Seems like there is too much money out there.

Famously, they’ve been buying up residential homes and apartments at a torrid pace, with all the fun that will bring.

But they are also buying up small service firms like my plumber (and funeral homes, and insurance agencies, and medical/dental practices, and). My plumber probably has 100 employees. So, not tiny, but not huge, either. I knew the guy who started it. He sold out. I suppose I can’t blame him. First thing I notice next time I need help? Hourly rates doubled. Parts much more expensive.

I get these PE masters of the universe are going to buying and selling companies. It’s what they do. But can they stay off Main Street?

We will wake up 10 years from Now and none of the local businesses you use will be locally owned. I think that’s a bad thing.

Spare me any talk that they are providing some sort of efficiency service here. I bet my plumber’s business is well run. What they found was that they could charge a lot more for worse service. That’s all.

Well said. I agree.

I am consistently impressed with powershell. Yes, it is verbose sometimes. But I have been able craft some one liners that are useful, and ‘just feel right’ to me.

Tariffs are always and everywhere good. No one has better tariffs. There are no price increases. Prices have come down. Got it?

If Jassy doesn’t get on-script by the end of the day, he is toast.

No deviations from this world-view are allowed.

I’m shocked he could make such a juvenile error, actually. It definitely calls his judgement into question.

I disagree. I’m at a tech firm and all product groups have been instructed to add AI into their products. It doesn’t matter in which way. Any way. We just need something to say and look like we are doing something. So, get cracking.

I have had a single customer mention AI in the past year, and I’ve been on about 75 roadmap calls.

They re-wrote the social security systems in 30 days, didn’t they? Or maybe it was the US air traffic control system. I can’t remember. Well, whatever it was, I hear they are wicked smaaaht and specialize in things like this.

So says the Dell guy: We need one way -- simplified, standardized and automated -- so we can be more competitive and serve our customers better

Makes so much sense.

After a long career, all I can say is it is less important than you might think.

Let’s see where they are in a few years and whether it was worth it.

My guess: lots of heat and light, lots of short term chaos, followed finally by stabilization, followed by the realization they are only marginally more productive.

Best there is? I doubt it. They have never had the best of anything. When told they have the best, we usually find out later it wasn’t true. It’s happened that way so many times, I’m inclined to think that’s the case here.

What they do have is determination, and a willingness to sacrifice bodies during conflicts of all sizes. Which is no small thing for all concerned.

I live near a smallish nuke plant. 1500 MW. So, 4 more of these for

Just make it stop.

Ever notice how every damn company has some sort of summarization feature? Sure, I guess that’s what LLMs know best. Something about hammers and nails comes to mind.

Who cares?

Don’t forget the special vpn tunnel that sends your data, and any audio picked up in the local area to Xi Jinping’s cell phone.

What? And miss the best 4 years of my life?

No, it wasn’t all party time, though there was some of that. I enjoyed the coursework, and worked reasonably hard. Harder than many, but certainly not the hardest.

What did I get out of it? Good question. Certainly not a vocation. I was liberal arts. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. After all these years, I believe the most important thing I learned was how to think and write more clearly. You might say that should be high school, and it indicates the woeful state of high school education. I’d disagree with that. Regardless of my writing skills when I got to college, it simply made me better. That would be true no matter what my baseline was.

I also offer this free advice. I got into a couple of decent name-brand schools, But for various reasons, one of which was money, I attended my state’s flagship state university. I wouldn’t change that decision for all the money in the world. Of course, there were many decidedly average folks, myself included. But I also met some of the smartest people I’ve ever known, and I can say this after a longish career in tech in some big companies and startups, all with many smart employees. And, since the student body was large, and the budget reasonably high, there was always some fairly advanced things going on, 24/7, whether you were technically minded, into politics, sports, or just looking for the next big indie band.

Nothing says bubble more than that.

Any of these corporate guys still spouting the bigger bigger bigger mantra are just showing what tools they are. All the cool kids are finally tempering their statements.

Another project looking to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Or for which block chain is not really warranted. All because some director/VP level guy has to show us how smart he is.

Who needs it? Who is asking for it?

You know that signed transactions have been a thing for a long time.

And look at the caveats they put in the description about backing out fraudulent transactions. They are basically admitting that the blockchain can be like the Wild West. But here, we have some sort of semi public thing they control. So, what’s the point?

Didnâ(TM)t some colleges even get into partnerships with the gambling companies?
The money sloshing around D1 football and basketball is bad enough. When I saw the partnerships, my thought was: âoesomeone just shut the lights out on your way out. You are no longer a college. âoe
Iâ(TM)m not saying Iâ(TM)m any better than these guys. But, any university doing this is no longer a university. Itâ(TM)s something else. Not sure what to call it. But letâ(TM)s dispense with the hypocrisy.