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MirthandMystery

Every major bank refused doing business with Trump decades ago due to his bad reputation for defrauding and harassing top Deutsche Bank loan office managers. And some banks had been burned by him before. He took out huge loans based on fraudulently claiming assets he had were a far higher value than what they were, demanded a lower interest rate and extensions on loans, which were initially denied. So Trump threatened and flatly stated he wouldn't pay, and if they didn't give in and change the terms to what he wanted he said he'd default entirely and not pay anything back. Look up who Nicholas Haigh is. He was Deutsche Bank's head of risk management for its private wealth management unit and played a pivotal role in approving and overseeing loans to Trump's company. Haigh personally reviewed Trump's financial statements and was involved in setting key loan terms, such as requiring Trump to maintain a minimum net worth of $2.5 billion (excluding brand value) as a covenant for the $125 million Doral golf resort loan Haigh testified that the bank relied heavily on Trump's statements of financial condition when making lending decisions, and that he would not have authorized the loans if he had known those statements were inflated. But take in consideration Deutsche Bank was struggling, and well known for being shady and corrupt, a friend to criminals needing to launder cash. Trump had a long history with them for good reason. But that relationship was always fraught. Around 1995 Trump defaulted on more than $3 billion in bank debt related to his casino and hotel empire following financial struggles. As a result, these lenders (not yet DB) seized the Plaza Hotel and many other Trump properties in a restructuring that avoided personal bankruptcy.  By 2008 Trump’s company took a $640 million loan from Deutsche Bank for the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, being unable to get loans from other banks. During the 2008 financial crisis, condo sales lagged and Trump’s LLC defaulted on this loan. Just one of many times he uses other people's money to make a terrible deal that never went right. The infamous Trump SoHo with Russians was another. He often leaves banks, private lenders and building contractors on the hook, not honoring contracts or paying his bills. He surely thinks he can do this to Americas debt too- spend like mad on projects that benefit him, but he'll walk away having increased the debt so high the US might well default. When it does, the economy tanks. And he'll have billions to buy up assets cheap.

Peakomegaflare

I wonder that DB (Deutsche Bank) has to say about it.

upside_win222

I keep saying that MDB (noSQL) is perfectly poised to capture unstructured AI data and generate embeddings and that it is a real contender in the DB space, but I keep getting downvoted. Redditors are way too rigid (heh) in their belief that SQL is king.

Best-Body-8166

Deutsche Bank's research team recently had a discussion with Glenn Gabe, President at G-Squared Interactive, which provides Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consulting services with a focus on recovering from major Google algorithm updates. The conversation focused on navigating the current Search landscape and the impact AI Overviews are having to the digital advertising market, and Google's competitive positioning in the marketplace in particular. According to DB, one of the five key takes from the call was that $RDDT would do just fine with $GOOGL's major algorithm update in December 2025. Google typically rolls out these "massive" broad core updates 3-4 times a year. Prior to December, the last one was in June 2025, with several smaller updates in between. In his blog (link below), Mr. Gabe noted the complex update impacted all Google surfaces, which affected traffic for sites like Quora, but there was no disruption for $RDDT. On the DB call he emphasized the updates focus on promoting 1) authentic human content, that is 2) valuable to users, which 3) drives significant user engagement. [https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/google-december-2025-broad-core-update-analysis-findings/](https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/google-december-2025-broad-core-update-analysis-findings/) In our view, $FORA checks the box on all these three critical metrics just like $RDDT. Thus, while investors focus on a potential loss of traffic from Google, we think VerticalScope's unique content will insulate it from this outcome.

Ill_Savings_8338

I guess it depends if your circle is the knitting circle from church, the plumbers union, or a finance/tech/corporation? Most of the people I know interact with AI on a daily basis for many things (including cat pictures). Backend DB, voip, software, psychologist, lawyer, etc. Nothing is perfect and they are more sr positions which arent being replaced, but their productivity has gone up and are making more money, so I guess someone is using it.

