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I'm not against AI regulation on safety grounds but I'm not convinced it's a good idea to try to use regulation to preserve jobs. That feels like it would have much more damaging longer term consequences.
It is reshaping society in much the same way the industrial revolution did. Luddites resisted change, for precisely the same reason people aren't happy about AI, and it's now a derogatory label.
It's much better to adapt to a changing world but precisely what that entails is still up in the air.
Whether you take it is all about your risk tolerance and in no way impacts the usefulness of the machine.
I believe 14% is worth it.
If the company earns £100k/yr, what matters is what you, the individual, actually end up with.
Corporation tax will take you down to ~£80ish but you still need to draw the money out of the company.
Most people will take a small amount as a salary through PAYE to use up their tax free allowances and get the NI stamp. The rest is then paid as dividends.
Your take home pay on £100k would be roughly £67k
Some are, certainly. Many are not.
The example I gave is people who setup a limited company in order to take on work as a contractor. They've gone to an accountancy firm who've told them we'll do all the work for you. HMRC have then turned around and said that the company is a sham. Again, I can't remember the name of that particular problem but it's well known on a popular UK contracting forum.
The deeper you dig into IR35, the murkier it becomes. Contracts are dismissed for instance and it's actual working practices that are reviewed. There are absurd rules around control which are far too vague and subject to opinion that it could easily be argued either way.
If you’re going to work inside, just use an umbrella. The margin they take is minimal and they make life so much easier.
If you’re going to run a limited company, you have to actually run a limited company. There are horror stories on the contractor forums where HMRC have taken a dim view of contractors whose companies are essentially run by their accountants. I can’t remember what the term associated with it is but definitely an area to be careful with.
If you stick to PC instead, you’re still at the mercy of platforms like Steam. They can, and will, remove games over time. GTA being a great example.
Thankfully I haven’t been to a Tesco in as long as I can remember where the trolleys have been coin locked.
Coin locks were made for a different era. When everything is contactless, there’s little reason to carry cash. If you aren’t paying for things in cash, you don’t have change you can use for a trolley either.
Had they made the announcement and shown how it was better than GH Copilot, I'd have been curious to try it out. I want to use the most effective tool for the job. Instead I'm feeling pretty bitter and want their junk removed.
I find it particularly useful when I'm responding to a client with something technical. ChatGPT can sharpen up the message, clarify points in a client-friendly way, and hit the right tone.
Great for throwing around ideas and getting some feedback before diving into the code too.
I find it's easy to go wrong if you're too trusting of the output though. For important questions, I'll get some initial guidance from ChatGPT to refine my research rather than outright accept any answer it gives.
Expect more of the same regardless of which party are in power.
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It's beyond a joke. Between that and the payment processing fees, you're no better off. In fact, you get all of the same costs but none of the benefits of Apple's app store native payment infrastructure.
The employer is legally liable for lost tax revenue if they fail to determine status correctly.
The result: most employers decided that contractors were inside (treated like an employee for tax purposes with none of the benefits of employment) rather than risk getting it wrong.
I'd be amazed if that's how it worked for them in practice. I can't see how it could be a viable business for them if they had to amortize the cost over 15 years.
Their margin would be a tiny fraction of the revenue deemed taxable meaning every employee would put them in a worse cashflow situation. It's not like they could borrow to cover the 15yr span either.
I had to explain the purpose of an umbrella company to a client in the US recently. Perhaps that structure will become the standard way for contractors to work over there too.
Enterprise's policy sounds more convenient but Hertz were the only company offering a Tesla over here at a (very) reasonable price.
They were clear with me that I needed to return it with at least 80% charge or pay an extra fee for them to recharge it on my behalf.
The programmer starts this message by challenging the consultant’s expertise.
They go on to cast themselves as the superior, there to evaluate the consultant’s performance.
It’s a bizarre exchange demonstrating the programmer’s arrogance.
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The first message from the consultant was about welcoming ideas so I do think the way he dismissed Kubernetes was wrong.
The reasoning against is sensible but it’s only revealed after pushback on the initial shutdown.
He also shows himself to be out of touch with the comments on how Pei could have earned that money himself. Once a company has assessed your value to them, it’s heavily anchored and difficult to move.
Passive-aggressiveness is the opposite of being direct.
I'm fully in support of being factual, direct, and speaking one's mind.
Pei was arrogant, condescending, and behaved in a cowardly manner.
The example given was "Sales" role users who should only ever have limited access to the admin panel.
> You are taking for granted that end users in the "admin" area are all admins, but it is not always true for other installations. I tested different versions of OpenCart for some clients I work for, where they created multiple "sales" users with different roles, which were not admins but only non-technical people with an account provided to update price info and products. Upset employees, phished users, XSS, etc. are all possibilities that make the exploitation feasible in this case and allow unauthorized users (the sales guys or whoever uses their account) to execute arbitrary commands on the server, which should never be the case with the roles they were provided.