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18 September 2026

I had a wonderful good night sleep last night and I woke up at 9:00 am – the first time in a week where the alarm woke me up rather than me being awake before the alarm went off. There was a fair bit of rain last night but at the moment the weather is fine with the Metservice forecasting that it’ll be fine all today however tomorrow there will be a bit of rain on Saturday and Sunday. On Monday I’m tempted to go for a bit of a day trip right into town, walk along the waterfront and enjoy the fine weather – you can’t beat Wellington on a good day.

I’ve been following events regarding the recent Chrome upgrade and the impact it has had when using Salesforce and other websites. There is a bug case that shows some progress being made (link) and although there are people reporting that there particular system configuration appears to be addressed there are still people reporting either issues or the occurrence of the page freezing has been greatly reduced. The problem is with software is that it isn’t always a quick fix – you may come up with a fix, deloy it and then find either a corner case will appear or a regression because of a scenario not picked up during testing.

When I was experiencing the problem on my work computer what I did was disabled the Javascript optimisations which reduced the number of times the page froze but it wasn’t a complete solution. I was unsure whether that actually contributed to fixing the problem or whether it was just luck but it appears that maybe there was something going on with Javascript engine and by disabling optimisations it reduced the frequency of the freezes (based on reading through the bug report). It is always good reading going through bug reports and see the process in action of tracking down the source of a problem).

Regarding the recent interview where Scott Bessent said he was ‘the house’, I’m going to have to stop you there. Yes, it would be correct that you were the house if you controlled both fiscal and monetary policy – if you controlled both then you could deal with the budget deficit and public debt unilaterally while using the brute force of monetary policy (aka quantitative easing aka ‘money printer go brrr’) to push the yield down at the end of the bond curve but Scott Bessent doesn’t have that control. The reality is that Scott Bessent isn’t ‘the house’ but rather he is subletting a room, has his own bathroom but shares kitchen facilities – he may have the biggest room in the house but that doesn’t make him ‘the house’.

The problem is that for almost 30 years we’ve had artificially low interest rates because of the flawed way we’ve been calculating inflation – consumer goods have gone down in price but necessities such as renting a house has gone up in price (the rent is based on the cost of paying back the mortgage plus maintenance, insurance etc – house prices are going up because of cheap money taking the path of least resistance which is in many cases to property) but the inflation is calculated as an average. When you calculate inflation based on an average then the problem is that consumer goods have gone down in price but necessities have gone up in price with the inflation rate remaining low.

The problem is that people can cut back on consumable products but they cannot cut back on necessities so while the cost of a television has come down in price the cost of a rent has gone up. Long story short, for many decades the inflation has been largely hidden until now however China is no longer the cheap workhouse of the world, wages are rising, productivity in the construction sector in many countries has stagnated which has made building houses more expensive even if you exclude all the other factors such as regulatory approval, zoning restrictions etc. (link).

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Finally logged off for the evening.

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17 September 2026

I’ve logged off from my work computer for the evening and this time I actually finished up at 10:00 pm rather than doing some extra work. I’ve finally cleared out the last remaining bit of work thanks to that extra work done after I clock off on previous days so now it is just a matter of maintaining it rather than having to make up for lost ground. It is one of the habits I picked up when I was working in fast food: a) always end the night and week with nothing required to be done for the next day so each day is start with a clean slate b) make sure you do a little bit of cleaning every day so then it doesn’t build up to become a massive job.

I was watching an interesting video a while ago and there was an interesting comparison between LLMs in the cloud being an unviable business model and then comparing it to rise in cloud gaming. I raise the comparison because when both LLMs and cloud gaming launched it was sold as ‘all you can eat for a flat price’ but now we’re starting to see usage limits, in the case of LLMs if you use a third party developer tool you have to pay the API price. What this demonstrates is that the business model isn’t viable because cloud gaming and LLMs aren’t like SaasS where each additional user has a negligible additional cost and even for a heavy user of a SaaS they will still only be using cents worth of resources when compared to the dollars charged each month.