Slabbed1738

Where do u see derailed financials on DB? 

upside_win222

I didn't buy puts on oracle, but I am playing MDB. Relational DBs aren't going anywhere but in the age of AI, document based DBs are the best for processing unstructured/semi structured data. When you add vector search and the best reranker (voyageAI) for RAG, Mongo is the play. I'm betting that MDB has a seat next to the big boy DB table right next to oracle. In fact, my hot take is that MDB will one day overtake ORCL in terms of market cap.

upside_win222

Huge hit in the saas space today. I'm buying more MDB on this dip. It's the DB of AI and the future.

upside_win222

What's the software layer for storing all this AI data? DBaaS. MongoDB. Document based DB perfect for vector search and AI embeddings.

upside_win222

Physical memory is important yes, but I've been thinking out of the box and looking at the DB storage layer (DBaaS). With the rise of AI, I think MDB is still an underrated play. With their best in class Voyage-Rerank and rise in unstructured/semi structured data being massively generated from AI apps, I can see them having a seat right next to the big boy ORCL. Maybe even overtake ORCL... :O

upside_win222

I've said it before and I said it again. MongoDB is the DB of AI and the future. The dip to $400 last week was a gift.

jadezsherz

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AQOntCan

True WRT comparing to others. But I have a DB pension. I think my risk model has always assumed I'm a day away from being unemployed when the opposite is more true

OpeDefinitely

Nope. The 2018 rule is about lowering one's head to make contact. During the play in question, a receiver and DB were hand-fighting within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage. WR is able to break free by pushing off the DB's chest and head. Then the receiver got open down the field for a catch. In this case, the contact that the WR made to the DB's head is not illegal in its own right. The DB isn't defenseless; there was no tackle to the head; there was no leading with the head; and etc. No personal foul is applicable. The receiver was called for offensive pass interference. Not for contacting the DB's head in particular, but for making any sort of contact at all. Because this happened within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage, there is much debate on Twitter about whether the OPI was legitimate. OPI is a tricky call. Usually, this kind of play isn't called for OPI so most people are saying that the call was bad. The person I'm arguing with basically agrees with the general consensus that the OPI was bad, but that it would've been a personal foul otherwise. But it absolutely wouldn't have been a personal foul.

OpeDefinitely

Well, he did ask me to show him the part of the NFL rulebook that explicitly states that receivers can make contact with DB's heads within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage. I sent him all relevant parts of the NFL rulebook, then explained that the rulebook only explicitly states illegal acts and that everything else is legal.

josephjosephson

Monsanto (Bayer - BAYN.F), Da Beers (Anglo American plc - AAUKF), JBS, Boeing (BA), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Glencore (GLEN/OTC), Deutsche Bank (DB), Goldman Sachs (GS). Let’s be clear, this is a list of companies to not invest in.

Gamma__Lord

That’s the kind of shit that JP Morgan, DB, BofA are doing with structured notes. Next level bruv. And yes, it’s me.

Financial-Word-4791

I’ve seen too many cases where companies spent hundreds of thousands in PATH licenses to update an application DB table; when a few lines of SQL and a scheduler were all that was needed. PATH developers are hammers and to them everything is a nail. There are legitimate cases for PATH, don’t get me wrong, but in my experience PATH developers have tunnel vision and must justify their overpriced existence by over engineering every project.

SlaveZelda

> The only product that is any good is Oracle's database. Funny you say that because users are not very happy with Oracle DB and neither are people who have to develop it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

Davekinney0u812

How low can this DB go?

akopley

This I why you’re being downvoted. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB0BxHvRzgS/?igsh=c2FlMWpwNW1odm4x

