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I’ve been through the Microsoft loop(s) several times over the years, and (to borrow from Tolstoy) each was unhappy in its own way. There were great people who would have been a pleasure to work with but always at least one joker in the deck. One just had to laugh because it was so obvious it wasn’t me.

I remember speeding through the loop for something closely analogous to my job at the time, only to be suddenly told by the hiring manager (who up to that time was a strong supporter) in a final interview that I wasn’t qualified. Not wanting to invest any more energy, I formally withdrew, only to get a call from him protesting why I’d do such a thing. Or being told to leave at the end of the day only to be called to drive back 20 miles immediately during dinner, and finding out later that was a mistake. Or being literally screamed at (spittle in my face!) that HPC was only MPI and nothing but MPI. Or being yelled at that Windows Server was exactly the same as an enterprise storage system like EMC/HP/Hitachi. The hits go on.

pinewurston Migrants swim from Morocco to Spanish enclave of Ceuta

They’re called “minefields”.

pinewurston IBM Acquiring HRL Laboratories

Good experience for an IBM takeover then.

pinewurston A Most Sinful Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

Says a multiply offending sex offender and Russian sock puppet.

Anything he’s against, I have to be strenuously for.

pinewurston American Loneliness

https://archive.ph/MnCIh

pinewurston 'Ziplink Is Now Froggle': The Story Behind the Fake AI Ads That Went Viral

https://archive.ph/PzYLv

pinewurston Too Many Books?

https://archive.ph/DmTkO

pinewurston The most, and least, liveable cities in 2026

https://archive.is/zNi5e

pinewurston A New 'Little House' Expands and Updates the Prairie

https://archive.ph/dB3dU

pinewurston How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini into a Phenomenon

(2015)

pinewurston Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

It controls the fusing, not positioning.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...

pinewurston China cracks down on rule-bending offshore investments

https://archive.ph/sL05I

pinewurston Grantham Warns U.S. Stocks Could Plunge 70% / Most Expensive Market in History

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jeremy-grant...

The same prattle, from 2022.

pinewurston We are capitalist, not socialist

“Google AI says most of them are funded by Israel. Is that true?”

This is what’s wrong with the world in a nutshell.

pinewurston Run ZFS on Linux

(2011)

pinewurston Zhao's $2B Bet: Why Asia Needs Another Quant Shop

AI slop

pinewurston Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Plus their drive type restrictions which are poison in a cost-sensitive NAS.

(Seemingly rolled back recently, but a roll back can be easily rolled back itself. I don't trust them enough to count on that not happening.)

pinewurston Ask HN: How long have you been looking for a job?

Not unemployed at the current time, but my longest was close to 2 years. It helped that I was consulting to pay bills, which also gave me the power to be selective. My advice is that the hardest part of an extended search is saying no to the wrong opportunities when you just want a job.

pinewurston Russia appears set to address long-term, serious space station cracks

Real title: “A high-stakes battle over cracking on the space station has reached a truce”

pinewurston Putin expands military presence on NATO's border

https://archive.ph/ABns6

pinewurston American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires

https://archive.ph/alWe8