How did they get the business model so wrong? because it was based on a set of assumptions that never made sense. The assumption was that it would be a matter of scaling up data centres and then eventually you reach a critical mass where your costs plateau as your user base increases. Basically it is the SaaS playbook but applied to cloud gaming but there is a small problem – the economics of SaaS cannot be applied to cloud gaming and LLMs because both of those services are so much more resource intensive. That doesn’t even touch on the fact that LLMs by their nature are probabilistic so not only are you going to have something expensive to run you then have customers slamming the system when the answer that is given is completely useless.

That doesn’t even touch on the issue of cloud gaming being a solution in search of a problem given how powerful smartphones are these days – even the Samsung A series has more than enough grunt for the casual gamer. Then there are game consoles, buy once and then buy your games – no usage limits on how much you can play the game for. Same can be said for LLMs – do you run them in the cloud and not know how much something will cost until it spits out a ‘kind of working’ solution or do you just buy a decent workstation from Apple or a Strix Halo AMD platform with 128GB of RAM then just the model locally – choose one of the free open weight models or an LLM from one of the big names like Google and others, tweak it and use it with a developer tool of choice.

Why do businesses do stupid stuff like the above? because they pander to idiot shareholders who don’t seem to understand that technology a) progress doesn’t occur in a linear upward fashion but rather there are sudden burst then a period of consolidation and refinement then out of no where another sudden burst of innovation b) the businesses that are household names such as Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon etc. are how mature businesses – the rapid hypergrowth days are behind them, they’ve now become a blue chip stock like IBM. Unfortunately these businesses appear to be going through the equivalent of a ‘mid life crisis’ and the equivalent of a middle aged man buying a sports car is a mature company throwing their money at something that they think will make them ‘cool, hip and into it’ to the idiots on Wall Street.

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The day started off fine.

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17 September 2026

I woke up this morning and went for my daily walk, came home, had a shower then logged into my computer. In the first half of my shift I was able to work through the last remaining bit of paper work which should mean a lot smoother sailing. I was able to pick up a few things and reported them to the appropriate department who will investigate them further. Given that I work in an industry that has a lot of government oversight it is important to report things that don’t look quite right even if you’re unsure because there are legal consequences if things aren’t exactly the way the government needs to be.

Within the last couple of hours it has started raining outside which makes me happy that I took advantage of the opportunity to get a walk in at the beginning of the day. I’m finding that getting up at 9:00 am is becoming easier over time and now it is second nature to the point now that wake up before my alarm goes off. The other benefit of having a good routine is that it is allowing me to stick to my meal plan that I have organised as well as keeping track of calories.

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An exciting day at work today.

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17 September 2026

Well, after logging in and finding that the update to Chrome had been rolled back to the previous version I then went hunting to find out the reason behind the chaos caused by one little update. On the Salesforce website (link) there is a link to the Chromium bug (link) but there are mixed signals as to whether the issue has been fixed – some are reporting the issue resolved while others have said they have been able to reproduce the bug on version 153.0.8010.48. The one thing to keep in mind that Salesforce is a complex platform and many organisations have third party services integrated into it, many customisations to suit their workflow so the cause of the problem could involve quite a lot of work to narrow down the cause and then eventually find a solution.

I’ve got Version 153.0.8010.48 installed on my Mac becase I do like the notification in the tab when someone sends a message in Google Chat rather than having to keep switching back and forths to avoid missing a message. Although I can get uBlock Origin Llite on Safari it never performs as well as it does on Chrome – I also noticed a bug on Goovle Chat that when you send a message that it doesn’t scroll down to the new message you sent but rather it stays on the last message that the person sent to you. I’m unsure whether it is a Google or a Apple problem but as I’ve said in the past – end users don’t care who is at fault they just want the software to work. It is the reason why the first Microsoft Edge (using their own web and javascript engines) never gained traction – because the moment that a website didn’t work the end user threw their hands in the air, installed Chrome and went on their merry way. There was a conference where a Microsoft developed outlined the statistics based on the telementry data they collected so I’m not surprised when Microsoft were faced with an uphill battle or adopting Chromium they took the pragmatic choice.