wegster

I had some oracle stock I bought around 20 years ago and just left it alone. Wasn't much, but something like 670% return on it. I just dumped it. I'll preface it with I don't often dig deep into financials, and am mostly in ETFs, but I've worked in tech for some time. Oracle and HP have both 'chased cloud' including when I worked at one of them, but few really bite (versus Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, generally in that order of adoption). Literally I can see a new piece of software and call out - this must be an Oracle product, because it's unintuitive and awful, unless it was an acquisition. Kudos to Larry for keeping the money flowing and the company alive all this time, but I inherently feel they are still trying to find a post-oracle-db (which in itself is kind of a mess, also IMO) 'thing' to latch onto. It's not surprising they 'teamed up' with OpenAI as I keep watching them just trying to remain relevant. To me, they feel like IBM - used to be a pretty amazing company, but now, would I bet the farm/house/future on them? Hell no. If we look across their domains, I just don't see it. Yes, they still have some amount of oracle DB activity - most likely the same groups of companies that were continuing purchase IBM mainframes, e.g. some financial and big industries it's just too painful to move off of. Meanwhile, a good number of others have moved on. ERP and CRM - Their ERP offerings are awful. Someone is still buying them, but they're pitiful and a huge PITA for the users and for customization. CRM - sorry, salesforce and others eat their lunch. Cloud - already covered. a perpetual 'chaser' vs the big guys IMO. They have bought some companies, I think in healthcare and retail - don't know if they're big enough to keep much of the rest of the company afloat. They also have some stuff in the utility sector, but they're far from a market leader there either. Yeah, they sadly bought Sun way back and now own Java. I'm sure there's some amount of revenue there, but doubt it's all that much for a company of their size. Note they aren't trying to compete on the LLM/large AI model front, which is probably better for them as I don't think they'd hold up to Google or others working in the space, so what do they do - offer hosting and such to still claim 'look, AI!' and try to ride another wave to relevance, and does some integration into some of their generally crappy products. I had to evaluate an enterprise Oracle product for a specific purpose a few years back. Starting out at around 20+ possibles, I built out a pretty comprehensive evaluation plan and 'scorecard' versus weighted scenarios/plans we needed to solve for. At the end, there were 4-5 left and I kept Oracle in the running, mostly because 'older management' wanted them there. Numerous engagements with deep dives with all of them. Oracle talked a good game, and pretended they had some 'special sauce' akin to domain specific 'AI.' Without too many details, let's just say within 5 minutes I had the product massively embarrassing itself. The Oracle offering was dated and seriously outclassed by the others in the final rounds. We did not purchase the Oracle offering - with good reasons. TLDR: Dump it into index funds and be done, unless NVDA, GOOGL, or MSFT have big dips. Or roll the dice; whatever. ;)

upside_win222

Everyone keeps laughing at me for pushing document based DB like MDB .... they just don't know it's poised to overtake oracle.

DARTHxNIHILUS

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henristig

You're right that FWA is the clearest use case today, but you're significantly understating the problems with current solutions. Analog/hybrid solutions still have pain points; mmWave FWA Gbit/s rates have been proven for distances of several kms under Line-of-Sight conditions, but based on simulations, assuming 3GPP rural macro models, the fraction of non-Line-of-Sight users is still 27% over a 500m cell size, 47% over a 1000m cell size and 60% over a 1500m cell size. As we know, analog beamforming handles nLoS very poorly. In the presentation Beammwave gave an example measurement of a 64 antenna FWA system (RX performance, NR-FR2, 2 MIMO layers) where their digital beamforming performed 40% better over analog in a LoS environment (losing to ideal DB by only some few %) and 300% better over analog in an nLoS environment (losing to ideal DB by only some few %). So, analog systems have the capacity, but the networks need to be unnecessarily dense and are tricky to install due to the line-of-sight shortcomings of the analog systems. This is not "FWA is working fine". Being able to harvest the nLoS energy and getting to basically self-installable hardware due to not being directionally fussy anymore will save the operators literal billions of dollars on less dense and service-intensive networks, and that's totally in line with the claim that operators are screaming for a solution, and that there's customer urgency. Besides, the bill of materials for building FWA on Beammwave chips seems like it might outcompete analog systems as well, if Beammwave manages to hit the 1-2 USD per chip price range they've mentioned in the past. In general I think you're overindexing on the US/western markets, where I think you're mostly right that mmWave isn't in vogue (where by the way T-mobile told the FCC they gave back their spectrum precisely because they couldn't meet coverage requirements due to the LoS propagation characteristics that made it too expensive to cover large areas with their massive analog panels - this could be done easily with small cell deployments of a distributed architecture).

Fickle_Rest5915

Debt is a concern. Although using their db as the database layer to train company specific AI use cases like I mentioned is a potential to grow. You’re right that the DB revenue has fallen but cloud revue is up 34%. You might be right but time will tell. For now, 180 look like a great support.

Fickle_Rest5915

I completely agree there, it seems like the DB business has been placed on the back burner.

Clear_Anything1232

Did you see their database revenues? They are shrinking. They are betting the whole farm on data center revenues. Their DB revenues are insignificant next to the large bets they are taking. So you can just round them off to zero and focus on the cloud and debt parts.

