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Somewhat complicated.

If you're profitable at a unit economics level, and your CaC stays relativly stable as you scale marketing efforts, it's fairly logical to sink your would be profits into that CaC and associated costs ( i.e. you might have engineering costs to scale a platform ).

Now obviously if you're bootstrapped, you're managing cashflow, and you might keep a bit for a rainy day, but if you have several years runway of someone elses money, you want to grow the entity. You don't give away equity to end up with less money. You need to grow the pie.

Of course, there's still a lot of faulty logic and bs. CEOs be like, I'll just get rid of dev and be profitable. Alright mate.

Don't AMD APUs have unified memory?

10 in total or 10 per seat?

SaaS mostly exists to extract profits perpetually.

This doesn't mean it's not sometimes worth it, but when you add all the licenses together, there tends to be considerable savings if you're willing to self-host.

In reality both sides of the debate are often wrong.

I'll double the sample size. I've both posted a few times and replied to ads.

The people were mostly nice, but they tended to want very specific niche skillets, had a fair amount of hoops to jump through for sucky comp and no equity.

There was one exception but they hit me with several "2 hour" take home tests and I tapped out because there's easier money even in this market.

I suspect the story is a bit better for the US cohort, but comp wise if you can get into FAANG you probably should.

( I turned down FAANG for CTO of a UK startup in 2020, and despite stellar performance, I became much poorer whilst the owner became a paper billionaire, so part of the problem might be I'm just not interested in wooly promises that can be revised )

I think it's more borne of the lack of scaling capabilities in the traditional sql databases, and I guess a lack of capability in summarising data.

In reality, you can probably scale something like vitess pretty far, and then by adding your own summary tables on top, you're probably good for most usecases.

I'm not an expert on this level of the stack though, so I'm probably missing a whole bunch of context.

I don't think anyone is saying it's without cost, just that there are certain circumstances where you might want to bare the cost.

There's a generic question of how you build confidence in your dependcies not being compromised, and there's steps you can take to mitigate that without reading code, but if everyone was adopting that stance then we'd likely have no mitigations

If you work on code that introduces threat to life, you might be prepared to own all the code, even if you don't write it all from scratch.

So, I don't bother with vendoring my dependencies ( usually ), but you have it the wrong way round.

Vendoring would make it more likely you're gonna review the changes, be ause you can quickly eyeball whether or not changes look significant, which is something you often won't get out of a go.sum change.

Mostly yes, but I imagine in some respects no:

- Car, noise, light and general pollution. - Access to space and land. - Privacy & and in some respects freedom.

In lots of respects our life's are more comfortable, but I don't think having an iPhone makes up for having a generation that'll never get on the housing market in the UK for example.

Are payments free Google Pay?

My understanding is whenever you make a payment a myriad of companies get paid. I would assume Google is one of those?

That doesn't change wether or not NFC is open of course.

You can have different rules for different folders, i.e. only do this if folder == schema && is-tag

The problem with statement like "this looks too complex" is that it lacks substance and is used as a stick to beat people with, and often has alternative meanings.

To combat this, you need to justify the complaint.

In the case of lambda, I think being tied into an ecosystem of things that you can't run locally is a net loss, but Amazon has done a terrific job at making a bunch of people not super comfortable with compute, see just running a share-nothing process as the way to bridge the gap, like PHP never existed.

Same thing happens with IT orgs that end up owning cloud. You get azure, regardless of whether you want such a thing.

Or why not just serve it from www.domain.com/.well-known so we only have one thing to block. :p

Perhaps today this is true.

In 2007 I was working for a webhostet / nascent iaas provider, and we had workloads doing exactly that.

Specific example would be Celtic FC who had a baseline of dedicated, but would scale into our VMs during events, i.e. uefa cup games.

CS was a half life mod that valve bought, so it's half-true.

Reality is almost everyone abandoned PC gaming for a decade+ in favour of consoles.

Valve and steam were the only real player, which is why they're in the position they're in.

I took an shining to GOG, but the the Linux situation just reaffirmed how I buy my games.

I would argue it's not useful to the business, which is why, ignoring the societal problems caused by business is often the default and why we need the regulation.

In the UK, current news cycle is about sewage being dumped on our beaches by water companies that were previously privitised.

There's also a bunch of womens groups where all men are the enemy.

One would hope these are fringe groups, but as an example my wife is on a few that bridge into breastfeeding groups, where the women actively malign their husbands who provide their living, and do most household chores, but are still considered inept.

Even in the seemingly equal marriage, it would seem the battle for equality rages on.

> I mean, 30 days isn't enough time to find alternatives and migrate.

Write a script to iterate the images and push them to your own registry. This will buy you time in the event anything does dissapear.

I think you're right and you're wrong.

For sure, there's a lot of bullshit, drama and fud regarding our place in the world.

But when companies are making bank on your labour, despite the fact you have above average rewards, you aren't overpaid.

