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Strategy at one of my clients : don't bother to patch or upgrade, we kill the service if it gets hacked.

My company wanted me to help them to fine tune a model. I asked them if I were working full time on it, never heard back. $500 is largely the cheapest part of it, but I know from experience, most people are clueless about data.

I worked for a billion+ revenue business where they didn't realize one of their key data hasn't been updated for 2 years, until I join them, and these types of screw up is cross business/functions/entities.

Because the only period HK got a wind of freedom was after the signature of the retrocession still .... SARS.

And let's not forget the kidnapping of a foreign president, and nothing happened.

Let's ask black people, minorities and foreigns with the wrong skin color in the US?

What about women too ? Especially in red states.

Considering who has been their president for 2 terms, and most likely a third one, I really wonder.

All my life I heard American boasting their constitutions but now it's as worthy of my toilet papers.

STMicroelectronics cries in a corner.

Yeah I was about to say ants with passion fruit flowers.

Novartis outsourced most of its development in India, also lots of medicine is manufactured there in dubious conditions and has been for years, if not decades, the ship has sailed long before AI slop.

You wouldn't get 100 tps on a Qwen 3.6 35b with a 5060 (or two) when a 5090 can barely reach that.

Fiio, Hiby, basically any chifi music player is a soc+android.

If I remember well, visual studio/ msdn used to be like 5k-10k per year... Basically any IT tool cost a shit load of money.

I have in mind 50k-100k ish for 3d studio max or was it softimage? (Well seems softimage https://www.awn.com/animationworld/siggraph-news-announcing-... ).

So... Basically we are back to this era.

Meanwhile, in real companies, you have to wait 2 months or more to access an API endpoint in preprod.

To setup a cross business kubernetes cluster will take 2 years with unknown results.

On Cloud, in Switzerland, you need to call Microsoft when you need new resources, so much for agility and minute infrastructure provisioning, and I heard the same for AWS.

The problem with that approach, the code becomes over-complex, over-engineered and more often than not, it will take a specific point and iterate over it.

It's still what I do 90% of the case until I feel it's good enough for my usage.

I have access to both a RTX 5090 PC with 64gb of ram and a Spark 128gb, the performance of the Spark has been highly disappointing.

I prefer 1000x the RTX one, even with 64gb of ram.

There is no reason to be loyal....There is no moat.

Basically you may choose to drink brand A water bottle, brand B water bottle or tap water. Oh and you might choose the glass water bottle if you use API/Fable.

Reality of AWS or Azure in Europe : - Can't provision new ressources without calling them - If you get defects, you might be with Azure Europe Head after weeks of escalation and the only thing he wants to hear is if Microsoft can do a success story with you - Gaslighting you on issues

I agree with you, we went from terrible service, to terrible service with no leverage.

It just accelerated the trend, and I am sure that reddit took over for a lot of new users. The different problems with SO has been well documented.

And they killed maybe one of the most side features of it : https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...

So yeah metakill your own brands with stupid policies.

Yeah institutional knowledge is hard to capture, even more with agentic coding.

I just compressed what would take a team a few months to deliver in one or two months, the amount of gotcha I spot from the existing system we work on everyday is staggering.

How to deliver and keep these feedback is difficult, the other teams are overwhelmed by other tasks, so any tickets or communications will be forgotten in a few months.

And as an external ressources allowed to use frontier model, I have a hard time to keep up with my own pace, and all that institutional knowledge will be lost both by my employer and client.

In France, we have https://citadelles-mazenod.com/ and they publish large and gorgeous books... If only I had the Space to buy them. I bought a few when they were on sales, so two digits instead of 3 was good, but some limited and even larger are often > 500€. And not having the space to buy some of these kills me.

The momentum behind VB.NET was mainly because most enterprises using VB6 assumed it was the natural replacement.

I told my parents that I will never ask for money, doesn't matter the situation, even with live video, it's trivial to generate live audio and video nowadays.

I hope they got the message.

I haven't been impressed by 5.6 SOL extra. Typically I asked to do a summary of our session, and it went to do a summary of the repo. Tried different things and I just gave up.

Opus 4.8 did the same at first and after it blended better the repo knowledge with the session one.

I have both $20 as I am less a power user these days and I can't justify a 100 let alone 200 but each model as its irks.

Most Saas delegated QA to their clients...

Yeah this round replaces both body and knowledge.

Basically what is left is internal politics and cross company dynamics until we get to the point where a company is self autonomous.

For some reasons, models are blind to their own output...

You will still need as many people to manage these systems, that's the biggest lie in Saas solution.

Smaller companies might either want to utilize their employees better, avoid ever increasing Saas subscriptions, while larger ones will just defer responsibilities on suppliers, it's just easier to blame your suppliers for any faults.

What is not outsourced to India or nowadays, Portugal for Europeans/Switzerland?

Working in Switzerland and first Paris, it's always amusing to see the circle of outsourcing and the overall regression of skills and critical thinking in enterprise.

Or the myth that startups have some of the greatest people we working for them, meanwhile, I was a click away to be able to take over the whole Saas platform of an industrial leader, with a few 100b at stake. And their security response team was inexistant.

Neither is your mediocre frontend developer.