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Haven't tried Up loud, but I can see their offering is way smaller in terms of services.

Most people rarely needs more than compute + dbaas though.

If only we had something similar for Europe. Been trying to build my own trading strat here from Spain but it's an incredible uphill battle to cut through all the infra problem.

Right now I'm basically reverse engineering an API from a bank, which is not really a great idea.

I would say smaller companies such as scaleway are catching up. Slowly, but surely they are.

There are about 6-7 euro companies that seem to have this long term plan of becoming the euro AWS (including OVH) but the problem is always the capital available.

I use AWS at work and it can become insanely complex to work with, or to have estimates or what's going to cost you.

I did use scaleway in my previous work (they didn't have as many services as they have now) and it was much easier.

Anyway, there's still a long way to go because these services need to catch up with the AWS offering and pretty much everyone knows AWS, it's the default now.

If I had to start a business now I would probably go with Scaleway.

We've been living without tourism fine, we have industry, big companies, etc. I only see negative externalities in exchange of filling a few big pockets.

Our quality of life worsens in exchange of nothing good for most of us.

The only reason you're thinking this way it's because you're thinking about problematic migrants, but there are many others you don't see. They don't need to become French, Spanish, Dutch, etc. They're perfectly fine feeling from $country in $eurocountry, going on with their lifes.

Europe is not the US, it can't be, and that doesn't mean we're at fault of everything. Many poor migrants come and do ok and have the same opportunities and challenges that others who fail.

But somehow is always the same subset we think about.

The economy sucks for everyone, not only a subset of poor migrants. A subset of african migrants show up in crime stats way more than plenty of other poor migrants coming from pretty much everywhere, be it asia, africa or latam.

Some poor indian has no advantage coming to Spain compared to someone from the Magreb, in fact we could argue quite the opposite as their support networks/country of origin are pretty far away.

In Europe we have inmmigrants from all over the world, but consistently there's an area in a continent that shows up in crime stats way more than others. Can you explain that? Is that we are all xenophobic or racists or can we admit that there's a cultural component into it, because similar migrants within the same continent but different culture do actually do ok?

Other times may have different outcomes because countries and cultures change. Spain for example is a completely different country from what it was in the 80s, economically and culturally.

When you live in a place, and you see the same people showing up in stats, and people see the same behavior over and over and over and over, it's about time to quit calling people things and admit that something is going on and we should do things differently.

And if you don't then someone will show up promising to deal with it.

My city is not Barcelona but it's getting a growing tourism phenomenon. This goes into few pockets and against everyone else, and people is getting pissed about it.

In "expat" groups foreigners complain we're rude and uninviting, but why wouldn't people be, we were perfectly fine before. Almost nobody here lives off tourism.

Mmm, I already do this with LXC, but could be better integrated, I guess?

My next goal was to use Docker for this, but since I don't know docker yet, I'm not sure if that would a good idea for having a ready prod env right after a commit.

Diversity means diversity of thought, or experiencing a different culture. It's not about race or color, which is the focus of most anglo world.

I've been working with people from Italy, the Balkans and Ukraine for a product. That has been the most true diverse project I've have ever been involved. And this people's input in the product actually mattered.

But of course this didn't allow for clear virtue-signaling because everyone was white, and we had balkan sick jokes involved.

For most companies diversity is just a checklist.

Cavalry? That's what my GF uses.

My GF uses Affinity tools and Cavalry for her freelance work. She told me she's happy with it. She made the change like 6 or more months ago.

As I said before, my GF works in design and she's been using Affinity and Cavalry for a while. She seems happy about it.

I only know about this world through my gf, who uses Affinity tools and Cavalry. What's the biggest friction?

My GF is a Designer/UX and she's been using Affinity tools and Cavalry (for animating stuff) and she's happy so far.

Figma now requires to pay for the Dev mode, but that's ok.

Increasing supply won't work with places where the demand is virtually infinite. You have to cut the demand somehow, and in the case of Spain it means preventing foreigners to access such stock. That means public housing, or some law that creates a lot of friction.

Cheaper housing in Spain will lead to induced demand, because there's just too many people willing to move here.

Vienna has a massive public, universal, rent system. Like 50% of the total housing stock.

Everyone says they're going to make public housing here in Spain, nobody does anything.

It is a pretty normal salary here in Spain. The housing crisis is happening because of several factors, but mostly because there's a huge increase in demand due to immigration (millions of people coming) from all profiles (richer and poorer) so we're getting squeezed hard.

The regulations around housing are so bad that almost nothing is getting built. What's getting built is for wealthy people, and no public housing in sight.

And yes, of course rich foreigners play a role here. You maybe don't like to hear it because you're likely richer than the average spaniard, but they are plenty, and we can see what they do once they arrive here.

This is no second-hand information. Because the housing situation is so bad they go on sprees trying to convince landlords to rent to them by offering more money.

Also, getting out of cities is problematic because we can't save money nor have disposable income, so owning and maintaining a car is quite an effort, and that in a city where I don't need a "B" stick to enter the city, in other cities it's worse because you're only allowed a subset of cars which are more expensive. There aren't cheap cars anymore, even shitty Dacias are +20k and anything under 10k second hand is close to junk.