I’ve been following the whole Ed Sheeran and Macklemore situation – many people have put their opinions out there so I thought I may as well put out my own. There were other acts that were Ed Sheeran tour who decided not to continue on the tour – smaller acts who had a whole lot more to lose from not performing than if Ed Sheeran put his foot down and not compromise. Whether you agree or disagree with Macklemore I think one thing is clear – the moment you capiticulate to bullies and bend the knee to their demands is the moment that you paint a massive target on yourself for further bad actors making demands from you. Don’t be surprised if we see more venues flexing their muscle and using economic coercion to silence speech they disagree with. This is the reason why I oppose cancel culture and why it is important to start having a serious conersation about freedom of speech in the light of how public spaces have become privatised, places where people congregate are now controlled by private interests.

The technology industry are laying off more people (this topic came to my attention when reading an article about the recent Oracle layoffs and Chief Financial Officer Hilary Maxson’s company wide town hall meeting) and it always amazes me the number of people involved in the tech industry who act shocked that in the capitalist system the purpose of a business is to maximise the return on investment for shareholders by minimising costs and charging the maximum amount the market is willing to bear. It reminds me of the discussions on Slashdot by tech employees with a libertarian streak that had convinced themselves that they were the indispensable strata in society that allowed them to command higher wages which is why they didn’t need to have unions like blue collar workers. Well, here we are almost 30 years later and I think tech workers are slowly waking up that maybe those blue collar workers were onto something when it came to unions and collective bargaining. Then again unfortunately for many people they would sooner hold onto myths that comfort them into believe the world operates a certain way because facing the reality of how the world actually works is rather unsettling for many.

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Back to work.

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16 September 2026

I woke up this morning and went for a brisk walk, came back home, had some breakfast and then a shower. The weather is great and the temperature is getting warmer but given the El Niño coming in the New Zealand summer it’ll be interesting to see how crazy the weather will become. Last night I had a chat with mum about the backyard and getting a archgola put over the patio area which will provide some shelter particularly when drying clothes outside on an overcast day.

While chatting I talked about two other things I want to look at doing in the long term which is the replace the fence at the back with something tidier along with the fences on the side of the property. After replacing the fence I want to then replace the shed with one with a proper floor and is hooked up to the power so then I can move the chest freezer from the office outside along with enough space left over to have a clothes horse as well so that I can dry clothes in there with a dehumidifier.

I logged into my computer today and the tech team who manage the devices have rolled back the Chrome installation to Chrome 152 (looks like it is the long term branch) which should hopefully fix the issue with Salesforce. The strange part is that it only occurs when I’m either on a call or after a callout if I am logged out of Amazon Connect the issue doesn’t occur which makes me wonder whether there are multiple sources of the problem rather than just one thing that needs to be fixed.

Regarding the midterms in the United States, I am always reminded of the often repeated phrase ‘checks and balances’ by Americans as if the system had some sort of internal self correcting mechanism that doesn’t require human agency. I read an interesting article (link) and once again it is clear, at least to anyone with an IQ above room temperature, the promise of ‘checks and balances’ is dependent on having the right people in the right places and when push comes to shove they do their job even in the face of political pressure.

Long story short, the system is only as good as those involved in the system which means it comes down to humans doing the right thing when it counts. The whole system is based on people following the rules and the problem is when you delude yourself with the repetition of ‘checks and balances’ you’ve convinced yourself that some how the system has agency of its own and will repeal bad actors like an immune system dealing with an invasive germs, viruses, bacteria, and other threats. When you realise that isn’t the case then you suddenly recognise the fact that the constitution isn’t something special but rather a social contract that only works as long as everyone abides by it.

It reminds me of Max Stirner and the phrase “it’s all a spook” – these things we put up on pedestals only have meaning because we as a society give them meaning, we imbue them with meaning because the reality is that they don’t have meaning outside of what we humans give it. The moment you start attributing agency to an institution is the moment you absolve those involved within the institution of agency – “well, we don’t need to worry about the Republicans because there are checks and balances which will keep the Republic safe!”. This is where you get Americans convincing themselves they have the worlds most perfect most wonderful government ever with the repeating of ‘checks and balances’ with the expectation that “everything will work out in the end” like some sort of bedtime story book.

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Back to work on Wednesday.

