A more positive-sum view is that the US is bringing the rest of the world up in science every time it exports a PhD.
I wonder if US still manages to keep the most promising?
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Now imagine you save $10M a year doing it
Once upon a time, our team was paying Oracle $6 million a year in DB licenses alone. We ended up building our own bespoke storage solution.
sharpy commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
Large enterprises were doing this stuff with Unix and mainframes long before Microsoft figured out what preemptive multitasking was.
And decided that it was cheaper and easier to just outsource it to Microsoft. Because doing it in today's environment - different work computers, backend servers, mobile devices, etc - is much more complicated than just managing permissions on a mainframe.
sharpy commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
I think AI can be really powerful tool. I am more productive with it than not, but a lot of my time interacting with AI is reviewing its code, finding problems with it (I always find some issues with it), and telling it what to do differently multiple times, and eventually giving up, and fixing up the code by hand. But it definitely has reduced average time it takes me to implement features. But I also worry that not everyone would be responsible and check/fix AI generated code.
sharpy commented on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand jbrec.com/insights/job-gr... · Posted by u/gmays
The current housing costs (price + interest rate) just seem so out of line with the average household income it boggles my mind it hasn't cooled alot more already.
At $84k average household income, assuming 1/3 going to a mortgage would give you $2.3k a month to work with. At 6% interest rate, assuming 20% down payment of $70k, you can just manage a $350k home and that is ignoring taxes, not adding other closing costs, not considering utilities, assuming an interest rate on the lower side and assuming a 20% deposit.
Add tax and that gives you around $1.7k to work with. Assume only putting down 10% and adding in $400 a month to cover utilities then you can manage around $175k home. That rules out buying a house in alot of the US.
And yes, households in more expensive areas make more but if you are buying the average house, that costs $410k you need to be making like double the national average income to stick to the 1/3 rule. How many households are earning $170k where houses are $410k?
Are people just devoting 50%+ of their income to housing? Everyone buying a house with the help of mom and dad? I just really don't get it.
Probably a lot of private equity buying up homes to generate rental income? Usually, I am more pro market, but I think there needs to be some regulations on this. Although if you are an existing homeowner with low interest rate locked in, you probably want more private equity investments to drive up your property value...
sharpy commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber
> "Europe" is, unlike the US, not a single entity
It really needs to be, though, that's kind of the crux of it.
Federate or die off, it's time to get rid of old tribal thinking. We're all Europeans.
Intellectually, I think people agree with that. But I think the weight of history works against it. When you have a history filled with war, and intense competition...
Anti-moat like commoditizing the compliment?
If they get things like PyTorch to work well without carinng what hardware it is running on, it erodes Nvidia's CUDA moat. Nvidia's chips are excellent, without doubt, but their real moat is the ecosystem around CUDA.
>"Customer safety remains our highest priority," said CEO Iñaki Berroeta.
It's fun to imagine a world where a lie like this could be a legal liability. I mean an actual court case, where evidence is brought and the claim is tested. "Is customer safety a higher priority than shareholder value?" and "why don't you support old devices" and then Samsung would need to produce internal evidence to try to make their case.
Nothing like that will ever happen, but I can dream.
If it becomes a liability, wouldn't the onus be on the network operators for failing to support devices sold within X years?
sharpy commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
Curious. When did AWS hit “Day Two”, or what year was your 2nd tour of duty?
When they added the CM bar raiser, I felt like it hit day 2. When was that? 2014ish?
sharpy commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
I've never heard tour of duty being used outside of the military, is it really that bad over at AWS it has to be called that?
Nah, I used to work for defense contractors, and worked with ex-military people, so...
Anyway, I actually loved my first time at AWS. Which is why I went back. My second stint wasn't too bad, but I probably wouldn't go back, unless they offered me a lot more than what I get paid, but that is unlikely.