We're fucked honestly. I'm willing to move, but I don't know where...

No, because the landlord would either get the rest under the table or the competition would move onto risk profiles, where someone earning 4/5k month would beat any spaniard with our unstable and poorly paid jobs.

In the end, we either do it like in Vienna or Singapore, or we're not going to solve it.

I don't think that helps honestly. What would help IMO is a lot of new housing close to jobs where foreigners can't apply. Because no matter how much you build, if someone from overseas is going to say "I pay double of whatever you've been offered" I can't compete.

And I know that's happening because my Gf has to work with this sort of people, sadly.

This problem will only grow because there's an increasingly large number of people in Spain unable to rent.

At this very moment the profile of squatters is diverse, but with such large pockets of spaniards staying just above of the poverty line, many people will be forced between squatting or just become homeless.

Just for reference, I live in a flat in a building from the 50s. Very poor insulation, 5º with no elevator, etc. I pay 475€ for it (small sized city), I've been living here for +5 years.

The guys in the 3rd floor came in recently. They pay 1100€ for basically the same flat.

The modal income in this city is 16k. I work on IT and I'm barely above 20k (well, was, as I'm now unemployed).

I go for the listings and there's almost nothing listed and everything is > 800€/month. If I increase the range to 1h from any potential job location it goes down to ~500 for shitty places. Also, not precisely a lot to choose from, so probably wouldn't be able to rent neither.

Can anyone tell me how is exactly this going to work out? Not to mention all the "expats" and "digital nomads" that are willing to pay whatever the landlord says because they really really want to live here without thinking about the consequences, but that's another story.

Of course buying is totally out of the question with the current prices, and that's me that I got lucky, with the new prices no one will be able to save anymore.

But these people weren't tourists, they are living here now. I wouldn't mind if they were some random people saying for a few weeks or months, but this is people I've known for ~2y and we've done stuff out of meetups.

Not to mention that the've reached for help and I did indeed help them.

I'm just trying to fight my negative feelings about this people, because I've actually provided advice on how to set themselves up in this place, got leads for their businesses.

I didn't felt we were super friends, but you know, maybe I expected something more. They weren't random jimmies.

Apparently line goes up also includes "locals must be my friends". I mean, I didn't want to be very harsh in the comment above but the stuff that not only I've read, but I've been told, is hard to ignore.

My GF was having a very difficult moment financially early this year. We reached out to our foreign friends asking for help, because we know they're better connected, some work in companies where her experience is valued, etc. I mean, it wasn't like a moonshot, we tried to make sense.

Completely cold shoulder. This is people we've know for about 2 years at least. She got the job because of a spanish friend told some other spanish friend that has a company in hospitality. Another Italian friend tried to help too, and the portuguese ones, well, they're barely surviving so...

I mean, there's a clear line I can draw here. I don't want to point fingers and that's our personal experience, but I mean, it isn't the only imput that lead us to feel like we're just entertaining.

But then I have to be their friend, and play local, or I'm rude.

IDK man.

I live in Spain and go to Portugal maybe once in a year. Usually to visit some portuguese friends living in northern towns.

Last week went to Lisbon. I've been avoiding it because I knew it wasn't going to be anything of what I remember, and it was much worse than I expected.

It saddens me so much. It's like Barcelona but even worse.

But this phenomenon is now even happening in my mid-sized spanish city. It's starting, but there are already loads of foreigners buying everything, places I used to go closing because they can't compete with chains that are contacting landlords for paying x2 for the same spot, etc.

I've talked a lot with my girlfriend about this. The lifestyle we have is not going to be possible anymore in a few years. Quality of food is dropping like a rock while prices go up, the average rent in my area is already 2.5x of what I'm currently paying, when both of us are under 20k/y, so mostly just waiting to be kicked out.

But it's not only about getting priced out or the culture loss. I work in IT and my GF works two jobs, one as freelance designer (impossible to get into UX) and another in hospitality. And people treats her like shit. She works from home and I can hear the calls sometimes and the level of entitlement and rudeness is incredible. And she's, in theory, dealing with that kind of premium tourism that gets talked a lot, this city is far from the trashy drunken visitors typical in the mediterranean.

Yet there you go, your well off central europeans treating her like shit, trying to get refunds with lies, and the whole package.

But that's not everything. It gets more personal for me, because I used to go with a friend to a lot of language exchange meetups. The've grown in popularity, but also the kind of people that goes now completely changed. We don't go anymore because it's not fun anymore.

We've discussed about this, and between the comments in the FB groups complaining that we don't want to be their friends, and the feeling in the meetups that we're there to provide entertaining to this people, I think it's over.

This experience matches with my Portuguese friends. They've warned us about this, and I worry this place is going to go through the same and I will have to go, leaving friends and family to go somewhere else. Not fun.

Every time I see this city mentioned in travel or lifestile post in YT or Instagram I know what's coming.

keyword !brave works though

Maybe, but it's ok.

Or just use DDG and be done with it.

How's the Pipeline? Do you pass all the html to the LLM? Isn't the context window a problem?

How do you handle the context window limit? If you push the entire Dom to the LLM it will exceed the context window by far in most cases, isn't it?