King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys, cares not for the privacy of his subjects. All the data are belong to Him!

The cloud is a great metaphor. It represents all that software that we expect to just “be there”, without any thought to where it might be. Of course software needs a platform to run on, but it is designed so it doesn’t matter where it is run. Your phone just finds it. It couldn’t care less where the server is, it just connects, and you get your cat pictures, as long as you are connected to the Internet.

The physical manifestation of the cloud is all those servers in datacenters, with redundant connectivity and power, designed to run and be connected 24/7/365.26 . They are designed with failures and redundancy in mind. It can take a literal act of war to get a datacenter off the network permanently. And even then, when local data and connectivity are lost, people running Web services for real should be backing their data up offsite and designing their services to easily spin up elsewhere. Some services hosted in those datacenters simply had a brief outage while other resources were provisioned.

“The Cloud” is really just a series of Best Practices for software design and operations so that these services can run anywhere. Of course, they have to run somewhere, but they can run anywhere…

We can call that AI “Dread Pirate Robot”

It depends on how close you are to retiring. If you are more than 10 years away, you are probably better off doing nothing differently. Look at the inevitable dip as a buying opportunity.

Even if you are close, you still need to be careful. Yes, the market is probably due for a 40% haircut at some point. But if it takes another 3 years to get there, then the market might increase more than that before then.

There are funds that track the entire S&P 500, but omit those 7 large Tech companies, and their performance has consistently lagged behind the whole index. If you thought years ago that the Tech sector would be do for a correction and backed out of those 7 companies while keeping the rest, you would be objectively worse off.

The whole idea of a 401k is that it’s not taxable until you pull stuff out on retirement. You an trade in and out of stuff with no tax implications.

The Internet thinks you’ve got your own trolls

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Peikko

https://finland.fi/life-society/finnish-mythical-creatures-still-lurk/

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were also snipers, though. I’ve known a few Finns, you are all badass…

Shit, you think Internet trolls are bad, Finland has some of the OG trolls in those woods and you don’t want to piss them off

They take something that can have a positive impact and then try to apply it in all the wrong places without investing in making it work.

That sounds like when a company I used to work for first found out about Agile…

I just wish my company would start hiring again. I have been using the AI out of necessity, because we are short-staffed in certain areas. I’ve asked several times, directly, how much my AI use is costing and nobody is in a position to know. It’s certainly helped in some areas but I want to build a case that hiring a college grad or two can help more…

Product managers tend to be useless in large groups, but a good product manager is worth their weight in Iridium.

It’s basically the upper end of the Peter Principle.

Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it’s human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.

Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.