just pay and information disappears from the internet, Grok amplifying the problem by being run by people who don't really care about what it does...
LLMs are fundamentally not deterministic or predictable the way people think they are, and it shows up pretty clearly in situations like this. It isn’t even as deterministic or predictable as a human. And humans aren’t particularly deterministic or predictable.
Grok, like Tesla FSD, is also kinda half assed, so it shows up even more prominently on that front.
It's usually available through various indirect means. For example, the person who applies to trademark their stage name [0]. (People in the comments are comparing this to revenge porn, but legally it's completely different.)
I would think the comparison would be the BYD ATTO 3 premium vs Tesla Y premium.
Australian sticker price for the atto 3 is under $45,000 AUD, a smidgen over $30K usd.
With a wife with a mobility scooter and working 30-90 mins away from the office depending on traffic, I picked on up (salary sacrificing) as the lease costs less than what I was paying for fuel on the Kia carnival (Sedona in the us) each week.
Tesla model 3 entry level was another $10K AUD for a car with less features.
Job / Position description means something more... It means that your expected to do the task and perform well at it or you will be let go.
Generally you don't put those skills in a Junior PD, but you would expect a Junior to take on these tasks if they hope to progress. The Mid level PD would have it listed and as the junior shows they can meet each and every additional skill, the option of a promotion becomes available.
None of this seems hard for a junior dev tho... it just takes time, which I'm assuming the others workers don't really have with more pressing matters making this a great issue for juniors to grit their teeth on.
Guess we need to do a follow on study, what a way to use the R&D budget. I don't think I will be short of volunteers.
I look forward to publishing the differing effects of XXXX Gold vs Stone & Wood in order for us to optimise the department budget. However I will be waiting for further research before starting trials of Bundy Rum. I am concerned the development efficiency will be offset by repairing punched screens.
My understanding is that they were tracking significantly fewer parts in Excel as many of what they are now tracking as separate parts were previously tracked as a single part (kind of an assembly). I think they were previously tracking somewhere in the 100-200 parts in Excel.
My understanding for why this is coming out now is that there was a talk Vowles has done recently where he mentioned the massive hit getting ready for this season because they changed both Excel into the new ERP systems AND started tracking each individual part, which complicated the transition and why it was such a rush for Williams to be ready for this year.
In the early days of virtualization on PCs (things like OS/2's dos box) the VM was 100% a weird special case VM that wasn't even running the same mode (virtual 8086 vs 286 / 386 mode), and that second-class functionality continued through the earlier iterations of "modern" systems (vmware / kvm / xen).
"PC" virtualization's getting closer to big iron virtualization, but likely will never quite get there.
Also -- I was running virtual machines on a 5150 PC when it was a big fast machine -- the UCSD P System ran a p-code virtual machine to run p-code binaries which would run equally well on an apple 2. In theory.
IMO, it’s only a special case for commercial support reasons. Almost every engineer, QE, consultant, solution architect I know runs or has run nested virtualization for one reason or another.
The value in z series is in the system design and ecosystem, IBM could engineer an architecture migration to custom CPUs based on ARM cores. They would still be mainframe processors, but likely able to be able to reduce investment in silicon and supporting software.
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