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7 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
X : Meghan and Harry?
Me : An everyday story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy and hordes of rabid racist daily mail, sun and telegraph readers pretend the problem is something other than them being rabid racists.
X : But becoming a member of ...
Me : ... if you're going to say the family, the duty, the society, the right way of behaving, the ... oh, it's just endless excuses, one after another, looking for some sort of problem with Meghan rather than looking in the mirror at yourself.
We don't call it the daily fail for nothing. You don't get much nastier than this - ... awful stuff.
Let us not forget, we're talking about a young man who lost his mother as a child, who served his country with honours and who married a woman he loves.
X : What about Meghan?
Me : The treatment of Meghan has been nothing less than disgraceful. However, I am referring to the title of the Daily Mail article above. It is nasty in both word and spirit.

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7 Mar
X : Are you a communist?
Me : No. I'm not a capitalist either.
X : Then what are you?
Me : I'm an "undestand your landscape and use appropriate methods"-ist.
X : That doesn't make sense.
Me : Did to Deng Xiaoping. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
X : He was a communist.
Me : He was a pragmatist. He understood how to use tools to a nation's favour (including the market) and how to avoid dogma.
X : But you're more of a communist than a capitalist.
Me : Nope. They're both tools to me. I don't like either as a one size fits all dogma. The market and central planning have contexts in which they are useful and others in which they are not.
X : But you favour democracy?
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7 Mar
I, for one, will miss the reasoned debates and answers (and obvious non answers) to questions as it is replaced with the normal jeering and caterwauling of the house ->
The quality of the debate is not enhanced by the baying and guffaws of others, it depends upon the quality of the leaders and the questions they ask - parliamentlive.tv/event/index/01… ...
... today's debates are more reasoned and more thoughtful without the outcries of the rabble - parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9… ... I cannot help but think that the real desire to get everyone back into the commons is to hide Boris' bumbling.
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6 Mar
Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs - mckinsey.com/business-funct… ... a decade after the cloud is just for startups - informationweek.com/cloud/clearing… ... what sort of muppets hire McKinsey? They are clueless jokers. Never knowingly right.
Oh wait, the French Gov hired them for pandemic advice - nytimes.com/2021/02/22/bus… ... personally, I would have used healthcare professionals. Did McKinsey have its grubby hands all over track and trace in the UK ... that would explain a lot.
Oh wait, the economist is having a pop at McMuppets ... really? I thought that was supposed to be a love fest. Something is happening -> McKinsey’s partners suffer from collective self-delusion - economist.com/business/2021/…
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4 Mar
X : You have doubts on GCE?
Me : I've had doubts for a long time - ... I think it's pretty clear they are nearly out of the running now, it's only a matter of how long they can keep taking the losses. No offense but the gameplay really isn't there.
X : What about kubernetes?
Me : Winning a battle by losing the war. The high ground you wanted to own is serverless but that fight is almost over. Amazon won etc.
X : I think you're wrong.
Me : Everyone tells me I'm wrong ...
Me : I had 100+ execs telling me I was wrong in a meeting and the future was Virtual Data Centres. Then it was VCE and vBlock. Then it was Exalogic. Then it was OpenStack. Then it was Docker. Now it's Kubernetes ... I'm very used to people telling me I'm wrong. C'est la vie.
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3 Mar
Whilst I agree with @StrategicBlue and @QuinnyPig on more efficient use ... a couple of things to note.

a) We're doing more stuff - Jevons Paradox

b) We never knew what most of the stuff in data centres was actually doing. We can now at least, switch if off.
X : How much waste is in the data centre?
Me : Difficult to know because we don't often have ways of effectively measuring it. I know one particular client who got their "critical" IT estate down from 7,200+ applications to less than 600. Most the "critical" was never used.
Given duplication, bias (custom building what is a commodity), lack of monitoring, unused assets etc then as a rule of thumb, I expect 90% of all power (base resource) to be wasted but that's not just an IT thing ... in all departments I expect this - finance, marketing, HR etc.
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2 Mar
X : Have you ordered Starlink?
Me : Yep. Hopefully here soon.
X : Why not FttH?
Me : Fibre to the home / premise. That would have been great a few years ago but it has taken so long that the future has arrived. Don't see the point now.
X : What about latency? Bandwidth?
Me : I'll comment when I get mine but given I have to channel bond to a server in London for reasons of resilience then it can only get better and as more satellites go up it will only improve. You're talking 20-40 ms and 100Mbs ...
... of course, as compute moves into space then it wins hands down.
X : Compute in space?
Me : Yep. Where do you think it's going? Ditto manufacturing. Oh, wait ... you still think land based DCs are the future? Hmmm.
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