Clear_Anything1232

They are not a DB company anymore You are setting money on fire Just like orcl

my-handsome-reddit

For 24/7 trading sessions. Brokers & market makers will need to overhaul many parts of their systems. For instance, regulatory reporting systems are often developed from the ground up leveraging the downtime, to exert extra load on the DB, while no one is trading. Companies often opt for saving some of the technical complexity costs associated with running a server 24/7 by scheduling a nightly restart. Operational cost are a thing to consider as well, as you’ll need to run a 24/7 full hands on deck operation (IT & risk, brokerage,…). How much are you going to pay people to be there at 12:00AM on a Saturday night?

turudd

IBM still does a ton of R&D though. Oracle just sits back on their licensing costs and shitty DB engine

Painpita

BEcause Meta and NVIDIA already had oracle DB that they wanted to move to cloud, not because they think the product is supperior.

Educational-Dot318

my companys into Exadata appliances in a pretty big way; managed/Admin. by Oracle too. non-exadata hosts managed by our internal DB Teams.

gopoohgo

MSCI Euro FN may give you enough of a spread to be ok. But your post made me look at a few biggies (BNP, SAN, DB); the value difference has evaporated

IllustriousLetter898

Jumped on a call with Oracle sales, super hyped, but they flat‑out told me: “Unless the client is already heavy on Oracle Databases, it doesn’t make sense to migrate.” That was their actual line. Oracle DB is solid tech, but it’s pricey compared to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or even SQL Server. And while managing infra isn’t rocket science, finding Oracle talent is expensive. Companies often lean on offshore consulting firms where wages are lower, then bring engineers to the US on H1B visas at capped rates. Only years later, once permanent residency hits, salaries normalize to US market levels. The frustration isn’t with the engineers (many are brilliant), but with a system that distorts incentives and keeps wages artificially suppressed for too long. Politicians love to rant about “not enough qualified Americans,” but the reality is there aren’t enough people, of any nationality, willing to do these roles at the rates companies have gotten used to. With AI reshaping jobs fast, this whole setup is going to make displacement even messier. Unsure how to feel about OCI earnings debt. Not mention who's powerbill or they paying for a stand alone NG rig. Another CAPX AI play. Lots of puts here, Options IV 100.8%.

JJdante

Isn't DB big enough that there's probably separate divisions long and short?

hv876

Exactly a month ago, DB was shorting the market.

fivefans

Congratulations on the win! But which idiots would choose Mongo DB over Oracle? /s

Adventurous-Date9971

Keep Claude costs sane by capping tokens and using a two-pass flow. Plan on gpt-4o-mini or Mistral small, have Claude do final drafts; BYOK and per-user budgets via Kong. With Supabase auth and Kong caps, DreamFactory can expose read-only DB REST so prompts stay short. Net: structure first, tokens last.

KneeOk2960

Their overall market share of DB market is between 2-5% with a lot of runway to grow. It’s a well run organization with strong fundamentals, and consistently outperforms on earnings. 

upside_win222

Geez bro turn down the temperature. I admit I am an older school backend developer working in a business where relational DB is easier to query from.

KneeOk2960

Thank you! Is it a perfect use case for all types of workloads?! No! Is it great for other types of workloads! Yes! Do companies have different needs and based on that workload type can use multiple DB at systems for that?! Absolutely! Lol@ SQL 4 Life guy 

grizzly_teddy

> relational is the way to go for enterprise apps. You have zero fucking clue what you're talking about. Every system is different. Relational DBs are great at many things, certainly not everything. Instead of spouting bullshit on reddit, just ask chatgpt, "Why would an enterprise solution prefer NoSql solutions over a relational SQL DB solution?" You don't get it because you're an idiot, and an idiot who can't be bothered to do a simple search

Acu-hiredthrowaway

Right so that is not true. There are many applications at banks that are a better fit for a NoSQL DB. For instance most of the largest wealth management mobile apps use NoSQL databases for good reason

Iamnotarobot82

Mongrel DB !

upside_win222

Is your dad a software developer? if he is, he will laugh at you for suggesting document based DB's are better than relationional.

Icy_Jelly_315

I hate it in porno when the guy is meant to be coming to repair a Samsung WW90DB7U94GBU1 washing machine but the spare part is clearly for the WW90DB7U94GBU4. How are you meant to suspend disbelief with that sort of shit going down?

