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"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

Microsoft is about Azure and Office365 now. Everything else is 'yes we also do that status'

If we are being honest, Azure ain't half bad either, its good for all reasons the past greatest hits were. It does everything it needs to do while being easier to get your head around than AWS, or GCP.

If Microsoft has a problem its that Azure and o365 were huge build outs but now are more or less feature complete. There isnt a growth story, for any company not already on them what can they offer as a compelling reason to move there?

This why you see 'copilot' being shoved into all the things. Microsoft does not have a vision right now, or to the extent they do it is - 'let's market AI stuff, and build out Azure capacity to sell AI model compute, so other people can market AI stuff.'

Long story short the next 10 years of the NASDAQ performance is either going to look like the last ten because AI powers big tech to new heights or its going to get real ugly when the irrational exuberance for all things AI runs out of stream

Yeah I did not have any stats on how far the typical school bus travels in a day. If anything it just makes the argument that fleet vehicle charging is some kind of problem even less compelling.

Reality is unless you are operating a very very large bus depot, you would not need to add any wild electrical infrastructure, certainly nothing beyond what a typical small office building would require and that should not be an issue for the electric utility to deliver or a cost problem for a school district.

When it comes to charging EVs, time is a huge resource. Everything is simpler, cheaper, safer, lower wear, etc when you don't have to do it fast. Fleet vehicles are really a perfect fit for that because you typically do have 11-12 hours to 'trickle-charge' them at 14 amps.

I live in a deep red county and I can tell you this is not the case. I won't say there are not some guys that just want to 'roll coal' because they think it looks cools, there are, but that is true of every strange hobby out there, in terms of numbers they don't matter.

The rest of the people not buying EVs are doing it because they

1) Don't have the have the capital or credit required to purchase a 'new' anything, they are in the used market and the used EV market does not have the products they want.

2) They are actually hauling pigs, cattle, hay, etc around at frequency and the only EV that really is a good fit for that is the Silverado and it aint affordable

3) They live in really old housing stock, they have things like 60AMP and 100AMP electrical service and even they can shoe-horn in a L2 charger, the performance would cramp their life style at least a couple times a week. Normally yeah mom and dad can use the cars during the day and charge them over night but on Friday night John Jr borrows the car and is out to 2am with his buddies, so yeah its actually not ready to take Susan to her tap lessons 30miles away Saturday AM.

4) They don't really see much advantage, the TCO isn't that different. They are still at the filling station often enough anyway, they still got lawn equipment, tractors, backup generators etc, and so they are are carting 30gal diesel tanks and 5 gal gas cans around in the pickup bed anyway. The folks in passenger cars gotta get groceries and house hold items, there are gas stations near the Food Lion, Dollar General, and Walmart anyway so it really takes no additional time. Even if over 10 years they might save a few $100 with a base model EV over an economy ICE vehicle the familiarity of ICE is more appealing.

BEVs are getting better, Hybrids are getting much smarter and better and importantly simpler, Honda's inline stuff in really does not add that much complexity. I see people getting either BEVs are Hybrids as a 'second' car all the time around here. Decisions are being made very rationally and at the margin. The media and BEV enthusiasts keep wanting to insist we are at parity, but really we are not. 10 years ago the suggestion BEVs were 'just as good' was laughably stupid, now its is very nearly true and even is true for many people/use cases. Its getting there and people will switch 'better'/cheaper is achieved. They are already switching. It just needs a little more time.

I don't think fleet vehicles should be much of an issue. Look at this way you have probably a full 12 hour window 6pm - 6am where those things can be parked.

School buses, mail trucks, plumbing vans, and the like don't actually need all that much range, maybe 200 miles. EVs don't pay the penalty for idling the ICE vehicles do.

Stuff like A/C and things would use power but these are public school children we are talking about, we'll make them open the windows, and when they do get to school we'll serve them some ketchup on toast with a side green beans canned in the Regan administration for lunch.

Even a basic 400 amp service, at 80% load gives us the ability to feed 13amps into 24 school bushes continuously. That will charge them enough in 11 - 12 hours. 24 buses is a lot of buses. I'd guess school districts that have more than 24 buses also have multiple bus depots already.

I think the latter. Peter seems to have gone all Artsy'fartsy

Which is fine if you are into that sort of thing. From what I can tell of his rather limited public persona now though he seems to take no interest at all in the Software or tech industry.

The college degree loan thing was already becoming a problem when I was an undergrad over 20 years ago. It was fine when one might be borrowing $5000 per year as even entry-level college grad jobs that actually used degrees paid enough to make repayment of those loans doable, but the trouble was that far too many truly entry-level jobs started preferring college degrees when they didn't really contribute, so more and more demand for college degrees among people drove up prices for the limited seats. Which led to a balloon in both traditional colleges increasing their programs and their tuition, and for-profit colleges springing up to try to get in on the act.

Funny, I got a good job in the late nineties doing just that. I was cold-calling and I got hired onto the quality assurance team for a specialized software product. Unfortunately despite the company not being a dotcom they were in investment-building mode and the investor got cold feet so they went under anyway, but it was a good job and the people who hired me did so based on or technical conversations when I cold-called.

My current job I got by having experience with this team when I was at a different employer. They liked me enough they asked me to interview when a prior teammate retired.

There was a crude joke back in the day, that Java was great because it worked on all computers exactly the same way that anal sex was great because it worked on all genders.

Little did we know exactly how prescient that crude joke was going to be as Oracle hadn't yet taken over.

I've seen some temp jobs work out well, but I've seen others where it was not so good.

Temp-to-hire where the employer actually really does intend to hire-on, and uses the temp-process to get to know candidates before making offers is fine. It's actually not a bad idea if basically everyone is on the same page. Temp agency needs to be ready to move people around if various employers do or don't like candidates, and temp-employees need to understand that there could be periods of downtime, and might themselves need to ask the agency for alternate placement if they don't like where they're temping.

On the other hand I've seen temps that were abused very heavily, because regular employees didn't want to do shit-jobs or didn't really want to work at all, with no intent on actually hiring. I've also seen rather odd people working as temps because even in a temp-to-hire arrangement the business didn't like some of the temps but still needed work to be done so kept them around for longer than normal just to complete the task before releasing them.

That's all well and good to say, but that neither addresses what actually changes, versus how some changes have proven harmful and should be avoided if possible even if they're common.

...that a business whose name evokes a movie scene where a hostile alien entity forcibly envelops and implants its offspring into an unsuspecting space merchant-marine doctor would host nonconsensual sexual content?

Globalists - who are of course out of their GDed minds.

That is who let this happen. It all stems from the same anti-nationalist mentality that emerged after the second world war and was allowed to take over western academia.

The thinking goes if everyone depends on everyone else nobody will fight any more. Of course reality is not all dependence is created equal. Leaders like Xi understand depending on a consumer market is different then depending on supplier. Sure if they decided to start WWIII we'd quit buying, all those factors can focus on making weapons until the smoke clears, on the other hand no matter how much you want to use the defense production act, you are not getting any shells or aircraft produced in those Glodman Sachs office, McDonalds restaurants, or CVS pharmacies.

National security is a game to these people. Oh the US governemnt contract says everyone has to be a citizen with a clearance or directly supervised by one. Never mind why the rule exists or what it was supposed to accomplish, Microsoft upper management knows perfectly well in this case the latter practice can't be very effective, they just don't give a F*** they can win the bid, that is all they care about.

..."Armagh," is what the forecaster said when he realized how miserable the weather was going to be that day.