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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
> if Google can give away LLM usage (which is obviously subsidized) it can't be astronomically expensive There is a recent article by Linus Sebastian (LTT) talking about Youtube: it is almost impossible to support the cost to build
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
Housing is just one component, there is a lot of other stuff that has equal price: if you order stuff from Amazon the price is the same, if you buy a new car the price is the same.
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
I bet stuff like Crowdstrike has a major influence into this. I used my work computer before and after Crowdstrike and the difference in boot time and general behavior is huge.
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
vscode is successful despite electron, not thanks to electron. The electron part is the worst of it.
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
But in a world where Amazon prices are the same, car and gas are the same, cost of living is just rent?
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
Compensation can be the issue if the cost of living is creating problems. If you need 150k to just live in an area, 160k is not motivating while 250k gives you the peace of mind to focus on the work, not just on surviving. If you live in Ba
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
It looks like another system made by politicians to check a box on a list. "Digitalize" is not a purpose, it's a solution to a problem, but for many politicians it's a checkbox on the list of political promises and empty
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
Sorry, but I read the article and also another of his articles linked in this one and I found that logic is lacking seriously from both. It is so bad it will take the length of the entire article to explain point by point and I am not in th
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
While I think his approach is not the best, even if it worked for him, I am convinced that if you identify a few thigs you like to do you will find some other people with the same interests. There are so many activities that it creates some
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by AdrianB1 9mo ago
15 years ago I started cycling, by going to amateur XC races. I did that for almost 10 years and it was fun, I got some friends doing it and it worked great for a while. A combination of cycling injury and many people leaving the country en
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
Learn Cyrillic the fun way: go in vacation in Bulgaria, they have road signs in both Latin and Cyrillic. This is how I learned Cyrillic 20 years ago, driving a lot for business all over around Balkans. It was an easy curve, a few characters
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
Until recently (<10 years ago) Windows and native Windows apps (like Office) were the norm in most companies. Almost all employees knew how to use Windows. Re-training all was difficult. Now, with mostly web-apps for most non-IT employee
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
8 fingers to each of the 4 hands, to be clear :)
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
Based on the benchmarks that I've seen, 5800X3D is still a good CPU for games, when paired with a very expensive GPU, otherwise a 5600X is cheaper and acts less than a heater over the winter. Someone with the money for a nVidia 5800 GP
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
With the subjective view on what a junior is, I think the 70-30 - or higher - model is used in any company I ever interacted with. For this evaluation I consider junior=someone with less skills than needed to do the job autonomously/re
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
I don't know how to calculate "usually", in my experience people who question decisions in my company are shot down because the decision makers are usually (no pun intended) very incompetent and the questions make that visibl
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
What I read in the story is the context and some action, but not the result. It is implied there is some sort of result, but it is not described, especially how the actions contributed to the result. It may be well intended, but very superf
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
In most non-IT corporations, the managers are non-technical and most are idiots these days. It comes from the MBA hires getting in management roles where they don't understand the area, what Steve Jobs calls "bozos" in his in
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
As the other commenters stated, it is not clear what is the point. Writing good code and being a tech leader are very different positions with very different technical skills. I was a tech lead in a few cases (different companies or differe
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
I have panels and the night is long. Batteries are still very expensive.
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
Perhaps. There are many people, even in the IT industry, that don't deal with containers at all; think about the Windows apps, games, embedded stuff, etc. Containers are a niche in the grand scheme of things, not the vast majority like
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by AdrianB1 10mo ago
I thought the same until I calculated that newer hardware consumes a few times less energy and for something running 24x7 that adds up quite a bit (I live in Europe, energy is quite expensive). So my homelab equipment is just 5 years old an
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by AdrianB1 11mo ago
You can consider it a branch. It has all sorts of advantages like tax avoidance (you pay them the expenses - salaries and office cost - and zero profits to pay taxes on), you can fire them all if you want, especially if it is fairly small a
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
This is because people have different needs, Git is trying to cover too many things, there are multiple ways to achieve goals and therefore there is no standard practice. There is no single, standard way to cook chicken breast and that is a
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
Is constant power a lot easier to predict than short term peaks?
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
The weight and form factor looks excellent for small propeller planes. Yes, batteries are heavy, but the lightweight of the motor makes room for more batteries. A typical Rotax 912 with accessories goes over 55 kg for 80 HP max and ~ 60 HP
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
I think these days the solar panels and even batteries are quite cheap, but the equipment needed build a hybrid system for a house is still a mess. One can find the right inverter, but not a good match for the battery, the backup/switc
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
The good thing is that 10 years later you need less HDDs of larger capacity to move your data to. And they tend to be cheaper. So every 10 years you move the data to a new set of disks, works good enough for most people. I did it a few week
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
As a manager you may have 10 people reporting to you. Some do more important work, some do less important work, but when you are considering them for promotions there are other factors too. I am not talking about promotions from junior dev
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
These days I am working on some 20 year old code used in a few dozen manufacturing plants around the globe; the reason I asked to be allowed to fix it and the reason my manager allowed me to do it is that we have performance issues in some

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