1UpUrBum

Do you have access to DBA? Invesco DB Agriculture Fund. That's grain futures ETF. That will be mostly uncorrelated. I worried I am pointing it out to you when it at a top. It is a top. I'm sure how much down side or how long.

cryptohorn

[Costco doing something about that declining stock price](https://youtu.be/Gl4pnweNF1s?si=mAWZ5_DB1ISmXMW9)

Suspicious-One-5586

TPUs make sense when you can batch big, stay in XLA (JAX/TF or PyTorch/XLA), and you’re chasing a clear 20–30% cost gap after the engineering work; otherwise GPUs remain the low-friction choice. You don’t need a full rewrite if you avoided custom CUDA kernels and stuck to high‑level ops; the pain is in replacing fused CUDA bits, debugging PyTorch/XLA quirks, and re-tuning input pipelines. TPUs shine on dense training and large batched inference; small, dynamic, RAG-style services still run smoother on GPUs with vLLM. If you want multi-vendor leverage: design for stateless inference, keep embeddings/vector stores portable (pgvector or Pinecone), and add client retries with circuit breakers. Compare committed-use TPU v5e/v5p vs A100/H100 pricing net of egress, and insist on capacity guarantees; the discount has to justify the rewrite. Gemini 3 helps GCP win specific training deals, but Azure’s M365 gravity still anchors a lot of inference. I’ve used Kong and Apigee to gate LLM calls, while DreamFactory exposed Postgres/Mongo as clean REST for RAG so models never touch the DB. Net: only pivot if the cost delta and capacity are real; otherwise run hybrid and avoid deep lock‑in.

Moist_Astronomer6976

AI ROI is real today; the investable question is unit economics and refresh cadence, not whether use cases exist. In our shop, a narrow LLM triage cut support cost per contact from 4.80 to 2.10 with 32% deflection and a 7-day sticky-close metric; document intake (OCR + rules) took claim cycle time from \~3 days to under 8 hours, with errors down from 11% to 3%. Coding assist lifted throughput \~25% without raising rework. On hardware, treat it like servers: plan 3-year depreciation, target 50%+ utilization, and assume 20–40% residuals on resale; paybacks penciled at 12–18 months when we batch/quantize and cache. Track cost per 1k tokens, GPU hours per resolved ticket/report, and margin per watt; under those thresholds, rent GPUs. We use Azure OpenAI for summaries and ServiceNow for workflow, and DreamFactory fronts Snowflake and SQL Server with RBAC APIs so agents can read/write without DB creds. For investing, watch power-constrained DC capacity, inference pricing trends, and who actually shows reduced SG&A from AI in filings. The real thesis is payback and utilization, not whether AI matters.

Moist_Astronomer6976

TPUs shine for big, steady transformer jobs you control end to end, but GPUs win on flexibility and time to ship. Most stacks are PyTorch/CUDA; JAX/XLA on TPU is fast but porting hurts, and custom kernels/MoE/vision still favor H100/L40S or MI300. v5e/v5p are great perf/watt for int8/bfloat16 dense matmuls, less so for mixed workloads. On-prem TPUs are rare; independents buy GPUs because drivers, support, and resale, while trading shops with tight regs sometimes get TPU pods via Google. Practical play: rent TPUs on GCP for batch training, keep inference on GPUs with TensorRT-LLM or vLLM. We use vLLM and Grafana, and DreamFactory just fronts Postgres as a REST API so models pull features without DB creds. Net: TPUs for fixed scale, GPUs for versatility.

hv876

DB was shorting market with Burry 2 weeks ago and today has a 8000 target on SPX by end of 2026?

QwertzOne

I think it depends on specific ecosystem and choice for each company was probably made long time ago and once you're in Oracle or MS SQL ecosystem, it becomes hard to justify change. I remember that 15-20 years ago, it was all about choice between MS SQL and Oracle, because these were enterprise databases, DBAs (DB administrators) specialized and certified in one of these database ecosystems and they were considered important. Some people preferred Java and Oracle, some people sticked to .NET, Microsoft and MS SQL, but both these options provided enterprise support, so you'd rather pick Oracle/MS SQL and get consultants to fix it, if needed, rather than pick MySQL/PostgreSQL and be left alone with problems.

aaron_dresden

My company still uses Oracle. If you look online there’s heaps of companies still using them. I think it’s overstating it to not see Oracle DBs around. It just common to also see other providers and open source DB’s around these days as well in businesses.

ahyesmyelbows

And it's so wild because I've never used Oracle databases as an SW engineer. Sure I use Postgres a lot, and Microsoft DB (wait I forgot its name already), SQLite, and I know the non-SQL stuff is popular these days. Surely Oracle has a lot of other bloop too, but what? Java? Is it even that used anymore? I suppose they have some corporate crap and services that I'm too poor to use.

