RFK Jr can also point you to a company selling magic juices, fully natural of course, that will prevent cancer. No connection with his own bank account.

"But I HAVE to be able to hitch the travel trailer to the pickup and drive to Grandma's house in Maine with half my household goods aboard every summer!"

[Narrator: last time he made that drive was in 2018]

The ability of archaic ICE vehicle lovers to come up with absurd edge cases for everyday persons (note: not long distance trucks, farm equipment, or heavy machinery which will probably need diesel engines for a long time yet) never ceases to amuse me. Yeah, sure, you need to drive to Boise and back this afternoon; gotcha.

The current crop of large correlation models being marketed as "AI" appears to be nothing but a Russian nesting doll of scams, with the difference from a piece of Russian artwork being the doll is normally displayed on an equally solid end table whereas "AI" is floating on an aerogel of baloney that is simultaneously rotting, melting in the sun, and being eaten by rats.

Oh yes, let's not forget the massive theft if the work of others that forms the basis of "LLM" "AI".

Smashing the US' formerly world-leading biomedical research industry sure has improved our freedumbs! Sorry about that knock-on effect on the economy.

[Narrator: RJK Jr and Melon Husk were not in fact sorry]

"That's not justice, that's basically a kill switch for the entire industry."

Stealing, e.g., book authors' work, mashing it up using an "LLM" algorithm, and selling it in a deliberate attempt to undercut the original, content-creating authors would seem like a 'kill switch' for human creativity and livelihoods, no? Ursula K. LeGuin was 101% right when she fought Google and the what was supposed to be her own advocate, the SFWA, on this 20 years ago and everything she predicted about the destruction of authors is coming to pass.

Sorry, you sound old. I suffer from workhorse syndrome as do a great many of my peers. The harder you work, the more efficient you work, the more work is piled on. Work ethic no longer plays a part, the company gives me the work of 5 to 10 other people because that is definitely cheaper and more efficient for the stock price. In reality its abuse of your best resources and creates unsustainable output.

Much like the resistance to making things energy efficient to reduce the impact of climate change, current behavior is not sustainable. The end of the road isn't quite clear but you can't always be running a marathon.

You can simply look at the wage stats. Productivity has skyrocketed over 40 years. Wage growth has stagnated, this means there is no longer a reward for many people to work hard, why would they have interest in it then?

Employers have a deep sense of entitlement without giving anything back these days. It has to be a two way street otherwise its not sustainable in either direction. My yearly review used to always be with the owner of my previous company. We both understand that my raise was him investing in me, and my continued employment was me investing my time into the company. The goal is that we are both successful. He ended up selling the company but it was a good ride while it lasted.

What we might call the "Financialization Generation", which held the reins from ~1975 to at least 2021, deliberately and knowingly destroyed the conditions under which the great majority of people could experience anything known as 'career success' [1]. That they are now paying researchers to bemoan that those so undermined lack "Conscientiousness" about their work environment is a bit rich.

[1] yes, we all know some successful entrepreneurs, the guy with 17 money-earning patents, and the super-hustlers who are on track to retire at 35 by dint of working seven jobs 120 hours/week. Those are far distant outliers to the mean

"Trump is a liar who destroys every thing and particularly every one he comes in contact with"

Pin that in your clipboard and paste it into discussions as needed.

yes, but poster you're replying to was specifically stating that you're not going to know if Biden's policies were helping because you've stopped analysis which is exactly why this is silly.

So the reality is as follows: broadband subsidies continue giving telecoms billions of dollars every single year but now we don't care if they spent the money on yachts or actual telecom infrastructure. Biden's policies were trying to help them accountable for our tax dollars, something you would think we would be important in the age of DOGE.

The Devil: This is where you will spend eternity winding the clock
Me: Akshually I'll be winding the frequency standard; it requires additional mechanism to keep time
The Devil:
The Devil: You know that's why you're here, right?

Most of the world's oil technology was developed using coal power
Most of the world's coal technology was developed using wood power
Most of the world's wood technology was developed using driftwood and animal technology

and so on and so on. These gotcha-memes never really stand up to examination of any kind, much less close examination.

This type of supply chain breakage is why I think we have already passed peak automobile lifetime (cars built 1990-2010): in the future when critical parts fail there won't be any spares, and unless one is willing to take on 10s of thousands of dollars of firmware modding no workarounds either. I would not expect cars sold after 2010 to have lifetimes of more than 10 years or so.

Everything RFK Jr does is related in some way to his network of scam companies making money. Trying to figure out how this seeming nonsense fits into that MO.

I see Xen Orchestra supports S3 compatible buckets, does that mean it supports immutable storage? Backup discussions are almost always lacking when talking about platform shifting. I find Azure immutable storage, especially in the archive tier are more affordable than AWS, they don't mention that. I assume Backblaze would work as they offer S3 compatible buckets but that term has burned me on several occasions. Just because there is support for S3 compatible buckets doesn't mean your solution will work. Ran into that with both Synology and QNAP for local storage.

While I sympathize being in a similar position myself, adding a new cluster to an existing vCenter with distributed switch and doing storage vmotion is quite friendly. In Hyper-v/Azure Local land you can use the Azure migration tool however and your downtime is largely limited to the length of a reboot. Not zero downtime like vmotion can provide but not that bad. I did it for 300 VMs to get to Nutanix AHV using Nutanix Move which is very similar.

Changing platforms alltogether is always going to come with some heartburn. if you were only using basic features then its pretty easy. If you were using NSX and need to migrate to Datacenter firewall then heaven help you, they are not the same. SCVMM does a lot of the heavy lifting there but man, in a HA environment it sure requires a lot of resources compared to vCenter.

For me, the amazing part of all of this is that it used to be good enough to know one platform, these days you have to be proficient in several to be successful.