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I had no idea the situation for CF had improved so much! In Ireland it’s more common than anywhere else in the world; there were always stories of kids and people in their twenties passing due to it.

I’ve worked in data centres (just the odd day here and there).

They are interesting the first time if you’re in any way curious about technology.

After that they become a bit mundane. Noisy if you’re in the a server room. Toasty if you’re in a hot row.

Hard to imagine anyone else thinking of them as anything other than boring or a bit mysterious. Or even think of them at all.

I imagine anyone who has ever racked a server is scratching their head at the news these days.

Since we're reminiscing, I was working for Engine Yard when Docker was released. I remember engineering and product leadership huddled around a desk wondering aloud whether we needed to do something about it.

In retrospect, of course, it was earth-shattering for the company, despite a valiant effort. The entire expertise of deploying long lived Linux servers and carefully shepherding them through change management with Chef became a relic to most developers. Totally changed the way applications were deployed.

Was an exciting time!

It’s a cool resource, the search could use some improvement.

Yeah, I guess now’s time to do the groundwork for building a tattoo empire in Japan.

It is very hard to work with developers who see the type system as a nuisance to overcome.

And in software problems like that tend to compound. It’s hard to imagine how much badly written, poorly performing software there is out there.

The opportunity to do better with AI is monumental; comes with its own problems no doubt, but I’m willing to give it a shot.

Personally I think this problem is being solved the right way from a systems perspective.

Energy production is centralized, so the benefits of it becoming cleaner is spread as soon as it arrives, whereas single-use plastic pollution is diffuse, with compounding damage.

I don't remember energy use being the problem with plastic bags?

It was plastic bags being absolutely everywhere in the environment. Streets, parks, trees. Wrapped around anything sticking out of the ground. On your face on a windy day.

Pollution is the problem with plastic. Probably health, too, now that microplastics are being recognized as an issue.

Hot dog stands don't often masquerade as creative expression.

Whatever they are! Using the literal word "brand" in public messaging is leaking the marketing team's lingo to customers.

For me it's when companies talk about themselves as brands.

Fabulous use of meta-irony, bravo.

Maybe! Too early in the LLM rewrite era to tell whether this requires a LeBron or just someone who takes the local pickup game more seriously.