Practical-Tennis-508

 Thank you for your sacrifice.

chetpancakesparty

Leaps puts on DB https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/18/congress/comer-subpoenas-epsteins-financial-records-00657935

Aggravating-Ad-6460

Zuck is a complete DB BUT he’s far from a bad CEO.

Adventurous-Date9971

OCI looks solid if margin lift tracks utilization and database attach. On recent builds, Autonomous DB plus RDMA kept unit costs sane; key tells are backlog burn, capex per new ARR, GPU deliveries, and Azure interconnect activity. I’ve run Kong for APIs and Datadog for telemetry, with DreamFactory generating REST over Oracle/SQL Server to speed integrations. If utilization and attach rates trend up alongside backlog conversion, the dip is worth a nibble; if capacity sits idle, it’s a pass.

firefly_can_fly

Just imagine that your main product is a software that solely relies on sensors, that you don't produce and quite frankly not enough in the world. And hey, they all different so it's whole zoo of products that you need to track, speak with manufacturers and so on. You imagine the clusterfuck?) while you were a DB surfer and showed the magic of Excel to the military with bells and whistles — they praised you, but now they know and are not so stunned by what it is in reality.

sicbo86

Deutsche Bank (DB) has done very well over the past year.

drjzoidberg1

As other guy mentioned Oracle is way behind on cloud. Companies that migrated from on prem to cloud have gone to AWS, Azure or Google. They not going to switch to Oracle. I also dislike Oracle DB's. SQL server is easier to use. Postgres is mostly free.

CBBFIN

We don't have DB in northeast

saml01

Oracle doesnt have anything that a better alternative doesnt exist for. Sadly, Oracle DB is on borrowed time too. 

Lords3

In Europe, Azure often wins on enterprise and data residency thanks to the EU Data Boundary and tight M365/Entra integration, but AWS still has the deepest service catalog; pick based on workload and sovereignty needs. If you’re .NET-heavy, Azure’s Managed Identity, App Service, and SQL DB make life easy. If you want breadth and multi-country scale, AWS in EU regions with customer-managed keys or external key manager keeps most data local, and the announced European Sovereign Cloud targets Schrems II worries. To avoid US vendors, OVHcloud, Hetzner, and Exoscale work, but you’ll give up some managed services; common pattern is keep PII with an EU provider and run anonymized analytics in AWS/Azure. We’ve used Cloudflare R2 for EU egress control and AWS DataSync for bulk moves, and DreamFactory to safely expose on‑prem SQL as REST to cloud apps. Bottom line: in Europe, Azure fits MS stacks and compliance checklists; AWS wins on range and scale.

MitsotakiShogun

> Sam (more like Scam) Altman Third or fourth fastest upvote of my life. > I hope you read recent research papers [...] Yes, I read research papers (not as much as I'd want), and also the various researchers in the various teams in our department read a bunch too, and we organize events and presentations for knowledge sharing. And I agree that LLM capabilities are overstated by marketing & startups. But I almost always ignore all conversations about "AGI", "true intelligence", and the like, I prefer a more grounded and practical discussion, because often "it can't be done because XYZ" just translates to "we don't want to spend time to bother with implementation / engineering details or more complex approaches that might reduce error rates from an unacceptable 10% to an acceptable 5%". And I do think that everything that could be meaningful has not been tried yet, or at least not tried well enough. Many projects die (especially those with limited time, or without a researcher present) because people thought it would be as simple as: "throw in your documents in an embeddings model, use a vector DB, inject everything into 100K context capable LLM, profit". Or (from my last job) "just feed the logs into the LLM and have it run terminal commands from our playbook to fix it". > As someone else said, commoditizing of LLMs is likely gonna happen. Absolutely. After a point people will be happy enough with the small/free stuff for most use cases (I already am plenty happy with my 3-month old, 24B dense Mistral model). > I used to work at Amazon [...] Thanks for sharing! I had only one friend there who worked on AI-related stuff, but it was mostly statistical ML stuff with time series, and he left a year or two ago, so this was new to me.

bucky133

DB

-PunsWithScissors-

$VALE is my largest current position, there are some bangers on the BMRORTESDMBBFGH$&DB… or whatever you call that exchange.

freericky

Id even short DB, trying to the smart and cute contrarian is a death wish

elbay

Deutsche was number two behind CS. CS is dead so long live DB.

