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If you care, Snowflake launched a product called Openflow less than a month ago. Yours will probably be very difficult to discover.

I had a surgery once upon a time on my non-dominant arm which left me in a one-handed typing state for a couple of months. I simply used one hand on a full size keyboard. My typing speed went through the floor, but it was doable. I doubt I would invest the time, effort, and expense to learn dedicated hardware if I had to go through it again. I definitely would explore those options if I had permanent loss of the hand, though.

There was a miscommunication here. Large companies don't want to deal with small companies since it's high effort to go through the whole procurement process that generally takes months.

The small companies I've worked at were generally quite happy to work with other small companies where procurement consists of a couple employees telling a founder they need a service, then the founder subscribes with a credit card later that week.

I don't generally work at small companies these days :)

50 might have been an over-estimate, but I thought you were advocating for a decentralized EU tech space, where I would need one vendor for each part of my tech stack... instead of using AWS for EKS + SQS + SNS + RDS, I would have one vendor for my managed kubernetes cluster, one for kafka, another for APNS notifications, and someone else to host the databases.

Most companies don't want what you want. They don't want to sign 50 different contracts with 50 different vendors and have to do due diligence on all of them. They don't want to negotiate rates with all of those companies every time a contract renewal comes up. They don't want the instability of working with startups that may close shop with little notice.

What they want is a couple of big, reliable companies who offer services that just work. They want dev teams to be able to explore a new service by simply spinning up a POC with a new offering from a vendor they already have a relationship with; they don't want to figure out which of the 20 different EU companies who offer LLMs or managed Kafka they need to contact, sit through sales calls, and do security evaluations on before the team can start work.

As an American, I definitely don't like having to drive to a mega store and do all my shopping there. The European city model is far superior -- I love traveling there and walking to the bakery, cheese shop, and butcher to buy a meal. But as a dev and manager of many years, I definitely do not want to see that be the norm in software. I love startups who offer unique services, but from a practical perspective, I also love that it takes a day to spin up something in AWS vs months of contract negotiations, trials, sales calls, etc to get signed up with a vendor who offers something outside of AWS.

This is a pretty incomplete comparison. It only seems to be for real-time non-stored use cases and doesn't even include AWS or the US Census Bureau's free API.

Throw them all out other than the 10 or 20 that are still technologically relevant (USB-C, HDMI, etc.). Next time you need one, buy one for $5 on eBay. You get all your storage space and time you’re going to spend on this back and all it costs is a few bucks to buy the one cable out of all of them that you’ll ever really use again.

I'm also a manager and came here to say the same thing. Senior is a terminal level at plenty of mature companies. If you're in the startup world, you'll probably face big pressure to take on a Staff+ or manager title, but you can certainly successfully push against that if you have good rapport with the leadership team. I knew several engineers with decades of experience who were very happy being senior engineers in that world. They had their niches and knew them well. One had been writing email systems since the 90s, for example.

Tiling is now built in to MacOS if you want to give that a try:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mac-window-tiling-i...

Can this cold start or does it need to have grid power to turn on?

Why not buy a UPS?

Oh, amazing! Thanks for sharing

Firefox works great with dozens of open tabs. The only thing Chrome has going for it is tab groups. Firefox has Tab Style Tree, which is a decent substitute.

I've been daily driving Firefox for several years. Everything I use on a daily basis works fine on FF, but every now and then you come across some random site that doesn't load or loads poorly.

The government did exactly this. The telecom companies took the $400B and never delivered.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

I used Starlink for 2 months after the hurricanes last year. If it's the only broadband you can get, it's obviously better than dial up, but it isn't very good compared to any modern wire based services. The bandwidth rises and falls based on where the satellites are, and I had at least a few times per day where the service would cut out for a few seconds to a couple minutes. Again, based on how good your view of the sky is and where the satellites are. It might be absolutely perfect if you live on a hill in a desert, but living in real world most-of-America with hills and trees without a 100 ft tall tv antenna structure to mount the dish on, it isn't all it's cracked up to be.

At a minimum, it isn't encrypted between iOS and Android users.

> anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.

> anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.

They really need someone in marketing.

If the model is for technical stuff, then call it the technical model. How is anyone supposed to know what these model names mean?

The only page of theirs attempting to explain this is a total disaster. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models

No mention of Schemaless? Was that retired?

There's also an absolutely massive difference in audio quality between a HomePod or Sonos anything and a proper amp + speakers.

No. Do it all in school. Let children have a childhood at home.

Some of those people are. Buffet is sitting on $325B in cash for example.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/22/buffett-heads-into-2025-with...

US enters recession in Q1 2025. There's no "soft landing". The correlation between federal interest rate cuts and recessions perfectly predicts this.

How many hours of labor does that take every month you failover? What about hot hard drive spares? Do you want networking redundancy? How about data backups? Second set of hot servers in another physical data center?

All of that costs money and time. You're probably better off using cloud hosting and focusing on your unique offering than having that expertise and coordination in house.

Are you going to risk your entire business over "probably never get a hardware failure" that, if it hits, might result in days of downtime to resolve? I wouldn't.

It sounds like you are part of a pretty small business given that you're an engineer who knows his customers by name. It may very well be completely acceptable to your customers to have extended downtime, or a button that disappears during a deployment leading to a broken feature for a couple of days until you, or they, realize something is wrong.

Many other companies do not work this way. If you're a huge company like Apple that makes $40M per hour, that type of downtime isn't acceptable. If you're in finance, that downtime doesn't work. If you're in healthcare, defense, aerospace, etc... that downtime doesn't cut it. Yes, you'll still have downtime in those industries from a bad deploy, but you put more checks and balances in place to reduce the odds it will happen.

I've worked full time remote for over a decade, with most of that as an IC but several years in management as well. It really depends on who the teammates are in the quote. You can definitely get more focus work done in a quiet environment free from distractions, such as at home. But that comes at a pretty big sacrifice for the type of collaboration that higher level ICs (Staff+) and managers often, but not always, need to do.

Think things like quarterly and annual planning, or getting a group of cross-team engineers together for a day or a week with a whiteboard to design a new system or major improvements. Miro exists for virtual whiteboarding, and I successfully use it all the time, but for big planning I would much rather do that in person.

If you move further up the chain to the level of VPs and Execs, their entire job basically consists of attending meetings to solve problems other people can't. For them, they probably would heavily prefer working in person.

My preference is working at home with quarterly week-long trips to the office -- it's historically the best for me and I'd recommend it to anyone wherever possible.

If the Times goes down because the engineers are on strike for a few weeks or months, the engineers were not very good at their jobs.

The "Get Started" link doesn't do anything on Firefox. Hard to say if it was a good or bad idea.