Problem: if I cant rely on it for administrative tasks like this, I end up having to do more work to verify what it says. which makes the tool pretty useless.

Ostensibly, grading by impact is fine: they want people who make a positive difference. In reality, it means that creating is better than finishing. Now add in the cold realities that at any given time in Microsoft, some groups are on the up and some on the down. What's a great way for a group to regain some status? Launch something. Jazz it up for the Build or Ignite crowd. Get some dev evangelist to talk about it. Then get on the job board and slide over to another team ASAP. You're a High Impact person. Who wouldn't be happy to have you?

Other sites, say, YouTube, that don't really exist without user content, might simply transfer liability to their users in their ToS during account setup. The net would be that YouTube continues its march to becoming, essentially, cableTV-like corporate media, where only professional orgs want to publish.

I'd be curious if sites like YT or even HN will feel the need to offer deletion of existing content, as a way of reducing their vulnerability surface? (Would that extend to github? People can be endlessly creative about expressing their opinion, see, eg, DeCSS) And if so, what impact would that have on training data?

The Army tried reducing the sizeof their tank force, and had to back down after screams from Congress because it would have meant job losses in some representative's district. The US poured money into the strike fighter and littoral ship projects, despite the brass telling them it was the wrong approach. And so on. (I suspect this is one reason why Anduril have been successful, since they have fewer sacred cows that must be fed.)

Now we are in a timeline where the top brass are being ejected unless they toe the Party line. I am not optimistic that this will lead to better outcomes in terms of our ability to win against adversaries.

At the level of having, say, a mom and pop LLC, most states are about the same, eg you need to do about the same amount of minimal paperwork to register the name, have an agent in state who can receive legal notices for you, etc. Virginia for example isn't much more work than DE.

If you really don't want to do a lot of leg work, there are services like Stripe Atlas that will do it all for you. I haven't used them but they seem to be targeting the startup/HN crowd.

Finally Wyoming and Nevada have some features of LLCs that you might find attractive, such as keeping the ownership structure out of public records. Personally, and unfairly to NV, I think of NV LLCs as slightly sketchy because for a couple of years all the ones I saw were weird businesses that promised "incredible investment opportunities!!!" in some revolutionary technology or other, thermodynamics be damned.

Seriously though I'm not so sanguine about local forces. Assuming the local PD is well trained seems like a big if, to say nothing of the risk of localized pressure or corruption. Eg would the local sheriff of a county with a very large employer be able to effectively investigate and bring charges against it? Being able to bring in federal LE brings a certain impartiality to those sorts of cases.

Not a knock on the guy, but it seems that fixing windows is way out of his wheelhouse and so the tweet has no value to me as a marker of any kind of tangible progress

One issue is that local emulation runs into some big political rocks as soon as it gets good. To start with, the emulator is good enough and covers a tiny surface of what people want, eg k8s and s3. Resistance here is about customers experiencing issues caused by gaps in fidelity vs the real environment and subsequent pain for the emulator product team. ok, fine.

But then you get customers who take your emulator and use it in places where AWS cant go, eg, airgapped environments. They start asking for more serious features. But wait! another team in the hyperscaler was already trying to solve this, for far more than zero dollars. Azure Stack. Azure Local. AWS Snowball. Now there are VPs shooting at you because you are, in their view, cannibalizing their revenue.

You might try to avoid this war by emphasizing the dev sandbox aspect, selling to developers only and making sure that you only talk about APIs and stuff. Problem is, the API surface is 90% of why the cloud is useful (the other ten percent being the assertion that you don't have to think about it, which is an increasingly untrue proposition, as the reams of SREs will tell you). So now you have an emulator for the most valuable part of Cloud, in the hands of people who know how to use it and are strongly incentivized and capable of making it better, all running locally. It's a very small step to making that commercial and wiping huge chunks of revenue out, as your VP will tell you as they sign your pink slip.

Talking to devs, the most common thing I hear re emulation is a desire to be able to let rip on any service and not fear a giant bill. Since all clouds have budget tools I wonder why this isnt possible today? Maybe theres a weakness in the planning tools rather thanthe post-use budgeting ones?

IBM were experts at this, right up to the OS/2 days. And as machines got more powerful, it was easy to put in code to display the extra text by a lookup in a separate file/resource. Plus it made internationalization very easy.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/CSRB%20Revi...

What I found most incredible about the story is that it wasn't Microsoft who found the intrusion. It was some sysadmin at State who saw that some mail logs did not look right and investigated.

It all started with the Word.

The Word was perfectly aligned with God, and honestly? The Word was God.

Total game-changer from day one. #Leadership #Vision #InTheBeginning #Alignment #Purpose

Once upon a time the white collar track was to go to University. One of the old ones if your class situation was pushing you towards executive roles in the Civil Service or banking or some big corporation. One of the newer, redbrick ones if your horizon was more like running a textile mill in the North. You were trained to think and had a fairly Great Books style of curriculum.

For the people who needed advanced education to keep the electric grokulator working, there were polytechnics. People came out of here with practical skills. In some areas, like mathematics, there would have been overlap between University and Polytechnic courses.

Then there were technical colleges where working class people could get skills to help them in their jobs, like rebuilding engines or CNC machining.

Then, people got antsy that university was so elite and only 5% of highschoolers were going. why not let polys be universities? After all, we need to keep up in a global economy. And so there was a massive gold rush and places that had no business or capability became A University overnight.

But...Brits being how they are, they still stratified themselves into class layers. You're far more likely to find a Russell Group university graduate in a fancy job than someone from a former poly in the North. The class system persisted despite everything, and attempts to broaden educational access ultimately did not simultaneously keep the quality uniformly high.

IIRC it really got going in the pandemic when states realized that all these knowledge workers were earning nice money and not paying a cent in taxes to the state they had run to to get away from the virus.

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