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>not the tax-evasion that Straw Manners and Ad Hominem attackers make appear to be.

Depends on the state, in my former state, Virginia, it is tax evasion. This is not unique to Virginia BTW, Georgia has similar laws. By law in VA, all cars that are garaged in state for longer than 90 days must pay the car tax. Only reason Montana LLC registered cars get away from it is most counties find out who must pay the tax from Virginia DMV so these cars are missed.

Yes, most cellular carriers have wifi calling enabled. However, my in laws have some cellular device that provides a POTS jack they plug a phone into and it’s powered from the wall. That’s is always talking to cellular network.

Progress was slow until industrial farming was developed and more people could be freed from just trying to grow enough food to feed themselves.

Capitalism was side effect as well.

Not anymore. It got moved to 85 because speed limit on interstates moved to 70.

As SRE, Deployment, Replica Sets and Services are generally the easy part. The hard part which he noted:

>Right now, it doesn’t support ConfigMaps, Secrets, pod resources, persistent volumes, and a whole host of other things I haven’t needed yet. As I make more content with this library, I’ll implement more of what I need.

Yea, this is initial start to the madness followed by Ingress Controller and all little weird crazy stuff that Developers do that drive our lives crazy.

Also keeping these plates spinning while 100 devs are launching who knows what.

Sure, let's have that debate then. I think what frustrates many US citizens is immigration is clearly broken but for various political reasons, Congress won't touch it. It's clear the system is at the breaking point.

>and immigrants and their children more than pay their way in future taxes and future entrepreneurship.

As someone who is involved in local politics, and encourages more people to be, this is true in long run BUT not in short term. This causes a ton of friction since localities which don't have unlimited debt power ends up eating the cost of this immigration.

Here is CBO source on this: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61464

It's possible they are using kine: https://github.com/k3s-io/kine

Beyond other reason listed in the comments, Microsoft is heavily invested in Postgres. They bought Postgres sharding company (https://www.citusdata.com) and apparently it sees a ton of use internally even for newer Greenfield projects. Also, if check recent commits to Postgres, you will find Microsoft employees all over commit history.

As I've commented several times before, MSSQL appears to be on life support. It makes them a ton of money and it's supported in same way AS/400 is supported. Sure, Microsoft will take your money but don't expect a lot in return.

>I know it's easier said than done but is there anything you can do to become an advocate for change?

IME, very few companies care they are screwing up their employees' lives. It's why these laws are good since it puts financial cost on them and gives their employees cover.

I'm SRE/Platform, I got paged out last night because Devs apparently can't properly crash applications. Sure, I can move hours as well but my partner doesn't care that I get off at 3 on this Friday instead of 5, she has to work till 5 and my page out interrupted our outing to the movies. Not everyone life is ultra flexible.

>you're paying so much for an education and then you just skip the education part? Why bother?

Because you are viewing the motivation of college wrong for most people. For most people, the purpose of college is to get piece of paper that will open up higher salary opportunities. Ergo, they are just doing whatever required to get said piece of paper with least amount of effort.

Until degrees, in particular, degrees from well-regarded universities stop being that method, this behavior will continue.

3 physical servers can power a ton of requests.

What's wrong with just archiving Parquet files? Worry about lack of support for file format 50 years in the future? If that was truly the concern, would it be best to archive it in more plain text format like CSV or JSON?

Because it can be both depending on the command line flags sent to it.

Also, because it's so easy to setup, most DevOps/SREs/Ops just chuck into production without reading about which flags to set because we are not informed it's a requirement until 11th hour.

Because like a lot of things, metric of "What does recruiting cost us?" is very easy number to quantify so companies will attempt to reduce it.

"What does bad recruiting cost us?" is very hard number to quantify because it's just sand that gets thrown into so many gears, but cost of that sand is across a ton of departments and so measuring for it is very difficult.

That's huge IF, both of them have 90 day exit clause, and it's not like it's a long-term business.

Those deals are doable because xAI failed and SpaceX has a bunch of spare compute lying around they can rent out. However, SpaceX doesn't make the hardware or software so moat is nonexistent.