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15 September 2026

I’ve just come back from having dinner down at the local restaurant to celebrate mum’s birthday – mum picked me up and we had a wonderful meal along with a desert (my sister, her partner and two kids also joined). While we’re down there I was able to do some grocery shopping after the meal because I needed to pick up some odd bits and pieces. Woolworths had a special on a 3 pack of caned baked beans for $5 so I grabbed a few of those along with some Pepsi Max and other food for the week.

I watching tonight’s episode of ‘The Bradbury Group’ where Tau Henare addressed the issue of anti-Maori racism that rears its ugly head every election. The reason why anti-Maori racism keeps appearing every election year is because it can be summarised best by President Lyndon B. Johnson:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best coloured man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

It gives person or a group of people who have no power or influence someone to look down on so that it allows them to feel better about themselves. The capitalist class telling the middle class to scapegoat the working class then the working class being told to blame the beneficiary for their problems then they tell the beneficiary that the problems in their life are due to immigrants. It is a giant pyramid of the capitalist class directing the classes below them are the reason for their hardship is the close below them.

As for the CRL (as mentioned in the episode of ‘The Bradbury Group’) regarding the cost overruns, this goes back to the larger problem which is the lack of a Ministry of Works in terms of long term planning, training up and retaining those with the expertise and experience to be able to lead nation building projects on a large scale. The other component are the continuous legal challenges by professional oxygen thieves hell bent on challenging the CRL every step of the way – a group of idiots claiming the they own the land 30 metres under their house and threaten to bring the whole CRL project to a grinding halt. Then there were legal challenges about building a station in Drury – again, more money wasted dealing with legal challenges and every day the project is stalled is money being wasted.

Regarding my previous post regarding Chrome, I’ve decided to stick with Safari because it really integrates better into the Apple ecosystem. Although there are those couple of bugs I’ve talked about I don’t think it warrants making life more difficult by straddling two ecosystems. I’ve just run the Jetstream benchmark and it is considerably higher than what Safari 26.6 was hitting along with Chrome as well so I’m going to stick with it – maybe in around a month and a half we’ll see 27.1 released and we’ll see the improvements present in Safari Technology Preview 252 make their way into Safari 27.1.

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What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?
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Depending on where they are in their life the advice would be different. If they’re at high school I would remind them that they may think that high school is the centre of their universe but 5-10 years after you leave high school to go to university or polytechnic no one is going to care what happened during those years. There is a reason why the saying “high school hero, real world zero” holds true because apart from those who seem to be perpetually stuck in their high school phase, everyone else moves on to bigger and better things after high school.

There is no set path and don’t look for a preset way to give your life meaning – you have to go through that process yourself to find what brings you meaning. When you just ‘phone in’ or to use an existentialist term ‘living in bad faith’, the process of finding meaning in itself brings meaning to your life in much the same way that Albert Camus noted in his essay on ‘The Myth of Sisyphus.’: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy because his conscious acceptance of an endless, meaningless struggle turns his punishment into an act of ultimate rebellion.”

Lastly, don’t compare yourself to others – comparing yourself to others and where other people are at in their life is the ruiner of joy that may have in your life. Rather than celebrating the small achievements you have made in your life you’re constantly comparing yourself to others so you never get to enjoy the feeling of having achieved something. It is something that activists are reminded – celebrate the small victories allows you to recharge your batteries which will enable you to continue fighting for the bigger long term goals.

Just to round it up – stop caring whether something is cringe. If you want true freedom then embrace the cringe, become the cringe, because I can assure you that 99% of people are living their lives completely oblivious to what you’re doing in your own life. There is a tendency of assuming that people are making judgments about you but the reality is that most people are too occupied in their own lives dealing with their own drama with little concern with what other people are doing in their own lives.

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All devices updated.

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15 September 2026

I spent the morning upgrading all my devices to version 27 – DFU installation on my iPhone, a reset and update on my Apple TV 4K, watch updated and both Macs are updated as well. The one thing you’ll find is that version 27 is a lot more polished than version 26 when it was released – not major changes but instead a whole lot of smaller things such as the glass effect, getting that weird floating appearance when it came side bar where as now it was gone back the way it was in previous versions.

