I read your article and still think my statement stands. In fact, your article shows that the behavior the author didn’t like from Red Hat existed long before the IBM acquisition. If you see the Red Hat treatment of its paying customers equal to what Broadcom is doing to its VMware customers, then I don’t believe you have a good grasp of the Broadcoms current behavior.
I’d recommend editing your post and removing that last sentence. If for whatever reason you would follow through with that in the future, and they’re able to connect your real name to that post, then they might have grounds for civil penalties against you.
I thought most of us figured out loyalty to any specific corporate employer was a dead end back in 2008 (or even 2001 for some of us). The better path is assume the job won’t always be there, bank what savings you can to weather the inevitable gap of unemployment (hoping you never have to use it), and take advantage of every training or learning opportunities at your current employer to improve your skills to take the next step up the ladder with your next employer.
I’d absolutely go back to an old employer if the price was right, and in fact, I have. It lasts as long as it lasts, just like any other job whether you’ve been employed there before or not.
Not that I’m defending Greek life, but advocating the banning is suggesting it is Greek life that is the cause of party and hookup culture. That seems to be a very suspect position. Partying and hooking up exist in many many places where Greek life doesn’t and has never existed.
I doubt young people are going to give up on partying and hooking up just because there isn’t a frat or sorority house around. It seems more likely the outcome of banning Greek life is that the party and hookup culture continues to exist outside of the Greek life events and locations.
I don’t know what state you live in, but thats how it works in mine.
In mine, each county has a County Board of Elections which determine the number and location of polling places. Those County Board of Elections members are appointed by our Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is an elected position by all voters in the state.
So again, Gerrymandering would have zero effect on location or number of polling places in my state.
How does it work in your state where you’re seeing Gerrymandering could affect the number or location of polling places?
Can you give an example of a rule you’re thinking of that a gerrymandered state legislature has made that will have a material effect on the outcome of the state’s US Senate race, or even more specifically on Ohio’s which is where this conversation started?
I expected him to cheat.
I’m wondering if thats why he’s shocked that he did cheat but still got blown out in the election results.
especially as horribly germmandered as it illegally is.
We’re talking about a US Senate seat here. Gerrymandering has no effect.
I’m sure there’s a School House Rock episode that would explain this better than I can, but the short of it is this: Each state in the USA, no matter how big or small, gets TWO US Senators they send to Washington to represent them in the Senate, no more, no less. Both of the US Senators represent all residents of the state. Every 6 years (the length of term of a Senator), all residents in the entire state vote in that US Senatorial election.
You may be instead thinking about races in the US House of Representatives where there are Congressional districts carving up the geography inside a state. There’s no such concept for the US Senators each state sends to Washington.
I’ve already voted.
Ramaswamy’s ad may have ensured a Democrat wins the Senate.
I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.
Why would your landlord have a problem with a portable washer in your apartment? Is there language written into your lease prohibiting it?
While I consider myself pro nuclear, there is something that gets forgotten everytime this conversation comes up.
The problem with nuclear isn’t that the waste is impossible to handle, it’s that humans are too short sighted to follow through with it.
Thats not even the biggest problem with nuclear power as the waste angle, at scale, will hit us decades in the future. The more urgent problem hitting us now on even on existing deployed nuclear plants is cooling water.
The byproduct of nuclear power generation is lots AND LOTS of waste heat. You have to get rid of this every second to continue to produce electricity. This is why nuclear power plants are typically built next to a large body of water. However, with reduced water supplies in reseviors theres less water to use for cooling nuclear plants. A double whammy is with climate change increasing temperatures, the water that remains is already hotter than it was, meaning it can carry away even less heat.
If a plant can’t get rid of its heat it needs to curtail (reduce) electricity production. This isn’t just theoretical. Its happening now in 2026 to existing power plants:
Hungary - Aug 2026 Hungary plans to shut down only nuclear power plant amid drought
Romania - Aug 2026 Nuclear power plants are being shut down as Europe’s drought becomes an energy crisis
France & Switzerland - Aug 2026 Droughts cause nuclear power plants in Europe to reduce output
At the time when Europe was experiencing its worst heatwave is recorded history, many European reactors had to be turned down or off. 2026 isn’t the first time this has happened either, you can go back in the last 5 years or so and see many reports of nuclear plant curtailment because of lack of cooling capacity (cool water).
When we know global temperature are rising, it looks like this will just get worse. How can we say nuclear is the future when the conditions for it working well are already declining?
Tf is a token?
If you plugged this question into an LLM here’s how it would be broken into input tokens:
BOS (Beginning of Sequence) | Tf | is | a | token | ? | EOS (End of Sequence)
So this sentence would be 7 input tokens into an LLM. The sentence before this one, which is my response, would be 15 output tokens. The big LLM providers charge you per token used (usually the 1000 tokens used). Some LLM providers charge one price for input tokens and another for output tokens.
Here’s how that translates to actual dollars to you. Here’s an price list from Oracle Cloud, a large company providing LLM service. Lets take the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro LLM model hosted at Oracle Cloud:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI - Google - Gemini 2.5 Pro - Input Tokens - Text, Image, Audio, and Video less than 200K input tokens = $1.25/1,000,000 tokens
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI - Google - Gemini 2.5 Pro - Output Tokens - Text Output less than 200K input tokens = $10/1,000,000 tokens
So your input question would have cost you $0.0000175 and my single sentence response to you would have cost you $0.00015.
Some LLMs (like those discussed in the article) separate each letter as a separate token for processing as input. In that case your same question in one of those LLMs would be 13 tokens instead of 7.
For all their faults, IBM has treated Red Hat and Hashicorp better than Broadcom has treated VMware.
“On-prem” is the Enterprise IT antonym term of “cloud”, as in public cloud, aka hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
Meta is building/operating the $3.3Billion Los Lunas Data Center in New Mexico.
That can change the situation on collection when the state has control where your billion dollar asset resides.
You have to go out of your way to set up publicly exposed storage like this!
Admin: “AI Agent, set up a storage bucket that is accessible by everyone on this list.”
AI Agent: “All done boss! Every one of those users can access this newly created bucket!”
and secure full pardons for himself ans his family members from Vance.
Vance is a disgusting human being, but he’s smarter than trump. Vance understands that pardoning trump would guarantee Vance would never be elected President on his own. Vance only has to look at Gerald Ford to see how that plays out.
Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in, and immediately pardons Nixon. Ford serve 895 days in office (the remainder of Nixon’s term) and is booted out of the White House and never hold an elected office ever again.
CoreWeave was founded as a cryptocurrency miner.
This explains so much.
I hate what trump has done to our brothers and sisters to the north. Our household is a moderate visitor to Canada and bring our money there to spend to help the local economy. This year it was BC and Ontario. Last year it was big spending in Quebec and Alberta. I’m sorry for what our idiot president is doing to your country, and I’m using my vote to combat his actions.