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by re-thc 2y ago
> China has taken large strides in every advanced manufacturing process. No they haven't, as in foreign companies in China have and invested in that. Not China itself. This is the big difference. So who is building these advanced ma
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I’m not sure SMIC will be able to keep up when these efforts bear fruit. Eventually they’ll need EUV to unlock further progress. The issue with SMIC and fabs in China in general was never the technology. If only the technology ban was
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Would any of those large businesses go bankrupt if they had to use slightly older chips, or would they grumble and adapt (especially if their competitors were in the same situation)? It all depends on the business. If you compare AMD E
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by re-thc 2y ago
> You want to have access to chips, yes, but who cares if they're five years out of date? Everyone cares? Faster chips = less cost. If you can run more with the same power then it'll be cheaper. Large businesses run it at scale
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by re-thc 2y ago
If you get paid i.e. it's paid work, then that's its worth. If you don't then maybe it's a hobby and so it's fine. Otherwise unless you're the creator, often then not there are too many things out of our contro
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by re-thc 2y ago
This is more an issue with the current market than "you". There are layoffs everywhere. Lots of people apply for the same roles. You'd be lucky to have recruiters reach out and even get into roles. It's a tough situation
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by re-thc 2y ago
> with stagnating wages That's not true. The minimum wage has increased every year for the last 8 years at least for quite a decent amount. Wages have increased, maybe even more so than the US. > And it seems to be worse in new d
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by re-thc 2y ago
If they're all in the same region create a load balancer e.g. ALB and run all the projects through it. It's 1 IP for those 10-20 projects.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> What does the long term strategy for alternate cloud providers There have been plenty ever since for many many years... there's a market for them. Not sure if they're alternate. E.g. DigitalOcean, Upcloud, Vultr, Hetzner, OVH
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by re-thc 2y ago
There are many ways to do anything. Some build "in public", e.g. on Twitter/X and blog about every step. Some release early with previews/beta and keep going. There's no hard or fast rules. I definitely think you ca
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by re-thc 2y ago
> The most intelligent folks I've worked with are very diverse in their interests and abilities. > as either exclusively technical or nontechnical This applies outside of tech or generally in any role e.g. if you're a backen
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Didn't Steve Ballmer start off at MSFT essentially in a biz ops role Yes, business manager. > Interesting how he became technical as the company grew. That's not clear from this. This shows he knew some concepts as part of
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Does anyone have any idea why he was not convicted? As with most of these cases it's hard to exactly prove that he knew and willingly did it instead of being ignorant and mistaken. The CFO did get convicted and the CEO washed his
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by re-thc 2y ago
> puts HPE on a reputational tightrope Since when was HPE popular / on a good reputation anyway?
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I absolutely don't trust it blindly at all. Where did you get that from? Not consulting a 2nd source or just looking at the results, as in.. > Because I can see the results Which, yes, it's correct in that sense but as per
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by re-thc 2y ago
> There's absolutely no way finding other examples on github would have been faster or higher quality. How do we ascertain its quality? The problem is this absolute trust in your reply. How do you know what it tried to "explain
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by re-thc 2y ago
> What was not possible to achieve when implementing these features as an extension? You cannot extend everything. At least at the time when Cursor started a lot of what Copilot relied on was behind beta and gated APIs / functions.
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by re-thc 2y ago
Large customers that require a purchase order would still do bank transfer.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> If it's financially feasible it would be a good long-term investment. Point is it might not be. It's 32 billion. Who has that $$$? It's not the only thing that requires an investment.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Why would it be wise to skip fab investments at this point? It's not free. They don't have infinite funds either. If it's either skip or sell / crash then skipping a small part sounds like a good deal.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> It implies you understand your customers business better than they do. The quote does say "I" so there is an inherent assumption there. The problem with taking any quote and "best practice" at face value that can be
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by re-thc 2y ago
1. Don't have passwords. This is why there's an "SSO tax". If you setup SSO then there will be less passwords / accounts. 2. Use a password manager that enables sharing. There are 1s with company accounts and differ
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Only r8g (large-memory instances) haver the latest CPU, hence the higher price No, r8g costs more than r7g. Why would then the others be the same? Ultimately, yes, price/performance of r8g is better than r7g, but not much. When yo
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by re-thc 2y ago
Not exactly impressive considering the prices have also increased as much. For best performance Intel / AMD still has the edge. For best price/performance it isn't exactly better.
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by re-thc 2y ago
Japan don't even have enough tech workers for themselves and need outsourcing...
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by re-thc 2y ago
> What am I missing here? When you reach your 60's you'll talk about the unbelievable things you saw during your life. It's just about being in the moment vs thinking back.
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by re-thc 2y ago
If there are 4500 years of developer work (not including "real work") it sounds like there are bigger problems. The whole point of having developers do upgrades isn't just the manual work but so they learn and understand it.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Is this a common pain point, or were we in a unique situation? Is there a real pain point to build a business on? The common pain point is why the daily releases? Forget your documentation - even customers can't keep up with this
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I can understand why there's a divide between developers who are excited about frontend developers moving into full-stack roles Here's the problem. It's developers vs developers? Where are the other roles and/or con
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by re-thc 2y ago
> realizing that much or even most of what is in "commodity hardware" is there to serve uses cases that cloud providers don't have. Why wouldn't they have? E.g. > Why do servers have redundant power supplies? So if

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