“John does a great job. He closed more bug tickets than anyone else last month.”

Its much smaller than it once was but we definitely still have a domestic steel industry. And it currently has more order volume than it can handle and is raking in the profits while continuing to raise prices.

You have just described the current state of the steel industry.

Ah. I see you must not be familiar with our AG.

I live in Arkansas where we have 6 data centers currently under construction. Clarksville, a town of ~10k people about 1 & 1/2 hours west of Little Rock, agreed to issue up to $55 Billion (with a “B”) in municipal bonds to pay for the data center being built there. They’re so excited about the [very temporary] sales tax revenue from construction workers and the promise of “up to 200 full time permanent jobs”. I think the final bill will be more like $7B but that remains to be seen.

Now, Clarksville has significant challenges. Like much of the rural US, they are experiencing a population decline. They have no real major industries, and they have to compete with a larger city 20 miles down the road for basically everything. I get why they would be looking for good high paying jobs.

But the city will own the data center, along with its construction debt. If the tenant it is being built for folds or walks away, the city will be on the hook for it. And I still can’t figure out what kind of fuzzy math supports a city with about $13 million in annual revenue taking on $6 billion in debt under any circumstances, much less 200 jobs that may or may not materialize.

Just another case of privatize profits, socialize losses.

Concerned about its workers losing brainpower as they outsource work to artificial intelligence, Dropbox is considering using cognitive training tools, like memory exercises and attention-span training, to keep them mentally sharp.

I’m very concerned about the future of The Onion. We have reached a point where the actual news is more absurd than satirical “news”.

In my experience, “microservices” are usually just a monolith with extra steps. Not always, but usually.

Lol. Work is currrently trying to cram Copilot into critical business processes despite it being incapable of doing very basic things.

However, it has shed light on the fact that we have people in management who dont understand the fundamentals of how our business operates. Not that anything will be done about it.