EightFolding

So the hyperscalers have plenty of cash, of course, and are using that to hire other companies to build for them. And DB is lending to those 'picks and shovels' companies who are doing work for the hyperscalers building out datacenters and related infrastructure. But the collateral is the physical assets (the datacenters) and the contracts with the hyperscalers. What I find really interesting about this is that it exposes a layer of risk for the 'picks and shovels' companies that we might not normally think about - beyond just their concentration in clients. CoreWeave's debt being a great example commonly mentioned. Interesting, thanks for sharing it!

Lords3

AI pays in B2B when opex usage cuts cycle time and labor fast. Common pricing: tokens per call plus seats; aim 3–10x ROI from claims triage, KYC, call deflection, and code assist. Run a 6-week pilot with strict budgets, track cost per task and SLA hits, then scale only where payback under 12 months. I’ve used Azure OpenAI and Databricks for RAG; DreamFactory provided REST over Postgres so models never hit the DB. Payback, not subs, drives the spend.

SlyCooper007

DFLI Flight to $2+ now boarding. 

Grave_Warden

If people think I look poor getting out of my 2021 DB11 in my yoga pants and unshaven face, thats on them man. I just want to pick up my takeaway and not be bothered.

kindacurious_

Yes cost and token management is a key consideration, especially for a publicly accessible website. I am still trying to work it out. Might consider a small paid tier ($5/mo should be enough with sufficient user growth) to offset the DB and LLM costs if people find it valuable but still trying my best to keep it as close to $0 as possible right now for the average user lol.

Thoughts_6789

Can someone explain something to me, what happens if I buy a vertical DB with one leg ITM and close it as soon as the stock reaches the short call too same day but it normally expires 3 day, why or why not will I make the full profit? Should it be done? Like am confused

spookc46

Instead of fake meat, invest in real beef production. More steak for everyone! * **Stocks:** Examples include major beef packers and food processors like Tyson Foods (TSN), or agricultural giants like Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), which produces animal feed. Some regional beef producers may also trade publicly, such as BEEF (IDX:BEEF). * **ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds):** You can invest in ETFs that track agricultural commodities, including livestock. The Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) is one such option.

Ok_Revolution_9253

Do you like their coffee? I personally think their coffee is ass. (of course Starbucks pike roast is still ass, but I like a lot of their newer roasts). I think they have potential and that's about it. The east coast is pretty saturated with Starbucks and Dunkin, and Dunkin crushes from a price of coffee standpoint. One of the big things I think DB's has going for it is the drive through, speed component. My wife and I moved to NC from WA, and there just aren't any places that are straight up drive through coffee stands here. That's a good niche

Orange_Codex

Damn it feels good knowing I tried to warn people about BYND. I sure hope they thank me and don't bury me in a hail of downvotes. 

Haverrralex22


jerrysburner

I'm glad the company I work for doesn't use AWS; I've had so many problems with them, mostly around how they handle upgrades (especially DB's). Only a few outages, so they're generally stable, but when they do have a hiccup, everyone chokes. The problem today was, a few vendors we do work with were having so many problems we just had to turn them off for the day to keep our systems stable. But the pennystock subreddits were acting like it was a conspiracy because it interfered with the BYND pump and dump going on. AWS is a toxic company to work for - it would make sense that most people with talent don't stay long so they're going to have problems, but even the best company isn't gonna be perfect and will have outages that are wildly inconvenient for someone

clappincheeks01

Make it a DB12S so you can feel like James Bond

gopoohgo

Am old.   My retirement present to myself is an Aston DB12 or Bentley Continental GT

Happy-n-Healthy

My ex keeps fucking me on the side and told me last week she's getting married in a Scottish Castle to some DB with a pilot's license.

Tikkinger

okay, but i can't throw money in "the market". maybe it seems like a good idea to get a piece of DB1 ? afaiks it seems this is the most promising beacon to "rule the european market" under it's umbrella. or did i miss something ?

Puzzleheaded-Pen4413


gamblingPharmaStocks

Faster DB searches, but not exponentially better

HopeOk8500

Bro just DB Coopered himself 😅😭

TheBooneyBunes

That’s not his name, or his fake name even The press mixed up a suspect (DB Cooper) with Dan cooper.

