Another way to say tenth of a second is 100,000,000 nanoseconds.

We have 4GHz computers with 8-16 cores, and it takes 100,000,000 cycles to show the start menu?

Edit: Corrected the scale factor.

Another way (which happens to be correct) to say tenth of a second is 100 000 000 (one hundred million) nanoseconds. You were off by a factor of 1000!

Yeah, I skipped microseconds entirely.

Also, at a typical turbo speed of 5 GHz you get half a billion clock cycles and multiple instructions can be retired per clock for about one or two billion total in those 100ms.

That’s about 1,000 instructions per pixel of the Start Menu!

Microslop at its best.

I’m struggling to understand what their end goal is. How much can you half ass everything until your entire company becomes just a nuisance.

I have had the same thought for years. I guess their monopoly makes them able not to care about quality (and does not depend on it).

A big decision maker, before signing a big contract, will look at the budget and won't care about how good is the UX.

At some point I assume somebody had to explain why the start menu is 40-50 times slower than previous releases. Or they simply vibe-code something and ship it not caring what they created.

Big assumption there that they even have an end goal.

Given that making Windows' market share is more or less impossible to make any bigger at this point (every human on earth has used Windows in some capacity by this point; there are no new markets to expand to, the only option left is to not bleed old users, but that requires significant effort and a good strategy), they've opted to not really bother with Windows and shifted focus completely, leaving Windows out to dry, resulting in this and gestures vaguely at Windows 11 and everything else Windows.

At thsi point i think the current goal is the annoy the tiny ants in the consumer market who complain and are a nuisance , but don’t make them much money compared is the big boys in the enterprise world.

UK is going back in time where different classes of people had different rights. It sounds like they’re trying to silence the people and keep them “secure” from themselves, weird.

Reminds me the tv show “Hugo” that was taken off air because a kid said “f.ck this shit” while playing with a rotary phone, and still pisses a lot of people who couldn’t play the game afterwards.

So I was in their house to make blueprints, then I left it, and now trying to get back in?

Kidding aside, it practically requires an open sourced project to a certain extent. Regardless, having worked with braindead Opus 4.8 again since this event and missing Fable 5 with every response I received.

Feels like Anthropic got a major jump in user base and got knocked out by the friends of the competition.

AI is great at code deobfuscation. AI assisted decompilation should also work great.

> Business requires a stable environment

Someone: “You’ve got some nice stable business there that competes with some of the other companies I happen to …”

> oh my god.

Sounds like fake movie prop, doesn’t it. Makes me think that the ban was caused by other reasons.

While we’re at it, stop using the aws trackme links for everything in your email.

It’s a freaking UPS tracking number, just let me just track the darn package.

And until then we’re left with braindead Opus 4.8 where I need tell it 7 times before it does something correctly where Fable 5 just did it in the first prompt.

Example: Hey Opus, I’m dealing with this issue on AD and users experience this thing, I tried these. Opus responses with the most braindead call center style respond I’ve ever heard.

The last Opus models were money models--as in designed to make them money.

Maybe the model found something Amazon didn't want to be known, and not necessarily a cyber vulnerability, but a particular way Amazon operates.

Down AWS East and make the traffic look like it’s coming from the Vatican.

"find aws zero day. makes no mistakes"