When it comes to individual applications, everything feels more responsive, the icons are cleaner and less ‘bubbly’, copying files and completing tasks is faster than before, networking in terms of sending and receiving files over the network is faster etc. Long story short version 27 is what version 26 should have been and it always boggles my mind as to what the purpose of ‘Liquid Glass’ actually was because if one was inclined to conspiracy theories then one wonders whether it was a distraction because they failed to get Siri sorted after years of promised.

I’ve checked out WordPress with Safari 27 on macOS 27 because previously I had tried Safari 27 on macOS 26.7 – it shouldn’t make a difference but I thought it would be best to at least test it on both just in case that wasn’t the situation. The ‘daily writing prompt’ on WordPress isn’t working on Safari 27 running on macOS 27. I’ve disabled ‘cross site ‘prevent cross-site tracking’ and I even tried disabling ‘hide ip address from trackers’ and that didn’t fix it either. Maybe this is something that I either need to get over or I go back to using Chrome because it doesn’t have these ‘issues’.

Half way through this blog I moved over to Chrome on macOS 27 and there aren’t any issues so far – I’ll get around to installing it on my Mac as well. It is unfortunate that developers only seem to care about whether it works with Chrome and if you’re using something else then it is a situation of ‘it sucks to be you’. I’ll see how things progress going forward but in the mean time I’m still having a look at One NZ and 2 Degrees for a possibility of changing my internet and mobile phone provider.

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Looking forward to tomorrow.

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15 September 2026

Tomorrow is the big day for the release of version 27 of Apple’s platform update – I’m looking forward to waking up tomorrow and I’ve got my USB flash drive all ready to create a bootable installer. Tomorrow I’ve also go mum’s birthday so I’ve tidied up my hair by trimming the hair at the back which looks a bit messy so now although I I have kept the longer hair everywhere else the back of my head looks a lot tidier. I’ve done some washing before going to bed – I’ve got that drying in the office but I’m not going to have the dehumidifier going because I find that it makes the air too dry.

On Tuesday I’m going to get up, check for updates, download the installer and then while I’m off for my morning walk I’m going to write the installer to the USB flash drive. When i come back I’m going to do a clean install – sign out of iCloud, for my iPhone I’ll do a DFU install, the Apple TV 4K will be a reset and update but with the two Macs I’ll clear the whole SSD then do a clean install.

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A relaxing Monday.

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14 September 2026

Last night I went to bed a little later than normal, around 1:30 am but I stuck to my routine of getting up at 9:00 am. I got out of bed, changed into some comfortable clothes then walked down to the local bakery for eggs bene and a mochaccino – the wether is wondeful at the moment with the sun out, the temperature is comfortable which made the walk down that as a nice way to wake up. After having brunch I caught the bus down to the mall to pick up a present for mum.

Mum tends to like the same thing every year – Oil of Olay however while I was down the road I bought some chocolates, Bundaberg sugar free 6 pack of ginger beer and a 4 pack of lemon, lime and bitters then to top it off a bottle of Brown Brothers Cienna which is a light red wine you can have chilled. As for how I’m going to wrap it up, I bought a jute bag while I was down there which has a funny pun printed on the side of the bag which I’m sure mum will find funny.

Apple has released the Safari Technology Preview 252 (link) which has resulted in a massive jump in the web platform test which has increased compliance from 92.1% to 99.1% – it’ll be interesting to see how quickly those improvements will merge into the mainstream release of Safari. I had a check once again to see whether the two issues I face have been fixed – the ‘daily writing prompt’ still doesn’t work with Safari and on the NZ Post YouShop landing page the same issue with the content being half way down the page rather than at the top (like on Chrome) hasn’t been fixed. Both of those issues have been reported to Apple but neither of them have been fixed nor have any programmers gotten back to asking for more greater clarification (eg asking me to copy and paste the code from the website because the only way to get access to the YouShop landing page is to log into it using your NZ Post or RealMe account).

On a side note I’ve made a change where the comments on the blog have been removed because I can’t be bothered dealing with bots flooding the comment section – I automatically post the blog posts over on BlueSky so if anyone wants to have a chat regarding the topics raise the best platform is on BlueSky. The other thing I was exploring are alternatives to WordPress – I like to keep up to date with the alternatives such as Ghost, Blogger, Medium and Substack. Although I am happy with WordPress at the moment I’m kind of wishing for some better templates when it comes to basic blogs because in the case of the one I’m using now I had to do a lot of tweaking just to get it to the point I was happy with it.

