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by growse 9mo ago
> I have generally told that story with the ISV anonymized -- but you clearly found an example where I named them. It was on one of the OaF podcasts about dtrace. I worked for Reuters at the time and contempt for their customers was defi
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by growse 10mo ago
There's a bus factor equivalent with the cloud, too. The power to severely disrupt your service (either accidentally, or on purpose) rests with a single org (and often, a single compliance department within that org). Ironically, this
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by growse 10mo ago
And this speaks to the lack of alignment about what's good for the decision makers Vs what's good for the customer.
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by growse 10mo ago
Why are you locked into a single platform? I use bitwarden, Google and a yubikey for passkeys. Which of these am I locked into?
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by growse 10mo ago
> The value is in how clear the final output is. Clarity is useless if it's inaccurate. Excel is deterministic. ChatGPT isn't.
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by growse 11mo ago
> Did anyone use AFS (Andrew File System)? Glances round to see if there's any alumni from a certain Large Investment Bank also present...
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by growse 1y ago
This paper so affected me that I scrapped a talk I was writing three days ahead of an (internal) conference and wrote a talk about this paper instead!
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by growse 1y ago
Participating in the market certainly used to be more expensive. I'm not sure regressing to this is... A good thing?
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by growse 1y ago
> Why do people doing normal trading want to avoid the exchanges that have HFT computers skimming money off their trades? What's "normal trading"? A prop desk at an investment bank? A hedge fund? A pension fund? Someone wh
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by growse 1y ago
I agree with a lot of this. > My experience of Cambridge students (I live in Cambridge) is that I have seen many burn out. 100%. I "burnt out" (actually, I think I discovered there was more to life than the academic slog I&#x27
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by growse 1y ago
I'd be extremely wary of asserting that privately educated kids are any more successful at university than state-educated kids (on the same course) when there's no evidence to bear this out. If, however, you want to convince yours
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by growse 1y ago
Not least to say that most kids don't want to go to university thousands of miles away from their family, friends, and support networks.
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by growse 1y ago
> Otherwise, all those years of preparation and all that talent is wasted. In other words, the parents should get a return on their investment? Your child is not entitled to an Oxbridge place over a state-educated child because they migh
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by growse 1y ago
Poor people just need to try harder, right? Or do they need to just be luckier?
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by growse 1y ago
> Parents in state schools don't put in even half of the effort on average. I wondered how long it'd be before we'd see "parents who can't afford private education just aren't putting the effort in".
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by growse 1y ago
Interestingly, some colleges tacitly subdivide these groups further. Christ's Cambridge famously used to hand out "2 E" offers to those in the first group who they know would put the effort in anyway, but "3/4 A&quo
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by growse 1y ago
Why do you think the school & A level system is perfectly meritocratic when the evidence squarely suggests it's far from it?
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by growse 1y ago
So people who've been taught more things are "smarter" than people who've not been taught as much? All babies are stupid, I therefore assume? What about the people who never get the chance to do any A levels? Are they al
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by growse 1y ago
> No, you can get a scholarship Of course! So easy! What percentage of foreign students applying get aid or scholarships? > Again, this is really the best of the best, those with the highest merit. You're assuming that "the
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by growse 1y ago
I got six A's at A level, over 20 years ago. Am i objectively smarter than every single other peer who only got 4 As? (I, for one, am confident I know the answer to this question).
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by growse 1y ago
> The very top aren't applying there any more at all, you don't need to: Stanford, Harvard, MIT, all better. The only people applying to those from the UK are the wealthy. If by "very top" you mean "richest"
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by growse 1y ago
If you can pay to be better at the test, then the test just becomes a test of how wealthy you are.
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by growse 1y ago
Maybe they should be based on a range of factors that influence how successful the university thinks the candidate will be as an undergraduate? Not just exam results?
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by growse 1y ago
> It's letting in dumber people, worse students It's a very bold assertion that A level grades are the ultimate arbiter of "dumbness".
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by growse 1y ago
> Kids worrying that Oxford and Cambridge will discriminate against them are among the smartest in the country. pg's lack of awareness that this has basically always been true smacks of naiveté.
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by growse 1y ago
> But by kumbaya ethics or community spirit or whatever you want to call it, they're scummy vultures. > They're dipping into the "take a penny" jar and not replenishing it. > I can't square this with any se
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by growse 1y ago
They're using the software to achieve a useful aim (build a business that offers a service). Difficult to get a purer example of a "user" than this.
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by growse 1y ago
What's the specific use case that benefits from a shorter key? The only interaction I can ever see having with this key is putting it into and taking it out of my password manager....
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by growse 1y ago
Personally, I find that having orchestrate and regularly schedule the exporting of that file off my device to somewhere else, and then look after it there to be not "free". The new offering is reasonably priced imo.
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by growse 1y ago
Full message content seems to be free, with the option to pay £1.59pm for all media included (45 days of media included in the free tier). Seems pretty reasonable?

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