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by zipy124 6mo ago
The crazy part about this is if you compare it not to US wages but european, for instance in the UK where the median software hourly wage is somewhere around $35-40 an hour, then humans are already cheaper than the best models.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
seperate machine I think given the quoted point at the end: > The costs have increased: renting an additional dedicated server costs more than storing ~100GB at a managed object storage service. But the improved performance and reliabili
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by zipy124 6mo ago
No. It encourages short term thinking which can boost profits whilst harming long term performance. As an insider you can usually hide the long term consequences until after you have liquidated your stock.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
I don't personally have an opinion yet on what is the correct way to do things, I can only talk from my own personal experience within Academia in the UK as both a student and teacher with Computer Science. The prime example is that mo
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by zipy124 6mo ago
I'm aware of this policy. I cannot re-find the source, but there was an investigative piece somewhere that found they continued to take money from fossil-fuel aligned companies. I cannot find it after trying to look again admittably, t
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by zipy124 6mo ago
This is a similar fact in government. For instance in the UK with the NHS and other services, we often look at total spending and assume that spending has to stay at least constant in real terms or grow, when in reality you want some metric
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by zipy124 6mo ago
Being a cyber criminal pays many multiplies of working in cyber, as it already is with legal offensive cyber paying far better than defensive cyber. Capitalism going to capitalism. Especially since the risk of cyber crime is so much lower t
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by zipy124 6mo ago
The guardian have previously been found to generate a significant amount of ad revenue from fossil fuel companies. They aren't politically aligned with it, but are financially. Remember that a large portion of the left in the UK are al
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by zipy124 6mo ago
Yeh, I've tackled this problem a few times, and just like back-ups you at some point need something external, because if you're down, you don't want your status page to go down too. This means you need to make sure to sandbox
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by zipy124 6mo ago
Likely one large contributor is that for a normal service, if it's down it's as simple as re-routing to another service, and there is basically an unlimited amount of CPU servers around the world to spin up on demand. GPU servers
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by zipy124 6mo ago
People realised that acamedia is not set up to train people for jobs, but set up to teach people. These two roles are at odds with each other.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
not unheard of, but not typical.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
That's some pretty creative accounting to get to the 25bn mark. You also don't need to subsidise storage projects. They get built by market demand, as you can see by the amount being built and operated by energy trading firms who
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by zipy124 6mo ago
This makes sense because investors in startups just care that they aren't left holding the bag. As long as they aren't the final fool in the buy in chain, they don't care.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
And yet I don't know any software engineers in my personal circle who would be willing to work for palantir, and so they must have a fairly hard time finding people willing, thus it can't be as difficult as places where this is no
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by zipy124 6mo ago
Insurance. No need to write off anything or take a loss, just a slightly increased yearly cost. The cost of said insurance is likely going to be very high for a long time now though.
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by zipy124 6mo ago
I think you mean £20 billion for that latter figure. This is largely because a significant amount of assets are held in ISA's (£20k a year contribution per person allowed) , or via personal property which is capital gains exempt or in
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by zipy124 6mo ago
I mean if you go by pay in the UK a Microsoft principle is equivalent to an L4 at Google if levels.fyi is too be believed....
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by zipy124 6mo ago
Yes it is that unreliable. Even when given free credits, I would rather pay for the offerings from Amazon/Google.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
Your career URL is a 404, I think it should be careers plural.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
I'm aware, I have lived in London for almost a decade. But the comparison is that you could get 10-30 bikes for the same price.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
I've lived in London for 8 years, I am familiar with the cost. It's still insane to me. You could easily buy 10+ bikes for the price, close to 30 if you're really just looking to commute.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
Spending £3k on bike hire is an insane stat to me.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
Almost certainly a large amount of support staff, so management/HR/IT etc... Then you've got your customer account managers, sales, lawyers/finance etc.... Given they do an insane amount of B2B and government sales I can
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by zipy124 7mo ago
This email has given me a lot more respect for Bill gates.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
This is because the stock market valuation of a company isn't nearly as simple as a revenue/cash-flow multiple. It also accounts for predicted growth in the stock, and it's return over the risk-free rate. As interest rates ar
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by zipy124 7mo ago
Right but if you read that page you quickly come to the quote "Parliament can make or unmake any law". Technically there is judicial review now, so there is some restrictions, but not like in a USA style constitution.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
It doesn't because their premise falls apart in democracies too. Civil servants in democracies are not elected and they have the same 'stopping power'. A planning officer in the UK could just as easily decide to arbritrarily
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by zipy124 7mo ago
The problem becomes if you are a service like Youtube, where you already have capture almost the entire customer base.
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by zipy124 7mo ago
I mean you gave the right answer imho. Software engineers are just business people whose main tool is coding. You know you're good if you don't reach for the hammer when you don't have a nail.

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