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by iasay 4y ago
It's not a fad, but a fashion. People wear it because it looks cool on your CV or consultancy offering, not because it keeps you warm and dry. They don't even understand it properly. Even AWS, who I work with regularly on EKS issu
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by iasay 4y ago
It's actually slightly more worrying. The rate of improvement of the yield is poor as well unlike earlier processes. We're rapidly heading towards a dead end. Hopefully this will put commercial pressure on better computer science
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by iasay 4y ago
Well basically AWS at the moment. The art is to know which bandwagon to jump on next.
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by iasay 4y ago
I'm sure it is for some people but it's the least amount of hours I've ever done for the most money which is what I have optimised my career for.
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by iasay 4y ago
The money in the app market is making apps for other people who think they're going to get serious money. Or rarely are fronting an existing application and have a stable customer base already.
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by iasay 4y ago
Having done 25 years of "full stack" now I'd go for the back end or even skip it and hit operations/SRE. The rate of churn is far far lower, the knowledge is valuable for longer and the money is better.
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by iasay 4y ago
Exactly this. I lost 34Kg without resorting to eating just potatoes or some other ridiculous fad. Just less input than output with a balanced diet.
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by iasay 4y ago
I hope they apply this to childrens toys as well as high value consumer electronics. Everyone likes to crap on the consumer electronics sector but I have seen with my own eyes literally skips full of plastic trash which barely lasted one us
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by iasay 4y ago
That’s really my worry. ML is crap in crap out. If you train it with more crap it’s an exponential decaying curve. Now I have to gate declining quality marketed as a time saver. It really just moves the cost elsewhere.
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by iasay 4y ago
Was this even useful? I have to review a lot of absolute shit from humans. I can’t even imagine the damage that such a large corpus of humans plus an AI can generate.