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There’s a huge gulf between pub clowd and shitty on-prem.

We agree on this.

Redundant everything piped in. Redundant everything set up. We run VMs by terraform. Wheeeeee

For that customer of yours, is that a single datacenter or does is represent multiple datacenters separated by a large distance across a nation, or perhaps even across national borders?

Point is, posing shitty on-prem as the alternative to the clowd is moving the goalposts a bit.

I think ignoring that shitty on-prem represented a large part of IT infrastructure prior cloud providers is ignoring a critical point. Was it possible to have well-run enterprise IT data centers prior to cloud? Sure. Was everyone doing that? Absolutely not, I’d argue the majority had at least a certain level of jank in their infra and that that floor is raised with cloud providers. Just the basic facilities is enterprise grade irrespective of the server or app config.

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That work is still being done by someone in a data centre. But all these jobs went from in-house positions to the centres.

The difference is scale. When in-house, the person responsible for managing the glycol loop is also responsible for the other CRACs, possibly the power rails, and likely the fire suppression. In a giant provider, each one of those is its own team with dozens or hundreds of people that specialize in only their area. They can spend 100% on their one area of responsibilty instead of having to wear multiple hats. The small the company, the more hats people have to wear, and the worse to overall result is because of being spread to thin.

We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.

For many many companies that would be returning to the bad-old-days.

I don’t miss getting an emergency page during the Thanksgiving meal because there’s excessive temperature being reported in the in-house datacenter. Going into the office and finding the CRAC failed and its now 105 degree F. And you knew the CRAC preventive maintenance was overdue and management wouldn’t approve the cost to get it serviced even though you’ve been asking for it for more than 6 months. You also know with this high temp event, you’re going to have an increased rate of hard drive failures over the next year.

No thank you.

Fantasy Football (gridiron) was started upon the NFL game stats. There have been repeated citations of injuries to players, including many CTE cases, and these players frequently come up through the ranks from poverty as a method to earn scholarship education and income. The exploitation occurs because for many players, this may be their best path out of low economic conditions and are coerced to play when injured, and frequently discarded by football when they become injured leaving them with nothing.

She absolutely might be, and anon should have a discussion with her to make sure that matches her preferences and desires.

None of those are industries build on (modern) slavery and exploitation though.

You haven’t looked very deeply at the American Football industry where Fantasy Football derives its data/basis from then, then I take it.

Shared values are certainly important. However, Anon may quickly learn that his importance on spending money on Fantasy Football, Warhammer, or automotive tuning (or whatever his hobby/vice may be) may also quickly get shot down by his alternate shared-values compatible wife when he finds one that doesn’t want a diamond engagement ring for being wasteful.

If anon is worried about the resale value of a wedding ring after the purchase, I’m not sure if he quite understands the purpose of a wedding ring.

Anon hasn’t figured out that what is important to her is what should be important to him on this one. Trying to rationalize with her that the diamond ring she wants from this (potentially) most important event in her life isn’t worth it is a sure fire way to ruin this for her.

In other words, he really does believe his opinion matters that much.

It indicates he wants it to, but its cognitive dissonance at best. If people did care about his opinion, he wouldn’t have had to put his thumb on the scale tilting the traffic to artificially point to his posts. People are leaving Twitter anyway, which has to prove it even further people don’t want to hear from him.

Perhaps he thinks that people give a shit about his opinions. He burned his bridges with conservatives by accepting huge government contracts and shitting on trump. He burned his bridges with liberals with is DOGE fiasco and by allying himself with trump.

The few disaffected people that hung on after those can’t be happy with Elon throwing himself in Ketamine trance on a regular basis. Musks has zero credibility with anyone now except his hand picked board members of Tesla Inc.

It’s also important to check whether solar overcacity is worthwhile in the UsA. Her3 it is not( anymore).

I’ll say generally speaking in most places it isn’t, however, once you go solar, you may increase your electricity usage as you move away from carbon based energy. Before solar we had natural gas furnace heating and two gasoline cars. Now we have two EVs and a cold climate heat pump with zero natural gas and zero gasoline consumption. So I wanted the larger solar capacity to cover the increases in electricity we knew we’d have.

Its worked out pretty well. We have fairly large electricity bills ($400ish) in Jan and Feb, a small bill in March, and usually a tiny bill (under $10) in April. Then no bills for the rest of the year. Also keep in mind that is TOTAL energy costs, no gas or gasoline bought anymore.

And buy them according and after you’ve done everything possible to insulate your house, whether in the colder or warmer climates.

In the USA there are silly rules that you can only get 120% capacity of your last years worth grid consumption as solar installed. So if one were to follow your advice and do all the energy efficient improvement prior to solar, then you would be restricted to getting a much smaller array. I understand why they have the rule, but its easy to circumvent by just having artificially oversized consumption for a year in your house, and you can then get the larger array you want before then doing all the energy improvements post-array installation.

Using half-worn car battery packs seems optimal for home use.

I’m not putting cobalt based (NMC or NCA) batteries bolted to the inside my house. Thats nearly exclusively what car battery packs are. Thermal runaway is too great a risk to bolt that much energy to a wall in the house. I am comfortable with LFP in the house though.

could be because I told them I’ll buy once I can get net zero.

I’m not following your logic. You aren’t willing to accept any savings unless you can completely zero out your power bill? Judging from your consumption I’m assuming a good chunk of that is for cooling your home? If so that means you’re likely in a pretty great place to harvest solar power. You’d reach payback of your investment on your array much faster than most, and be saving money for probably 35 years or more with little to no additional investment.

Making some guesses for how much your electricity rates are, and how much you’re consuming (assuming much from cooling), you might be a full payback in less than 7 years if you took advantage of the tax credit. Then, every month after that you’d be gaining money back.

CAC cards

And your point?

I guess I thought my point was clear in my first sentence. “This isn’t a propaganda win.”

Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill.

They don’t need a pretext either. They’ve already enacted draconian policies against monitory groups based upon race and against LGBTQ folks. They needed no rational pretext for those. They didn’t need one for any other horrible things they’re going to do in the future. They would do those things anyway.

They know how to play the propaganda game.

This isn’t a propaganda win. Its simply a pretext for what they wanted and had the power to do anyway. Propaganda win would be if there was universal popular support for Kirk, and there wasn’t before and simply isn’t now. Most people didn’t even know who Kirk was before this.

If you don’t vote for her, you’re endorsing her statement against women holding office. Checkmate liberals! /s

To put it in simple terms, Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.

So their process sounds like it creates synthetic lard, not butter. This can still be a good thing as the extra ingredients to make it “butter” aren’t really the hard/impactful part of butter.