Hardware is increasing in capacity at an insane rate, so of course software efficiency takes a back seat. Under most circumstances, no one notices that it takes slightly longer for unoptimized to run.

Once we plateau ( again ), we'll see a greater push for optimization. These things happen in cycles.

nuremberg.
what a wonderful defense.
and given todays toys.
prison guards could remote their jobs.
I think it would be trivial to use OpenAI for Alcatraz

Ah, you misunderstand. I'm not a republican. I'm not MAGA, and I didn't vote for Trump ( point of fact, I have never voted for a major party candidate, ever. Usually I write myself in ).

What I'm doing is correcting false information. Trump was never convicted of rape, and certainly not of child rape. That's a fiction created by his detractors, latched on to and repeated by those of low enough intelligence as to be manipulated into being good little pawns.

You have let your hatred of the man to be used as a tool to manipulate yourself. To put it simply; you played yourself.

Now, here's the funny part; Trump may be the monster you claim he is, but you come off so unhinged that no one would ever believe it coming from you.

Lol, no. Mind you, this is the same state that passed prop 49 decriminizalizing shop lifting under 950, resulting ( shockingly! ) criminals shop lifting up to 950...again and again and again. Take a look at our urban centers to get an idea of how that worked out.

So, a decade later, we voted to recriminalize shoplifting ( something our brilliant gov campaigned *against* mind you ), and the gov has been dragging it's feet on implementation ever since.

So...no. I don't think the state of CA could have figured this out before it got hit with the severe consequences of it's actions. For further proof, look at what our elected officials are doing to gas prices in the state.

Of course we all know that Trump *isn't* a child rapist, but it's a fun talking point. Still, with CA democrats doing shit like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2F... you might not want to try thowing that kind of shade.

The democrats should be secretly celebrating this; the ban was always a remarkably stupid virtue signal that was going to come back to bite them. There is no way the state could possibly be ready for the ban in 10 years ( look at their rail project lol ).

The republicans just saved the democrats from themselves. If they're smart they'll bitch, whine and moan but not do anything to try to overturn this.

Lol, sure, keep on believing that. Nevermind my years of experience working in government, assisting at some of the highest levels.

I know what goes on, I've seen it first hand. What I lack is the instinct to defend the malicious incompetence. I think it should be demonized and prosecuted where ever possible.

The question is, why don't you? Too much to lose? See too much of yourself in the fuckups, perhaps?

Those responsible for record retention should be fired and charged ( obstruction? ). They should lose their retirement, as well as any and all privileges that come with the position.

Basically, hold people accountable for their "incompetence", if that truly is what it was. Given the agency in question, I have my doubts.

Sorry, no; they do not get the benefit of doubt.

They are a huge federal agency, funded by public funds. They have a legal obligation to account for their actions. Any discrepancy is to be thought of as malicious first and only, unless proven otherwise.

musketeers.
check to see if they were hanging around the hive.

Hasn't been my experience, nor has it been the experience of many of my colleagues.

It's not just a language barrier either, it's legitimately something with their education that prevents them from actually understanding the problem and addressing it. Anything that goes "off script" they struggle with.

Given the software in question, clustering wasn't an option.

Yes, I know; the software is crap. I don't disagree, but I don't have the option to NOT use it either. So...FT it was. And it worked, for all the issues with FT and DB servers, it worked for 10+ years.

"For decades, Indian technology firms thrived by deploying their engineering talent to serve primarily Western clients"

As the unfortunate receiver of said "talents", may I just say LOOOOOOOL?

They're barely able to read and follow a script, have zero ability to understand the nuances of a problem or critical think of solutions. They're little more than bots, and now that AI is here their value will plummet.

Know how, when searching for a solution to a windows problem, you come across the exact same post suggesting DISM/sfc /scannow? And nothing else? That's what it's like dealing with "indian engineering talent".

Generally speaking I agree with you; FT/Hot failover ( whatever it's called ) is one of those things that sounds more useful than it is in in practice, but I'd disagree with you in that it has no use. I've used it on database servers, for instance. Yes, the overhead takes a bite out of performance, but for my use cases that was an acceptable trade off ( it was a vendor app whose vendor refused to reimplement so we were stuck with what we were stuck with, and it was mission critical so downtime was strictly frowned upon, to say nothing about unplanned downtime ).

I wouldn't exactly call it an edge case tool, but where it's called for it truly shines. It's one of the few features that I miss and don't have access to.

Think about it from an admin perspective; refactoring a vendor's application isn't always possible ( or getting them to refactor it ). We all have some legacy "cruft" floating around ( I have a remote desktop environment + SQL 2019 ) that can't/won't be refactored, but that still needs a respectable SLA attacked to.

While the RDA hosts can be load balanced, you still need a connection broker ( remote desktop ) if you're doing things like Remote App. With SQL2019 you can't really get that fancy unless the application you're running supports it ( and no, it doesn't ).

So...yes, anything written today SHOULD be hardware agnostic and allow for failures, but that's often a luxury when you aren't a fortune 500 ( or even when you are, as there's only so much budget for custom rolling your own software ).