More of an “everyone’s shit here” situation

To be fair, the financial market is deeply rewarding the “tell us what we want to hear” approach.

Even if the time should come where the chickens come home to roost, the key players will have gotten billions out of the mania in the meantime.

So on one hand you have someone making a fair pessimistic assessment of current approaches that isn’t attractive to investors and his suggestion is very unproven. On the other hand you have someone that agrees with whatever the investors want to believe. The latter is, in this situation, an easy payday.

“Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth.” -Worf

Just talked to someone here on business and he was unfair to have been sent here and his family had wanted to go to American amusement parks for a vacation and he said absolutely no way with this administration.

Problem with being a business is that Atlassian isn’t so much really a software company as much as they are a marketing thing that pretends to be software.

Agile consultants say “Atlassian”, companies lap that up at the executive level and the employees roll with it because selecting Atlassian is “thought leadership”. The people picking Atlassian are not the people using Atlassian. Paradoxically typical Atlassian rooted workflows are about as far from being actually agile as you can get.

As much as this is overly simplistic, there’s a sort of appeal here…

The good news when you have proper issue management is that you don’t lose any issues. The bad news is you don’t lose any issues.

In my work, the issue tracker has issues that are over 5 years old. Any time someone dares to just purge those, some one comes out of the woodwork to suddenly passionately care about this thing they have forgotten for years until the jira notification triggered them.

Projects that have pristine issue discipline tend to suck, as they waste so much energy on things that didn’t matter whether or is fixing or engaging in an argument about the value. The better projects tend to say “fine, we will hold that issue in low priority backlog and get to it if we ever run out of better stuff to do”, and the submitter is placated and everyone knows we will never run out of better stuff to do.

True spirit of ‘fix it in documentation’

I don’t see how sailing around Africa is a plausible alternative to the Strait of Hormuz…

It basically just means zero access in/out of the Persian Gulf at all. The closest thing to an alternative is overland access to the Red Sea through Saudi Arabia.

Now if we were talking about the Suez canal, that would make sense.

Well the argument was about energy cost. 1.5 TWh is 1.5 TWh, however you choose to spread it out.

You seem to be worrying about power, which is a fair but separate issue to be concerned about.

Think the point is that it represents an added cost not modeled in the infographic. It’s really the curse of incremental infrastructure cost, the LNG infrastructure sunk costs would be untenable but they’ve already been spent. So now solar, however unfairly, has that added infrastructure cost to consider.

The weird thing are solar nimbys. A while back I was reading about a big bunch of solar intended for the Mojave. Perfect, useless wasteland that should be a slam dunk for solar. But NIMBYs said that they would be an eyesore and hurt Vegas tourism. So they proposed installing on Mesas, out of sight. Then they still complained that skydivers could see it.

If it is true, then the implied cost would at least stand in for the ‘manifest out of thin air’, the cost is for making the panels exist.

Similarly, the LNG price is only about acquiring the fuel, not about the logistics of moving it around and managing it.

Though admittedly, the comparison is flawed in other ways…

If they draft near-revolutionary people they get access to military equipment and incleases likelihood of actual revolution. If you concentrate them then they can coalesce as a group. If you spread them out then a lot of units will be dragged down.

Using ICE to round up dissenters avoids the risk of arming the would-be revolutionaries with credible military equipment.

Yeah, I thought if anything, Vietnam tought the lesson that the draft is a terrible idea for overseas deployment.

Of course, learning from history is not exactly the style of this administration.

And when they did confront the issues, those issues were alien things, the federation was past all this nonsense and as you say, boring mundane stuff and the alien issues were always “oh we got over that hundreds of years ago, we learned about that in history”.

I don’t think it’s lying, I was in a lot in 2022 looking at a used 2021 with like 8k miles on it and wondered what they got bought after trading in. The guy said that he actually bought a 2022 of the exact same model, because he didn’t want to be seen driving anything but the current years model.

They certainly exist and can be found to quote, just seems out of touch to treat the situation as somehow “worrying” enough to make the cut. Figured you probably could have found someone with at least a decade old car to comment…

No, they want everyone to have more money to give to them…

Reminded me of a UAW spokesperson being interviewed on tariffs…

When asked why he had advocated for auto tariffs before the tariffs came on, and now why was he complaining that the tariffs were unaffordable, his explanation was simple, he wanted tariffs only on the things that competed with them, and the rest of the economy left alone so that everything can be more affordable except the stuff they did.

They want to sell those high margin high priced cars and are grousing because the rest of the economy isn’t fueling the consumer budget enough to fulfill their ambitions.

He has been thinking about replacing his 2020 Ford F-150 pickup truck

Just… wtf… Your car is only 6 years old and it’s just so old that you really think to need to replace it? And your story is so relatable it lands in an article? How much difference can you even see between that 2020 and a 2026 model really?

Is it though?

I don’t suppose I know the EU situation, but at least in the US, cellular towers are supposed to accept an emergency call regardless of anything like a SIM susbscription, so if the car doest uses a cellular modem to dial emergency ervices, the car wouldn’t necessarily actually need a subscription active.

Maybe it doesn’t work that way in EU, but it seems like it should be the case that a mandatory emergency call function shouldn’t carry a subscription burden.

I was about to say that as bad as Outlook was, I actually used its search to figure out some Jira ticket because just… damn trying to find a Jira ticket based on a few keywords is just a pain in the ass…