CaesarLinguini

There was a bundle of $20 bills found in a creek by a kid camping with his family. The serial numbers matched some of the DB Cooper bills. The fragments have been certified authentic and come up for sale occasionally.[clicky!](https://share.google/9Ka4LBljPtZ5Donr7)

Burnt_Shoe2123

DB cooper

Kenyan_Cowboy

Agreed! HydroGraph has one of the most exciting stories in the advanced materials space right now. Graphene’s potential is off the charts, and if HydroGraph’s process truly delivers high-purity, scalable production, that’s a huge technical edge. The recent U.S. patent definitely adds legitimacy to the IP side, and the Austin relocation shows they’re serious about positioning for growth. That said, **it’s still early-stage territory.**.. Turning groundbreaking science into commercial products takes time, partnerships, and capital - and most of the big upside depends on execution*.* Scaling production profitably, landing long-term customers (Q4 2025?!), and keeping dilution under control are all real challenges that will decide whether this becomes the next major materials player or just another promising story. Their[ new investor deck](https://docs.publicnow.com/viewDoc?filename=207719%5CEXT%5CF857C5EB6DAF05BB82B73AADD84E6BDF2347A226_89175F0DBDA6B26B240B1570C56A7DB5D14CA2F4.PDF) looks positive, as are the CEO's recent interviews. The next 11 weeks are going to be important, as they have promised some contracts in Q4 2025 (tonnage!). I believe this will help ease people's (especially my) minds and drive the stock up towards the $4 target for early next year. So yeah, the upside looks massive... but some patience and proof will be key. Exciting times ahead if they can keep delivering and you have the balls to hold strong 🚀 I'd be keen to hear what people are using to keep track of the company and do thier or DD on HGRAF? I found this link super useful, [https://thecse.com/listings/hydrograph-clean-power-inc/news-releases/](https://thecse.com/listings/hydrograph-clean-power-inc/news-releases/), as well as the many YouTube interviews and other investor boards. But if there is anything else, please do share.

Beginning-Fig-9089

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upside_win222

MongoDB? Now that's a name I haven't heard since my early days learning on the MERN stack. What the heck does a document based DB have anything to do with circular AI investments? Lol

Teembeau

"In the coming AI assisted world where the cost to develop software craters all of these companies selling SW licenses at enormous margins are in trouble. That’s why they all view dominating the hardware side of AI as an existential imperative." Do you develop software, buy software? Or did you just read some clickbait slurry by a journalist, some hype by a company? Do you understand about familiar tools, reliability, support? No-one is shifting their Oracle DB to Bob's Database Engine built this year with AI. It's hard enough to get people to move from Oracle DB to Postgres, which is also a highly trusted engine, because of the risks.

Wall_of_Wolfstreet69

You warm-up on the very first set of your first exercise. Maybe on another exercise later down the line if it's a completely different muscle. E.g. you do chest and some legs, you do DB chest fly warmup with the 10s for 12 and then you switch to the 20s or higher. Later you do legs, warmup your lower body with 60% working weight leg curls for one set. then you're good for the other leg curl sets and the leg extension afterwards etc

Marathon2021

> Cloud Agnostic setups (e.g. kubernetes only) These have always baffled me. I mean, yeah if you stick to *only* VMs (and now 'containers' too - but 'stateful' DB containers are still quite a challenge) sure you've got some portability. But that's not how I find app developers want to use the cloud. They want to use all those PaaS services.

Ok_Run_101

OVHCloud is good. It has enough server/DB offerings and tons of managed services like the ones you see in AWS/GCP. Hetzner is awesome too, really reliable. They do t have much managed services so mostly for pure servers/storage/network usecases  Open Telekom is a strong competition too. They have bunch of managed services.  All these are totally good, with great reliability and support. I don't know what you mean by "scale" but you won't hit limits on how much scale you get, at least for the required scale of most businesses/governments out there. There is no reason for most businesses not to be able to serve their software on those clouds.

fn_gpsguy

Assuming the OPs pension is a defined benefit (DB) plan, the contributions are mandatory. Rather than the contributions ala 401k, going into an account that belongs to the employee, the funds go into a common pot that is used to pay the pensions. With a DB plan, the pension benefit isn’t based on the employee’s contributions. Instead, it’s based on a formula. What the OP lists are probably the multiplier used in the formula, the other two common variables are salary (often an average of the top 3-5 years) and years of service. The formula is typically salary x multiplier x years of service. If the OP is 33 now and worked at this company until 67, that would give him 34 years of service. If the average salary at retirement was $150k, the benefit would be - $150k x 2.5 x 34 =$127.5k (first year), with annual 2% COLAs thereafter.