A trenchant observation that gets to the heart of why Hillary Clinton really lost.

One of the reasons that Hillary Clinton lost was that she couldn’t even pretend that she had anything to offer rustbelt residents mired in unemployment and addiction and hopelessness. She offered the rich a continued ride on the gravy train, she offered some minorities a chance to feed their resentments and she had nothing for anyone else.

Politics doesn’t matter that much anymore. It hasn’t for a long time. Breakage is required. Whether it will be hard or soft or even apocalyptic, I don’t know. History, though, tells us that when old orders dissolve and new orders begin to aggregate in dark corners that some dissolution — violent or otherwise — coincides with this every time.

Clinton had nothing to offer but the slightly-tweaked status quo. Too many people have been served a shit sandwich, and offering to warm it up for them does not really help.

And now, here we are.

This will be of interest to few, but these are some really good tips for optimizing Hyper-V deployments.

A lot of this I’d discovered myself through (painful) trial and error. Some of I was not aware of. All of it is useful.

Unpopular opinion: decent pop science books are often better to learn from than textbooks because textbooks rarely give any context, reason for why you are doing what you are doing, what possible use it might be, or where you might see it again.

They are different things, of course, and aren’t directly comparable in some ways. Textbooks are written to give concrete examples of techniques and approaches. This is valuable and necessary. However, even many “basic” textbooks assume you are already nearly an expert in a particular field. Specific techniques and formalism are important but if the learner doesn’t understand why they are doing something or what it means, they will not integrate it now and definitely won’t recall it later.

The reason I say pop science books are better to learn from is that if you don’t understand the context, the history, and the meaning, you are forever lost, while (as long as you have a decent basic understanding) specific tools can be taken off the shelf and used as needed.