Eddie VanBogaert

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

The year is 2027. Every single Microsoft app is now called Copilot. CEO Satya Copilot takes the stage. Goes Full Ballmer demanding more pilots. Musical guest Twenty One Pilots begins to play.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

This (extensive) blog post from 1997 notes the conspicuous absence of reporting on failed data warehousing projects. Which maybe should invite similar questions about all the corporate AI initiatives launched in recent years... https://t.co/T9sREZT75i

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Full text of Incident Report with timetable is published here: https://t.co/R2lkeovWlf

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Had been wondering with last week's GCP outage how multiple regions were out concurrently when API mgmt and control planes are separate for each. Turns out, a policy check system deployed to each region got pushed some bad code that failed when metadata replicated globally.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

The rankings' methodology is 50% latest month's CPI for the MSA vs 2mos ago + 50% latest month vs same period last year. But CPI was less volatile in 2024, meaning tenths of a percent factor heavily in the score, to say nothing of the (unpublished) region-level standard error.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Instead of uncritically giving free distribution to a credit score reaggregator's marketing, @BlockClubChi could've pulled the underlying data from BLS and found that Chicagoland CPI tracks pretty closely with other large metros.

[Jen @IlliniJen]

“Chicago — along with suburban Naperville and Elgin — now has the nation’s highest inflation rate in the nation at 4.3 percent.” - @BlockClubCHI

Some key drivers: rising cost of living (including higher housing and transportation expenses), Chicago’s poor job market conditions, consumer spending patterns, and higher business costs.

But, how can that be? @wallethub also ranked Illinois as the 7th best place to raise a family, according to factors that took into account affordability and good job prospects. 🤔

It’s just not adding up.

#Chicago #Illinois

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@FrankCalabrese @AcpsParent Was the Tipp Co hired away or are they moonlighting?

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Consulting means having to do the same org-mandated security training at every client, annually, until the end of time.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

High balances on other commercial lines of credit are also variable rate. Because so much of CPM revenue is donor-restricted, higher interest costs squeeze quickly in unrestricted areas. Vocalo and the fellowship were among such items.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Troubling to see Chicago Public Media scrambling financially, so soon after the WBEZ/Sun-Times acquisition was looking like an exemplary non-profit model for legacy metro dailies nationwide.

[WBEZ @WBEZ]

Chicago Public Media, which oversees WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times, announced layoffs at both organizations amid declining fundraising, listenership and philanthropic support. https://t.co/Y5hn3cTxXl

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

CPM's latest Form 990 does not include audited financials. But we know from prior releases that the biggest financial issue for CPM is not anyone's paycheck or even the donor base getting too soft. It's the debt: $22M in variable-rate bonds from 2005 for the Navy Pier studios.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@waynebriqu37421 @aaron_renn I think the wider point holds, but almost in part because trend has bent a little lower on the distribution. Also hard to localize experience of national statistics, etc.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@waynebriqu37421 @aaron_renn $200K maybe not the best line. It was roughly 99.2%ile of SSA's Average Wage Index in 2000, and its CPI-adjusted buying power equates to roughly the same AWI %ile in 2022.

But 90%ile of AWI in 2000 was ~$60K, which is about $100K adj, while 90%ile AWI for 2022 was nearly $120K.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Busy day for some security folks yesterday — and wild that a Microsoft researcher chasing down a little bit of lag just happened to stumble upon these backdoors. https://t.co/Dgxno82ONb

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

An exciting economic announcement for Purdue and West Lafayette, but I wonder what it means for ongoing local conflict over water resources in the region. https://t.co/HrubVlWnAZ

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

Good on @PewResearch for testing this. Not against experimenting with new sourcing methods, or even paid participation, but more care is needed in controlling for self-selection effects and bogus responses. https://t.co/fiu0hUNPne

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

How can anyone in tech be expected to do anything today? Go take a nap.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@JohannesVink @mim_djo @dotyousra You can sit it on Blob Store and pretend!

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@ryxcommar Bringing all the R folks out of their grad school libraries and onto the main timeline with this one.

[Eddie VanBogaert @eddievb]

@davebangert Terrible. So embarrassing.