Yes, he turned a leaky reflecting pool that at least reflected into an algae-bloomed waste pool filled with partially-decomposing petrochemical film from using TRUCK BED LINER on a GRANITE SURFACE.

Literally anybody could have told him that wasn't going to work. And as it turns out, two weeks in Virginia summer heat was all it took to make that reality known to literally everyone.

He made it uglier, and more dilapidated than when he found it. Like literally everything else he touches.

But here you are, apologizing for him yet again. Why are you so complacent to such complete incompetence?

You think having a common and predictable operating environment across various system types has no value?

I don't want to have to remember a completely different stack of commands to use in an ephemeral test environment that doesn't work on core infrastructure. That creates "tribal knowledge" silos within organizations, longer onboarding times for engineers to know systems, etc.

One common service scheduler across all systems eliminates that bullshit, which eliminates the need for a "special cabal" of on-call people that have to deal with the bespoke systems that act different from every other damn thing out there.

I could do without them treating it as the "kitchen sink" and putting unrelated crap like DNS resolvers into it. That gets in the way more often than it helps.

So your position is that nothing should ever change because when things go wrong, you want to be anchored in "the days of yore"

No.

Systems get upgraded over time, and when defunct shit from 30 years ago is no longer sufficient for modern systems, that defunct shit gets deprecated and replaced.

Am I saying that systemd is the right fix? No, because I don't have enough information to make a good decision there, but the distro maintainers do and they keep choosing systemd instead of staying with 30 year old stuff that you are demanding.

Nobody chooses to take on all the work to adopt systemd for arbitrary and silly reasons. Adapt or die.

In the data centre business this newly-invented Megapod(tm) is called a module. My company probably has 30 or more of them, and I've seen this "data centre in a can" concept around for the past 15 years. Doing it in shipping containers was all the rage for a while.

Of course the old ones were not direct-to-chip liquid cooled, but I'm sure the providers of these modules already have that. In any case, this is in no way a new concept -- just, as you say, some shiny branding.

Any high roller pharmaceutical company would quickly found a small startup with enough separation to provide plausible denial, then fund it with the cash required to get that data. Whatever trade secrets are in these 1+TB, knowing them is worth way more that these 25M.

And I am sure you never asked yourself: how did Nightmare Eclipse find all these bugs so quickly? And why now? Right?

When people blame Microsoft, they typically mean their Microsoft loving corporate IT. The same folks, who bought Crowdstrike products, also think that Windows is the only viable operating system in a corporate outfit. Since I am sure, that Microsoft's sales reps do anything in their power to support this view, they do share some of the blame.

Anyone remember the Witty worm? This was over 20 years ago, and so called "security" vendors still haven't learned a thing. Given the underlying security of Microsoft products, any software trying to defend this quagmire is bound to be so complex, that it will be more risk than benefit at some point.

The "Chamber of Commerce" Republican Party of Mitt Romney is gone, and it's never coming back.

It's time to let go of the nostalgia of conservative-leaning politicians with consistent views and predictable results that also relied upon ethics and morals. None of that exists any more. All of those people either gave up on ethics and morals, retired, or were primaried out.

Anyone that used to believe in the supremacy of individual liberties have turned into "anti-woke" crusaders more interested in having government regulate who you can love, than getting the fuck out of it altogether.

What we have left are just assholes who want to pull up the ladder behind them. They are, for all intents and purposes, 100% descendant from immigrants (with the vast majority of Republicans being white), and want to prevent further immigration.

They are supported by uneducated hayseeds that have been bilked into thinking that everything somehow gets better by government doing less to make things better, not ever getting to the idea that nobody else is going to do anything when government stops trying.

They're big on corporate welfare for the "Too Big To Fail" crowd, but want to take food assistance and health care away from poor people.

They're big on cutting taxes after bitching about spending for 4 years under Biden, and then want to throw 1.5T at the Department of Defense alone.

They. Are. Hypocrites.

They have no moral compass. They have no policy direction outside of "whatever Trump wants." And they are unwilling to perform their Constitutionally-prescribed government oversight to make sure the government follows it's own laws, and is working for We The People, rather than Him The Tyrant.

I also will not accept "bothsides!" arguments here. Yes, there are some shitbag Democrats out there too. No, there are not as many of them, and the ones that get "outed" are quickly shown the door - ask how Eric Swallwell is doing right now as an example. Democrats don't have a unifying tyrant that they all line up to lick the boots of the way the Republican Party does - they have to govern by consensus, which by definition means moderating in order to achieve consensus. And they've shown the ability to conduct actual oversight of the government, even when the president is a member of their party.

Government by consensus will always be better than authoritarianism, because there are release valves if the consensus shifts.

"It's like they've not figured out how to speak to this administration"

Probably true if they aren't offering bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H ballroom donations.

Unless the cost to obtain labor crosses above the cost to automate the labor.

See: all the money being poured into AI.

So he didn't "put USAID in the wood chipper" to use his own words?

You do know that USAID would buy American farmer surplus, paying American farmers to farm, and then donate that food to starving people elsewhere?

Just how is "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" not taking away a customer from American farmers? How is that not taking food and medicine from the world's poorest people?

And how did he not do that?

Take your own advice. You have been, and are continuing to be lied to. And you are repeating those lies. This makes you a stupid cunt at best, and a participant in mass murder at worst.

Isn't it funny how the Republican Party always gets very concerned about spending and the reach of government when the Republican Party doesn't control government; but just as soon as they do have control they start spending like crypto bros and use government to interfere in literally everything that doesn't fit their questionable narratives?

Why anyone votes for these parasites is beyond me. They are self-enriching grifters who ignore the vast majority of their constituents in order to grovel at the feet of an octogenarian with questionable mental health on his best days, and gross incompetence on most days. They are far more concerned with their own station and status and what their billionaire donors want, than they are in their constituents want, and it's been seen over and over again. And the rare Republican in office that actually does vote their conscience, is shown the door by highly partisan cultists who are indoctrinated to think that Dear Leader can do no wrong - and in fact, is the biggest victim on planet earth.

Until people start to dust off their atrophied critical thinking skills and vote in their own interests for representation that will actually represent them instead of rich assholes who want more for themselves and fuck everyone else, everything is hopelessly broken.

Our last chance to fix it is in the first week of November. Vote accordingly.

I have an aversion to people who act like a terrible person and do terrible things, yeah.

Remember: this is the richest man in the world, directly responsible for taking food and medicine away from the poorest people in the world so he could hang onto a few more bucks on his tax return. He is not worthy of the cult following.

Find a person deserving of the worship and apologies.

Yeah, because this vindictive President would never have his puppet acting AG direct the Department of Justice crawl all the way up their ass on the way out, saying that the code was written in the US, and is subject to US export controls (it was, and it is. Source: I work for an avionics company where everyone has to go through US export law familiarization every single year). Then watch them control the export of it specifically against the country you tried to relocate to so you literally can't even work on it outside the US; then every other country on the planet so you have no merchantability.

Congratulations, your brilliant "scheme" just killed the company.