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My old job 401K was shifting into the new job 401K, so for a week or so my $ was in a check in the mail between companies, and I think I missed like 2% gain. It's semi real $. It's annoying.

I would say it's a close call between MS and AWS in terms of who is the new IBM.

I see them both equally safe in terms of "won't get fired" at this point, although Azure maybe was risky as recent as 3 years ago, they seem stable now.

MS seems to have more of that super sticky engagement with customers that IBM had. Our MS tech teams seem unable to use technology from another vendor. Those on AWS like it and prefer it since it's familiar, but seem more adept at leveraging other technology commercial or open source. That super lock in MS has seems very IBM like to me?

It's a close race for sure.

Maybe they are both IBM, at different points in IBM's history?

"whichever one is available to you" is still the right answer since as some other comments suggest there isn't enough data, yet. For sure one is likely better than the others. If we had the data we'd make the choice, but it seems it's not possible to know yet. The better one may be the one that protects against the variant that is forming via mutation right now in some person in Iowa. But yeah, we don't know yet. So you can wait until we know more, for sure eventually in retrospect we may see there is a clear vaccine winner. But really today just get one, or wait and see which one is the winner, with the risks associated with waiting. I think that's the free-agent adult pants decision.

Also, let's say you get vaccine A today. And in 6 months, it turns out you really wanted vaccine B since it's way more effective it turns out. Why can't you just get vaccine B in 6 months? I imagine if vaccine B is the clear winner, they are going to crank up production on that one as much as they can?

I get this sense they are very conservative in their feature set there? Nested VMs for example are supposed in GCP, Azure and Oracle clouds I think, but not AWS. VM migration too I think exists in GCP at least, but not AWS. It's interesting.

The Slack integrations for SP and Outlook are arguably better than what MS did in Teams.

She could have been a main presenter for sure.

Yeah we get major problems in a top 2 cloud provider where our on prem to cloud link dropped packets. We narrowed it down with iperf to the packet loss only happening on some ephemeral source ports. Ports were always ok, or always slow. Destroyed and recreated the cloud gateways and all was well. Should say another engineer figured it out. Cloud provider tried to blame our side. They did not excel at operations...

I've been watching and unreasonable amount of train cab ride videos on youtube. Some how it's a good way to unwind at the end of the day, and pretend I can actually go somewhere :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw9qiV7XlFs

You don't have to wait for it to warm up. Microwave it. Really. Try it. For best results, use the smaller bottle trick, but the refrigerator adds same extra level of protection and warming it up takes 12 seconds. I drink a fair amount of the same wine (I make it) so I can assure you the fridge + microwave trick tastes the same as a fresh bottle.

Also, forgot to mention. Warm red wine up in the microwave after refrigeration. Really! Try it! Obviously just to get it to room temperature.

The half bottle trick is great. 375 ml is a great amount for 2 to split with dinner. Lets you open a bottle any night and not feel bad about not finishing.

The A380 is harder to load cargo into so they never even built a cargo version. The 747 freighter is still being produced and delivered today! Look up and see a contrail lately and it might be a 747 freighter, they are all flying!

https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-747-resurgence-in-car...

https://simpleflying.com/ups-boeing-747-deliveries/

I suggest finding something you like, and do it. I like gardening and cleaning so I do those, but don't like changing oil so I outsource that. I would change my oil it I could stand up doing it!

Yeah, I mean people with money buying stuff in the free market and prices going up because of increased demand! Yikes! That's California Communism coming to Texas clearly right there!

Teams is completely failing to replace Slack in my experience. I think it's must closer to replacing Zoom. I use all 3 daily. Teams is strong in file storage, direct messages and video calling. Slack is strong in channel messaging. I would argue they barely compete, the Slack file storage and video are not great, and the Teams channel messaging is unusable and appears unfixable.

If you are in the area, there are other amazing old school Italian American experiences that are great.

Two in Petaluma http://www.angelossmokehouse.com/ - the Past King's brother https://volpisristorante.com/

Plus some wineries, although those have lost some of their charm.

Maybe real information needs a better PR strategy? What would that look like? I think it needs to be bottom up, at least it can't be centralized.

I suspect most states are still counting, but no one is watching. California for example has 2-3 million to count!

How does one avoid this? I need some new furniture in the next year or so.

GitHub and Azure for sure are the best services from MS. But while the former is easy to use, and I would say the lowest friction for getting developers building and deploying, I think AWS is easier for developers than Azure. Look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storag... and see the power Azure offers, it's impressive, but it's also confusing. AWS is simpler and still effective.

I think a lot of Azure fast growth was migrating existing corporate IT workloads. These are Windows servers, SQL Server databases, etc and Azure is a great place for those.

But if you are building a new app, I am not quite sure why you would choose Azure unless you are afraid of Amazon.

It's important or will be everywhere. Source: California where the lights are literally about to go out...

https://mobile.twitter.com/california_iso gives heads up on grid issues, stage 2 = grid at capacity, stage 3 = lights start going out for someone.

Isn't this just a $ decision? Do you build a power point that runs only for 4 hours every 10 years? Batteries may pencil out?

That's the real question. Even 1 in 10 year load, do you build for it or just live with it? It's just a $ decision.

They some times back port these, I am unclear if they will or won't here? Agree it would be awesome!

It's impressive it took them this long in the face of Datadog and who ever else pioneered the open source agent approach. It was such a clear advantage to ensure you knew what was going on your servers, or into your app in the APM case, and of course you could fix / extend it if needed.

Yes, SaaS and even IaaS and PaaS are the ultimate outsourcing. Outsourcing that actually works since it's not simply swapping a US based high paid human for a low paid off shore human. Instead it's swapping a human for automation, that's real savings for customers, even after margin for the automation creator.

This has got to be interesting for folks like AWS, Google, MS. Is this the opening for AMD? Or will we see things like AWS ARM chips take off? They should both be close to entering production on 5nm chips once TSMC gets enough Apple chips knocked out. Are we going to see more specialization in the form of custom chips as process nodes are stalled out?

Yes, it was the recent failures in CA that I am seeing living here as evidence that the rest of the country, and large chunks of the world, are also doomed to head down the same path. CA had all the right initial steps catching it early, and had every chance to move forward, but could not execute. I imagine Canada, NY and even Europe may end up following, although I really really really hope I am wrong.