I’m heading off the supermarket to grab some lamb for dinner and I’ll have it with some salad, maybe some tzatziki to go with the lamb. I might have a look to see what fresh bread they have because the ciabatta baguettes are always nice but then again I find that eating too much great can make me feel bloated.

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Investment into rail – upgrade the electrical rail network to 25Kv which would allow Auckland and Wellington to put in a bulk order for both cities and get the benefits of having the economies of scale. It would also mean that it would be possible to electrify all the way up to Palmerston North along with the Masterton line as well which would result in a smoother more reliable journey rather than relying on diesel locamotives at the moment. The long term goal of moving to 25Kv would be having full electrification from Wellington up to Auckland (something that was planned back in the 1970s by the Labour government at the time but then cancelled by the Muldoon lead National government). If Christchurch then builds is own urban rail network using the same voltage then Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch could all do bulk orders for the three cities and save even more money.

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The week is over.

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13 September 2026

I woke up this morning and went for a leisurely walk before work, came home and then had a shower followed with breakfast. The weather is nice outside and I checked out the news regarding the opening of the CRL project up in Auckland and hopefully it’ll mark the beginning of greater investment into rail. Around a year ago there was talk about a rail project that has been on the plans since the 1950s (link) – how about the Labour Party come out and say “instead of wasting billions on roads of national significance that have an appallingly bad ROI we spend the money on building the aforementioned rail project in Auckland”.

There have been a few hiccups with the launch of the CRL (link) but it isn’t surprising given that the project was huge, at least in terms of projects undertaken in New Zealand, but I’m sure that as time goes on that issues will be resolved and we’ll learn from the experience which will influencer future mega projects. The other thing to keep in mind is that as part of the CRL project has been the bigger project of reinvesting back into the railway infrastructure after decades of underinvestment which goes further back than the privatisation of rail to way back to the 1970s when Muldoon cancelled the massive rail investments that Labour had planned in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s (Muldoon’s answer to the oil shocks of the 1970s was the ‘think big’ projects that did massive damage to New Zealand’s finances which New Zealand to undertake radical reforms of the 1980s).

I was watching a video regarding a recent opinion piece over on the Washington Post (link) regarding the evangelical Christian movement. I’ve watched a video commentary but I’m going to read the article first hand so that I can read the full opinion piece – I’m not a fan of basing an opinion on a second hand inpretation even though I agree with what the YouTuhe commentator was saying. I think it’ll be quite a drawn out blog post because I’ll want to vent a bit about quite a few theological issues I have with the evangelical and non-denominational movement (funny how the non-denomination movement has become a denomination in the process of claiming not to be a denomination).

I saw this video recently regarding the dodgy stuff during the dot-com bubble where analysts were they were going on television cheerleading on and promoting shares of particular companies while behind the scenes they were emailing each other about how crappy they were.

It will be interesting to see what happens when this whole AI bubble bursts and how many analysts who were cheerleading on businesses were saying the exact opposite behind closed doors. It reminds me of an analyst over at Raymond James (link) making insane claims regarding SpaceX and its future share price – I really wish that there were people keeping a record of what these analysts put there and for there to be a name and same session when they ridiculous forecasts crash and burn. I know I’ll be keeping an eye on 2031 to see how this all works out.

This isn’t the first time analysts have ben spectacularly wrong – anyone remember when Intel launched the Itanium? There was IDC that claimed back in 1997–1998 there would be a $38 billion global market size by 2001 and then by mid-2001 they shifted the goal posts to $15 billion by 2005 but the problem is that by 2006 the actual numbers were $3.4 billion. Not to pick on IDC because many other but they all do a lousy job at forecasting – not just off by a small amount but really badly incorrect. If you’re wondering, by 2006 the global server shipments of x86-64 sat at $52.7 billion. I’m always amazed by the fact that anyone pays these analysts given how often they get it so spectacularly wrong. I was calling Itanium a failure back in the 2000s but too bad I didn’t have the ability to charge a premium for my rectum plucks. Given how badly analysts get it wrong – maybe buying a dart board and throwing darts blindfolded at it would produce more reliable forecasts.

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