I think there’s some risk with this though too - more and more is behind the enterprise tier. People try to work around this in various ways but its an unsatisfying experience. For e.g. trying to enforce merge request approval with pipeline stages.
In practice the library ecosystem is just way behind Python. Maybe after you’re trying to optimise once you’ve worked out how to do stuff, but even the Langchain Go port is wayyyyy behind.
I live in a city with trams in the UK and that’s not how it works. There are sections that run on dedicated train lines, and sections where it runs on the street. Where it runs on the streets, priority is given over cars by switching traffic lights to red. Once the tram has passed onto the road it switches back to green so you can end up following the tram in your car.
Other thing is that when you’re VAT registered, as a buyer of parts you reclaim VAT on things you purchase as inputs. So the tax on the final product is what matters.
With US sales taxes you accrue tax all the way up the chain.
It’s interesting because BBC Sounds replacing iPlayer Radio was one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen for discoverability. Even now, several years on, it’s considerably worse. Whatever the technical merits of the migration, finding radio programmes became much much harder, all while they push podcast content.
You cant use the embeddings/vector search stuff this refers to in self hosted anyway, it’s only implemented in their Atlas Cloud product. It makes it a real PITA to test locally. The Atlas Dev local container didn’t work the same when I tried it earlier in the year.
> working for Rolls Royce in the middle of nowhere
Most people I know who ended up at RR live in Nottingham or the Peak District and commute in to Derby. Appreciate that’s perhaps not as exciting as London but it’s hardly a shit hole up here.
Agree on pay though. I work for a different engineering conglomerate (foreign owned) and I applied for a HPC role at RR a couple of years ago and the salary was £20k lower. The disparity would be even more now.
I’m 33, in the U.K. and my marginal tax rate is currently 66.7%, because the support you get for having children gets withdrawn between £60000 and £80000. If a promotion came up I would take it but it’s also at a point where I’m considering already dropping down to four days a week because of this. I don’t live in London so my life is very affordable. Save myself money on children’s nursery for a few years too…
There are a few things I subscribe to, but they’re pretty few and far between now as I deliberately try and keep it to a minimum. For e.g. I use Google Photos and Gmail so I pay to upgrade my storage to 100gb, and I have a Spotify family subscription, but I think that’s it for ones I plan to keep.
I have a LastPass subscription but I’m planning to migrate off of that when the next renewal comes around as I don’t think the cost is justified compared to OSS options and I’m concerned at the recent issues they’ve had.
I used to subscribe to Evernote, but when I left academia I lost the need for that, and I was getting fed up with it getting slower and slower too.