Day: September 10, 2018, 11:17 PM

Systems

Chill Uncategorized

Yes, system admin and related needs more women and more diversity in general! Unlike what has been said, the field is not disappearing and we’re not all becoming programmers (only). I know very few read this blog, but if any woman, even if it’s your second career, would like any help in this area, give me a shout here:

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I’m very well-versed in wide areas of my own field and related fields (scripting/light programming, vendor management, project management), have multiple certs (VCP-DCV, CCNP, CCDP, ITIL, MCSE and an expired RHCE), and have been doing it professionally for over 15 years now. I’ve also successfully mentored a young woman who went into a variant of my field after she decided she hated programming full-time.

Cackleations

Chill Uncategorized

Since June 2008, when my parter and I started our stock investment account together, the S&P 500 (the benchmark I measure myself against) has returned 161% up the end of August 2018, including dividend reinvestment.

My returns in that same time period are 243%. (Neither adjusted for inflation.)

You can’t beat the market over the long term. Some people can. I think I could do it up to about $100 million. After that, I’d start moving the market myself too much and people would notice and copy my strategy.

We’ll see how the next 10 years play out. It’s going to be tougher than the past 10, which were cake, I can tell you that.

Lefty religion

Chill Regular-ass Post

Was thinking about this point from an article I was reading today.

For example, how do we explain why, in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, more conservative commentators were calling for more comfortable and home-like public housing, while left-wing writers staunchly defended the populist spirit of the high-rise apartment building, despite ample evidence that the majority of people would prefer not to be forced to live in or among such places?

The left is concerned with density for understandable reasons, but it is possible to have pretty good density without high-rises anywhere (see Paris for an example). But with people, subjects of deep concern tend to become a religion. The left’s religion in many areas is austerity whether it makes sense or not. To many of those on the left, if you’re not suffering, you’re not sufficiently committed to the cause of sustainability or helping the environment. It doesn’t matter if suffering is actually helpful, because the austerity and deprivation itself become the proof that you’re doing the right thing.

This is largely the explanation for the support of less-than-optimal living conditions like Grenfell over better ones like Paris or Barcelona.