JustExAWS

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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
The rest of your career? When I want more money than a cost of living raise, I change jobs. Because of salary compression, you’re almost always going to be better off changing jobs.
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
I think people who try to negotiate and walk away from a job that doesn’t pay enough is almost always the wrong idea if you don’t have a job . Every month you don’t bring in income, you have to make 8.3% more just to make up for the month
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
You’re being way too dismissive of the importance of sales, customer support, inertia and reputation are when it comes to technology choices. Google loses on all of those fronts.
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
I am also a cloud consultant focused on AWS and a former employee of AWS ProServe (I have no love lost for the company). But if you are a consultant, why pray tell are you spending that much time in the console except for occasional monito
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
As a former Amazon employee who lurked in the “anonymous” internal #pay-equity and the #pay-equity-discussion Slack channels, I can tell you that the typical return offer for an L4 who was a former intern was around $150K - $165K cash and s
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
AOL did exactly the right thing. They knew their stock was overvalued and did some shady accounting to prop their stock up until the acquisition and it immediately crashed. How could they “get into broadband”? They weren’t going to be able
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
Manual bookkeepers were put out of a job in the 1980s with VisiCalc
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
And how much of this switch do you think will happen as long as Google is the default search engine for every major browser and every major smartphone outside of China? Even if “agents” aren’t overhyped, why would someone switch to Amazon i
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
So let’s say the mostly Black Million Man March had turned violent and decided to invade the Capitol - what do you think the reaction would have been? What Democratic candidate on the national stage is saying that the government should take
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
No one is advocating for “communism” any more than Obama was a “secret Muslim trying to bring Sharia law into the US”. If you want to talk “socialism” that’s what you call tariffs that US citizens are paying and redistributing the taxes to
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
There are very much two views of what America should be like and pretending there isn’t is why Democrats keep losing. 40% of Americans cheer how the current administration treats immigrants, non straight people, etc and continue defend the
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
If today, the National Guard dropped a non nuclear bomb on a blue city, 40% of the US population would shrug if not outright cheer. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/socprac/vol10/iss1/15/ Rebellions have
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
Unless you are in the position of Zuckerberg or the Google founders, everyone’s main motivation is to keep their jobs. If you are just an employee - it’s beyond naive to prioritize anything but your own job. Of course I am not advocating b
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
Yes and when my employers - including Amazon - decided they wanted to stop putting money into my account, I didn’t stress. I told my wife as soon as I had the meeting with my manager at Amazon back in 2023 about my “take $40K severance and
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
If Microsoft couldn’t compete with Google in search, how could Amazon? Even if the search were better, how do you get people to switch to it if Google is the default everywhere? Besides Alexa was losing billions when it was backed by the re
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
Bedrock is just hosting a bunch of different LLMs. It is just as capable as the third party LLMs it hosts. It hosts everything except for OpenAI and Gemini models as far as the popular ones. Even Nova, Amazon’s models, are good enough for
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
Then don’t do that? In 2020, when I had the “opportunity” to work at Amazon in a role that would eventually require relocating after COVID, there was no way in hell I was going to uproot my life to work for Amazon and that was after my yo
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by JustExAWS 11mo ago
I have been an employee for 30 years across 10 jobs - one of which was Amazon from 2020-2023. I never once considered my “main source of income” my current job. My main source of income was my ability to get a job. I always stayed ready
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
That opinion really doesn’t jibe with all of the money “the market” is putting into money losing AI companies with no hopes of profitability in the near future or - Tesla.
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter. As long as companies are building infrastructure on AWS and AWS can host third party models like it’s doing now with Bedrock. In my experience - and I’ve run comparisons against the various
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
Well you realize it’s not a good look to post a citation and then immediately say the article is wrong only about the part you disagree with? See “Gell-Mann amnesia effect”. But Apple implemented features to block that over a year ago. htt
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
You realize in the very WSJ article you cited it said this? > A similar vulnerability exists in Google’s Android mobile operating system. However, the higher resale value of iPhones makes them a far more common target, according to law-
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
Microsoft, Amazon and Meta have plenty of “capital” and they couldn’t create their own ecosystem for their own phone and convince software developers. The hardware is not really an issue. Any company with a few million can sell their own
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
My opinion of Google is great technology, but no product focus with the attention span of a crack addled flea. My personal “blind man feeling on the elephant” perspective in my corner of the world - cloud consulting - is that when I was an
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/one-in-five-dispar... https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_anal... https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/202
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
It’s not the AI algorithm, it’s the police response I’m questioning would be different.
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
Yes because I’m sure if a White female had been detected by AI of carrying a gun, it would have been treated the same way.
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
So you’re okay with trigger happy cops forcing a teenager to the ground because he had a bag of Doritos?
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
Getting pulled aside by TSA for secondary screening is nowhere in the ball park of being rushed at gunpoint as a teenager and told to lay down on the ground where one false move will get you shot by a trigger happy cop that probably won’t f
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by JustExAWS 1y ago
In the Senate at least outside of a few carve outs, you really need 60 Senators to get anything passed not just a majority. The only reason the ACA ever passed was during the brief window they had 60 Senators

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