The question becomes who's contributing and who's changing the window dressing, and are the latter a neccessary expense to find the former.

The main reason would be to do p2p without hacks / servers.

Why are you so militant against the idea?

The CISO is an odd role because it mostly has to help protect against tech risk without owning tech, and because it's a bit of a crap role, you end up with all sorts of the wrong people and behaviours in the role.

Common Pitfalls:

- Act as a gate that slows everything down, i.e. it must be secure, which in turn makes things less secure, as there's less time on the board to fix things.

- Chase massive budget. Eventually get massive budget. Buy silver bullets that don't fit in techs guns.

- Focus on the non-tech parts. We'll train people not to open cat.jpeg.exe instead if you know, auditing their usage and turning off their kit / login when they're pwned.

With anything, it's all about the people you put in place, but my experience is the average large company CISO sits on a pile of paperwork and IT security whilst their servers aren't patched.

You can do a law degree in the UK, but it doesn't give you the right to practice without undertaking additional courses and training. Becoming a solicitor in the UK is a 7 year ordeal. I assume becoming a barrister is similar.

TL;DR

It's just for Identification.

The signature on the public key matches what domain it should resolve, and said public key pairs with a private key that encrypts your data. Assuming you don't a) mishandle the private key, b) the Signatory has a reasonably process to assure that person with the private key should be able to encrypt the domain, and c) all potential trusted Signatories can be trusted, then you can reasonably assume the site you're visiting is legit.

The actual encryption doesn't need identification. Doing so would ensure others can't listen to your conversation, but wouldn't help if the person you think you're talking to isn't actually the right person. This is a realistic problem, because there's nothing in DNS or routing that ensures trust.

There was an article the other week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233719

Obviously it depends on ability to scale, but UK rad heating systems are usually rated for 50 or 60C, thus this seems to fit the bill.

Problem is with this argument is both sides are aruging their group is better. I find whether not you care about outcome usually irrelevant to the title / role.

There's a couple of things going on here:

  - Personal ambition. Usually this is about money, especially the higher up the org you are, but it might also be about becoming a better at tech, or keeping a stable job to pay your mortgage.
  - Incentives.  How the company rewards things it wants.  This might be shares, commission, salary, or bonuses.  But it's also about how the company measures and manages those things.
  - Ethics.  What you're willing to do to achieve your goals.  Both individually, and at an org level.

It doesn't take long industry to realise that the few people are actually interested in helping orgs make money. This is shown by developers focusing on irrelevant shit all day long, and it's shown by the lack of incentives and rewards that drive the correct behaviour, so all you get is a whole bunch of personal ambition.

Of course, some people do, but when faced with a company that allows people to focus on short sighted personal ambition, they'll either fall in-line or move along.

So the goal is basically being able to do builds whilst running as few setup steps as possible.

Containers are a good common denominator because you essentially start with the OS, and then there's a file that automates installing further dependencies and building the artifact, which typically includes the important parts of the runtime environment.

  - They're stupidly popular, so it basically nullifies the setup steps.
  - Once setup, they by combinding both OS layers and App, they solve more of the problem and are therefore slightly more reliable.
  - They're self-documenting as long as you understand bash, docker, and don't do weird shit like build an undocumented intermediary layer.

Infrastructure as Code does the same thing for the underlying infra layers and kuberenetes is one of the nicer / quicker implementations of this, but requires you have kubernetes available.

Together they largely solve the "works on my PC" problem.

You're right, European wasn't the right word, it was more a rich / poor thing.

That's said, comparison to the US doesn't make sense, since it was only back in 2008 when Romania was added to the bloc.

We're mostly on the same page, I just assume it's a process rather than pulling the plaster off.

A couple of reasons.

  - timing of the influx
  - appearance
  - my wife is Ukrainian and see believes them to be Romanian.  She likely has better insight than I.
  - She also talks to them sometimes.  

On that note, most recent case of pick pockets I came across were actually speaking Ukrainian in Norwich.

Fair comment. It depends what you think of the market.

I'm in the UK. My summary of the British market is most devs are earning $50,000 - $100,000, with a few tier 2 and even less tier 3 companies, that don't actually offer SV level RSUs.

Basically there's not a lot of spots to "guess right".

Historically there's a large contractor market that's way more lucrative net than anything excep tier 3, of which you can probably count on your fingers.

Personally, I try to build better orgs to keep these folks happy, but each to their own. :)

It's not just people outside the community.

I've used linux professionally for a long time. I've also used it as my desktop / laptop OS on and off for about the same amount of time.

From a purely selfish point of view, I'd like to stop dual booting. 60% of my CS:GO time is in windows because of faceit anti-cheat. Beyond that, I almost need another OS.

Now I have a bunch of reasons why I think open platforms are better, but they don't matter. Pragmatism tells me that if enough people use linux to game, the anti-cheat problem will go away. There's other software, but wine mostly works now.

Ergo, I don't actually want a steam deck, but I really hope it does well. :)