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5 Years ago VMWare support was, in my opinion, absolutely gutter.

Calling in for any questions was met with a support tech who was actively hostile and tried their best to find some way to disqualify our ability to get support. The first trick was always Hardware Compatibility List ("HCL") followed by interrogating us about software versions. Before I get the cries of pity about all the dumb users who waste their time by not upgrading, we probably opened support cases twice weekly - and the same verification interrogation happened.

We'd routinely find situations where the stated support for SANs wasn't what it said, etc.

I'd have said it could not get worse, but reading what Broadcom is doing, I am convinced otherwise.

Anyone using VMWare for business critical things is likely in for both a huge pocket book hit and an even larger support headache.

“I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.” ― Steven Wright

today I learned a new thing:

https://www.bikelaw.com/2017/07/punishment-pass-defined/

We have always been at war with Oceania.

Look at Mr. Movie Critic here - next you'll tell me there's no moral lesson in Pulp Fiction?

you had me until OneDrive...

To be fair, 640kb is more than anyone really needs. It's just far, far less than we want.

Arista?

'“If you don’t have a support contract you don’t get updates, it’s as simple as that,” George said'

funniest thing I've read all day.

Pretty soon someone will say criminals can't get guns because it's illegal (or against TOS)

Then why aren't they?

but the science is settled, didn't you see the letter by signed by actual real scientists? (/s)

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing"

But do you use pharmacies?

Cool! Can you do this and write up the steps like the article?

Why is it immoral to fire employees that the owner thinks are not needed?

Serious question...

Do Saudi/Middle Eastern sovereign money funds often invest in gay founders/executives?

More supervision than leadership...

How many days a week do you hang out with Sam and Greg and Ilya to know these things?

I'm ignorant and don't disagree - can you say more about why Ilya is the core of Open AI?

correct. and bad people doing EA or bad people doing EA badly doesn't make EA bad.

I'm not a huge fan of EA, but I'm sick of seeing HN and EA endorse tribalism by saying that all Christians this or all Republicans this or all white people that or all rich people that....

-rich white Republican Christian

Correct.

And there's a sickness in our society, that a person/movement/concept is judged by those associated with it, instead of on its own.

Surely. This is why they never drive cars without training, play video games instead of doing homework, and never drink to excess while underage.

Names don't constitute knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s&t=1s

Thank you for posting this. The koolaid-drinkers are vocal, but rest assured your perspective is generally shared by those who do things and have responsibility.

You'll be attacked by the sullen crowd who believe wearing pink ribbons fight cancer, but please don't waver in saying what you think is right.

...have to see a man about a horse...

I've met a lot of people who were employed at Twitter, and the description "Worker" applies to very few of them.

A long long time ago, I initiated a project to move 80% of the SaaS company's workload out of a big cloud provider that is fond of 3 day in office work weeks into privately run data center cages. To be clear, we bought and ran the computers, rented the network and the cages/rooms in the data center buildings/campuses.

One of our grading criteria was how many bathroom stalls and urinals they had in the men's and women's bathrooms.

Some of these places had 200k sqft (20k m^2) and just 1 stall. No bueno!!!

When we were evaluatin the sites/locations (in the early days) we had to queue our 8 folks up for 5-20 min for bathroom breaks before we could go to lunch!

Feeling cute, may make up bullshit then change my mind.

I've not met Mister Hotz, but from what I've read and heard from him on podcasts, I'm not sure there's a lot of smart in the crazy smart.

Maybe it was an ugly statue.