A dark, intense character study of a man who offsets many personal acts of valor and selflessness with a few acts of horrifying cruelty. Literal warfare as a metaphor for the main character’s inner turmoil. Big Philosophical Questions about good and evil, the ethics of interfering with less advanced civilizations, finding purpose in a post-scarcity society, and most interesting of all, what it means to be human in an era when machines do everything better than people, including the things we thought made us uniquely human.

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The CTO of the State of California, responding to being called out by Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle for setting aside $50 million to maintain an antiquated 70’s-era legacy system just to process unemployment checks, has challenged the public to “walk the talk” and propose better ways his state can conduct its IT operations.
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I do a lot of work with Sql Server Integration Services these days. Complicated Data Warehouse stuff mostly. While SSIS certainly shines with heavy-duty ETL work, it’s one of my favorite tools because it works just as well for simple automation tasks.

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