MSFT aren’t putting in billions for a new central campus only for everyone to WFT - come 2024/5 when that all opens up I’m sure there will be much more expectations for people to be on-site.
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I didn’t know anything about electric self-driving cars, so thought Elon was a genius.
Likewise, I didn’t know squat about reusable rockets, so thought Elon was a genius.
I know about software, and this man is a moron.
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Dollars to donuts this is because the Twilio (or whatever SMS service they use to send the codes out) bill just came in and The World’s Smartest Man® flipped out and said to cut it.
He did it. Elon did it. Way to just tell millions of your users that you don’t give a shit about their security. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topic…
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That balloon, the one China sent for “intelligence gathering” over the US. It didn’t find any, which is why it’s floating around out there going 🤷🏻♂️
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Restated, significant @awscloud growth is inevitable, regardless of anything AWS says or does.
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Demand for #remotework is outpacing supply, and the gap is getting bigger. Remote jobs accounted for just 13% of postings on LinkedIn in December, down from 21% in March 2022.
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Well, a connection I didn’t think of*, but 🤣
boingboing.net/2023/01/24/ki…
*guess I should have though - the crown owns lots of property in the UK
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I’m gonna talk about something that I’m not supposed to talk about.
I’m a 37 year old with dentures.
I was dirt poor for most of my adult life, and worked jobs that didn’t offer dental care (hospitality/serving). Small problems like cavities became BIG problems.
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I think it’s funny. I’m a Brit and @CrispinCowan0 is right - the UK has bad dental healthcare, *and* that particular family is very badly inbred (not particularly fair on Catherine, but 🤷🏻♂️)
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This chart makes me wonder: If an entire culture can have skewed perceptions of risk, how much does this affect entrepreneurial activity?
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From an outside perspective: you must be confident and downplay risks to survive in the US. So few safety nets, so you must be confident to survive 🤔
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What many people don't get about ChatGPT/LLMs, is that they do replace search in many, many ways, because they eliminate a lot of clicks and tedium.
Hooked up to the web to perform searches, they will crush Google. Why wade through ads & crap if you can just...get your answer?
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I'm thinking about building my own SOC-style wall of screens to keep a whole bunch of metrics visible in my office. Could be stuff from Azure, Cloudflare, Stripe etc. Any tools out there to do this in a unified way? I'm thinking something Grafana like, not sure on hardware though
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I was part of team behind this news.microsoft.com/transform…. There was a lot of custom software & services, but it came down to a lot of Intel NUCs running React apps (could swap out for Grafana), Apache Storm (data processing/aggregating), and Barco hardware to combine/scale inputs.
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This is a really shitty way of doing layoffs, but not sure if informing everyone all at once or doing it more personally and everyone waiting to see if/where the axe will fall is any better.
We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's, and the countless ones to be told, where many realize that, during layoffs, people become numbers, and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked."
ALT Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Justin Moore saying: So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of the other communications the boilerplate "you've been let go" website (which I now also can't access) said I should receive. It was a (largely) wonderful 16 years, and I'm really proud of the work that I and my teams did over the years. I got to work with some great people and really help a lot of our users around the world in the Civics and Elections space. I was so incredibly fortunate. This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers -- especially big, faceless ones like Google -- see you as 100% disposable. Live life, not work.
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In any case this is a historic moment for tech - many (myself included) thought it was really stable and as long as performing well jobs were secure - I’ve seen too many excellent people announce their layoff to believe that, and in some ways it appears random. Bubble has popped
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What's behind all the layoffs at tech giants? Simple, it is part of the rhythm of their business. That's right, it is part of the plan.
1. All these companies laying off excess workers now were *knowingly* overhiring during boom times.
Why would they do that? ...
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Sure, maybe more servers, bandwidth, call-center staff, recruiting is needed, but those are *raw resources* not people - if systems were designed right those should scale up *and down* with little (but not zero) change in the people it takes to manage those resources.
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