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Just to add to your “no big fight” observation:
What in some countries is grad studies, is in other places undergrad, and in a personal high point, high school extension studies. In contemporary rich country education systems, it’s not just grade inflation, it’s very low expectations of the student population’s capabilities, in my opinion.
WhatsApp and other over the top messaging and calling apps destroyed “the rivers of gold” that the telcos had in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Net neutrality was triggered by their attempts to block VOIP and messenger apps.
I knew one telco who made €3Bn clear profit a year from 2 Dell servers and a team of five to keep SMS messages flowing. Their billing infrastructure was bigger, much bigger than the SMS servers.
These days even without trying I get more nine than GitHub.
Arguments against self hosting have to change as our SaaS overlords are decaying in front of our very eyes.
Really? Your rhetoric seems to miss a LOT of new global businesses, as well as older ones that are much bigger than ever before.
Spotify, Wise, Adyen, DeepMind just off the top of my head, but there are loads more.
The fact that you don’t know about them is because many tech bros in the USA are pretty parochial and haven’t been exposed to international businesses or indeed tech.
I’m seeing a lot of similar things during code reviews of substantially LLM-produced codebases now. Half-baked bad idea that probably leaked from training sets.
Not quite; for wide-bodies at least RR pips GE for fuel-efficiency, but there’s not much in it for the latest generation of power plants.
You know, this is also true for a lot of non-AI shops. It’s just that they’re not really delivering at all.
I suspect that you mean the opposite of “dearth” (figuratively “scarcity; a lack or short supply”) something like “excess”, maybe?
It’s Le to chime in and say I’m really happy with mine too. It’s less portable than my old MacBook Air, but it is just a dream machine with Debian 13!
You’ll get crickets.
These people don’t want a state of citizens, they want a kingdom of serfs because they think they’ll make it into tiny aristo élite.
It's already looking good:
There were Eurobooks and they were pretty well bought out by Facebook. Hyves and so on. The online CV networks were bought by LinkedIn.
Never heard of that, and I've worked in about 7 EU countries...
It’s not just the Internet. It’s politicians and businesspeople and more generally, shameless citizens.
There’s a lot to dislike about shame as an enforcement mechanism but I’m starting to miss some of the upside it delivered.
Could you expand on the other problems with Europe other than hiring and firing laws?
Me too. I've seen that horror too :-)
This might be the new location:
Because obscurity works against insider threats and OSint /s
I ran a corporate networking team in the 2000s with two of the five network engineer team members, being two years out of retraining (they were welding specialists in the former local shipbuilding industry). Non-white collar supervisory and work ethic issues, but excellent work in general. Had an issue with the team on-call car getting bullet holes once (suspect some drug dealing on the side, long story!) but excellent colleagues in general.
I've worked with a lot of retrained and second-career people and I can't sing their praises enough.
Hiring from your own and employee's network.
Provide significant referral bonuses to employees and ex-employees if a new hire stays on board for more than 6 months with above-average performance reviews.
Run evaluations with external recruitment firms - do quality shoot-outs with three recruitment firms for the same open role - each may present only three CVs. Never run any position with less than two external recruitment firms and let them clearly know that you're tracking quality metrics (CV fit, interview quality of candidates, job role fit, and six month retention and above-average performance review) and will retire your partnership if they drop below mean.
Run an empanelling process for the recruiters for each role and learn how to do it properly and repeatedly. This is a simpler process than the one you run internally with the hiring exec (you?), hiring manager and interviewer pool. You have an empanelling process, right?
Traditionally, network effects have allowed us to socialize costs (and socialize benefits) in power, water, gas, roads and communications. We've used very different models in different places for each of these "natural monopolies" that get constructed.
When consumers opt out en masse, these systems collapse if they're not actually socialized - and where there is no actual financial benefit to consumers for going "off-grid" since they're still paying with taxes or equivalent.
I'd love to see an analysis of the different approaches in the different phases, possibly including TV-for-public benefit, like the BBC or NPR too.
I'm always amazed by how well some people manage EVERYTHING in spreadsheets. For me, it never works out - either too complicated to use properly, or not complicated enough to address my problems.
I might be in the wrong Wayland desktop environment; I couldn’t get it to work reliably. Headless Wayland was really complicated when I last tried it, and quite memory heavy.
I’ll try again this month!
I don’t use x2x but use xev and xdotool for automated regression testing of GUI tools.
I can’t find a low-effort, high-portability, low-menory way to do it with Wayland.
Local and also in CI pipelines.
The same wealth disparity does not exist in the west. Travel 100km out of Moscow and compare how people live to the same distance from Paris. Then go to the Russian Far East. It’s overtly that not been seen in the west since the 1950s and WWII reconstruction.
Anybody who wants to destroy the Chinese or western economies will be watching this carefully, it’s safe to assume.
And people problems are almost invariably managent failures
The difference seems really stark. HN’s front page seems to be 15-20% GenAI related content, but the small web version at 5% or so.
Is it an artifact of Kagi’s small web list generation, or are many stories being pushed by the “big web”?
Well the canonical example is WhatsApp, but there are loads of other success stories if you care to look.
Small teams, big results is a characteristic that I’m very interested in, in our post-ZIRP reality.
I opened this, only to be confronted by an article about the investigation into the downing of Air India flight 182, a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of people, including my childhood neighbour friends Brinda and Arti and their dad, Vishnu.
Forty years. What lives they could have led, people they would have loved and been loved by. For their family, so many years of grief.
Thank you for this project.