Have to agree. Their support has always kinda sucked for a larger enterprise. Try getting support for the included "service mesh" for OpenShit. A complete fiasco.

I don't know about the "mostly women" part, but my personal interactions with them for higher level jobs have been rather uninspiring. The same goes for Google, actually.

Maybe Amazon will turn out to be like Twitter where Musk said:

"If you're not trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization and you don't care that much about censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people, turns out."

People who were facilitating theft of services moved on along with people who weren't paying at all.

shrug

Fuck Meta AND Tiktok.

With any luck, the sword Meta is urging the government to stab Tiktok with can be turned back on Meta next.

A base model 3 is US$39,990 which is only slightly higher than a Bolt. The average price for a new car in the US is currently $48,763.

https://www.tesla.com/model3/d...

https://www.coxautoinc.com/mar...

Also, if I needed to charge my EV anywhere but in my home, I wouldn't buy anything other than a Tesla these days. Their supercharger network is ubiquitous in all of the places that I travel, but finding non-Tesla charging stations that actually work can be a challenge.

Best,

Maybe AI will do a better job than the hacks that currently deliver re-skin after re-skin of comic book superhero movies that are basically just 2 hours of explosions and CGI.

Well no kidding. If you are operating at any real scale it's almost always going to be significantly cheaper to roll your own "private cloud" than to pay a 3rd party to run your applications on their hardware. Public cloud is awesome if you're a small startup that doesn't want to invest in a bunch of infrastructure, lack the staff to manage your own infrastructure, or if you simply want to "burst" into pub cloud when you have temporary capacity needs. There's lots of the first two types and a vanishingly small number of the latter. But there are a shit ton of companies that have done a "lift and shift" to pub cloud and are now experiencing a significant cost hangover. More of these companies have realized they are better off returning to their own datacenter(s)/colos so I can see that impacting revenues for public cloud providers. It's going to be a race to the bottom as the big 3 fight for market share and Oracle eventually flames out.

Translation: It sounded great while high on shrooms at Burning Man, but it was just a poor idea and we burned through many billions chasing after it even after it was obviously not going to be worth chasing.

Maybe VC's are coming to their senses and realize that subsidizing the real estate markets and inflated costs of living in some of these cities is not money well spent/invested.

Best,

I'm not disagreeing with you on that point. However, there are other ways of demonstrating that level of commitment that don't involve going into a substantial amount of debt (potentially for a decade or more) so that DaaS (degrees as a service) institutions can profit from that unnecessary toil and the illusion that it somehow prepares a student for a job.

Best,

Other than being a very coarse, high level and mostly ineffective filter for "smart people," I just don't see the value in requiring a degree of any type for many IT jobs. The relevant training can be accomplished with targeted vocational schooling and on-the-job training. Bring me someone who is honest, motivated, and willing to learn and I can teach them how to do the job.

Bring me someone with a degree who would rather be spending the day playing on an Xbox or Playstation all night and I'll take the motivated non-degree candidate every time.

There are highly skilled jobs that certainly need advanced education and certifications, but most IT jobs do not fit into that category.

That's what Putin is doing. Last tally I heard was that he's squirreled tens of billions worth of assets out of the country. Though he's going to run out of places to visit and spend it now that he's a war criminal.

St. Louis and New Orleans....Democrat-run urban cesspools surrounded by a red state. As long as these people continue to vote for the same group that has led their cities to ruin, they're going to continue getting more of the same crime and squalor. A testament to the stupidity of low information voters who continue to think Lucy isn't going to pull the football away again.

While I empathize with the family of the stabbing victim, he chose to live in a city that winks at a significant crime problem. We're only talking about it here because it's a white tech bro this time. A similar fate befell 700 people JUST IN CHICAGO in 2022. Most of them were black and don't get articles written about them because after election day they are forgotten by the people they empowered to allegedly clean up their city.

Another reason not to consume that poo....

Help kids learn the concepts. There are many tools (some better than others) that can be used as part of that learning journey. Over time they will figure out which tools best match their needs.