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For academia, all 3 major cloud providers have a data egress waiver - meaning that as long as data egress is less than 15% of the total bill then it is free.

Combine this with the fact that S3/Glacier make much more sense than local HDDs for long-term archiving and egress turns out not to be a significant factor in my experience.

Can you give an example of how that improvement manifests itself in a bad situation?

Intellectually I am already well aware that my frame of mind is often the main issue and that I could simply choose not to be bothered by something - but that realization is a "system 2" thought which doesn't arrive until "system 1" has already derailed my whole day.

I am introverted, but the pandemic has taught me that I'm not actually suited to a reclusive life. I get far more done when working from home, but need a day in the office every month or so as a "reset", to remind myself that the company is bigger than just me and my projects, and that my colleagues are people rather than Slack bots.

The other side of this coin is that if you are are forced into actions which you "know" are wrong and just accept it, then maybe the job is already dead for you anyway. By fighting back you are testing a number of stress points, like the conflict-avoidance of your management and the belligerence of the person you know to be "wrong". The important part is having the maturity to understand the consequences of being mistaken yourself, and being able to decide whether the fight is worth having even if it is going to have drastic results. In other words, is this a hill worth dying on?

Next year: GPT-NG offloads it's answers to Amazon Mechanical Turk, and we've come full circle.

"You're fired"

Depends on your definition of high performer.

If you prize delivering short-term value by chugging through the task pile faster than other people can, then sure this article is not aligned with your ideals.

That is not what I would call high performance; I would much rather be someone who can take a razor/lawnmower to that pile of tasks and do exactly the subset (down to potentially none at all) which delivers the most marginal value for the units of time I think are warranted for the project as a whole - then repeat until the goals are met.

> ...an extended nursery of deceptions produced by subtly fabricated narratives, designed to subjugate their identities...

Parklife!

I don't have the expertise to determine whether it is "abandonware" or simply "done" I'm afraid. Found it a bit of a pain to use, hence why an alternative sounds interesting.

Look forward to it. I'd be interested to hear how your tool compares with Facebook WDT[1], as that would be my go-to right now if someone asked me for a fast point-to-point data transfer solution.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/wdt

You say tomato...

Interesting, but somewhat misses the point; the reason people want an alternative to Aspera is that no-one wants to pay for file transfer tools.

Do you mean large EU companies are more similar to large US companies, or more similar to small EU companies? I presume the former, which would be a shame but not entirely unexpected since I imagine (in the tech industry at least) there is a lot of emulation.

In a cruel twist of irony, that guy then went insane from boredom and became an arsonist.

> It also shifts culpability to the individuals

Very important to highlight this; since joining a different big tech company I have quickly realized how much the internal processes (everything from expenses to security posture) are structured to put the maximum responsibility on the person furthest down the totem pole.

In small European companies I've worked for this would be considered a big red flag and a sign of broken company culture, but for US companies it is seemingly the norm.

By your own argument, foreign companies can navigate the rules for selling into Europe just fine - so what is stopping a European company from doing the same?

If there is any remaining problem it is that the rules are not enforced strictly enough on tech giants.

Think of it this way: by starving the supply of that one bitcoin, you have contributed in some small way to the eventual loss of all bitcoins through similar events - speeding up the rate at which the world can move on from this silly fad.

Possibly also just "too many startups not doing anything valuable, captained by people with their head up their ass".

> I do find it odd air-to-air source heat pumps are not considered more often in the UK

Could be due to housing density and the reputation for noise, though I'm not sure how well-deserved that really is.

Mostly I just think it is a mismatch between the age of housing stock (and the pre-existing heating solutions) with incentives.

If I were building a new house I wouldn't bother with a gas supply and would use a ground-source heat pump combined with underfloor heating - but retrofitting that to my 150 year old house is never going to be cost effective versus a boiler.

For residential developments, the government should just mandate no new domestic gas supplies and be done with it.

The only appropriate response here is for a corporate owner (Hashicorp preferably) to fork the repo just before the license change and to assert that their version is the default, and drive future development there.

The original author is entitled to their opinion and can restrict their own development to a repo with license conditions they define, but it is not reasonable to expect companies to accept non-standard and politically charged license terms. Getting shit done is hard enough and this change will not move the needle on Ukraine/Russia sentiment one iota.

I'm unsuccessfully trying to go the other way - but that's because I was never a developer to begin with.

Writing code (or even working with computers at all) is not something I ever aspired to. I put this down to the impact Microsoft software had on IT education in the UK in the 90's - computers were for miserable people with pallid faces who never smiled, poking around in Access databases.

Now, I work all day every day on a computer because a career as a scientist doesn't pay an acceptable amount. However, since I never studied computer science or did and significant programming early in my career, I've circled around the field doing sysadmin and project management work. I find myself too senior to take on the kind of programming tasks I can reasonably handle - there is no time allowance for me wanting to learn some of these skills in more depth. Doing personal projects and changing jobs could get me into writing code, but only with an intolerably large pay-cut.

The sad thing is, my field (scientific computing) needs exactly the skills I am aiming for - but since no-one will pay sensibly for that kind of work, people either steer around it like I did, or just jump sideways into DevOps or other "retail" IT.

Which will arrive first - the year of viable fusion, or the year of Linux on the desktop?

Try it out on a local Linux machine first, if you have one. There are plenty of ML techniques outside of neural networks which train perfectly well on a CPU, so I'd start there.

Look at some kind of AutoML framework like AutoGluon, then dive deeper on the components it uses once you've got through the initial setup process. AutoGluon will let you train some basic models with all the data cleaning and normalisation steps handled for you.

My regular M1 MBP is comfortably managing 18 hours of normal use (non-video browser and terminal) or 12ish hours of more intensive use (video and Slack). Sounds like putting the M1 Max in a laptop form factor is a bit of a waste, as I've never even strained the base level processor.

Same here - I'm ready to move on from my 2015 XPS13, but having recently got an M1 Mac for work I'm now not prepared to compromise on battery life. If a major Linux distro (Ubuntu or Fedora) is shown to work well on the new ThinkPad, I'll be getting one pretty quickly.

1. Be a sociopath

2. Move to Silicon Valley

3. ???

4. Profit

Thank you citizen!

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That does not match up with my own experience at all.

Maybe the service teams are less heavy on LPs due to not being customer-facing?

Customers and partners, the latter basically taking our ideas and selling them as a product - the flow of IP towards Amazon isn't always as clear-cut as people believe :-)

Broadly though it is a pre-sales role to help people get started, followed by ongoing guidance as the customer iterates (this is the part which often turns into free support).

They are normal-ish questions and I can see where the STAR guidance is better than getting no help at all - I just think the process is too rigid overall. I've interviewed a handful of people for our team in the last year - all had the right background and technical expertise, but since they didn't have an example from their career which matches up with the LP questions they were asked, they were knocked back. All of them would have been "bar raising" from a technical standpoint, but since they were not demonstrably already "Amazonian" in their mindset, we couldn't hire them.