Is Liquid Glass not just a means to slowly force old phones to be obsolete? - My iPhone 11 is fairly slow now and they’ve probably bought forward my next phone purchase by a year
I’ve not got the context on why Brazil was chosen here (paywall) - but I coincidentally read a story on here of Richard Feynman visiting Brazil whereby he assessed their teaching and tried to impart his teaching and learning techniques.
The answer is straightforward. They are a coalition of Brazilian labs (click on the link in the first sentence to get more information) so it seems normal that they would be focusing on the research conducted in their country. Also it is not the first research of its kind as the nature article provides context
> The teams were able to replicate the results of less than half of the tested experiments1. That rate is in keeping with that found by other large-scale attempts to reproduce scientific findings. But the latest work is unique in focusing on papers that use specific methods and in examining the research output of a specific country, according to the research teams.
People need examples of success in their network. Most people have frankly never met or heard of anyone who founded a successful startup- and therefore would never think of taking on such a risk. I agree that in some places there is a sense of malaise, but if we are to believe founders are a 1-2% outlier of the population, I don’t see why America’s 1-2% should be so much more ambitious than the UKs. I think it’s more a cycle induced by lack of funding.
I am a former Mech Eng who trod this path. Started at JLR, moved by self teaching into software. Engineering in the UK felt like it moved at a glacial pace that only made sense in the days of final salary pension schemes. Senior management really struggled to get their heads around why young people were so impatient, but we were not competing for the same rewards.
Klarna use a huge dark pattern on their payment processing (irrelevant of bnpl), whereby they store your details for future use by default, even without an account. Last time I checked you only needed a couple of pieces of easily identifiable information to be granted access to “your” autofill. - I know all the H&M group shops use it as their payment processor in the UK.
My local library inherited the staff from other libraries that closed well over ten years ago. This means they have a constant staff of circa 5 people, meanwhile they do no real outreach into the community nor are they friendly, and I am fairly certain they get fewer than 10 people through their doors each day. I believe that libraries are an essential public resource, but I don't think it’s productive to have resources that are essentially beyond scrutiny as that in turn leads to a very poor service.
Libraries end up being fairly local, so local leadership matters. There are some amazing library systems in the US, and some that are terrible like you describe.
I’ve noticed the risk appetite of investors in the Uk is much worse. They want a much larger slice of the pie early on, so there’s much less incentive to do a risky startup, rather than a sure thing like GS / Google. There’s nearly no risk in working at GS - you will work hard and you will be paid exceptionally well for it.
AWS textract now has the functionality to offer a table cell based on a query - if I’m not mistaken. I’ve seen nothing similar to this and would be very interested if there are other solutions.
Given a quick read, I enjoy it and see why it is different. I can’t get on with Medium because of their login process, and HN is great but I just doom scroll comments and don’t really use it for technical learning. - I already found an interesting article on SQL optimisation, so thank you.
Sorry no, I quit teaching at that uni and don't keep contact with the
cohort now.
But a little more info I remember:
It arose under a project suggestion three or four students took me up
on, and that was "Long term resilience".
The obvious antecedent being "If Google goes down tomorrow....."
"De-clouding" was in the title. And the conclusions, perhaps
predictably, were that hybrid systems were the sweet spot across a
range of business types, with no panaceas, or even decent maxima to be
found in fully on-prem or total cloud.
The students artifact IIRC was a "matrix" (a graph theoretical model)
of the edge-costs for traversing well modular systems into different
states - something that could be used to plan a "repatriation"
FWIW the student was African and we had a good laugh at the racist
undertones of that language and it's subtle implications about
"Empires".
Hybrid is interesting because once you set a system up for hybrid it tends to drive down costs without increasing cloud usage much in my experience.
When you can spin up cloud instances, that capability in itself means you can justify loading individual servers closer to 100%. Couple that with managed / leased capacity in data centres rather than "true" on prem, and managed providers often delivering many server models very rapidly, and in most hybrid setups I've worked on, we've ended up using the ability to spin up cloud instances very little, while slowing down the rate of growth of new server capacity overall.
So I agree, they're the sweet spot, but in terms of dollars spent my hunch is that most people deploying them will find their spend dominated by "more fixed" servers, ranging from own/leased servers via managed hosting depending on local power and real estate costs (last placed I ran a physical hosting facility, what finally tipped it towards managed hosting for us was that the price of land grew to a point that empty rack space near us vs. at the managed hosting provider we chose was so much more expensive that the difference paid for our servers).
