That seems very practical and well-reasoned to me.

This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem.

Having raw intelligence doesn't help if you don't apply rigor to your thinking. I suspect that very successful people actually end up falling into habitual mental shortcuts that cause them to promote stupid things at a later time.

You left out the part where he claimed a person was a pedophile and when asked if it was just an insult basically said “no I really think he’s a pedophile”, and started stating made up bullshit about child brides as fact. He only backtracked when he was sued. That is NOT the same as just throwing insults.

You’re equivocating a childish insult with insisting that a person is a pedophile and hiring a private investigator to prove so and then writing scathing emails to reporters because they refuse to repeat claims uncritically. This is an appalling failing of morality on your part.

I’m frankly not inclined to dive into why I, previously a big fan of Elon Musk, find him personally repugnant because I expect you to apply the same standards to everything he does. That doesn’t take away from SpaceX, but we shouldn’t overlook his failings just because rockets are cool.

Its completely in-line with his personality to hold onto personal grievances for decades to the point that they become policy.

I’m being sarcastic, for the record. Back during his first term, Trump talked about “second amendment people” doing something about liberal Supreme Court justices (iirc) and the right wing media treated everyone as crazy for thinking that was wildly inappropriate.

I agree.

Its been a while since I touched it, but as far as I can remember ES has never pretended to be your primary store of information. It was mostly juniors that reached for it for transaction processing, and I had to disabuse them of the notion that it was fit for purpose there.

ES is for building a searchable replica of your data. Every ES deployment I made or consulted sourced its data from some other durable store, and the only thing that wrote to it were replication processes or backfills.

You mention parquet and spark, but I’m wondering if you tried any of the “Lakehouse” formats that are basically parquet + a metadata layer (ie iceberg). I’d probably at least give Trino or Presto a shot, although I suspect that you’ll have similar metadata issues with those engines.

Treating the investigation in good faith is not being neutral or unbiased. Expecting more of the same is.

To get an accurate productivity metric you’d have to somehow quantify the debt and “interest” vs some alternative. I don’t think that’s possible to do, so we’re probably just going to keep digging deeper.