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Comment I live in one of these towns (Score 1) 238

Moved from out West back to a midwest state where the "college" in this public college town has lost almost 50% of its enrollment. The locals at the U act like this is no big deal, but the effects are pretty clear - many of the technical majors are now taught by adjunct faculty who are on semester contracts and get no benefits, and many dorms sit empty and mothballed. Meanwhile we have 17 legal cannabis despensaries in a town (without the students) of 20K. I guess this tells where everyone's priorities are these days.

Comment Data centers have a dirty secret (Score 1) 11

After construction, almost no one works in these things. There's a (small) staff for power, cooling, and security needs, but otherwise these things are managed remotely, often by people in different countries. In the meantime these structures use all the local power and water they can get their hands on, while the money earned from running all these servers goes somewhere else.

Comment Why would anyone work for IBM these days? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Seriously, it there was ever a failing company, IBM is it. I've had exactly three interactions with IBM over the years - first time was around 1990-ish, tried to sell me (us) a 3090 with a "vector facility" to our small geophysical company who said up front our budget was US$1M. They were 3x over our budget and could not understand why we didn't buy their "solution". Second interaction was as a vendor in the mid '90s (I had started my own software company by then) and I get a call from one of their sales guys, all in a huff, need something yesterday (that i could provide) and no problems with payment on net 10. Took me nine months to get paid, because guess what - IBM had outsourced their accounts payables! Last interaction was with a backup dedup applicance that some bonehead VP bought in 2013 and the thing flat-out didn't work worth a shit - IBM was "take a class", our lads took the class and it was a disaster, instructor never taught it before, none of the labs worked, etc. These guys suck. They bought Redhad and now Redhad is beginning to suck. No shit.

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