If compute capacity increases or AI demand decreases, Google/Anthropic will likely skip SpaceX and just buy their own hardware in their own datacenters or go back to their own datacenters.

sigh Not everything in the world is containers. Applications running outside of container still exist in many companies for various reasons including political ones.

Want to, not really. Want GMaps moved from Google? Yes. If it can stand on it's own free, fine whatever. If not and people need to be charged for it, fine.

We run everything on VM just for flexibility. Want to stand up a new machine for testing? Boom, run the script, new Ubuntu server. We need to decommission a machine. Shutdown all the guests, move them over to new machine and start them.

Sure, most of what we do is very cattle and we could run on bare hardware but why not take advantage of easy to add flexibility.

Depending on if you have Microsoft365, you don't get ads either. It's not ads, it's fact that browsers are still not native performance to Win32 application. However, companies hate maintaining multiple applications (Win32/MacOS) and Sysadmin at companies hate maintaining Win32 Applications as well so everyone starts building WebView2.

Yea, everyone is trashing on Outlook web while Gmail is over there doing same exact shit. Even worse, Gmail has never well integrated all its features. Apparently having easy access to my full calendar requires a new tab.

I clicked, saw this "The email app with its own AI agent" and closed. Another "Let's shove AI into something".

Outlook already provides me this, it's terrible at it since context is key and context is probably buried in several places it has access to and despite that access, it still falls flat.

Sure but whole strategy is "Jack up prices by 500%, cut expenses by 70% and make more money in short term"

What about the long term? Who care, massive money made and they can use that to keep going.

>Broadcom's "strategy" is absolutely baffling to me.

I know plenty of Enterprise customers who cannot move easily and just renewed 3 year VMware licenses for their cluster at insane rates. They are planning on moving but I'd be shocked if they complete it. $LastCompany had VMware footprint I know will be very difficult to move off, deployments, monitoring, backups were all dependent on VMware. There are plenty of US Government entities who are not even considering it at this time.

Also, Broadcom has slashed expenses so I wouldn't be shocked if profit margins are crazy. This article: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/03/07/bulk-of-big-... indicates over 1 Billion additional revenue per quarter

If you look deeper into the migration article, it's pointed out that they are already facing migration challenges. I wouldn't be shocked if 3 years later, there are some workloads still running on VMware, you can't easily get them off and just renews insane licensing cost for much smaller hardware footprint.

I agree with all of that but you don't put a dent in spending outside of tackling ICE budget. TSA is more neutral since a lot of funding from that comes from airline ticket fees.

There is only 5 items that matter:

Interest on Debt.

Social Security

Medicare.

Medicaid.

Defense.

They became big enough because they were free and had massive cash behind them to destroy all competition (Mapquest, Garmin and others)

Now they are this big, they have become quasi public record for many other organizations who rely on this data.

Since they want to keep costs low, if their data is wrong, it can have significant impacts on your life and getting someone to correct it is almost impossible.

I worked for Data company for a year. We absolutely used Census and ACS as baselines and checks. In fact, there was some talk about getting rid of ACS in Congress and we got emails about "EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL PERSON, DEMAND ACS STAY. Here are talking points."

In theory, it could help. In practice, for KYC to reduce spam and scam calls, FCC would have to be willing to drop hammer big time on people and telcos who allow it to happen. With current political climate in the US, I don't see that happening since companies would scream "Poor pitiful us" and fines would be the cost of doing business.

>Have no idea why people here are picking up on MSFT’s levelling system? I didn’t invent it.And it actually starts at L59.

Because it's standard arrogance by developers not realizing that Microsoft Level system is actually pay bands and because it was developed in 80s, leveling system COVERS all jobs because pay systems didn't support different pay bands back then. So there are lower levels then 59, for things like janitors, secretaries and others who don't make as much as SWE.

Most of time it's billed as law enforcement fighting tool. If people can't have anonymous cell phones, once you capture one criminal phone number, you can quickly look at who they call and since they can't be burners, you figure out the criminal network.

Also, if you have restrictions of speech in the country, it's great way to de anonymize any speech government says is illegal.