Been tempting to spin up a competitor but the business/compliance side seems nightmarish whilst the actual tech aspects are trivial on modern hardware.
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Europe could easily have its own stack but I'm not sure taxpayer money would ever reach the right people to make it happen.
I lowkey judge any developer who is noticable slow at typing as I can't imagine they're using a computer effectively at such a pace given how much keyboard hitting needs to occur during regular use alone.
Not that it's a high bar but I'm surprised more companies don't test wpm when hiring over rote crap like LC.
Why keep legacy structures, with luxuries like POs or PMs if AI becomes powerful as you say - it'll just be 'one man startups' for better or worse.
Any empire-building VP should probably fear the wishful AI future they're praying for!
Plenty of FOSS alternatives exist.
Patting themselves on the back for 'fixing' a self-created problem... EC2 is the wrong abstraction for this use case imo
Genius marketing, I guess Rocket Company is supposed to be exploiting the OSS community, but who built Xen ;)
Before you soapbox on the 'open source moral contract' consider repaying the OSS works you gladly derived.
Your root of trust for said bank id is gov't documents, right?
As far as a barrel CPUs to replace SMT... crickets
Devil's advocate as I, too, dislike how it was basically lobbied by big corps but really it seems unsustainable for high tax Euro countries to allow their people too much working freedoms?
Upper-middle class is mostly bankers, barristers, surgeons, some politicans and so forth.
Huge income taxes on low wages and limited wealth tax is not exactly enticing compared to welfare or moving overseas.