Cool, smartass, now tell me how many calories you "think" you took in and how many calories you've burned. Here's a hint, you can't due to body chemistry and metabolism. If I consume 2000 calories but I can't digest half of them then I am digesting 1000 calories. Conversely, metabolism while sitting on my desk could consume 800 calories one day or 200 calories another depending on all sorts of factors including sleep.

Many people consume foods to which they are allergic, inflammation wreaks havoc with digestion and makes calculating caloric intake extremely difficult.

A lot of people also have issues with metabolism. My roommate in college would consume a 4000 calorie pizza and stay thin. He actually struggled to keep weight on. If I did that I'd gain 5lbs immediately.

Stop oversimplifying a very complex chemistry problem. It doesn't help anybody. When I was 300lbs I could consume 2000 calories a day and lose weight. Now that I'm quite a bit smaller 2000 calories results in weight gain regardless of activity level. My dogs were my best fitness investment as they get me out to the park every single day.

lol, you totally miss the point of the question. The type of car they have has no bearing on whether they have their life together. The answer to the question does. Someone with a shitbox may have a story to tell, such as they like working on cars as a hobby, or prefer to spend their money on travel, if they have a nice car there is usually reason they chose it. Interviews are about getting to know people. Materialism is completely missing the point.

There is not a wrong answer, it only serves to get to the know the person. If previous experience only supports one hardware platform then I move into what was the last outage they had to work through and what was the process they went through to get to resolution.

I don't believe in a lot of tests because conversationally you can almost always tell if someone is comfortable with a technology or not. If they are a network person and should know routing then you ask when they select ospf or bgp, or eigrp if you're being sadistic. If they give you an intelligent answer it doesn't matter if their preference is different from your's.

Out of curiosity, how many developers come away with their code in a way they can share with a new employer? That does sound like a good way to weed out someone that will abuse your intellectual property.

You are half right, and its a tactic I use during interviews a lot. Show them code example with a known flaw, depending on the level of position you can make it more or less tricky but frankly finding the flaw is only part of the exercise. Explaining how they did the thing and why they made the decisions they did in resolution tell you a lot more about how the person thinks which is far more important than nitpicky skills which most people will pick up quickly when they actually are in need of said skills.

On network people I ask what their favorite switch or router is, the more important part is that they explain why they like it. It forces them to get technical and demonstrate how deep their knowledge goes. A lot of time I hear it's just what I know, and that immediately spells jr engineer for me.

Platform engineers, ask them to contrast some platforms they you expect them to have experience with. If their answer is shallow and only bullet points then their skills are not that deep and depending on the position you can weed them out or engineer they are offered a position at the right level.

I used to ask them what kind of car they drive and why, for younger people it is often a good indicator of whether they have their life together. You can drive a crap box if your reasoning is that choose to spend your money on other priorities, always important to make sure you don't inject bias. It's not always a good test, they might just come from a wealthy background. That's why the why part of the question is always important though.

Someone is paying a lot of money to pump these "EV sales are crashing; EVs are FAIL" stories throughout multiple media channels the last six weeks. Reality is that EV sales growth is flattening out a bit from astronomical to just high, and absolute EV sales continue to climb. But when e.g. Norway has had 40%+ EV marketshare for new car sales for 5 years sales increases are eventually going to flatten out. Same thing will take longer in the US but is happening to a certain extent in Southern California, which is a large part of the overall vehicle market in the US.

I have heard of it most often with cornfield subdivisions in older towns becoming exurbs/suburbs: before the house is built the land is technically still a farm and the owner can drill a well, but after the house it built it is a residential property that is served by city water. But there are a lot of weird variations on that kind of thing.

I have had a number of coworkers in different real estate regulation jurisdictions fall into a trap with ground coupled heat pumps: in many jurisdictions a ground-coupled heat pump is classified as a well, and those jurisdictions had regulations saying that in residential areas wells can only be installed on unimproved land. Once the foundation is poured it is no longer unimproved. Check with your builder and building code office to determine if you need to drill the hole first before other construction starts.

Things like Huel I find are an easy way to ensure you get what you need. A shake in the morning or for lunch and you'll ensure you aren't deficient in about anything as it is nutritionally complete. I don't have time to plan meals to ensure I get everything but meal replacement shakes are a decent way to go. There are several good ones out there depending on your requirements.

Openstack implementations from Ubuntu and RedHat are most closely aligned directly with features. They also offer commerical support models which is critical for enterprise businesses. Proxmox is pretty pale in comparison feature and usability wise but I'm seeing lots and lots of people flock to it in home labs which means it stands good chance of growing.

Hyperconverged models from Nutanix as an example have also seen prices surging to the point of absurdity. The major commercial entities all seem to be pushing enterprises into cloud computing whether it makes sense or not. Cost estimating in cloud land is quite a bit harder to do since you have to pay for every little thing you use.

Historically new technology make doing this cheaper, that is no longer the case. Openstack and the list you posted seem to be gaining in popularity as a counterweight to these changes.

Except big things have changed as a result. Just because the problem requires eating a whole elephant doesn't mean you complain when you've only eaten the leg.

Tremendous progress has been made. It is a very large problem however.

Talk about glossing over ginormous details. If you built a million dollar cluster with hundreds to thousands of VMs, migrating to Proxmox is not about skill, it will be extremely time consuming and cause lots of downtime.

Compare that with Nutanix where you can use Nutanix Move regardless of Linux or Windows and total downtime per VM is a matter of minutes. That is all assuming you've gone ahead and purchased all new hardware to hold your new VMs.

Compare that with Azure Stack since Hyper-V is now deprecated and you can use Azure migrate to again automate the process whether it is Linux or Windows.

Sure you can use products like DoubleTake but now that cost of migrating all of the VMs is even more enormous as most companies will not take outage windows.

As someone that manages several VMware clusters, we've been making plans for quite some time, but at the end of the day, there's no free ride even if the software is free. You want a supported platform and for a great many products (Unisys, I'm looking at you), the only supported platform is VMware or going back to physical servers. That is assuming you can get new hardware purchased. A million dollar investment 3 years ago is rather hard to replace.

In our case you buy enough hardware to hold half the workload. As you migrate VMs, you tear down the old infrastructure, re-image it, expand your new cluster with it. At the end if you've done it right you now have some hardware for DR which is almost always underfunded.

Deployments won't be moved to Hyper-V. Microsoft has opted to kill it. Server 2022 is the last version that will include it. They want you to use AzureStack on-Prem and Azure proper for scaling. It makes sense but it is quite a bit more expensive.

Of course even Nutanix pricing has gone crazy too. As virtualization as matured, its commercial offerings just seem to be getting more and more expensive and not really providing anything new.

Then thankfully we're not very sad because this is completely unfounded. Parent clearly doesn't know any research scientists. You both apparently mistake "woke" academia with research science which is mostly commercial these days.

It's a false choice though, its not all or nothing. The government can provide an option and Turbotax is free to still exist. It then promotes competition. If the government solution actually does a better job then fewer and fewer people will use Turbotax and H&R Block except likely for more complicated filings.

That includes atrocious EARC support. But that seems to be a problem for TV makers along with Receiver manufacturers.