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So at work I've found yet another way #NewOutlook fails.

Notepad++ Copy as RTF. Paste into New Outlook, absolutely nothing happens.

So sharing properly formatted and highlighted code snips in New Outlook is just way too fancy for New Outlook.

Everyday New Outlook fails me at least three times on something. Everyday I curse every single person who ever worked on this weapon of mass destruction disguised as software. I must invent languages to curse them in because I have long since exhausted the curses known to all the currently pre-existing languages on this planet.

I don't think I can ever hate New Outlook because that attempts to summarize the full spectrum of outrage and fury I have with New Outlook every 57 µs, into a single word which is just simply over simplifying those emotions to the point of not fully conveying anything that represents the truth.

Saying the center of an active volcano is "hot" just fails to explain the entire phenomenon. So too would saying just simply, "I hate New Outlook" fail spectacularly to indicate how I honestly feel about the product.

Calling New Outlook an email client is absolutely the hubris of mankind manifest.

I'm pretty sure I've indicated my hatred for "New" Outlook. I've absolutely made it known to the place I work at.

But just so folks know. It really sucks. Like, few things enrage me more than clicking on the icon that will inevitably open this godforsaken application. Just double clicking on the icon on my desktop and I can feel the weight of a hundred SCRUM meetings press against my chest.

And that anxiety comes from not what awaits me when I open New Outlook. It comes from me having to deal with New Outlook. It's like in the sea of things I need to worry about, I've got a first mate on my boat who happens to also be a really bored arsonist. And our boat is made of wood and carrying gasoline as our cargo. And for some reason the company's contract for our journey includes handing a box of strike on box matches to the first mate. I just want to make the delivery and I feel like everyone's conspiring against me. Especially New Outlook.

But I think what gets me the most is this, especially in these trying times of DDR5 memory. New Outlook, why do you have 2.5GB of RAM? And then look at where New Outlook's rapacious greed got it.

New Outlook is in my mind the exemplar of everything that is wrong with software development today. Everything about it is hubris manifest. This is Microsoft's conceit on prime display. They have taken a product that worked fine and made it do less, eat more resources, and become less helpful in every aspect of the intended things it's supposed to do.

You know that person who will sit there and say, "let's do a rewrite of the code" and know they're only saying that because they don't want to have to learn the old code base? New Outlook is what happens when that person gets their way.

#NewOutlook #Outlook #microsoft

I don't usually post this kind of stuff but while #Aftyn lost last night's #TN-7. That it was 9% difference is a massive upset.

Tennessee's fifth, sixth, and seventh district is from Nashville being split into thirds and then being smeared with large safe Republican areas. Tennessee's seventh also includes some of Williamson county but the line there is designed to split known Democrats between the fifth and seventh.

When the State Assembly created these districts in 2022, they indicated they were gerrymandering to punish Democrats. They spent money to obtain research and ensure they could make as many safe +20R or better districts.

But last night all those best laid plans of theirs came up with a lot less fruit. A district that should have required zero effort came within 16,000 votes of flipping.

I'm pretty sure the Tennessee State Assembly will punish us again by purging rolls, redrawing lines, and closing even more polling locations. But we'll be back come November. Every county, that I've seen so far, grew in number of Democrats. Every county I've seen so far has kept the same number of Republicans or loss some in this election.

Now that's based on what I've seen so far but that might change. But that's still huge news. It shows that the TN GOP are on the ropes. Nobody turns districts blue or red overnight. But this election is definitely a sign there's some crumble to their foundation.

I'm proud of TN-7. The Democrats had a ground game of thousands of volunteers, something you don't see in this state. There's absolutely a thirst for a change from the establishment TN GOP that have gone out of their way to consolidate power only to have it come lacking when they needed it most.

I know they're going to punish us. I know they're going to do things to consolidate their power more. I know they aren't going to take this narrow win sitting down. But the Democrats in Tennessee ain't sitting down on this either. For the result we got, Aftyn and her team did great. And we'll all be back.

Give a person AI and they'll have software for a single patch.

Teach a person to program and they'll have software for the full lifecycle.

New Outlook is pure excrement. It is the software equivalent of the times we live in. Once upon a time things were okay ish. It wasn't milk and honey for sure, but it wasn't bad.

And then it got bad and then accelerated the bad. And now you'd give anything to just go back to even a shitty day from yesteryear.

And if anyone talks about the hubris of mankind, just remember. Someone gave New Outlook the thumbs up and they likely wake up some days happy. If that person was me there would be no degree of self-flagellation that could give me penance.

And then on top of that, someone was so bold to say "hey let's add AI to that." The machines aren't going to overthrow us because we're a threat, it'll be because we made them integrated into New Outlook.

#NewOutlook #Garbage #Microsoft

I've heard that nVidia is partnering with investment firms to sell out computational power and from the little bit I've looked into this, these are highly complex structures where value is VERY difficult to determine. So given how they remind me of something else, I think it's appropriate to call these what they are. Collateralized Chip Obligations #CCOs.

If that sounds familiar, good, your brain is working. It's a play on Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). For those you don't know the details, they were complex investment structures where the actual value of them was insanely difficult to determine. And it's basically the vehicle for the 2008 Housing Crash, because nobody knew the actual value of these things.

So, fun stuff!